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Title: Psalm LXV. The blessings of the Spring; or, God gives rain
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Religious poem, praising God's works as manifested in nature. A
paraphrase of Psalm 65.
Six philosophical dissertations : On the mechanical powers. Elastic bodies. Falling bodies. The cycloid. The parabola. The rain-bow
Morgan, Charles (fl. 1770); Clarke, John (1687-1734); Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
1770
Title: The city showr
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Attribution: Swift ap. Tatler 238, vol.4, p.215, vid Pref. vol.4, p.1 ap
Date(s): 1710 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Detailed description of the progress and effects of a heavy
shower of rain in the city of London. Lightly satirical.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Translation of an epigram by Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (11), on refreshing flowers with rain; with some revisions or corrections
Title: Upon drinking King George's health at the Cross in Edinburgh on a rainy day, May 28, 1715
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: By a lady, extempore
Date(s): 1715 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Humorous poem set in Edinburgh on George I's birthday, in which rain reverses the miracle of turning water into wine
Title: A young gentleman's epitaph who died lately of a north-east wind
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 44
Contents: Elegiac epitaph on the death of a youth from the effect of the
wind, urging it, in sorrowful repentance, to bring storms of
rain. Corrected.
Professor Saunderson's lectures upon hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics, mechanics, and astronomy ; the nature of the rain bow ; the doctrine of sounds ; and the cause of tides : together with a compendium of technical chronology.
Saunderson, Nicholas (1682-1739)
c.1740
Contains Nicholas Saunderson's lectures on various mathematical, physical, and technical topics, probably written up about the date of his death.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Edmund
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Religious poem comparing the blessings of God to the fall of rain on parched earth; headed 'Dec 16th'; with some revisions or corrections
Title: Aenigma 1
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: The first in a set of nine enigmas or riddles, (headed 'Aenigmaes'), with the solution given in Latin in the top right corner as Pluvia (or rain)
Title: A Persian Fable
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 125
Contents: Tale about a drop of rain, which falls into the sea, is swallowed by an oyster. It develops into a pearl, which later adorns the crown of the Persian king
Title: Upon the crown imperiall
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 164- or 165- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On how the flower known as the crown imperial appears never to shed the rain water collected in it, unlike the author's soul which is for ever overflowing
Title: Spoken to a young lady, as she was departing from us on a rainy day
Author: Pinnell, Peter (?)
Attribution: Peter Pinnell
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 104
Contents: Occasional lyric, in which the poet imagines nature sympathizing with his own sadness as he says goodbye to a young lady, and shedding tears in the form of rain