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| piyutim -- texts. | 2 |
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Empty envelope, addressed to Kate Smith
6 May 1870
Sent to address at Denmark Hill, London, with post stamp on reverse dated 6 May 1870. Presumably from John Ruskin.
Empty envelope, addressed to Kate Smith
24 Jul 1878
An empty envelope, presumably from John Ruskin, addressed to Kate Smith, Mr Ruskins, Brantwood, Coniston, Windermere. Post stamp is dated 24 July 1878, London.
An elegy written in an empty assembly-room
Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
1756
Anon., By R.O. Cambridge. A parody on Pope's epistle of Eloisa to Abelard.
An elegy written in an empty assembly-room
Cambridge, Richard Owen (1717-1802)
1756
Anon., By R.O. Cambridge. A parody on Pope's epistle of Eloisa to Abelard.
Title: Grandoso
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Satirical epigram in which the author responds to the empty promises of his supposed patron by offering him a feast of empty dishes. Revised.
Title: Human life
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 168- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the folly and emptiness of the pomp and vanity of human life
Envelope addressed 'To Genev. L. Deon [sic] de Beaumont'
No date
One empty envelope, no other word than the addressee.
Title: Upon Nothing
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Date(s): 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Witty satire on the primacy of nothing or emptiness in cosmology, and of
meaninglessness in worldly affairs
Title: Letter from a clergyman to his lady whilst she was absent from him on a visit
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A clergyman
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Lamenting the absence of his beloved wife, a clergyman describes the emptiness of his life, and looks forward to her return
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Expressing the hope that by dedicating an empty hogshead to Bacchus, it may refill itself with wine by a kind of metempsychosis; translating preceding Greek lines by Xenophon
Title: Upon nothing
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Attribution: D.B. and E. Roc.
Date(s): 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Witty satire on the primacy of nothing or emptiness in cosmology, and of meaninglessness in worldly affairs, here apparently attributed also to George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham