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Peter Pinnell	1

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BC MS Lt 104

Poems of various kinds, by Peter Pinnell and others.

c.1750-1790

Contains 58 eighteenth-century English poems by Peter Pinnell and other contemporary poets.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6363

A Sermon in Verse

175- or 176- ?

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).

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6390

Enigma [and] Solution

175- or 176- ?

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

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6391

A Conundrum which solves itself in writing, but not in speaking

175- or 176- ?

Poetical conundrum playing with Roman numerals.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/6392

On seeing Lady Bathurst's Children asleep, and her saying, how much like little Saints they look'd

175- or 176- ?

Lines inspired by Lady Bathurst's comment that her sleeping children looked like little saints.