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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.
Title: A Sermon in Verse
Author: Pinnell, Peter
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Didactic verse sermon, urging the reader to have faith in God and set misfortune at defiance; preceded by a quotation from Psalm 42 (verses 6 and 7).
Title: Enigma [and] Solution
Author: Pinnell, Peter
Attribution: Peter Pinnell; P.P. (at end)
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Poetic riddle, on a pinch of snuff, which sets up the enigma in the first section, and solves it in the next; Pinnell is possibly the author only of the solution
Title: A Conundrum which solves itself in writing, but not in speaking
Author: Pinnell, Peter
Attribution: Peter Pinnell; P.P. (at end)
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Poetical conundrum playing with Roman numerals.
Title: On seeing Lady Bathurst's Children asleep, and her saying, how much like little Saints they look'd
Author: Pinnell, Peter
Attribution: Peter Pinnell; P.P. (at end)
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Lines inspired by Lady Bathurst's comment that her sleeping children looked like little saints.