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BC MS Lt 27, p. 61: The opening of
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Mock poem or Whiggs supplication Part First, by Samuel Colvil

Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)

c.1680

Comprises a long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, preceded by "The authors apologie to the reader"

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Miscellanies over claret, or, The friends to the tavern the best friends to poetry : being a collection of poems, translations, &c. to be continued monthly from the Rose Tavern without Temple-Bar

Pittis, William (1674-1724)

in the year 1697

no.4 1698 Letter to contributors, dated March the 12th. 1697/8, and "signed" by J.S., secretary to the President and Court of Assistants at the Rose-Tavern, on back of title-page. Dedication to Sir ...

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Verse from Pushkin and others

Elton, Oliver (1861-1945); Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich (1799-1837)

1935

Selections from the poems of Pushkin, Nekrasov, Tyuchev, Alexander Blok and Anna Akhmatova.

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Classical English poetry : for the use of schools, and young persons in general

Mavor, William Fordyce (1758-1837); Pratt, Samuel Jackson (1749-1814)

1821

Printed: London: A. & R. Spottiswoode.

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Under the microscope

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841-1901)

1872

A reply to Robert Buchanan's "The fleshly school of poetry and other phenomena of the day", 1872.

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Roadside songs of Tuscany

Alexander, Francesca (1837-1917); Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

1885

Issued in 1897 (without Ruskin's editorial matter) under title: Tuscan songs; originally issued serially, 1884-5. Each plate is accompanied by a covering leaf.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne manuscripts

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

1851-1999

Comprises a substantial collection of manuscripts (many of them autographs), typed or pencilled transcriptions, and some printed proofs and early editions of literary works by Swinburne, including poe...

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Under the microscope

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841-1901)

1899

A reply to Robert Buchanan's "The fleshly school of poetry," 1872. Originally published: London : D. White, 1872. "450 copies of this book have been printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the t...

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Miscellanies

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

1886

"The brief memoir of Mary Queen of Scots, and the critical monographs on Congreve, Keats and Landor... have already appeared in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Most of the other articles here reprinted ...

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William Clayfield of Bristol, autograph verses attributed to him with one by Thomas Beddoes

Clayfield, William

1820s

Comprises autograph verses by William Clayfield, including 'On a young lady's stooping at a window to examine the Arabis-Stricta recently transplanted from St Vincent's rocks' (dated 1822); 'On the Ny...

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