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Brotherton Collection208
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Quaker Collection1

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english poetry181
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Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)9
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Hall, Henry (1656-1707)3
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Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)2
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Literature 17th and 18th century (Brotherton Collection)

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Brotherton Collection Manuscript Literature q

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Some newly discovered stanzas written by John Milton on engraved scenes illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses : this Milton-Ovid script was written circa 1623, discovered 1921, first printed in Notes and queries, 1922-3, and is now revised and reprinted in one volume

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Mock poem or Whiggs supplicatione, by Samuel Colvil
Mock poem or Whiggs supplicatione, by Samuel Colvil

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An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed
An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed

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Poems by Oliver Style
Poems by Oliver Style

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Lisy's parting with her cat, by James Thomson
Lisy's parting with her cat, by James Thomson

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Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.
Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.

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The life and actions of W.S. written by himself during his confinement in the tower at Liverpool.
The life and actions of W.S. written by himself during his confinement in the tower at Liverpool.

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Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.
Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.

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Poems of various kinds, by Peter Pinnell and others.
Poems of various kinds, by Peter Pinnell and others.

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