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INDEX/BCMSV/2609

1743 (Ragnarsson)

Address to Charles Pratt, later Lord Camden, reviewing their long friendship, regretting the passing of youth, and urging

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INDEX/BCMSV/2610

1766 (title)

Extravagant praise of Lord Camden, formerly Charles Pratt, addressed to a portrait of his late father Sir John Pratt. With a prose note "This picture (an original) which formerly hung in the same house in Camden's time, was lately made a present of,

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INDEX/BCMSV/2611

1743 (Ragnarsson)

On the need to follow ambition's lead and live an active, successful life, instead of succumbing to indolence and quiet retirement, regretting that he himself has not seized his opportunities. With note at end: "The verses to Lord Viscount

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INDEX/BCMSV/2612

1744 (title)

Celebration of the pleasures of literature and philosophy, enjoyed in friendship, praising the achievements of the writers

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INDEX/BCMSV/2613

1757 (title)

Imagined account of the ancient British chief Caractacus's defiance when brought at last to Rome, praising his heroism and wishing the English army presently fighting a war against France

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INDEX/BCMSV/2614

1763 (Ragnarsson)

To the River Avon, congratulating it on the pleasant scenes through which it has to pass, contrasted with the decayed

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INDEX/BCMSV/2615

1748 (title)

Reflections on Anglesey, Wales, formerly the home of druids, now of Welshmen who still hate the English; in consequence recommending Hardinge to stay at home among the gentler

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INDEX/BCMSV/2616

174- or 175- ?

Address seemingly to Thomas Anson of Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, urging him to rest content at home after his travels and to recall in memory the artistic splendours he has

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INDEX/BCMSV/2617

175- or 176- ?

Imagined dialogue between a monument to the 13th-century Welsh bishop Cadwgan, and the antiquary Dr Jeremiah Milles, in which the former laments being brought from Dore Abbey to London by Lord Bateman, and the latter chastises it for ingratitude;

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INDEX/BCMSV/2618

1753 (title)

Congratulating Mr Southwell on his marriage to Lady Elizabeth

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INDEX/BCMSV/2619

175-

In praise of a carpet apparently woven or embroidered by Lady Betty Southwell (formerly Cornwallis), regretting how few British women choose cultured or artistic occupations in

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INDEX/BCMSV/2620

1737 (Ragnarsson)

Lighthearted expression of amazement that his friend Richard Mounteney (or Mountney) should have been made a Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, congratulating him and disclaiming any