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Dryden, John17
Dryden, John (1631-1700)8
Congreve, William (1670-1729)3
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Tate, Nahum (1652-1715)3
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Ovid's Art of love

Ovid; Ovid; Ovid; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Hopkins, Charles (1664?-1700?); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715); Maynwaring, Arthur (1668-1712)

1709

Numbers 175-178, 236-237 omitted in paging. Ovid's Art of love and Remedy of love translated by J. Dryden, W. Congreve and N. Tate; Chaucer's The court of love modernized by A. Mainwaring. "The hi...

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Ovid's Art of love, in three books, together with his Remedy of love

Ovid; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715); Maynwaring, Arthur (1668-1712); Hopkins, Charles (1664?-1700?)

1725

Signatures: A-N12,O⁶. Omits the "Amours". Title reads as in edition of 1709, with a few differences of punctuation. "The history of love" by Charles Hopkins has a special title page. B3 signed...

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Miscellany poems. Containing a new translation of Virgills eclogues, Ovid's love elegies, odes of Horace, and other authors; with several originial poems

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715); Creech, Thomas (1659-1700); Scrope, Sir Carr (1649-1680); Duke, Sir Richard (1658-1711); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639?-1701); Stepney, George (1663-1707); Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736); Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685); Chetwood, Knightly (1650-1720)

1684

First in a series of miscellany published by Tonson, 1684-1709. Five other volumes published under various titles. First edition. Includes table of contents. "Absalom and Achitophel" (6th ed., a...

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Dryden, John

Attribution: Dryden

Date(s): 1694 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: On the suffering that jealousy causes lovers, abridged from a song in

Dryden's play "Love Triumphant"

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Title: Second pastoral, or Alexis. [The Argument follows.]

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1697 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 20

Contents: Translation of Virgil's second Pastoral, or Eclogue, in which the shepherd

Corydon expresses his unrequited love for Alexis

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1685 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 34

Contents: Bawdy song in which a young woman is introduced to the pleasures of

love-making. At end, "To the tune of".

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1667 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 86

Contents: Lines extracted, with some variations, from Dryden's play "The Indian Emperour", to produce a love poem

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The double-dealer : a comedy

Congreve, William (1670-1729); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1711

Signatures: A-G⁸, H⁴.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1685 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 34

Contents: Pastoral love song, the lamenting lover asking an intermediary to tell his

beloved the extent of his sufferings and the nearness of his death

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Title: A song

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1685 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 54

Contents: Pastoral love song, the lamenting lover asking an intermediary to tell his

beloved the extent of his sufferings and the nearness of his death

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Miscellany poems, in two parts : containing new translations of Virgil's Eclogues, Ovid's Love-elegies, several parts of Virgil's Æneids, Lucretius, Theocritus, Horace, &c. With several original poems

Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1685

With both old & new title-pages. Comprises 'Miscellany poems. Containing a new translation of Virgil's Eclogues... [etc.]; 'Sylvæ: or, The second part of poetical miscellanies'. The Preface to 'S...

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Dryden, John

Date(s): 1681 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 34

Contents: Song in which a woman complains of being abandoned by her lover, and of men's

unfaithfulness in love in general. From Dryden's play, "The Spanish Friar",

V.

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