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- 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
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- Call Number:
- Osborn b204
- Collection Title:
- [Collection of verse], [late 17th and early 18th century]
- Image Count:
- 3
- Alternative Title:
- Song, The intended speech of a famous orator agst ye peace. 1711, and The Windsor prophecy
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Politics and government --1603-1714
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --17th century and Verse satire, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An epilogue
- Call Number:
- Osborn c152
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of about 25 primarily satirical or lighthearted poems, many on the subject of women and love. Poem titles include Damon to Philomel; Advice to a lady, by George, 1st baron Lyttleton; On Sr Isaac Newton; Upon the death of Mrs Page's dove; and A receipt to make an epigram by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield. Other poets include John Hervey, baron of Ickworth and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu., The last section of the manuscript contains a 19th-century collection of social letters by religious figures addressed to Mr. or Mrs. Young and Miss Anna Young, pasted or tipped into the volume., and The poems are followed by a copy of a letter from the Earl of Orrery to Thomas Southern, dated 1735; and several poems, including one on the death of Lady Caroline Seymour, and several rebuses and poems on flowers.
- Alternative Title:
- A receipt to make an epigram; said to be wrote by Lord Chesterfield
- Description:
- Written on flyleaf: This book was given
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Religious life and customs--19th century and Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century
- Subject (Name):
- Dyott, Mary--Autograph, Ickworth, John Hervey,--Baron,--1696-1743, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton,--Baron,--1709-1773, and Montagu, Mary Wortley,--Lady,--1689-1762
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--18th century, Rebuses, Verse satire, English, Women authors, and Women--Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1737].