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Ballads and lyrics of love

Sidgwick, Frank; Shaw, Byam (1872-1919)

1908

Illustrated t.-p. in blue and black.

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Ovid's art of love, in three books : Together with his remedy of love. Translated into English verse by Dryden, Congreve, and others. To which are added, The court of love: A tale from Chaucer: and The history of love

Ovid; Ovid

MDCCLXIV. [1764]

'The history of love', by Charles Hopkins, has separate title-page dated 1763. 'The court of love' is a verse paraphrase by Arthur Maynwaring. P.275 misnumbered 265.

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The angel in the house; together with, The victories of love

Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton (1823-1896); Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton (1823-1896); Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson (1847-1922)

[1905]

"Reprinted from the eight collective edition (1903) of the Poems."

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Ioannis Ioviani Pontani Amorum libri II : De amore coniugali III. Tumulorum II, qui in superiore aliorum poëmaton editione desyderabantur. Lyrici I. Eridanorum II. Eclogæ duæ Coryle, & Quinquennius superioribus quatuor additæ. Calpurnij Siculi Eclogæ VII. Aurelij Nemesiani Eclogæ IIII. Explicatio locorum omnium abstrusorum Pontani authore Petro Summontio uiro doctissimo. Index rerum, quæ in his Pontani lusibus contineantur

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano (1429-1503); Calpurnius Siculus, Titus; Nemesianus, Marcus Aurelius Olympius; Summonte, Pietro (fl. 1504); Torresanus, Andreas de Asula (1451-1529)

1518

"C'est le second volume des poésies de Pontanus: il n'a été imprimé que cette seule fois par les Alde." Cf. Renouard. Leaves 89, 91, 93, and 95 misnumbered 97, 99 101, and 103. Printer's devic...

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Love

De La Mare, Walter (1873-1956); Freedman, Barnett (1901-1958)

1943

The decorations are by Barnett Freedman.

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Thirty Spanish poems of love and exile

Rexroth, Kenneth (1905-1982)

1956

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Elizabethan minor epics

Donno, Elizabeth Story

1963

Bibliographical footnotes.

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Nosce teipsum : This oracle expounded in two elegies : 1. Of humane knowledge. 2. Of the soule of man, and the immortalitie thereof. Hymnes of Astraea in acrosticke verse. Orchestra, or, A poem of dauncing. In a dialogue betweene Penelope, and one of her wooers. Not finished

Davies, Sir John (1569-1626)

1622

Signatures: B-M8 L⁴. Last leaf is blank. The general title page has "ORCHESTRA"; a variant has "Orchestra"; with errata on recto of L3; a variant lacks errata. "Hymnes of Astrea" (beginning le...

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Memoirs of the loves of the poets : biographical sketches of women celebrated in ancient and modern poetry

Jameson, Mrs (1794-1860); Jameson, Mrs (1794-1860)

1880

Originally published under title: Loves of the poets. 1829.

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Consummation: or, The rape of Adonis

MDCCXLI. [1741]

8vo: [A]⁴ B-F⁴. Half-title: Consummation: an original poem. Price One Shilling. -- Captions (p. [i]): To the reader; (p. [iv]): To the author; (p. [1]): The rape of Adonis; (p. 25): The resurrec...

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The pleasures of love : being amatory poems, original and translated, from the Asiatic and European languages

Fitzwilliam, G W

1807

"Many of the translations, and some few of the original pieces are written by the editor..."--p. vi. "Modern publications and new editions of valuable standard works, printed for Longman, Hurst, Ree...

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