Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 97 records

Total number of records: 97

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection97
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse97
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry97
commonplace-books22
verse satire, english9
commonplace books4
jacobites4
letters3
latin poetry3
christian poetry, english3
english literature2
quakers2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hall, Henry (1656-1707)3
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)3
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)2
Coles, Benjamin2
Fitzgerald, Thomas2
Forrest, Theodosius (1728-1784)2
Samson, Bowman1
Shevington, William1
Robins, William1
Scott, George1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 170096
From 18001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 179990
Up to 18996
Up to 19991
BC MS Lt 100, f. 15r: The opening of
Archive Item

Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.

c.1775-1810

Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 101, p. 3: The opening of William Shevington's poem
Archive Item

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...

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 103, f. 13r: The opening of
Archive Item

Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.

Marriott, Eliza

c.1740-1804

Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 104, f. 68r: The opening of Peter Pinnell's poem
Archive Item

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.

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 106, f. 1r: The opening of
Archive Item

Commonplace book of eighteenth century prose and verse, chiefly with Jacobite sympathies.

c.1745-1780

Contains a miscellany of prose and 34 pieces of English poetry, many with evident Jacobite sympathies and dated in the mid and later years of the eighteenth century, including speeches of Jacobites pr...

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 107, f. 63r: Robert Worlidge's poem
Archive Item

Miscellany of original early eighteenth century English poetry with East Anglian connections, by Robert Worlidge.

Worlidge, Robert

c.1700-1720

Contains 64 original eighteenth-century English religious poems by Robert Worlidge, including an extended poetical paraphrase of the Book of Ruth, a collection of poems on the deaths of members of the...

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 108, p. 1: Jonathan Swift's poem
Archive Item

A gentle echo on woman, attributed to D. Swift.

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

c.1710-1720

Comprises a witty English pastoral poem.

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 109, p. 1: The opening of
Archive Item

Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.

Lewis family

c.1700-1750

Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 11, p. 61: The opening of George Plaxton's poem
Archive Item

Poetical commonplace book

c.1710-c.1820

Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 110, f. 5r: The opening of
Archive Item
BC MS Lt 111, f. 1r: Stephen Duck's poem
Archive Item

On her majesty's birth day : a poem on Queen Caroline's birthday, by Stephen Duck

Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

c.1735

Comprises a contemporary English poem in praise of the virtues of Queen Caroline.

More details and larger image

BC MS Lt 112, f. 1r: The opening of Thomas Hearne's poem
Archive Item

Satirical poem in the form of a letter from Thomas Hearne to Sir Hans Sloane.

Hearne, Thomas

c.1725-1775

Comprises a copy of 'An epistolary letter from T----- H----- to Sr H--- Sloan- who saved his life...', published according to Foxon's 'English verse, 1701-1750', E437, in 1729.

More details and larger image