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Title: A modest wish

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem, describing the uncontrolled and unprofitable nature of

undirected thoughts, praying for guidance that time might not be spent idly

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Title: Modest woer

Author: Cheek, Thomas ?

Attribution: [In Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692], p.79

Date(s): 1692 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 71

Contents: Extract from "An Answer to the Foregoing Letter" (from Henry Cromwell), commenting on his friend's lack of success in love-making

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A modest apology for the man in the bottle

Bottleman

[1749]

Signed on p.23: The Bottleman. With a postscript on p.25.

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A modest apology for my own conduct

Lyttelton, George Lyttelton baron (1709-1773)

1748

"Erroneously ascribed to Lyttelton."--Dict. nat. biog., v. 34, p. 373.

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Pretty, lowly, modest flower : cavatina... in The Puritan's daughter

Balfe, M W (1808-1870); Bridgeman, J V (1819-1889)

[18--]

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A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last Parliaments

Ferguson, Robert (1714); Sidney, Algernon (1622-1683); Jones, Sir William (1631-1682); Somers, John Somers baron (1651-1716)

[1681]

Two different states of this work exist, Wing does not differentiate. This one, p.1, line 3 of text "Months"; page 3 signature A2, the A is beneath the "l" of "Feel", and p.48, second paragraph, last ...

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A poetical, supplicating, modest, and affecting epistle to those literary colossuses, the reviewers

Pindar, Peter (1738-1819); Symonds, H D (fl. 1784-1808)

1792

Peter Pindar = John Wolcot. Half-title: 'An epistle to the reviewers'.

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