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Total number of records: 28

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Brotherton Collection28
English Literature28

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SubjectCount
anglo-dutch war, 1664-16671
coins, manx1
elegiac poetry, english1
folk-lore, manx1
parks1
political poetry, english1
popish plot, 16781
war poetry, english1

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Great Britain3
Isle of Man1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-174512
Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)5
Walsh, William (1663-1708)3
Mary, II, Queen of England, 1662-16942
Waldron, George (1690-1730?)2
Waller, William, Sir, D. 16992
Walpole, Robert2
Walpole, Robert Earl of Orford (1676-1745)2
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 1682-17611
Bath, William Pulteney1

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The works of Edmund Waller, esqr., in verse and prose

Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)

1729

First edition. Title-page engraved.

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The projector's looking-glass : being the last dying words and confession of Sir Robert Marral, &c. &c. : in an epistle to his associates, (wherein he makes a confession of some notorious crimes, whereof he has long been suspected)

1733

A satire, in verse, on Robert Walpole. At the foot of the title-page is the note "The picture may be had of Mr. Aldam" - which probably refers to "The picture of pictures" [a woodcut, with verses dire...

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The Negotiators, or, Don Diego brought to reason : an excellent new ballad : tune of Packington's pound

Bath, William Pulteney Earl of (1684-1764)

1738

A satire on the negotiations preliminary to the Convention of the Pardo carried on between Robert ["Sir Blue-string"] and Horatio Walpole and the Spanish envoy, Sir Thomas FitzGerald ["the Irish Don D...

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Ode for the thanksgiving day [for the victory at Ramillies]

Walsh, William (1663-1708)

1706

Also issued as part of: 'A collection of poems, occasionally written', London, 1708. Anon., by William Walsh.

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The compleat works in verse and prose

Waldron, George (1690-1730?); Waldron, Theodosia

1731

Signatures: a-d² A-4E² *A-*3B². Dedication signed by the widow, and editor, Theodosia Waldron. An edition of 110 copies printed. The poems include Latin verse: the prose has separate paging. ...

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The regency and return: a poem

Waldron, George (1690-1730?)

[1717?]

Refers to George I. Drop-head title.

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A walk from St. James's to Convent-Garden [sic], the back-way through the Meuse : In imitation of Mr. Gay's "Journey to Exeter". In a letter to a friend

Morrice, Bezaleel (1749)

1717

The 'Journey to Exeter' is the first of Gay's 'Two epistles', [1717], i.e. that to the earl of Burlington. Anon., possibly by Bezaleel Morrice.

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Instructions to a painter for the drawing of the posture & progress of His Ma[jes]ties forces at sea, under the command of His Highness Royal : together with the battel & victory obtained over the Dutch, June 3, 1665

Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)

1666

First complete edition. An anonymous broadside, containing the first part of the poem, was published, 1665, under a slightly different title.

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On the park at St. Jamese's

Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)

[1660?]

The unauthorized version of Waller's Poem on St. James's Park, 1661, which followed it. Catalogued from drop-head title and colophon. A poem. Anon.

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A poem on the present assembling of the Parliament, March the 6th. 1678

Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)

[1679]

Anon., attributed to Edmund Waller. cf. NUC pre-1956. First line: Break, sacred morn, on our expecting Isle. Caption title.

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Dagon's fall, or, The knight turn'd out of commission

[1680]

Possibly about Sir William Waller. In verse. Anon. Caption title.

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An Answer to Dagon's fall; or The knight turned out of commission : being a vindication of Sir W.W

[1681]

Caption title. "In April 1680 the king put him [Sir William Waller, d. 1699] out of commission of the peace." -- DNB. In verse. Anon.

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