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english poetry2
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Anonymous31
Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax3
F.; [Bible]2
Garrick, David (?)2
Yorke, Charles ?2
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[The Gazetteer], March 21, 17681
Coles, Benjamin1
Coles, Benjamin ?1
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Title: Psalme 106

Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

Attribution: F.; [Bible]

Date(s): 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt 105

Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 106. At end, "The ende of the 4th Booke of Psalmes".

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Title: A Caracter of the Romish church by Francisco Petrarca an Italian, Cant. 106, "Flamma dal ciel su tua terccie pioue, etc."

Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

Attribution: F.; [Italian]

Date(s): 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt 105

Contents: Translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 106, strongly criticising the court of Pope Clement VI, here taken to apply to the Roman Catholic church in general. At end, "Writt in Italian by Petrarch the poet about the yeare of our Lord 1320 and Englished by

F."

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Proverbial verses, translating preceding Latin lines, included in Coles's

prose autobiography

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Coles, Benjamin

Date(s): 173- ?

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Humorous couplet added by Coles to the prose remark "The grocers have a

common saying, when Ferdinando went to catch the devil he baited his hook with

a grocer," included in his autobiography.

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BC MS Lt 106, f. 1r: The opening of
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Commonplace book of eighteenth century prose and verse, chiefly with Jacobite sympathies.

c.1745-1780

Contains a miscellany of prose and 34 pieces of English poetry, many with evident Jacobite sympathies and dated in the mid and later years of the eighteenth century, including speeches of Jacobites pr...

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Coles, Benjamin ?

Date(s): 1741 ?

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Religious verses on God's care for those who believe, translating preceding

Latin lines; included in Cole's prose autobiography

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BC MS Lt 93, f. 33r: Lady Mary Montagu's poem
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Miscellaneous collection of eighteenth-century English poetry and prose, with additional later material.

c.1750-1770

Contains 71 English poems, mainly anonymous. The prose works include 'A summary character of Clarinda never published' and 'Knitted lace collar'.

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Title: An Epigram

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 177-?

Manuscript: Lt 106

Contents: Obscure epigram containing contemporary satirical reference

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Title: An Epigram

Author: Wotton, Sir Henry

Attribution: Sir Henry Wotton; H.W.

Date(s): 16--?

Manuscript: Lt 106

Contents: Witty epigram on one effect of the inequality of the rich and the poor

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Title: To Lucinda

Date(s): 1764 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 125

Contents: In praise of a woman, Lucinda, implying her natural loveliness in preference to the diamonds worn by Celia

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: [The Gazetteer], March 21, 1768

Date(s): 1768 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 12

Contents: Partially critical epitaph on Laurence Sterne, following a prose notice of

his death

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Title: The following lines are wrote in a window in the Long Room at Copenhagen House

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 17--?

Manuscript: Lt 106

Contents: Epigram on man's proclivity to sin and the impossibility of human perfection

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