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A New address to Mr. Bayes in his late conversion to the Church of Rome
A sigh
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Commonplace
book
], 1800-1841.
[
Commonplace
book
], [ca. 1651-1653].
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Table talk
Her booke [Musical
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Biographical anecdotes of one thousand distinguished characters & personages : including many in
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, 1586.
An anecdote of Dr. Johnson, not published in any life of him
Sartaine most holsome meditations verey meete to bee dulie considered. [A poem in 5
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A miscellany of poems
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Miscellaneous poems and translations &c. Johnson's collection of poems, MSS. Most of which were
Miscellaneous poems and translations &c. Johnson’s collection of poems, MSS. Most of which were
[
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], [early 17th century]
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[
Commonplace
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], [ca. 1650-1725].
[
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], [1620s?]
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Noctes Atticae
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Das Vade mecum
Thomas Bowrey logbook and journal, [17--].
[
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], [mid 18th century].
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Extracts from various publications and particular papers / [ca. 1785]-1800, transcrib’d by R
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A discription of a shower in London
A gent upon reading ye foregoing inscription applied the following verses in Lucan to the case
A letter from Swift to his friend comparing his body to copyhold tenement
A love song
A riddle
A serious poem on Will: Wood, hardware man brazier, tinker coyner founder, & esquire
A spirituall testament dedicated to the Ladyes Vavasor and Ingram
Advice to Sir Bob
Alchemical recipes
An epigram
An epigram
An epistle to a lady who desir'd me to make verses on her
An epitaph on Mrs. Dolben (?)
An epitaph on ye late Bishop of Addlebury
An epitaph upon a child in Stilton (?)
An essay of a happy life
An inscription on the house called the golden cross
By Dean Swift
Commonplace
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containing letters and poetry, [circa 1812-1827].
Epitaph in Bath
Epitaphs collected 1694
Extempore invitation to William Canvane Esq. at Venice
Humanistic
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Hymen himself transported cut the air...
Jealously
Like you all I first sprung from our mother the earth
Meditations out of Psalmes, & some other parts of the Holy Scripture
Mr. Adisen of Magd.'s Poem on ye Playhouse. 1699.
Mr. Lowley's epitaph on himself
On the knights of the bath
Spoken extempore by Dean Swift on his curate's complaint of hard duty
Sympathetic love; or fancy surpasses beauty
The Englishman
The following is a true copy of verses as cut in a stone in a church in Yorkshire
The thanksgiveing
The vissitt
[Collection of English proverbs].
[Collection of poems]
[Collection of poetry]
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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], [late 18th century].
[
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[Diary written by the housekeeper of Thomas Secker, later the Archbishop of Canterbury, while he
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Johnson, Maurice, 1688-1755
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Lepipre, Gabriel
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Alston, Tobias, 1620-ca.1639.
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Bailye, Richard, 1718-1800
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Baxter, Mary
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Boscawen, Frances Evelyn, 1719-1805
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Bowrey, Thomas, ca. 1650-1713
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Caspar Harttung vom Hoff
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Castillion, Sir Francis, 1561-1638
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Gellius, Aulus
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Occasional verse, English
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English poetry--17th century
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English poetry --18th century
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English wit and humor
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Verse satire, English
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Women authors
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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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Political poetry, English
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
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Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649
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Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635
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Donne, John, 1572-1631
3
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
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Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712
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Cleveland, Barbara Villiers Palmer, Duchess of, 1641-1709
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Cowley, Abraham,--1618-1667
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Etherege, George, Sir, 1635?-1691
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Hall, Jacob
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Attleborough, England
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Castres, France,
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Gastein (Austria)
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