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INDEX/BCMSV/5818 1
INDEX/BCMSV/5818 1
165- or 166- ?
On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious
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INDEX/BCMSV/82.1
INDEX/BCMSV/82.1
173- ?
Moralising epigram on behaviour towards others; translating preceding Latin
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INDEX/BCMSV/98.1
INDEX/BCMSV/98.1
1741 ?
Witty couplet on love being fire, translated from preceding Latin verses,
included in a prose letter to a friend with a present of tobacco. At end, "B.
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INDEX/BCMSV/106.1
INDEX/BCMSV/106.1
173- ?
Humorous couplet added by Coles to the prose remark "The grocers have a
common saying, when Ferdinando went to catch the devil he baited his hook with
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INDEX/BCMSV/10
INDEX/BCMSV/10
1690
Satirical mock-heroic attack on Henry Booth, Baron Delamere and Earl of
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INDEX/BCMSV/1003
INDEX/BCMSV/1003
1767 (published)
Epilogue to William Kenrick's play "The Widow'd Wife", urging the audience to
continue their patronage, and pretending, like a doctor, to take the pulse of
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INDEX/BCMSV/1004
INDEX/BCMSV/1004
1683 ?
Fragment of an elegy lamenting the execution and death of William Lord
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INDEX/BCMSV/1009
INDEX/BCMSV/1009
1768 (published)
Satire on a clergyman, John Horne, concerned with his external appearance
(hair and clothes) instead of religion. With a marginal note on the layout of
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INDEX/BCMSV/1011
INDEX/BCMSV/1011
1768
In defence of the clergyman John Horne of Brentford, criticised for attention
to his external appearance, especially his clothes (see BCMSV 1009), praising
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INDEX/BCMSV/1018
INDEX/BCMSV/1018
1771 (published)
Epitaph for the satirist Mathurin Regnier, translating preceding French lines
written by himself reflecting on his carefree life. With a note, "A very
athiestical epitaph, but very well translated (closely) and at least equally
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INDEX/BCMSV/1022
INDEX/BCMSV/1022
1761 (published)
Comic drinking song, telling how the brown jug was made by a potter out of
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INDEX/BCMSV/1024
INDEX/BCMSV/1024
1730 (published)
Witty self-deprecatory apology to Lady Carteret, wife of the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, for failing to fulfil a dinner engagement, telling how she in turn