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Title: [unknown]
Author: Congreve, William
Attribution: Congreve; [Latin]
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 95
Contents: Arguing that the dictum 'know thyself' is a divine gift to enable people to guide their lives. Extract from Congreve's translation of Juvenal, "Satires", XI, with preceding Latin lines
Title: Absence
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Lamenting the absence of a lover, and describing the pain men feel in this situation
Title: To a candle
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Comparison of the writer's life, both happy and sad from unrequited love, with that of a candle
Title: To sleep: an elegy
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Address to the personification of sleep, complaining of its powers and how it deserts those who are victims of unrequited love
Title: Of pleasing; An epistle to Sr Rd T--e [Sir Richard Temple]
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Lighthearted satire on mankind's impulse to please, arising from vanity and usually involving perversion of natural qualities; in the form of an epistle to Sir Richard Temple (later Viscount Cobham), praising his unaffected virtues
Title: To a candle an elegy
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Comparison of the writer's life, both happy and sad from unrequited love,
with that of a candle
Title: Doris
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Light satire seemingly on Mrs Barry the actress, particularly on her
behaviour in immediately disowning her many lovers
Title: An epistle to Sir Richard Temple on pleasing
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Lighthearted satire on mankind's impulse to please, arising from vanity and
usually involving perversion of natural qualities; in the form of an epistle
to Sir Richard Temple (later Viscount Cobham), praising his unaffected
virtues
Title: Jack Frenchman's lamentation to the tune of I'll tell the Dick
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1708 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Satirical ballad on the French defeat at the battle of Oudenarde, praising
the Elector of Hanover (the future George I) and laughing at Louis XIV's
discomfiture