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Title: Dives in hell
Author: Tipping, William ?
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 169- or 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 50
Contents: Religious poem arising from the parable of Dives and Lazarus in Luke 16, contrasting the fates of rich and poor after death
Title: Juno goeth to hell
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Juno's visit to hell to ask for punishment for Bacchus and the house of Cadmus; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, IV
Title: A description of hell. In imitation of Milton.
Author: Rowe, Elizabeth
Attribution: Rowe
Date(s): 1704 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Description of the horrors of hell and the terrible despair of sinners
(including Catholic persecutors of Protestants) who can see the heavenly bliss
they have lost. Imitating Milton.
An enquiry into the nature and place of hell
Swinden, Tobias (1659-1719)
1714
Epistle dedicatory signed: Tobias Swinden. With a final errata leaf. - Illustrations: two folded plates depict the solar system and the sun.
Title: A description of hell in imitation of Mr Milton
Author: Rowe, Elizabeth
Attribution: Mrs Rowe
Date(s): 1704 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Description of the horrors of hell and the terrible despair of sinners (including Catholic persecutors of Protestants) who can see the heavenly bliss they have lost. Imitating Milton.
Title: Herculus draweth Cerberus from hell
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Cerberus, dragged from hell and slain by Hercules, whose saliva created the poison aconite; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, VII
Title: Verses on life, death, judgment, heaven and hell
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A youth of 17
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Reflections on life, death, judgement, heaven and hell, using the metaphor of
a mercantile sea voyage
Title: A Romish Priest refus'd Entrance into Hell
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Satirical anti-papal poem about a priest refused entry to hell on the grounds that he might eat the devil, as on earth he ate his God
The eternity of hell torments : A sermon on Mark ix. 48
Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1790
First published in his Arminian magazine for the year 1782. The sermon was dated: Newport, Isle of Wight, Oct. 10, 1782. Cf. Green, R. John & Charles Wesley, 365.
A journey to Hell: or, A visit paid to the devil : A poem
Ward, Edward (1667-1731)
1700
Anon., by Edward Ward, whose authorship is revealed on the title page to part 2. Journey to Hell.
D5v - ram carrying Phrixus; drowning of Helle
M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]
Hell in epitome : or, a description of the M--sh--sea. A poem
1718
M--sh--sea = Marshalsea prison. The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious. Anon.