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Verse translations from the classics
173-?
Collection of three verse translations from the classics in a single 18th-century hand: ff.1r-6r: Translation of Persius, "Satires", 2, by Mr T. Brewster, A.M. & c.; ff.8r-10r: Paraphrase of Persius, ...
The reprisal; Britannia; and Ad versutum cardinalem
c.1709-1742
Seemingly autograph versions of two manuscript English poems bound together with a manuscript Latin poem, each provided with its own title page, apparently in separate hands of the first half of the 1...
Prose and verse essay in praise of wine, dedicated to Henry St. John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, by Joshua Barnes.
Barnes, Joshua
1708
Contains 90 eighteenth-century English poems by Joshua Barnes in praise of wine, occasioned by Bolingbroke's gift to him of a hogshead of 'red Portugal' in the late summer of 1705. The text is intersp...