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- Call Number:
- Osborn fc135
- Collection Title:
- [Poems],
- Image Count:
- 9
- Alternative Title:
- Epitaph on Josua Barnes the Greek professor, On the Parliament house by Dr. Swift, Swift upon his curat complaining of hard duty (extempore), and Wrote on Swift's window by Dr. Delane
- Subject (Name):
- Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712 and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A letter from Swift to his friend comparing his body to copyhold tenement
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- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn c546
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book],
- Image Count:
- 2
- Alternative Title:
- Bishop Hall speaking of the dress of ladies in his time ..., Epigram on Dick, Epitaph, Epitaph on a grave stone ..., On the window of an inn in Guilford, and Return of spring
- Subject (Name):
- Lyttelton, William Henry, 1724-1808
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A love song
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- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn c578
- Collection Title:
- Miscellan. poems,
- Image Count:
- 2
- Alternative Title:
- The skillet
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, and Occasional verse, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A riddle
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn c389
- Collection Title:
- A collection of enigmas, charades, conundrums, &c,
- Image Count:
- 2
- Alternative Title:
- Riddle 2d, Riddle I, and We are little airy creatures
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, Riddles, and Women authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Like you all I first sprung from our mother the earth
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn c150
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book],
- Image Count:
- 1
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Name):
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --18th century, English wit and humor, and Verse satire, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Spoken extempore by Dean Swift on his curate's complaint of hard duty
- Call Number:
- Osborn c186
- Collection Title:
- Commonplace book,
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- The inconstant : a simile
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Religious life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --18th century, English wit and humour, and Satirical verse, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sympathetic love; or fancy surpasses beauty
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1760]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c188
- Image Count:
- 48
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of 35 poems, bound in together. The verses are primarily lighthearted and address the subjects of love and women, occasionally in the form of occasional verse. Titles include A tale of Fidelia’s quarrell with her looking-glass; On a robin redbreast that in a stormy day flew in at a window and settled on a lady’s breast; The dangler; A prologue spoken at the opening of Punches Theatre at Bath; To Mrs Catherine Flemming at the Lord Digby’s at Coleshill; and The comical dreamer. Two comic poems address the marriages of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess Strathmore. The collection also includes Colley Cibber’s Ode for the new year as well as poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Anne Finch, countess of Winchilsea.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Name):
- Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757, Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762, Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680, Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800, and Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --18th century, Humorous poetry, English, Occasional verse, English, Women authors, and Women --Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Collection of poems]
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1725]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c163
- Image Count:
- 15
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of fourteen serious verses, many on the subjects of death and religion. Entries include the Prologue to Cato by Alexander Pope (1688-1774), and the Epilogue to Cato by Sir Samuel Garth; a hymn by Joseph Addison; On Indifference, by Frances Anne (Greville) Crewe, lady Crewe and addressed to the Countess of Carlisle, as well as the Countess of Carlisle’s reply; a fable by John Gay; poems by Thomas Parnell and James Thomson; and various religious songs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Religious life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Name):
- Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719, Crewe, Frances Anne (Greville) Crewe, Lady, d. 1818 --Poetry, Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1774, and Thomson, James, 1700-1748
- Subject (Topic):
- Death --Poetry, Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry --18th century, and Religious poetry, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Collection of poetry]
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn c546
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book], [ca. 1770-1800]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Subject (Name):
- Lyttelton, William Henry, 1724-1808
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1770-1800]