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Title: 17th epistle of Horace. To Richard Owen Cambridge of Twikenham
Esq
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Latin]
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Paraphrase of Horace, Epistles I.17, advising Richard Owen
Cambridge to play a public part in the world and at court,
and to aim to achieve success, though not by begging for favours
Title: 10th Epistle of Horace imitated
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Latin]
Date(s): 1735 (Ragnarsson)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Paraphrase of Horace, Epistles, I.10, praising the happiness of
country life and the beauties of nature, and urging his fellow
poet John Whaley in London to avoid the temptation of wealth and
ambition in town and court
Title: To a scare-craw in my orchard
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Humorous address to a scarecrow in his orchard, asking it to
protect his fruit and garden from birds and other possible harms
Title: Epithalamium. J. Dood Esq and Miss St Leger, Swallowfield-Place,
Berks
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1739 (Ragnarsson)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Idealised celebration of the wedding of J. Dood and Miss St
Leger, praising the bride's beauty, giving advice, and urging
that their marriage produce children. Presumably the J. Dod
[Dodd] of BCMSV 2625 and 2626.
Title: To J. Dod Esq on the birth-day of his son
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1741 (Ragnarsson)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Cogratulating J. Dod [Dodd, and cf. BCMSV 2624 and 2626] on the
birth of his son, confident that he will inherit his parents'
virtues
Title: On two friends born on the same day, the Honourable Horace
Walpole and Mr Dodd
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1736 (Ragnarsson)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: On the friendship of Horace Walpole and John Dodd [cf. BCMSV
2624 and 2625], despite their very different character (though
sharing a common birthday)
Title: At seeing Archbishop Williams's monument in Carnarvonshire
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1737 (Ragnarsson)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Elegiac lament on the tomb of John Williams, one-time Archbishop
of York, reflecting on the fate that brought him to exile and obscure
burial in Wales
Title: The Nativity
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Bible]
Date(s): 1745 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: An account of Christ's Nativity or incarnation, contrasting the
triumphant Messiah expected by the Jews with the child in the
manger. A finished version of the following draft, BCMSV 2629.
Title: The Nativity
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Bible]
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: An account of Christ's Nativity or incarnation, contrasting the
triumphant Messiah expected by the Jews with the child in the
manger. A heavily corrected autograph draft of the preceding
poem, BCMSV 2628.
Title: A song of Deborah from the Book of Judges, Chap. 5
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Bible]
Date(s): 1745 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Paraphrase of Deborah's song of praise to God after the
Israelites' victory over the Canaanites (and Joel's slaying of
Sisera), from Chapter V of the Book of Judges in the Old
Testament
Title: A voyage to Tinterne Abbey in Monmouthshire, from Whitminster in
Glocestershire
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1742 (Ragnarsson)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Description of a voyage by boat from Gloucestershire across the
Severn estuary and up the River Wye to Tintern Abbey, praising
the landscape and buildings seen
Title: On J. Whalley ranging my pamphlets
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1745 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Imagining the book and pamphlets in his library assembled by
subject-matter into different (often arguing) companies, like
an army of soldiers awaiting instructions from their commander,
John Whaley, who has been putting them in order