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Brotherton Collection3
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english poetry3
proverbs, english1
commonplace-books1
aphorisms and apothegms1

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Lewis Family1
Cleveland, John (1613-1658)1
Capell, Mary1

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BC MS Lt 109, p. 1: The opening of
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Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.

Lewis family

c.1700-1750

Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.

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BC MS Lt 119, f. 54r: The opening of Thomas Hearne's poem
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Anthology of eighteenth-century verse, compiled by Mary Capell.

Capell, Mary

c.1740-1751

Comprises an anthology of over eighty manuscript poems, of which some are dated from 1740 to 1751, with a six-page index at the end. The contents include items by Alexander Pope, Mary Wortley Montagu,...

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BC MS Lt 32, f. 1r: John Cleveland's poem
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On Christ Church Windows, Oxon, by Mr J. C.

Cleveland, John (1613-1658)

c.1640-1660

Vigorous defence against Puritan accusations of idolatry of the scriptural scenes depicted in the new stained-glass windows in the chapel of Christ Church, Oxford, describing them and praising the pai...

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