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Title: To Vacuna
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1739 (Ragnarsson)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: In praise of Vacuna, the goddess of leisure (or indolence),
describing the activities of those who honour her, and declaring
himself one of her subjects
Title: Theocritus, Idyll 21
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Greek]
Date(s): 1745 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Story of a poor fisherman who dreams he catches a fish made of
gold, swears he will renounce fishing, and on waking is reassured
by his companion that the oath was invalid; partly in dialogue.
Paraphrase of Theocritus, Idylls, XXI.
Title: Theocrytus, Idill. 15th, travers'd. Mrs Trollop, Rebecca, Mrs
Pinchwife, Old Woman, Stranger.
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Greek]
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Humorous, lightly satirical account of two London women
preparing to go to the Lord Mayor's show and walking there
through the streets. In dialogue form with named speakers.
Imitated from Theocritus, Idylls, XV.
Title: Horace Book I, Epist. II. To Richard Aldworth, now Neville
Neville Esq., of Billingbear, Berks.
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Latin]
Date(s): 1744 (Ragnarsson)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Arguing against excessive travel to distant countries and in
favour of contentment with whatever place fortune happens to
land one in. Paraphrased from Horace, Epistles, I.11.
Title: To the Spring 1740
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1740 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Urging Spring to return after a long absence and take its
rightful place as an equal to Winter and Summer
Title: To the Queen of Hungary, 1741
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1741 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Advice to Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary, to retire into
dignified exile after the threatened invasion of her country by
France and its allies in the course of the War of the Austrian
Succession
Title: A night thought
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1744 ? (Ragnarsson)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: A warning of the impartiality of death followed by a vision of
virtue enthroned in heaven surrounded by virtuous men of the
past. With space left for words or lines to be inserted, as if
unfinished.
Title: On the death of Mrs M.H.
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1745 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: In memory of Mrs M.H. on the occasion of her death, praising her
beauty, virtue and Christian goodness
Title: Hints from Phaedrus, Book 3rd, Prologue. To Lord Viscount Bateman
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Latin]
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Fulfilling a request for a poem probably from the 2nd Viscount
Bateman (John Bateman), but warning that poetry demands time
that the requester, busy in public life and society, may be
reluctant to give. Imitated from the Prologue to Phaedrus,
Fables, III
Title: On Dr Cranke's keeping of the gout
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Humorous tale of how the physician Dr Cranke successfully
defeated all diseases (here personified), including gout
Title: Horace Epistle 12, To T.T., December 1741; Dr Thomas
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Latin]
Date(s): 1741 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Flattering address to his friend Dr Timothy Thomas, rector of
Presteigne, recommending contentment and praising the range and
perspicacity of his intellectual interests, including current
affairs. Imitated from Horace, Epistles, I.12. Cf. BCMSV 2644.
Title: Horace Epistle 12, to T.T., December 1741
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Latin]
Date(s): 1741 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Flattering address to his friend Dr Timothy Thomas, rector of
Presteigne, recommending contentment and praising the range and
perspicacity of his intellectual interests, including current
affairs. Imitated from Horace, Epistles, I.12. Another copy of
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Title: To the Spring, 1743
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1740
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Urging Spring to return after a long absence and take its
rightful place as an equal to Winter and Summer. Another copy
of BCMSV 2637, written on a loose sheet by a different hand.
Title: The following verses are taken from Whaley's Collection of Poems
printed 1732; wrote by S. Davies in memory of King Henry the 6th
the founder of King's and Eaton College, Feb. 2nd 1730. An
exercise at King's College on the Founder's Day.
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1730 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Panegyric to Henry VI, praising his virtues and particularly his
foundation of King's College, University of Cambridge, on the
occasion of the annual thanksgiving; extolling the architectual
beauty of the buildings.
Title: The song of Moses, imitated from the 15th chapter of Exodus
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies; [Bible]
Date(s): 1732 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Religious poem, Moses' song of praise and thanksgiving to God
after the Israelites' safe crossing of the Red Sea and the
drowning of Pharaoh and the Egyptians; paraphrasing Exodus 15.
Corrected, and with the abbreviated conclusion referring back to
earlie
Title: Verses on the twenty ninth of May. Exercise at King's College
1731. [Latin epigraph]
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1731 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Celebrating the restoration of Charles II from the point of view
of 1660, lamenting the destructiveness of the Civil War and the
death of Charles I, and looking forward to future peace and
prosperity
Title: The travels of a shilling, imitated from the Tatler. [Latin
epigraph]
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: The Tatler
Date(s): 1732 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 19
Contents: Lighthearted tale of the travels of a shilling (as if spoken by
it), beginning with its origins in Peru and minting in
Elizabethan London, and describing its subsequent varied uses
and ownership, ending with it inspiring John Philips to write his
poem, "T
Title: To N.H. of Knowle-Hill, Derbyshire
Author: Davies, Sneyd
Attribution: Sneyd Davies
Date(s): 1748
Manuscript: Printed book
Contents: 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
beauties of Derbyshire.