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Hamilton, William17
Boydell, John9
Boydell, John (1719-1804)9
Boydell, Josiah9
Boydell, Josiah (1752-1817)9
Hamilton, William (1751-1801)9
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)9
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Smirke, Robert (1752-1845)9
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Title: Ode to Love

Author: Hamilton, William

Attribution: Hamilton, William

Date(s): 174-?

Manuscript: Lt 115

Contents: Ode personifying love, and celebrating in particular the allure of feminine beauty

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Title: Love turn'd to Dispair

Author: Hamilton, William

Attribution: Hamilton, William

Date(s): 174-?

Manuscript: Lt 115

Contents: Lines on the despair that follows the loss of love

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Title: Horace Book 1 Ode 33, Imitated, To a Gentleman in Love

Author: Hamilton, William

Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William

Date(s): 174-?

Manuscript: Lt 115

Contents: Imitation of Horace's Odes, I.33, in which the speaker counsels a gentleman in love not to persist in his attempts to court a beautiful woman called Maria, as she is clearly not interested; he goes on to describe more generally Love's

unpredictability, an

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Title: Ode to Contemplation [Latin epigraph from Virgil]

Author: Hamilton, William

Attribution: Hamilton, William

Date(s): 174-?

Manuscript: Lt 115

Contents: Ode invoking a personified Contemplation, calling for her inspiration, and asking her to banish Superstition, Clamour, and especially Love; however, Love insists upon interrupting the poet's contemplative reverie

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Title: Pallinode

Author: Hamilton, William

Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William

Date(s): 174-?

Manuscript: Lt 115

Contents: Palinode written in response to/in continuation of BCMSV 6553, again on the painful unreliability of love; the poet warns the youth of the dangers of falling for Maria, and then reveals that he too once loved her, and ultimately lost her

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Hamilton, William

Attribution: Hamilton, William

Date(s): 174-?

Manuscript: Lt 115

Contents: Fragment of a ballad concerned with love and the beauty of the speaker's (presumed) lover, Margaret; imitated from Horace, Odes, I.32. Begins imperfectly owing to loss of pp. 23-26.

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Title: To H--- H--- in the Assembly

Author: Hamilton, William

Attribution: Hamilton, William

Date(s): 174-?

Manuscript: Lt 115

Contents: On the themes of love and constancy, with a number of specific cultural references (mostly to the names of contemporaries). H.H. is identified in a manuscript note in a copy of Hamilton's 'Poems on Several Occasions', 1760, in the Brotherton

Collection, a

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The dramatic works of Shakspeare (v.1)

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Boydell, John (1719-1804); Steevens, George (1736-1800); Boydell, Josiah (1752-1817); Smirke, Robert (1752-1845); Hamilton, William (1751-1801); Westall, Richard (1765-1836)

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Originally issued in 18 parts, 1791, 1802. Dedication (dated 1803) signed: John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, George Nicol; "Advertisement" signed: G. N. No table of contents or list of plates is given...

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The dramatic works of Shakspeare (v.2)

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Boydell, John (1719-1804); Steevens, George (1736-1800); Boydell, Josiah (1752-1817); Smirke, Robert (1752-1845); Hamilton, William (1751-1801); Westall, Richard (1765-1836)

1802

Originally issued in 18 parts, 1791, 1802. Dedication (dated 1803) signed: John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, George Nicol; "Advertisement" signed: G. N. No table of contents or list of plates is given...

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The dramatic works of Shakspeare (v.3)

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Boydell, John (1719-1804); Steevens, George (1736-1800); Boydell, Josiah (1752-1817); Smirke, Robert (1752-1845); Hamilton, William (1751-1801); Westall, Richard (1765-1836)

1802

Originally issued in 18 parts, 1791, 1802. Dedication (dated 1803) signed: John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, George Nicol; "Advertisement" signed: G. N. No table of contents or list of plates is given...

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The dramatic works of Shakspeare (v.4)

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Boydell, John (1719-1804); Steevens, George (1736-1800); Boydell, Josiah (1752-1817); Smirke, Robert (1752-1845); Hamilton, William (1751-1801); Westall, Richard (1765-1836)

1802

Originally issued in 18 parts, 1791, 1802. Dedication (dated 1803) signed: John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, George Nicol; "Advertisement" signed: G. N. No table of contents or list of plates is given...

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The dramatic works of Shakspeare (v.5)

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Boydell, John (1719-1804); Steevens, George (1736-1800); Boydell, Josiah (1752-1817); Smirke, Robert (1752-1845); Hamilton, William (1751-1801); Westall, Richard (1765-1836)

1802

Originally issued in 18 parts, 1791, 1802. Dedication (dated 1803) signed: John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, George Nicol; "Advertisement" signed: G. N. No table of contents or list of plates is given...

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