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Brotherton Collection3
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english poetry4
latin poetry4
english literature1
greek poetry1

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Abrahall, John Hoskyns (1829-1891)1
Barnes, Joshua1
Persius Flaccus Aulus - Translations Into English1
St John, Henry 1st Viscount Bolingbroke1

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Verselets : Latin and English

Abrahall, John Hoskyns (1829-1891)

1863

Added title page in Latin.

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BC MS Lt 73, f. 2r:
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The reprisal; Britannia; and Ad versutum cardinalem

c.1709-1742

Seemingly autograph versions of two manuscript English poems bound together with a manuscript Latin poem, each provided with its own title page, apparently in separate hands of the first half of the 1...

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BC MS Lt 97, f. 51r: The opening of Joshua Barnes's poem
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Prose and verse essay in praise of wine, dedicated to Henry St. John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, by Joshua Barnes.

Barnes, Joshua

1708

Contains 90 eighteenth-century English poems by Joshua Barnes in praise of wine, occasioned by Bolingbroke's gift to him of a hogshead of 'red Portugal' in the late summer of 1705. The text is intersp...

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BC MS Lt 49, f. 1r: The opening of Thomas Brewster's translation from Persius, 'Satires', 2 (
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Verse translations from the classics

173-?

Collection of three verse translations from the classics in a single 18th-century hand: ff.1r-6r: Translation of Persius, "Satires", 2, by Mr T. Brewster, A.M. & c.; ff.8r-10r: Paraphrase of Persius, ...

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