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An elegy written in an empty assembly-room
Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
1756
Anon., By R.O. Cambridge. A parody on Pope's epistle of Eloisa to Abelard.
War horns, make room for the bucks with green bowes
1682
Caption title, page 1, reads: On the splendid entertainment of the London-prentices and lords at Merchant-Taylors-Hall. A burlesque in verse. Anon.
Mundus muliebris, or, The ladies dressing-room unlock'd, and her toilette spread : in burlesque : together with the fop-dictionary, compiled for the use of the fair sex
Evelyn, Mary (1665-1685)
1690
First edition, second issue,with hyphen added after "Covent" in imprint and alteration of "Maryland" to "Marryland" on p.1. Attributed to Mary Evelyn, see G.L. Keynes, 'John Evelyn' pp. 214-217. S...
French sincerity exemplified in the surrender of Dunkirk : to Her Britannick Majesty Queen Anne. Intespers'd with a medley of Whigg loyalty and low Ch--h moderation. Compil'd to expose the moderate faction, by an Arch Anti-Whigg
Arch Anti-Whigg
[1712?]
Verse - "Now Dunkirk's surrendred no room's left". Imprint from Foxon. Tory verses. Anon.
The Oxonians in town: or, a hue and cry after a famous mare and twelve hobbies, who happen'd to stray from Oxford to a large assembly room in Westminster... [etc.]
[1768?]
Apparently refers to electoral corruption by the Corporation of Oxford and the subsequent punishment of its members, 1768.
Majestas Imperij Britannici. The glories of Great Britain celebrated in Latin poems
Maidwell, Lewis (1650-1715); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715)
1706
Court poems : Viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet. Publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a pocket-book taken up in Westminster-Hall, the last day of the Lord Winton's tryal
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762); Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
1706 [i.e. 1716]
First edition. Date on title-page misprinted 1706. Authorship attributed by "Advertisement" to "a lady of quality," Pope or Gay. Nos. I and II are now ascribed to Lady Mary; included in the ms. of...
Pope's Miscellany : viz. I. The Basset-Table. II. The Drawing Room. III. The Toilet. IV. The Looking-Glass. V. The Worms. VI. The First Psalm. translated for the use of a young Lady. Published faithfully, as they were found in a Pocket-Book taken up in Westminster-Hall, the last Day of the Lord Winton's Tryal
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
1717
First printing of The looking glass.
Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life : being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish Duchess of (1624?-1674)
1671
Indexed in: Wing N856.
The jovial crew : A comic-opera, as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty's servants. : With the musick prefix'd to each song
Brome, Richard (1652); Roome, Edward (1729); Yonge, Sir William (1755); Concanen, Matthew (1701-1749); Watts, John (1763)
1731
An alteration of Brome's play by Roome, Yonge and Concanen. Cf. Baker. Biographia dramatica; Dict. Nat. Biog.
Poems on several subjects: written by Stephen Duck, lately a poor thresher in a barn in the county of Wilts., at the wages of four shillings and six pence per week: which were publickly read by... the Earl of Macclesfield, in the Drawing-room at Windsor Castle, on Friday the 11th of September, 1730, to Her Majesty. Who was thereupon ... pleased to take the author into her royal protection ...[etc]
Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
1730
Indexed in: ESTC t179473.
The jovial crew: : a comic opera, as it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden
Brome, Richard (1652); Roome, Edward (1729); Concanen, Matthew (1701-1749); Yonge, Sir William (1755); Bates, William (fl. 1750-1780)
1780
The alterations were by E. Roome, M. Concanen, and Sir William Yonge. Music by William Bates not included. Illustrations: Portrait of Anne Catley as Rachel, engraved by G. Terry.