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Title: Motto
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope's Universal Prayer
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 165- or 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious
Title: An ode to content
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: R.M.; [The Craftsman, or Say's Weekly Journal, Jan. 9, 1773], p.4, col.3
Date(s): 1773 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: In praise of contentment (gained by abandoning vice) as more necessary than
wealth to human happiness
Title: A query to a dull author. An epigram
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: N; The London magazine
Date(s): 1775 (published) ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Satirical epigram on a tedious writer
Title: Verses by the late Earl of Chatham to David Garrick Esq. when on a visit some
years ago at Mount Edgecumbe
Author: Pitt, William; Earl of Chatham
Attribution: The late Earl of Chatham; Baldwin's London Weekly Journal, [Saturday] May 23,
Date(s): 1778 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Urging Garrick to visit Chatham's plain, peaceful country retreat of pastoral
happiness, rather than marvel at the fashionable delights of Mount Edgecumbe.
'Answered' in BCMSV 1039. With a marginal note on the text.
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: [unknown]
Author: James, Ro. ?
Attribution: Ro. James
Date(s): 1684 ?
Manuscript: Lt 18
Contents: Comparison of the transience of life to a bubble and a flower, particularly
the marigold, seeing also hope of a future life
Title: [Latin epigraph from Horace]
Author: Raleigh, Sir Walter
Attribution: Sir W. Rawleigh; [Latin]
Date(s): 1614 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: The legend of Jove descending on Danae as a shower of gold, translating
Horace, Odes, III.16. From Raleigh's History of the World, II.13
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Attribution: Prior
Date(s): 1692
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: On the transience of human youth and beauty. From stanza 3 of Prior's Ode of
1692.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Prior, Matthew
Date(s): 1689
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Extract from Prior's humorous verse epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard, here
fancifully describing his own life in the country
Title: Solitude
Author: Philips, Katherine
Date(s): 1667 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the pleasure of solitude, and the visions of nature that it brings as
solace for human sorrow. Translated from French.
Title: Sir Thomas Overbury's epitaph
Author: Overbury, Sir Thomas
Date(s): 1613 ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Epitaph for himself affirming the survival of his soul after death