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Title: In praise of woman
Author: Cutts, John, Baron
Attribution: Dr Cutts
Date(s): 1698 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: In praise of women as of greater worth than men
Letter from John Bridger, Brookland, to his wife in Canterbury, 3 April 1728
Bridger, John
1728
The second page of the letter includes a transcription of a poem by "Mr Bunce's son" titled "To Mr Higmore a painter", in praise of the painter Joseph Highmore, celebrating his skill and claiming him ...
Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott.
Marriott, Eliza
c.1740-1804
Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.
Commonplace book, chiefly of English poems
c.1720-1748
Commonplace book, almost entirely of English verse and prose. Most poems are anonymous. Some prose tales, scenes from plays, and a few Latin lines. On p.211: "I ended this book Novr 13th 1723"; prose ...
Title: Lying at her Feet
Date(s): 1748 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: PASTORALS, EPISTLES, ODES, AND OTHER ORIGINAL POEMS
Title: Judgement
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the terror of the day of judgement and the need for repentance; religious.
Title: Verses made by Edw. Fairfax Esquire.
Author: Fairfax, Edward
Attribution: Edw. Fairfax
Date(s): 1620?
Manuscript: Yks 2
Contents: Epitaph on Ellen Fairfax, wife of Thomas Fairfax, first Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Title: Religious discourses
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Detailed advice, probably to clergymen, on how to speak about the Christian
religion to different types of people
Title: On the Queens death
Author: Brown, Thomas ?
Attribution: An Oxford barber
Date(s): 1695 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Comic satire on the verse-making that attended the death of Mary II
Title: Pope's Pastoral
Date(s): 1704 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: An extract from 'Spring. The First Pastoral, or Damon', comprising a dialogue between the shepherds, Strephon and Daphnis
Title: Few happy matches
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: Watts, Hor. Lyr. l.2, p.224, 171 (?)
Date(s): 1701
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Defining the basis of a truly happy marriage as mutual
friendship, kindness and love
Title: Psalme 88
Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax
Attribution: F.; [Bible]
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 105
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 88