Commonplace book, 1770-1818

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Title: Commonplace book, 1770-1818
Creator: Negus, Francis Colman, 1744-1818
Abstract: Comonplace book in a single hand kept by the Rev. Francis Negus and containing mostly English literary excerpts in verse and prose. Poets quoted include Milton, Shakespeare, Cowley, Dryden, Rowe, Prior, Akenside and Arne; prose authors include Gibbon, Lyttelton, Sterne, and a variety of sermon authors. The volume also contains some occasional verses attributed to friends of Negus; a supposedly unpublished remark by Samuel Johnson; and a satirical verse on the second marriage of Hester Thrale Piozzi. A few entries at the end of the volume are in a later hand and are accompanied by a few newspaper clippings and printed items
Description: Francis Colman Negus (1744-1818) was the son of the attorney Daniel Negus and Elizabeth Colman of Suffolk. Educated at Bury St. Edmunds grammar school and Cambridge University, he was rector of Brome and Oakley in Suffolk for many years.
In English.
Presentation inscription on front flyleaf: The gift of a sincere and much-beloved friend to F. C. Negus, 1770.
Laid in: Manuscript note to Francis Colman Negus from the Misses Drury, undated.
Binding: original full calf, gilt, with compartmented spine; marbled endpapers.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2007.
Extent: 1 24 x 19 cm. v. (108 p., many blanks) ;
Language: English

Genre: Anecdotes
Poetry
Commonplace books
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Negus, Francis Colman, 1744-1818.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
Subject (Topic): English literature
English poetry
Occasional verse, English
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 > Anecdotes
Negus, Francis Colman, 1744-1818
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821 > Poetry
English literature > 18th century
English poetry > 18th century
Occasional verse, English

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Citation: Francis Colman Negus, Commonplace Book. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.