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Title: [unknown]
Author: Congreve, William
Attribution: Congreve; [Latin]
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 95
Contents: Arguing that the dictum 'know thyself' is a divine gift to enable people to guide their lives. Extract from Congreve's translation of Juvenal, "Satires", XI, with preceding Latin lines
The statutarian. A poem
Congreve, William (1670-1729)
1714
With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf. Sometimes attributed to Congreve. Indexed in: ESTC t140663
Title: Shade
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1695
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Description of a gloomy place devoid of all light and natural life;
the opening twelve lines of Congreve's "The Mourning Muse of Alexis",
elegiac lament for the death of Mary II.
Title: Horace Lib.II, Ode 14
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1692 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: On human mortality and the inevitability and universality of death;
paraphrasing Horace, Odes, II.14. Omits the final strophe.
Title: An answer to a friend for loving a common jilt
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1693 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 54
Contents: Song expressing content with the love of an unfaithful woman, despite the
disapproval of others. Sung in Act V of Thomas Southerne's play "The Maid's
last prayer".
Title: Absence
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Lamenting the absence of a lover, and describing the pain men feel in this situation
Title: To a candle
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Comparison of the writer's life, both happy and sad from unrequited love, with that of a candle
Title: To sleep: an elegy
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Address to the personification of sleep, complaining of its powers and how it deserts those who are victims of unrequited love
Title: Of pleasing; An epistle to Sr Rd T--e [Sir Richard Temple]
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Lighthearted satire on mankind's impulse to please, arising from vanity and usually involving perversion of natural qualities; in the form of an epistle to Sir Richard Temple (later Viscount Cobham), praising his unaffected virtues
Title: To a candle an elegy
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Comparison of the writer's life, both happy and sad from unrequited love,
with that of a candle
Title: Doris
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Light satire seemingly on Mrs Barry the actress, particularly on her
behaviour in immediately disowning her many lovers
Title: An epistle to Sir Richard Temple on pleasing
Author: Congreve, William
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Lighthearted satire on mankind's impulse to please, arising from vanity and
usually involving perversion of natural qualities; in the form of an epistle
to Sir Richard Temple (later Viscount Cobham), praising his unaffected
virtues