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Title: Damon in pain, or The love-smitten swain. A sonnet.
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502). At end, "T.F." (?).
Title: The billet-doux. To Phillis, Damon wanting ease, In humble manner sendeth these.
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502).
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Epigram on the power of poetry as the best means of preserving the past from the effects of time, occurring as epigraph (on the title-page) to the following "Origine of the taylor's gentility" (BCMSV 3503)
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding song in praise of a house and its occupants, part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epigram about Jove's tomb with which Hesiod won a contest against Homer; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding comment by Ovid about Anacreon, revealing the latter's reputation as a lover and drinker; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph on the death of Aeschylus, part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding prediction of the fame of Euripides, made by the oracle of Apollo, here part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph on the death of Lycurgus, here in relation to Euripides; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph on the death of Euripides, suggesting that he does honour to his tomb rather than vice versa; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington,
Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding couplet from Homer, on the need to accept a mother's word on the paternity of her child; part of a piece on Aristophanes in 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh
Wormington,
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding distich apparently by Plato, praising Aristophanes; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding lines by Theocritus on his origins and asserting the originality of his poetry; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph on the death of Callimachus, emphasising his family, part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epigram by Propertius seemingly censuring Callimachus for an over-inflated style; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding lines on fishing, the beginning of Oppian's 'Halieutica', dedicated to the Emperor Antoninus; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph as inscribed on Oppian's tomb, lamenting his early death at the hands of Fate; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding lines, the beginning of Oppian's 'Cynegetica', praising the Emperor Antoninus and suggesting that the natural world is for his benefit; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716.
Part 1
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of the final lines of Oppian's 'Halieutica', requesting continued good fortune and tributes from nature for the Emperor Antoninus; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh
Wormingto
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding lines from Homer's 'Iliad', praising Linus and describing him as a boy singing; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. Part 2. 1716 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: On the inspirational effect of Tirtaus's poetry on the soldiers of Sparta; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. Part 2. 1716 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding lines by Horace commenting on his adoption of the form but not the bitter content of the poetry of Archilochus; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. Part 2. 1716 by Hugh
Wormington, Lim
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epigram by Archilochus stating that his first allegiance is to war rather than poetry; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. Part 2. 1716 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph on the death of Archilochus, suggesting that he was directed towards his poetic form by the muses who wished to leave the epic form for Homer; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient
Graecian poet