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Barnes, Joshua87
St John, Henry 1st Viscount Bolingbroke1

Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: Recommending wine as the remedy for the malign influence of the dog star

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: Greeting a hogshead of wine as if it were a noble guest, translated preceding lines from Virgil, "Aeneid", V.10

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: On the practice of drinking healths, to show the antiquity of this custom in England. Translating preceding Latin lines from Barnes's own "Franciados".

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: On the positive qualities of wine in moderation, and the negative effects of overindulgence

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: An example of drinking a health to Caesar, to show that this is not originally an English practice; translating accompanying lines from Ovid, "Fasti"

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: On the nobility of the hogshead of wine, paraphrasing preceding Latin

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: On the appearance of Bacchus to the pirates; preceded by Greek and Latin versions

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: On the virtues of wine, paraphrasing preceding lines from Horace, "Odes", 21

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: In praise of wine, translating preceding lines from Anacreon. Used also as the final final two lines of BCMSV 4049.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: On the attributes of good wine, translating preceding Latin lines from the 'Schola Salerni'

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: Song celebrating the gift of a hogshead of wine from Henry St John, later Lord Bolingbroke, including a health to the royal family, church, and John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, with a plea for sociable moderation in drinking.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Barnes, Joshua

Date(s): 1708

Manuscript: Lt 97

Contents: On the punishment of Danaus as an illustration of the antiquity of the hogshead; translating preceding lines from Horace, "Odes", II.11

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