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INDEX/BCMSV/3502 1
INDEX/BCMSV/3502 1
172- ?
Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502). At end, "T.F." (?).
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INDEX/BCMSV/3984 1
INDEX/BCMSV/3984 1
1715
The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"
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INDEX/BCMSV/4109 1
INDEX/BCMSV/4109 1
1708
Recommending wine as the remedy for the malign influence of the dog star
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INDEX/BCMSV/6063 1
INDEX/BCMSV/6063 1
17-- ?
Proverb on the transience of worldly goods, used as heading to BCMSV 6064
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INDEX/BCMSV/6064 1
INDEX/BCMSV/6064 1
17-- ?
Proverb on the relationship between wealth and fate, used as heading to BCMSV 6065
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INDEX/BCMSV/6037 1
INDEX/BCMSV/6037 1
171- ?
Single couplet saying that he dare not declare his love to his beloved
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INDEX/BCMSV/52.1
INDEX/BCMSV/52.1
1713 (published)
Cato's soliloquy from Addison's play "Cato," V.1, arguing for the immortality
of the soul after death, while contemplating suicide. At end, "23rd December
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INDEX/BCMSV/82.1
INDEX/BCMSV/82.1
173- ?
Moralising epigram on behaviour towards others; translating preceding Latin
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INDEX/BCMSV/98.1
INDEX/BCMSV/98.1
1741 ?
Witty couplet on love being fire, translated from preceding Latin verses,
included in a prose letter to a friend with a present of tobacco. At end, "B.
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INDEX/BCMSV/106.1
INDEX/BCMSV/106.1
173- ?
Humorous couplet added by Coles to the prose remark "The grocers have a
common saying, when Ferdinando went to catch the devil he baited his hook with
Archive Item:
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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INDEX/BCMSV/100
INDEX/BCMSV/100
173- ?
Lighthearted poem in which a Welsh curate praises a snail and wishes he too
could move his house, but is then forced by hunger to eat the snail. At end,