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Brotherton Collection6
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse5

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english poetry5
commonplace-books1
latin poetry1
proverbs1

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Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)1
Faithorne, William (1616-1691)1
Morrice, James1
Persius Flaccus Aulus - Translations Into English1
Robins, William1
Sprat, Thomas (1635-1713)1

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BC MS Lt 49, f. 1r: The opening of Thomas Brewster's translation from Persius, 'Satires', 2 (
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Verse translations from the classics

173-?

Collection of three verse translations from the classics in a single 18th-century hand: ff.1r-6r: Translation of Persius, "Satires", 2, by Mr T. Brewster, A.M. & c.; ff.8r-10r: Paraphrase of Persius, ...

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Commonplace book of proverbs and transcribed verse and prose
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Commonplace book of proverbs and transcribed verse and prose

c.1690-c.1700

Ff.1r-6v: 'Miscellanea', aphorisms and notes on Roman and other ancient history; f.6v: Latin poem on the silk-worm; ff.7r-11r: 'A true account of Mr Fullers discovery of the true mother of the pretend...

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BC MS Lt 86, f. 2r: The opening of
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Miscellany of poems, largely on affairs of state

1669-1691

Collection of verse, much of it political. Following blank f.1, ff.2r-13r (f.8v being blank) contain eleven poems in a single hand, the first signed 'John Treantt', another by 'Hodges' dated 1682/3 (f...

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BC MS Lt 92, f. 3r: The opening of James Morrice's blank-verse translation of Homer's 'Iliad'.
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English translation of Homer's Iliad into blank verse, by James Morrice.

Morrice, James

c.1800-1809

Comprises probably the original manuscript of Morrice's translation, together with a press cutting from the local Northants newspaper containing an excerpt from the translation and a favourable review...

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Autograph manuscript poem beginning "Why doth you shade" with preceding letter of presentation to Ann Hoyle.

Robins, William

8 February 1723

A prose letter headed "Dear Madam", and including such lines as "...I shall be in hopes to woo you for drops of pleasant joys...", "And now Madam the confession of my crime...", and "then have I some ...

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The works of Mr Abraham Cowley : consisting of those which were formerly printed: and those which he design'd for the press, now published out of the authors original copies

Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Sprat, Thomas (1635-1713); Faithorne, William (1616-1691)

1684

Printer's name from Wing CD. Frontis. portrait (v. 1) of the author signed: W: Faithorne sculp:. "The mistress", "Pindarique odes", and "Davideis, a sacred poem", each have separate dated title pa...

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