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Brotherton Collection41
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Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse16
Ripon Cathedral1

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theater4
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language and languages1
irish drama (in english)1
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Congreve, William62
Congreve, William (1670-1729)46
Dryden, John (1631-1700)25
Dryden, John12
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D)9
Publius Ovidus Naso9
Vanbrugh, John8
Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)8
Garth, Samuel7
Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719)7

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The dramatick works of John Dryden, Esq : in six volumes (v.1)

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1725

Edited by William Congreve. The general title appears in v. 1 only; each volume and each play has separate title page. Contents: vol.1.--An essay of dramatick poesie. The wild gallant. The rival l...

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The dramatick works of John Dryden, Esq : in six volumes (v.2)

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1725

Edited by William Congreve. The general title appears in v. 1 only; each volume and each play has separate title page. Contents: vol.1.--An essay of dramatick poesie. The wild gallant. The rival l...

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The dramatick works of John Dryden, Esq : in six volumes (v.3)

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1725

Edited by William Congreve. The general title appears in v. 1 only; each volume and each play has separate title page. Contents: vol.1.--An essay of dramatick poesie. The wild gallant. The rival l...

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The dramatick works of John Dryden, Esq : in six volumes (v.4)

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1725

Edited by William Congreve. The general title appears in v. 1 only; each volume and each play has separate title page. Contents: vol.1.--An essay of dramatick poesie. The wild gallant. The rival l...

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The dramatick works of John Dryden, Esq : in six volumes (v.5)

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1725

Edited by William Congreve. The general title appears in v. 1 only; each volume and each play has separate title page. Contents: vol.1.--An essay of dramatick poesie. The wild gallant. The rival l...

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The dramatick works of John Dryden, Esq : in six volumes (v.6)

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1725

Edited by William Congreve. The general title appears in v. 1 only; each volume and each play has separate title page. Contents: vol.1.--An essay of dramatick poesie. The wild gallant. The rival l...

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Title: Shade

Author: Congreve, William

Date(s): 1695

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: Description of a gloomy place devoid of all light and natural life;

the opening twelve lines of Congreve's "The Mourning Muse of Alexis",

elegiac lament for the death of Mary II.

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Title: Horace Lib.II, Ode 14

Author: Congreve, William

Date(s): 1692 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: On human mortality and the inevitability and universality of death;

paraphrasing Horace, Odes, II.14. Omits the final strophe.

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The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English verse

Juvenal; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715); Bowles, William (1705); Dryden, Charles (1666-1704); Stepney, George (1663-1707); Harvey, Stephen (1655-1707); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Power, Thomas (fl.1678-1692); Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)

1702

The second and fifteenth satires of Juvenal translated by Nahum Tate; the fifth by William Bowles; the seventh by Charles Dryden; the eighth b y George Stepney; the ninth by Stephen Harvey; the eleven...

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The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus

Juvenal; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715); Bowles, William (1705); Dryden, Charles (1666-1704); Stepney, George (1663-1707); Harvey, Stephen (1655-1707); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Power, Thomas (fl.1678-1692); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1735

The second and fifteenth satires of Juvenal translated by Nahum Tate; the fifth by William Bowles; the seventh by Charles Dryden; the eighth by George Stepney; the ninth by Stephen Harvey; the elevent...

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Title: Horace Lib.2 Ode 14, imitated [Latin epigraph]

Author: Congreve, William

Attribution: Mr Congreve [in Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692];

Date(s): 1692 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 71

Contents: On human mortality and the inevitability and universality of death. Paraphrasing Horace, Odes, II.14.

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Title: In imitacion of Horace, Ode 9 Lib.1 [Latin epigraph]

Author: Congreve, William

Attribution: Mr Congreve [in Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692];

Date(s): 1692 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 71

Contents: Horace, Odes, I.9, an exhortation to enjoy life's present pleasures while young

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