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The thanksgiveing
Jealously
Extempore invitation to William Canvane Esq. at Venice
Hymen himself transported cut the air...
The following is a true copy of verses as cut in a stone in a church in Yorkshire
[
Commonplace
book
], [late 18th century].
Epitaph in Bath
An epigram
On the knights of the bath
A serious poem on Will: Wood, hardware man brazier, tinker coyner founder, & esquire
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book
], [ca. 1770-1800]
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An inscription on the house called the golden cross
Sympathetic love; or fancy surpasses beauty
A love song
[
Commonplace
book
], [late 18th century].
An anecdote of Dr. Johnson, not published in any life of him
Mr. Lowley's epitaph on himself
By Dean Swift
A riddle
An epitaph on ye late Bishop of Addlebury
Advice to Sir Bob
A discription of a shower in London
Spoken extempore by Dean Swift on his curate's complaint of hard duty
Meditations out of Psalmes, & some other parts of the Holy Scripture
A gent upon reading ye foregoing inscription applied the following verses in Lucan to the case
[
Commonplace
book
], [mid 18th century].
An epistle to a lady who desir'd me to make verses on her
An essay of a happy life
An epitaph on Mrs. Dolben (?)
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Commonplace
book
], [ca. 1744-1753]
[Bill relating to the duties of members, 1489 Nov 19]
[Selected pages]
[Selected pages]
An epitaph upon a child in Stilton (?)
The vissitt
Like you all I first sprung from our mother the earth
[
Commonplace
book
], [late 18th century].
Biographical anecdotes of one thousand distinguished characters & personages : including many in
[
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[
Commonplace
book
], [ca. 1744-1753].
[
Commonplace
book
], [1620s?]
An epigram
A letter from Swift to his friend comparing his body to copyhold tenement
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Mr. Adisen of Magd.'s Poem on ye Playhouse. 1699.
[
Commonplace
book
], [ca. 1612].
[
Commonplace
book
], [late 17th century].
A spirituall testament dedicated to the Ladyes Vavasor and Ingram
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[
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[
Commonplace
book
], [early 18th century].
[Collection of poetry]
Miscellaneous poems and translations &c. Johnson’s collection of poems, MSS. Most of which were
[
Commonplace
book
], 1800-1841.
[
Commonplace
book
], [ca. 1650-1725].
A miscellany of poems
Epitaphs collected 1694
A New address to Mr. Bayes in his late conversion to the Church of Rome
A sigh
[Collection of poems]
The Englishman
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[
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Miscellaneous poems and translations &c. Johnson's collection of poems, MSS. Most of which were
Table talk
[Diary written by the housekeeper of Thomas Secker, later the Archbishop of Canterbury, while he
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[
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], [late 18th/early 19th century]
Sartaine most holsome meditations verey meete to bee dulie considered. [A poem in 5
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Extracts from various publications and particular papers / [ca. 1785]-1800, transcrib’d by R
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[Poems]
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], [early 17th century]
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Thomas Bowrey logbook and journal, [17--].
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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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Castillion, Sir Francis, 1561-1638
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Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
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Occasional verse, English
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English poetry --18th century
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English wit and humor
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Women authors
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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
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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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