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BC MS Lt 100
BC MS Lt 100
c.1775-1810
Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.
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BC MS Lt 101
BC MS Lt 101
1796
Contains a long English autobiographical poem which was possibly copied from the printed Manchester 1750 edition noted in Foxon's 'English verse 1701-1750', L179. The 1772 (?) edition noted in ESTC na...
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BC MS Lt 103
BC MS Lt 103
c.1740-1804
Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.
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BC MS Lt 104
BC MS Lt 104
c.1750-1790
Contains 58 eighteenth-century English poems by Peter Pinnell and other contemporary poets.
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BC MS Lt 106
BC MS Lt 106
c.1745-1780
Contains a miscellany of prose and 34 pieces of English poetry, many with evident Jacobite sympathies and dated in the mid and later years of the eighteenth century, including speeches of Jacobites pr...
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BC MS Lt 107
BC MS Lt 107
c.1700-1720
Contains 64 original eighteenth-century English religious poems by Robert Worlidge, including an extended poetical paraphrase of the Book of Ruth, a collection of poems on the deaths of members of the...
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BC MS Lt 108
BC MS Lt 108
c.1710-1720
Comprises a witty English pastoral poem.
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BC MS Lt 109
BC MS Lt 109
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 11
BC MS Lt 11
c.1710-c.1820
Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...
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BC MS Lt 110
BC MS Lt 110
1726
Contains 60 miscellaneous mainly eighteenth-century English poems.
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BC MS Lt 111
BC MS Lt 111
c.1735
Comprises a contemporary English poem in praise of the virtues of Queen Caroline.
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BC MS Lt 112
BC MS Lt 112
c.1725-1775
Comprises a copy of 'An epistolary letter from T----- H----- to Sr H--- Sloan- who saved his life...', published according to Foxon's 'English verse, 1701-1750', E437, in 1729.