Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 21 records

Total number of records: 21

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection21
English Literature21

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
men1
national characteristics, english1
satire, english1
women1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hills, Henry21
Hills, Henry (1713)21
Dryden, John (1631-1700)5
Congreve, William3
Congreve, William (1670-1729)3
Dryden, John3
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)2
Bryan (1703-)2
Buckingham, John Sheffield Duke of (1648-21)2
Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)2

Archive Print part

The wife, a poem. Express'd in a compleat wife : With an elegy on the untimely death of the author, poyson'd in the tower, &c

Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613); Hills, Henry (1713)

1709

Signatures: A⁸. First published in 1614 as 'A wife, now a widowe'. Also issued as part of 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands', 1717.--cf. Foxon.

More details


Archive Print Item

Love given over, or, A satyr against the pride, lust, and inconstancy, &c. of woman. with Sylvia's revenge, or, A satyr against man, in answer to the Satyr against woman

Gould, Robert (1709); Hills, Henry (1713); Ames, Richard (1693)

1710

Also published under title: Love given o're. Love given over was first published in 1682, 'Sylvia's revenge' in 1688. The two satires were first issued together, by H.Hills (piratically?), in 1709. ...

More details


Archive Print Item

The temple of fame, a poem : Inscrib'd to Mr. Congreve

Bryan (fl. 1703); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Yalden, Thomas (1670-1736); Hills, Henry (1713)

1709

A piracy? The poem was first published in 1703. Signatures: A⁸. Also issued in 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands'.--cf. Foxon. Mainly celebrates the victory of Admiral...

More details


Archive Print part

The temple of fame, a poem : Inscrib'd to Mr. Congreve

Bryan (fl. 1703); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Yalden, Thomas (1670-1736); Hills, Henry (1713)

1709

A piracy? The poem was first published in 1703. Signatures: A⁸. Also issued in 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands'.--cf. Foxon. Mainly celebrates the victory of Admiral...

More details


Archive Print part

The hind and the panther : transvers'd to the story of the country-mouse and the city-mouse

Halifax, Charles Montagu earl of (1661-1715); Prior, Matthew (1664-1721); Hills, Henry (1713)

1709

A piracy? Not in Macdonald. Anonymous. By Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax, and Matthew Prior. Also issued as part of: 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands', 1717.

More details


Archive Print part

The charms of liberty: a poem

Devonshire, William Cavendish Duke of (1640-1707); Hills, Henry (1713)

Printed in the year, 1709

Signatures: A⁸. Duke of D- = William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire. In: 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands', London, 1717. A piracy?. One of two variants. In this...

More details


Archive Print part

Faction display'd. A poem

Shippen, William (1673-1743); Hills, Henry (1713); Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)

1709

"From a corrected copy." Signatures: A⁸. Anonymous. By William Shippen. Sometimes also attributed to Daniel Defoe. In this edition, the phrase "near the Water-side" in the imprint begins und...

More details


Archive Print part

The art of poetry, written in French

Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (1636-1711); Soames, Sir William; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Hills, Henry (1713)

1710

Also issued as part of: 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands', London, 1717. A piracy? Mentioned by Macdonald (p.37) as a late edition, but without comment.

More details


Archive Print part

Moderation display'd : a poem

Shippen, William (1673-1743); Hills, Henry (1713)

1709

The author of Faction display'd = William Shippen; this work is only doubtfully attributed to him. Also issued as part of: 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands', London, 1717. ...

More details


Archive Print part

Eleonora : a panegyrical poem, dedicated to the memory of the late Countess of Abingdon

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Hills, Henry (1713)

1709

Dedication signed: John Dryden. A piracy?. Also issued as part of: 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands', London, 1717.

More details


Archive Print part

A panegyrick on Oliver Cromwell : and his victories

Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Sprat, Thomas (1635-1713); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Hills, Henry (1713)

1709

Three poems on his death originally published in 1653 as: Three poems upon the death of His late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. A piracy?.

More details


Archive Print part

The campaign : a poem, to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Hills, Henry (1713); Marlborough, John Churchill Duke of (1650-1722)

1710

Also issued as part of: 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands', London, 1717. A piracy?. In this issue on p. 3, the last word of line 12 reads: "campaign".

More details