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Title: [unknown]
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Date(s): 176- or 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 75
Contents: On the vagaries of fortune, illustrated by the reversal of fortunes of the oyster seller Nell and the pickled salmon seller Lucy
Title: The golden mean, 1743
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1743 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Expressing desire for the happiness and peace of mind which being neither weighted with the cares of the great nor fearful of poverty brings; perhaps inspired by Horace, Odes, I.10.
Title: On a lady frowning
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Comparing a lady's frown to clouded skies
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1750
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Song on the impossibility of hiding his love or of gaining a favourable response to it; published in 1790 with a date of 1750
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1749 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Love song in which the woman explains she has been making trial of her lover, feigning disdain to test his constancy; printed in 'Six new English songs'
Title: Epitaph on Milton
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Elegiac lament on the death of John Milton, arguing that his blindness cannot be deplored since it fired his imagination; with an echo of Alexander Pope's 'Epitaph' of 1720
Title: Acrostic
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Acrostic on the word 'satire', asserting its moral and critical function
Title: Custom, a satire
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1747
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Satire on the concept of value, describing the tyranny of custom and fashion over virtue, merit and truth in private and public morality
Title: The Globe of Archimedes translated from Claudian
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page); [Latin]
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: On the presumption and vanity of man's attempts to explain the universe and the divine creation, using the example of Archimedes; translated from Claudian
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Song on the ease with which it is possible to gain the love, if not the body, of a fashionable young lady
Title: Song
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Satirical drinking song in which the honesty of the friendship between drinkers is contrasted with the corruption of politics
Title: Pastoral
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 1751 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Pastoral love song in which a rustic swain sings the praises of the virtuous Dolly, having freed himself from the beautiful but cold Molly. Printed three times in 1751, the first time as 'A new song. Sung by Mr [John] Beard, at Ranelagh Gardens'.