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Brotherton Collection6801
English Literature6799

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SubjectCount
english poetry164
english drama118
theater39
political satire, english30
operas28
satire, english27
ballad operas25
conduct of life25
poetry25
popish plot, 167825

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Great Britain286
Rome63
France54
London (England)23
Spain13
England9
Europe9
Greece9
Ireland6
Portugal5

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People and organisationsCount
Dryden, John (1631-1700)282
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)197
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)149
Dryden, John110
Horace109
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)102
Pope, Alexander, 1688-174482
Virgil78
Fletcher, John (1579-1625)70
Moliere (1622-1673)67

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From 190013
From 20003

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Literature (Brotherton Collection)

The core English literary section of the Brotherton Collection (based on the bequest of Lord Brotherton's personal library in 1936), with its emphasis on English poetry and drama from 1600 to 1750. Th...

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The odes and satyrs of Horace

Horace; Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685); Rochester, Laurence Hyde Earl of; Horace

1715

Case 287.

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Odes of Horace : the best of lyrick poets. Containing much morality and sweetnesse. Selected, translated, reviewed, and enlarged with many more

Horace; Hawkins, Thomas (1772)

1638

With additional engraved title page bearing full name of translator. Opposite pages numbered in duplicate; text and translation on facing pages.

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The poems of Horace

Horace; Brome, Alexander (1620-1666)

1666

"The epistle dedicatory" signed: Alex Brome. With additional engraved title page and engraved portrait of Alexander Brome as frontispiece. Contains the Epodes and Ars poetica, but omits the Carmen...

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The poems of Horace, consisting of Odes, Satyres, and Epistles, rendred in English and paraphrased by several persons

Horace; Brome, Alexander (1620-1666)

1671

"The epistle dedicatory" signed: Alex Brome. Imprimatur dated Septemb. 12. 1670. Engraved half-title, followed by frontispiece portrait of Brome, dated 1664, previously used in the first edition, ...

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The odes and satires of Horace

Horace; Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685); Rochester, Laurence Hyde Earl of; Horace

1715

Numbering of pages 126-127 and 161-176 repeated, and pages 143-160 omitted in pagination; text continuous. A piracy of Tonson's edition of the same year.

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The odes and satyrs of Horace

Horace; Rochester, Laurence Hyde Earl of; Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685); Horace

1717

Final p. blank. A5 misprinted A3; p. 118 misnumbered 181.

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The odes, epodes, and Carmen seculare of Horace in English verse

Horace; Oldisworth, William (1680-1734); Suetonius (69-122)

1719

Booklist of B. Lintot: [6] p. at end.

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