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Brotherton Collection5
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Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2

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english poetry9
satire, english9
commonplace books1
dissenters, religious1
hymns, english1
private libraries1
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Agnew, Andrew1
Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-18121
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-17921
Churchill, Charles1
Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)1
Dennis, John (1657-1734)1
Garrick, David, 1717-17791
Hawkins, John1
Hawkins, Sir John (1719-1789)1
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)1

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Augustan satire : intention and idiom in English poetry, 1660-1750

Jack, Ian (1923-2008)

1966

Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1952.

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The rural conference : a pastoral... : inscribed to Mr. C. Churchill

Churchill, Charles (1731-1764)

1763

In part a satire on Lord Bute.

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The verse satire

Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)

1969

bibl p116.

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Love in the suds; a town eclogue. : Being the lamentation of Roscius for the loss of his Nyky... With annotations and an appendix

Kenrick, W (1725?-1779); Wheble, John (1746-1820)

1772

Dedication signed by Kenrick. A satire on D. Garrick and I. Bickerstaffe. First published: London 1772. Paper: watermarked: Fleur de lys / IV.

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The reverse: or, the tables turn'd : A poem written in answer, paragraph by paragraph, to a late scurrilous and malicious medly of rhimes called The foreigners

Dennis, John (1657-1734); Tutchin, John (1661?-1707)

1700

Includes the text of John Tutchin's 'The foreigners', an attack on William III, in alternate paragraphs. P.3 is misnumbered 8. Anonymous. By John Dennis.

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Probationary odes for the laureatship, : with a preliminary discourse

Hawkins, Sir John (1719-1789); Ridgway, James publisher; Taunton College School Library, Somerset

1785

A1, 2 either torn out and re-inserted or cancels. Satires by Richard Tickell and others supposedly being essays by Thomas Warton's rivals for the laureatship; subsequently issued with Political misc...

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BC MS Lt q 41, f.1r: The opening of
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Satirical poem to James II occasioned by the Declaration of Indulgence.

c.1687-1688

Comprises a satirical poem on the Declaration of Indulgence, in which poets express their thanks and urge all other loyal subjects to fall in with the King's wishes. For variant manuscript versions se...

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Sir Andrew Agnew, two satirical poems and a hymn

Agnew, Andrew

c.1830-1840?

Comprises: (1) 2 satirical poems, the first entitled 'To Saint Andrew Agnew' and signed by 'Ewe', the second entitled 'The "Monstre" Saint' and signed by 'Beta'; (2) A hymn, 'by Saint Andrew Agnew!' a...

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BC MS Lt 55, f. 4r: The opening of John Ayloffe's (?) poem
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Miscellany of satirical poetry and prose

1670s

Miscellany mainly of satirical English poems and prose pieces, 1670s. Poems occupy ff.4r-12v, 19r-26v, 30r-33r, 35r-49r. Satirical prose pieces on political and religious themes appear on ff.12v-19r, ...

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