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Safe custody, by Oliver Heywood, and Love, by George Herbert
Heywood, Oliver (1630-1702)
1700
1. A discourse on Psalm 315 by Rev. Oliver Heywood; 2. George Herbert's poem "Love"
Morning thoughts on divine love
17--
Contents: (1) p. ii. To the reader; (2) p. 1. Morning thoughts / Book 1; (3) p. 56. Ditto / Book 2; (4) p. 110. Ditto / Book 3; (5) p. 142. Ditto / Book 4; (6) p. 178. Ditto / Book 5; (7) p. 217. Ditt...
Commonplace book, chiefly of English poems
c.1720-1748
Commonplace book, almost entirely of English verse and prose. Most poems are anonymous. Some prose tales, scenes from plays, and a few Latin lines. On p.211: "I ended this book Novr 13th 1723"; prose ...
Poetical miscellanies : consisting of original poems and translations by the best hands
Jeffrey, George; Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
MDDCXIV [i.e. 1714]
With engraved frontispiece. Case records another edition in this year, with correctly printed date (279b). A pirated edition appeared in 1726, and a second authorized edition in 1727. "Contains an...
A Devonshire verse miscellany.
1770s
Comprises approximately 75 poems supposedly compiled in the West Country in the 1770s, some with clues to the locality of the scribe. The miscellany includes an unrecorded early poem on the subject of...
Collection of English poems
c.1701-1725
Collection of English poems, with two additional poems in a later hand
Collection of miscellaneous prose and verse
c.1730-1735
Remains of a formerly bound and consecutively paginated collection of miscellaneous prose and verse, now reduced to a number of loose sheets and gatherings, in various different hands. As recto-paged ...
Collection of transcribed and autograph poems, gathered together with other papers, largely poetical
c.1700-1755
Ff.1r-68v: transcriptions of poems, taken largely from the published 'Divine Hymns and Poems on Several Occasions', 1704 (Case 231), gathered in leaf endorsed 'Divine poems & c by sundry hands'; ff.69...
Miscellaneous collection of eighteenth-century English poetry and prose, with additional later material.
c.1750-1770
Contains 71 English poems, mainly anonymous. The prose works include 'A summary character of Clarinda never published' and 'Knitted lace collar'.
Poetical miscellanies : consisting of original poems and translations
Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
MDCCXIV [i.e. 1714]
B4 and C4 are unsigned. P.255 is misnumbered 235.
The historical and poetical medley : or Muses library : being a choice and faithful collection of the best antient English poetry, from the times of Edward the Confessor, to the reign of King James the First : with the lives and characters of the known writers taken from the most authentick memoirs : being the most valuable collection of the kind now extant, affording entertainment upon all subjects whatsoever
Cooper, Mrs Elizabeth (fl. 1737); Oldys, William (1696-1761)
1738
A reissue of The muses library, 1737, with cancel title leaf and final leaf. Caption and running titles: The muses library. Edited by Elizabeth Cooper (dedication signed: E. Cooper), assisted by W...
Miscellaneous poems and translations
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
1712
Editorship attributed to Pope and contains the first appearance of Pope's The rape of the locke. Often described as "Lintott's miscellany". Includes, together with six other pieces by Pope, the fi...