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Title: Motto
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope's Universal Prayer
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"
Title: An ode to content
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: R.M.; [The Craftsman, or Say's Weekly Journal, Jan. 9, 1773], p.4, col.3
Date(s): 1773 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: In praise of contentment (gained by abandoning vice) as more necessary than
wealth to human happiness
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: Verses by the late Earl of Chatham to David Garrick Esq. when on a visit some
years ago at Mount Edgecumbe
Author: Pitt, William; Earl of Chatham
Attribution: The late Earl of Chatham; Baldwin's London Weekly Journal, [Saturday] May 23,
Date(s): 1778 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Urging Garrick to visit Chatham's plain, peaceful country retreat of pastoral
happiness, rather than marvel at the fashionable delights of Mount Edgecumbe.
'Answered' in BCMSV 1039. With a marginal note on the text.
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.
Title: Boetius, de Consol. Philos. Lib.3, Met.9, p.99
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1703 or 1704 ?
Manuscript: Lt 16
Contents: Prayer to God as creator and source of reason, for inspiration, strength and
comfort. Translated from Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, III.9. Cf.
BCMSV 1253.
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.
Title: On Voiture the French witt
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount with the works
of Voiture", praising the French writer's unconventional wit, humour and
literary skill
Title: Pleasure
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, recommending a
life of pleasure free from the cares of learning and study but realising that
this will not bring perfect happiness
Title: Musick
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, welcoming the
power of music to gladden and soothe a soul troubled by grief and cares, but
finding its effects short-lived
Title: Drinking
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", II, rejecting
drinking as a source of comfort to the soul, and regretting the jests and
revels of the previous night
Title: Man's being
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Prior's "Solomon on the Vanity of the World", III, reflecting
whether the soul is simply a more refined part of the body or a divine spark
which at death will return to heaven