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A gentle echo on woman, attributed to D. Swift.
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
c.1710-1720
Comprises a witty English pastoral poem.
Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.
Lewis family
c.1700-1750
Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.
Poetical commonplace book
c.1710-c.1820
Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...
Collection of English verse
c.1600-c.1710
Collection of loose sheets almost entirely of English verse, in many different hands, dating from the early 17th to the early 18th century; with a letter, 19 June 1622, from Thomas Gorstelow, and a bi...
Poetical miscellany, entitled 'Poems, & verses on several occasions, MDCCXXVI'.
1726
Contains 60 miscellaneous mainly eighteenth-century English poems.
On her majesty's birth day : a poem on Queen Caroline's birthday, by Stephen Duck
Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
c.1735
Comprises a contemporary English poem in praise of the virtues of Queen Caroline.
Satirical poem in the form of a letter from Thomas Hearne to Sir Hans Sloane.
Hearne, Thomas
c.1725-1775
Comprises a copy of 'An epistolary letter from T----- H----- to Sr H--- Sloan- who saved his life...', published according to Foxon's 'English verse, 1701-1750', E437, in 1729.
Commonplace book, compiled largely by Mr Charles Deynes of Roydon near Diss in Norfolk.
Deynes, Charles
c.1670-1744
Contains 10 miscellaneous seventeenth-century English poems, some anonymous, others by Ben Jonson, William Strode, and Abraham Cowley, written in a near contemporary hand; also, extensive historical a...
Collection of poems by William Hamilton Esq. of Bangour.
Hamilton, William
c.1750
Contains 27 eighteenth-century English poems by William Hamilton, preceded by an introductory essay and concluded with an index to all the contents of the manuscript.
Two anonymous eighteenth-century poems on the Godalming Rabbits.
c.1726
Contains 2 eighteenth-century English poems on the alleged birth in 1726 of 17 rabbits to Mary Toft of Godalming.
Commonplace book containing recipes, original and copied poems, newspaper cuttings, and a child's drawings.
c.1720-1830
Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large househol...
Poems on several occasions, by Thomas Fitzgerald, with inserted manuscript material relating to the poem "Bedlam".
Fitzgerald, Thomas
c.1733
Comprises a copy of Fitzgerald's printed "Poems on several occasions" (London, 1733), the inserted material and annotations apparently representing a revision of the poem "Bedlam" in the author's own ...
Anthology of eighteenth-century verse, compiled by Mary Capell.
Capell, Mary
c.1740-1751
Comprises an anthology of over eighty manuscript poems, of which some are dated from 1740 to 1751, with a six-page index at the end. The contents include items by Alexander Pope, Mary Wortley Montagu,...
Poetical commonplace book, partly in the hand of George Scott
Scott, George
c.1728-1779
Mainly poetical miscellany or commonplace book, in two hands, one c.1728-1750, the other seemingly that of George Scott, c.1766-1779. Fols 89v-90r: "Latin Proverbs with English Ones that answer to the...
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Collection of Restoration satires
c.1666-c.1725
Collection of four unbound late 17th- or early 18th-century Restoration satires
Mock poem or Whiggs Supplicatione, Part Second, by Samuel Colvil.
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
c.1680
Comprises Part Two of Colvil's long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters.
Manuscript verse by various hands and a masque by Thomas Cooke, inserted in a copy of 'Poems on several occasions', by Charles Cotton.
c.1720-1750
The pages of manuscript contain: (1) A short verse miscellany, including 'A satyr against woman' (16 pp), 'The batchelors lettany' (3 pp), Alexander Pope's 'How much egregious Moore/ Are we deceive'd ...
Miscellany of seventeenth and eighteenth-century verse.
c.1710-1760
Comprises a miscellany of over 100 manuscript poems, probably compiled during the early to mid-eighteenth century, including imitations and translations of Horace and Martial, and numerous poems by Dr...
A Devonshire verse miscellany.
1770s
Comprises approximately 75 poems supposedly compiled in the West Country in the 1770s, some with clues to the locality of the scribe. The miscellany includes an unrecorded early poem on the subject of...
Miscellany of English verse with Quaker connections.
1773
A miscellany of poems in English, including some with Quaker connections, such as 'Bristol Theatre: A Poem' by James Gough, the well-known Quaker historian, and 'The Country Quaker'.
Commonplace book
c.1719-1742
Contains Latin and English prose and poetry in several hands, c.1719-1742 or earlier, the main verse hand probably of the 1730s. Flyleaf recto "An account of the Beans", verso "Quaestiones quarum ment...
To the late Queen as she went to Bath, apparently by Thomas Warton
Warton, Thomas (1688-1745)
1700s
Panegyric to Queen Anne when visiting Bath, expressing hope that her virtues will beneficially affect the development of the youthful poet. Corrected.
To his Grace the Duke of Chandos, by Edward Young
Young, Edward (1683-1765)
1728?
Witty complimentary dedication to James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos, of Young's "Love of fame ...in seven characteristical satires", 1728, but in the event unpublished. Accompanied by a manuscript ...
Commonplace book, chiefly of English poems
c.1720-1748
Commonplace book, almost entirely of English verse and prose. Most poems are anonymous. Some prose tales, scenes from plays, and a few Latin lines. On p.211: "I ended this book Novr 13th 1723"; prose ...