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Poetical commonplace book
c.1710-c.1820
Large collection of satires, ballads, and songs (with a few pieces in prose), apparently compiled by members of the Smyth family of Heath, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. At least the first 260 pp. we...
Poetical miscellany, entitled 'Poems, & verses on several occasions, MDCCXXVI'.
1726
Contains 60 miscellaneous mainly eighteenth-century English poems.
Autograph notebook, including verse, by William Fairfax
Fairfax, William (1593-1621)
c.1620
Some poems are initialled "wx", "x", or with William Fairfax's monogram. Inserted is an early engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, with engraved verses (at the front).
Swattle, and other poems
1723
Manuscript book devoted almost entirely to the long narrative poem 'Swattle', a humorous hudibrastic narrative recounting the life and adventures, largely in Ireland, of a rascally physician Swattle w...
Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Benjamin Coles
Coles, Benjamin
c.1730-1741
The volume also contains some prose
Commonplace book
c.1716-c.1736
Diary of important public and private events, 1 August 1714 to May 1728; single satirical verse item, "The British ambassadress's speech to the French king"; notes of account and payment, 3 January 17...
Commonplace book of English and Latin verse and prose
c.1713-1740
Contents other than English verse (listed separately) include: p.1: Letter from Vice-Chancellor of Oxford to Sir Hans Sloane (Latin) on the gift of an owl; p.8: Walter Charl[e]ton M.D.: Latin self-epi...
A collection of the most choice and private poems, lampoons &c. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701, collected by a person of quality
1688-1701
An anthology of 92 poems, principally satires, and seven prose pieces, arranged in rough chronological order for the period 1688-1701, many dated.
Commonplace book of English prose and verse
c.1700
Contains extracts from a wide variety of sources including quotations from Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' and 'Comedy of Errors', Ben Jonson, Suckling, Abraham Cowley (including his 'Essays'), Ro...
Commonplace book of verse and prose, compiled by Benjamin Coles
Coles, Benjamin
1741
Contains numerous poems in English and Latin, some of them apparently by Benjamin Coles, dated 17 January 1740/41 to 24 July 1740/41; there are also prose pieces on death, atheism, tobacco, witches an...
Miscellany of English Restoration verse
c.1680-1695
Substantial collection of English Restoration verse, in four hands