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Total number of records: 355

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Brotherton Collection355
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Quaker Collection1

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english poetry355
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Dryden, John (1631-1700)20
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Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)13
Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)12
Dodsley, Robert12
Anderson, James (1739-1808)11
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)10
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)9
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)6

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The works of the right honourable Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon

Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685); Foulis, Andrew (1712-1775); Foulis, Robert (1707-1776)

1753

Running title reads 'Poems upon several occasions'. Some portions of the text have translation on pages facing. Page 13 wrongly numbered 3. Contents: -Memoirs. -Testimonies of authors concerning...

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BC MS Lt 1, p. 54 (1st sequence): The opening of
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Mock poem or Whiggs supplicatione, by Samuel Colvil

Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)

ca.1680

Long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, in two parts. Part One is preceded by "The Authors Appologie to the Reader", in prose. Part Two ends with a Latin version of t...

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BC MS Lt q 1, f.1r:
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An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed

c.1680

Manuscript poem which wittily suggests that the waters of Bath work their cures not as a result of salts and minerals but because women bathe in them, thereby sending forth healing

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A collection of documents relating to the Fairfax family, together with other miscellaneous material, compiled by Charles Fairfax and others.

Fairfax, Charles Colonel (1597-1673)

c.1650-1710

Contains notes by Charles Fairfax relating to the Analecta Fairfaxiana, a Latin anagram on himself with his explanatory note referring to the tempest which his ship weathered in September 1652; also, ...

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BC MS Lt 10, f. 17r: Oliver Style's poem
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Poems by Oliver Style

Style, Sir Oliver

c.1670-c.1710

Largely a compilation of poems by Oliver Style, probably autograph, copied 1698-1703, with some items added in a second hand.

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BC MS Lt q 10, f.1r: The opening of James Thomson's poem
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Lisy's parting with her cat, by James Thomson

Thomson, James (1700-1748)

c.1725

Description of a girl leaving for boarding school (probably Thomson's sister Elizabeth) sorrowfully taking leave of her pet cat, imagining the cat's own lament at the separation. The poem, one of Thom...

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BC MS Lt 101, p. 3: The opening of William Shevington's poem
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The life and actions of W.S. written by himself during his confinement in the tower at Liverpool.

Shevington, William

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 102, f. 3r: The opening of
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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.

c.1650-1730

Contains, from one end, 'tables of the names of all the warrants contained in this booke made 1658', followed by a book of recipes, and, from the other end, an 'enumeration table' of various mathemati...

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BC MS Lt 104, f. 68r: The opening of Peter Pinnell's poem
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Poems of various kinds, by Peter Pinnell and others.

Pinnell, Peter

c.1750-1790

Contains 58 eighteenth-century English poems by Peter Pinnell and other contemporary poets.

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BC MS Lt 105, f. 49r : Thomas Fairfax's poem
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Collection of poems, predominantly religious, by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron, professionally transcribed, with annotations by his uncle, Colonel Charles Fairfax.

Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)

c.1670

Contains 194 seventeenth-century English poems, mainly Biblical paraphrases, chiefly the Psalms and the Song of Solomon, but also from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel, Proverbs, and Luke; also, di...

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BC MS Lt 106, f. 1r: The opening of
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Commonplace book of eighteenth century prose and verse, chiefly with Jacobite sympathies.

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, f. 63r: Robert Worlidge's poem
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Miscellany of original early eighteenth century English poetry with East Anglian connections, by Robert Worlidge.

Worlidge, Robert

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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