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Brotherton Collection4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2

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english poetry4
conduct of life4
verse satire, english1
recipes1
commonplace-books1

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Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)2
Knox, Vicesimus2

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Elegant extracts : or, useful and entertaining pieces of poetry : selected for the improvement of young persons : being similar in design to Elegant extracts in prose (v.1)

Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

1801

T.p. vignettes engraved by J. Heath after E.F. Burney. Edited by Vicesimus Knox; cf. Dict. nat. biog. and ESTC t121170, t122502, t124902 and t124390. Vol. 2 has title: Poetry : elegant abstracts, ...

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Elegant extracts : or, useful and entertaining pieces of poetry : selected for the improvement of young persons : being similar in design to Elegant extracts in prose (v.2)

Knox, Vicesimus (1752-1821)

1801

T.p. vignettes engraved by J. Heath after E.F. Burney. Edited by Vicesimus Knox; cf. Dict. nat. biog. and ESTC t121170, t122502, t124902 and t124390. Vol. 2 has title: Poetry : elegant abstracts, ...

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BC MS Lt 102, f. 3r: The opening of
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Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

c.1650-1730

Contains, from one end, 'tables of the names of all the warrants contained in this booke made 1658', followed by a book of recipes, and, from the other end, an 'enumeration table' of various mathemati...

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BC MS Lt 79, f. 129v: The opening of Sir John Harington's poem
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Miscellany of prose writings with some poetry by various authors.

c.1690-1700

Comprises various essays on the control of the emotions, followed by several English poems and Jacobite verse satires, with various dates assigned to particular literary pieces, ranging from 1651 and ...

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