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bangorian controversy, 1716-17211
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Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)14
Swift, Jonathan3
Curll, Edmund (1675-1747)2
Dryden, John (1631-1700)2
Pattison, William (1706-1727)2
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)2
Thomas, Elizabeth (1677-1731)2
Acheson, Lady1
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)1
Addison, Joseph, 1672-17191

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A poem upon R-r a lady's spaniel

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)

[1725]

"Happiest of the spaniel-race". With roman "L" in the last two lines; variant has italic "L". A parody of Ambrose Philips's 'To the Honourable Miss Carteret', 1725. Anon., sometimes attributed t...

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The ladies lottery : or a new scheme for a ten thousand pound fortune

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

[1733?]

According to Dobell, quoted by Teerink no. 969, this is not by Swift, but is a reissue of "A scheme for a new lottery... by an Old Sports-man", 1732.

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The metamorphoses of the town : or, A view of the present fashions. A tale. After the manner of Fontaine... To which is added, The journal of a modern lady

Thomas, Elizabeth (1677-1731); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

1731

In verse. Swift's Journal of a modern lady also appeared under title Journal of a Dublin lady. Anon., by E. Thomas. Indexed in: Teerink-Scouten no. 673.

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A soldier and a scholar : or The lady's judgment upon those two characters in the persons of Captain ----- and D--n S---t

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

1732

The first Dublin edition, also published in 1732, bore the title: "The grand question debated: whether Hamilton's Bawn should be turn'd into a barrack, or a malt-house". It is from a different manuscr...

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An Epistle to a lady : who desired the author to make verses on her, in the heroick stile; also, a poem occasion'd by reading Dr. Young's Satires, called the Universal passion

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

1734[1733]

To Lady Acheson. Dated on title-page 1734, but in fact published 15 Nov. 1733. Page 13 misnumbered 16. Anon., by J.Swift.

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The metamorphosis of the town : or, a view of the present fashions. A tale: after the manner of Fontaine... To which is added, The journal of a modern lady. In a letter to Person of Quality

Thomas, Elizabeth (1677-1731); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

1730

By Elizabeth Thomas (ESTC). Indexed in: ESTC t095773.

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Miscellanies : The third volume

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Motte, Benjamin (1738); Bathurst, Charles (1709-1786); Gilliver, Lawton

1736

Anonymous. By Swift, Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot. One of three imprint variants or issues of this edition. With advertisements on final page. Signatures: A-I12 A-C12. 71 p. (second count) headed "...

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A cure for the hip : containing miscellaneous poems and translations, on variety of entertaining subjects, and some on remarkable occasions,... With a genuine letter of Bp. Atterbury's, verses by D-n Sw-t, &c. Publish'd from the original that came out of a lady's library, by a gentleman of the Temple

Dawson, William poet; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732)

1748

Anonymous. By William Dawson. D-n Sw-t = Dean Swift. First published in [1734] as 'Miscellaneous poems on several occasions'. The bookseller's name is a pseudonym. Apparently a reissue or a ne...

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Miscellanea : In two volumes. Never before published. viz. I. Familiar letters written to Henry Cromwell esq.; by Mr. Pope. II. Occasional poems by Mr. Pope, Mr. Cromwell, Dean Swift, &c. III. Letters from Mr. Dryden, to a lady, in the year 1699 (v.1)

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Pattison, William (1706-1727); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1727 [i.e. 1726]

Both vols., published in the summer of 1726. Cf. R.H. Griffith. Alexander Pope: a bibliography. Vol. 2 has title: Miscellanea. The second volume. I. An essay upon gibing. With a project for its impr...

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Miscellanea : In two volumes. Never before published. viz. I. Familiar letters written to Henry Cromwell esq.; by Mr. Pope. II. Occasional poems by Mr. Pope, Mr. Cromwell, Dean Swift, &c. III. Letters from Mr. Dryden, to a lady, in the year 1699 (v.2)

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Pattison, William (1706-1727); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1727 [i.e. 1726]

Both vols., published in the summer of 1726. Cf. R.H. Griffith. Alexander Pope: a bibliography. Vol. 2 has title: Miscellanea. The second volume. I. An essay upon gibing. With a project for its impr...

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Whartoniana, or, Miscellanies, in verse and prose

Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685); Plantin, Arabella; Wharton, Philip Wharton Duke of (1698-1731); Curll, Edmund (1675-1747); Norris, John (1657-1711); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Wharton family

1727

With a dedication by E. Curll, which appears to belong rather to the second volume. In it Curll states that the work is a translation from the French, by J. Morgan. Vol. 2 has title: Letters to the ...

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