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Title: On the York Assembly Rooms
Author: Garrick, David (?)
Attribution: Garrick
Date(s): 178-?
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: On the inappropriate location of the York Assembly Rooms, and how their surroundings detract from their design; but praising the architecture
Title: The following lines are wrote in a window in the Long Room at Copenhagen House
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17--?
Manuscript: Lt 106
Contents: Epigram on man's proclivity to sin and the impossibility of human perfection
Title: Verses in the Pump-Room at Bath, said to be written by a Gentleman of Oxford
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A gentleman of Oxford (title)
Date(s): 175- or 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Poem said to be hung in the Pump-Room at Bath, composed in a mock archaic style. Followed by the word "EDGAR". Cf. the "Answer" on f.47r (BCMSV 6274), where the present poem is described as "the Hermitts address to youth, complaining of the vanity
of a se
Title: On the pictures of the confederates hung round a room in 1693. To the tune
of Old Simon the King
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1693 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satirical song on the alliance of nations at war with France and on their
leaders, including William III
Title: Memento, Mori. If More be spelt MOOR and read backward tis Room (or dwelling place) and this room shall entertain my anigram to the remembrance of the now happie and ever blessed babe, S.M.
Author: Worlidge, Robert
Attribution: R.W.
Date(s): 170-?
Manuscript: Lt 107
Contents: Epitaph directed at one of the deceased children, contrasting the small room afforded him/her on this earth with the heavenly room now open to him/her. Part of a collection of poems on the death of members of the More family of Framlingham,
Suffolk.
Title: Verses wrote in the window of the Long Room att Viponts in Scarborough upon
Colley Cibber, Poet Laureat, to George the 2nd
Author: Stanhope, Philip Dormer; Earl of Chesterfield
Date(s): 1736 ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Satirical epigram on Colly Cibber and George II
Title: Writen under the picture of Beau Nash that was placed between the busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Alexander Pope Esquire in the Long Roome at Bath
Author: Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield
Date(s): 1737 ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Suggesting that a portrait of Richard Beau Nash must have been placed between busts of Isaac Newton and Alexander Pope for satirical effect, exposing folly between wit and wisdom
Title: On the friendship of two young ladies
Author: Hoadly, John
Attribution: The same [i.e. Mr Jh. Hoadly]
Date(s): 1730
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Appeal to two young women to terminate their close, exclusive friendship to
make room for love and marriage
Title: Upon a chamber call'd Pernassus where the gentry-arms are painted
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 38
Contents: Witty epigram commenting on coats of arms decorating a room called Parnassus,
possibly alluding to poetry
Title: On the friendship betwixt two ladies
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Appeal to two beautiful young women to make room for love alongside their
close, exclusive friendship
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding excerpt from Alcaeus's inventory of the contents of his house, consisting of military objects; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. Part 2. 1716 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wodehouse, Sir Philip
Date(s): 166- or 167-?
Manuscript: Lt 40
Contents: Suggests that a great soul will be apparent even in a humble state; translation