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Love for love : a comedy

Congreve, William (1670-1729); Bell, John (1745-1831)

1791

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Love for love : a comedy

Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1770

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Love for love : a comedy

Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1710

Also issued as part of 'A collection of the best English plays', The Hague, 1711-1712 (cf. Ford). The imprint is false; printed in The Hague.

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Love for love : A comedy

Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1747

Frontispiece included in signatures and pagination.

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Love for love : a comedy

Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1695

First edition. Indexed in: Wing C5851.

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Title: On love

Author: Rowe, Elizabeth

Attribution: Mrs Rowe

Date(s): 1739 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem in praise of God's love apparent in all creation

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Title: Love

Author: Granville, George; Baron Lansdowne

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: On the characteristics, or progress, of love

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Title: Of love

Author: Waller, Edmund

Date(s): 1645 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: On how love makes its male victims servile and fearful in the presence of

their beloveds, whereas women really need to be dominated by men

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Title: Love

Author: Morris, Castilian

Attribution: C. Morris

Date(s): 1695 (at end)

Manuscript: Lt 56

Contents: Religious acrostic on the word Love, reflecting on Christ's love

for mankind and expressing devotion. At end, "25 Decembris

1695, Dies Nativitate Domine Vite". Repeated later in the MS.

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Title: Love

Author: Morris, Castilian

Attribution: C. Morris

Date(s): 1695

Manuscript: Lt 56

Contents: Religious acrostic on the word Love, reflecting on Christ's love

for mankind and expressing devotion. Repeated from earlier in

the MS.

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Title: To love

Author: Wilmot, John; Earl of Rochester

Date(s): 167- ?

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: Translation of Ovid, "Amores", II.9, first asking Love to leave him in peace

but then after all desiring to remain Love's slave

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Title: On love

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 93

Contents: On willing subjection to the pain and pleasures of love

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