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Title: A query to a dull author. An epigram
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: N; The London magazine
Date(s): 1775 (published) ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Satirical epigram on a tedious writer
Title: Mr Garrick's answer to the verses addressed to him by the Earl of Chatham
Author: Garrick, David
Attribution: Mr Garrick
Date(s): 1778 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: 'Answer' to the verses on peaceful pastoral life addressed to him by William
Pitt, Earl of Chatham (BCMSV 1038), praising his wisdom and poetic talent.
Title: On Christ Church Windows, Oxon', by Mr J.C., 1640
Author: Cleveland, John ?
Attribution: Mr J.C.
Date(s): 1640 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 32
Contents: 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 painter's art. Followed
(f.12r) by a list of "Stories ment
Title: To the late Queen as she went to Bath
Author: Warton, Thomas; the elder ?
Attribution: Mr Wharton
Date(s): 170-
Manuscript: Lt q 13
Contents: Panegyric to Queen Anne when visiting Bath, expressing hope that her virtues
will beneficially affect the development of the youthful poet. Corrected.
Title: On Dr Burnets theory
Author: Newcomb, Thomas
Attribution: Mr Addison; [Latin]
Date(s): 1718 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: In praise of the theory of the formation of the Earth put forward by Dr
Thomas Burnet in his "Telluris Theoria Sacra", 1681, translating Addison's
Latin ode of 1689. Lacks the final 6 stanzas.
Poem, 'Two cats'
Newton, John (1725-1807)
c.1795
An autograph poem concerning the construction of a canal at Southampton. Newton disagreed with this, believing that the existing river was wide enough and navigable. He compares the building of the...
Title: A Pindarique Ode ["To the happy memory..." etc. crossed through]:
Author: Sprat, Thomas
Attribution: Mr Sprat since Dr of Divinity & Praebend of Westminster
Date(s): 1659 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 22
Contents: Panegyric on the occasion of Oliver Cromwell's death, extravagantly praising
all aspects of his life and career, and expressing confidence that Richard
Cromwell will maintain England's happy condition
Title: Kiss III imitated
Author: Ellis, John
Attribution: Mr John Ellis; [Latin]
Date(s): 173- or 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 88
Contents: Love poem complaining that a girl will tantalisingly allow only the briefest
of kisses. Imitating Johannes Secundus's "Basia", 3.
Title: An epigram of Secundus translated
Author: Ellis, John
Attribution: Mr John Elis; [Latin]
Date(s): 173- or 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 88
Contents: Epigram on a husband preferring to dine apart from his wife, apparently
translated from Johannes Secundus.
Title: Mr Addison's character of Mr Dryden's writings in general
Author: Addison, Joseph
Attribution: Mr Addison
Date(s): 1694 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Extract from Addison's "An account of the greatest English poets", praising
Dryden's versatile poetic art
Title: To the author of a poem entituled Successio
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Satire on the dullness and small literary ability of Elkanah Settle
Title: Verses made to a simile of Mr Pope's
Author: Rowe, Nicholas
Attribution: Mr Rowe
Date(s): 1720 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Witty verses on a lady silencing her quarrelling servants, one uproar putting
a stop to another