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Brotherton Collection156
English Literature156

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english poetry2
liberty2
popish plot, 16782
voyages, imaginary2
business1
caricatures and cartoons1
classical poetry1
conduct of life1
courtship1
criminals1

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France1
London (England)1
Naples (Italy)1
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Hervey, John Hervey Baron (1696-1743)15
Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-174313
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)10
Fletcher, John (1579-1625)10
Lansdowne, George Granville Baron (1667-1735)10
Seward, Mr10
Simpson, Sidrach (1600?-1655)10
Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744)10
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-17458
Hervey, John Hervey7

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A paradox against life. Written by the Lords in the Tower. An heroick poem

1681

In verse. On the imprisonment of Henry 3rd baron Arundell of Wardour, William Herbert 1st marquis of Powis, John baron Belasyse, and William 4th baron Petre, survivors of the five impeached on Oates...

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A paradox against life. Written by the Lords in the Tower. An heroick poem

1681

In verse. On the imprisonment of Henry 3rd baron Arundell of Wardour, William Herbert 1st marquis of Powis, John baron Belasyse, and William 4th baron Petre, survivors of the five impeached on Oates...

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A paradox against liberty : Written by the Lords, during their imprisonment in the Tower. A poem

1679

In verse. A satire on the imprisonment of Henry 3rd baron Arundell of Wardour, William Howard viscount Stafford, William Herbert 1st marquis of Powis, John baron Belasyse, and William 4th baron Petr...

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The life and death of Pomponius Atticus

Nepos, Cornelius; Hale, Matthew (1609-1676)

1677

Observations...[etc.] by Sir M. Hale.

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A poem humbly dedicated to the Right Honourable William Lord Cowper, Baron of Wingham... late Lord High chancellour of Great Britain

Rawson, Joseph (1664-1719)

1711 [i.e., 1710?]

Verse - "Since Britains seals to other hands are gone,". Not in Foxon; cf. two other editions, P258-9.

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An epistle from Lord L---l to Lord C---d

Bath, William Pulteney Earl of (1684-1764); Cooper, Thomas (1743)

1740

Cover title with vignette. "Written as from Thomas Coke, Baron Lovel and subsequently Earl of Leicester, to Lord Chesterfield."--Foxon, 1975, P1160.

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On rural felicity; in an epistle to a friend

Morrice, Bezaleel (1749)

1733

Verse. Drophead title, "An epistle to a friend". Dedicated to George Dodington, i.e. George Bubb, afterwards Dodington, baron Melcombe. Anon., by Bezaleel Morrice.

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A poem to His Majesty

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

1695

Dedicatory poem is addressed "to the Right Honourable Sir John Somers [later baron Somers], Lord Keeper of the Great Seal."

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The life of Osman the Great, Emperor of the Turks : who first attempted the conquest of Poland and the uniting that kingdon to the dominions of the Ottoman Porte (v.1)

Gomez, Madelaine Angélique de (1684-1770); Williams, John (fl. 1735)

1735

A romance, not a history. The ambassadors of the King of France are the Baron de Salignac, A. de Harlay Sancy and Harlay Count de Cely.

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