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Title: To Miss Walter of Grosvenor-Square on her birth-day, June 17, 1766
Author: Scott, William
Attribution: William Scott, St Sepulchre's, Snow-Hill, June 16, 1766 [at end]
Date(s): 1766
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Birthday poem for a Miss Harriet Walter, praising her virtues, recalling the
previous year's event and anticipating the next
Title: A pastoral
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Pastoral dialogue between two shepherds, Palemon and Alexis, their
contrasting attitudes to the beauty of the landscape determined by the
respective presence and absence of their beloved Phillida and Daphne. With a
marginal alternative reading, annotated
Title: A ballad
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Saturday] October 17, [17]67
Date(s): 1767 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Pastoral love poem, praising the beauty of his beloved's mind as more
important than physical beauty
Title: Epilogue to the Widow'd Wife, spoken by Mrs Clive
Author: Kenrick, William ?
Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Friday] Dec. 11, 1767
Date(s): 1767 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Epilogue to William Kenrick's play "The Widow'd Wife", urging the audience to
continue their patronage, and pretending, like a doctor, to take the pulse of
their reactions to the performance. Spoken by the actress Kitty Clive.
Title: On seeing Mr Wilkes on the hustings at Guildhall
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer, [Friday] March 26, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Eulogistic praise of the politician John Wilkes as a champion of liberty.
With a note: "The last line sounds oddly, if not hibernically".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [The Gazetteer], March 21, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Partially critical epitaph on Laurence Sterne, following a prose notice of
his death
Title: To the fair authoress of an epigram, in answer to an illiberal abuse of the
late Rev. Dr Sterne
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: [The Gazetteer], March 21, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Answer to a criticism of Laurence Sterne (possibly the preceding BCMSV 1006),
representing envy as unable to harm his memory
Title: An ode
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1762 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Celebration of the birth of the future George IV, anticipating his reign;
praising George III and Queen Charlotte
Title: The beau parson. Addressed to the Revd. Mr John Horne (Minister or Curate of
Brentford)
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Gazetteer, [Friday] Dec. 30, 1768
Date(s): 1768 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Satire on a clergyman, John Horne, concerned with his external appearance
(hair and clothes) instead of religion. With a marginal note on the layout of
the verse.
The life and actions of W.S. written by himself during his confinement in the tower at Liverpool.
Shevington, William
1796
Contains a long English autobiographical poem which was possibly copied from the printed Manchester 1750 edition noted in Foxon's 'English verse 1701-1750', L179. The 1772 (?) edition noted in ESTC na...
Title: Psalm XV. Religion & justice, goodness, & truth, or the duties to God, or
the qualities of a Christian
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 15
Title: The kind inquiry
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Wednesday] Jan. 4, 1769
Date(s): 1769 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: On the clergyman John Horne of Brentford. Followed by a prose note of his
friendship with the politician John Wilkes, whose victory in an election for a
London alderman he had helped to secure