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Pope, Alexander19
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)10
Voiture Monsieur De (1597-1648)4
Dennis, John2
Dennis, John (1657-1734)2
Dryden, John2
Dryden, John (1631-1700)2
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)2
Mosse, T2
Ozell, John2

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Title: To a lady, on her leaving the Town

Author: Pope, Alexander

Date(s): 1714

Manuscript: Lt 93

Contents: On a young woman (Teresa Blount) sad to exchange the flirtatious pleasures of London town, after the coronation of George I, for the monotony of the country, describing the life she might lead there; lacking two lines

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Title: Another psalm for the use of the fine ladies

Author: Pope, Alexander

Attribution: Mr Pope; [Bible]

Date(s): 1716 (published)

Manuscript: Lt q 20

Contents: Facetious advice to young women on gaining good husbands by shunning

wantonness, parodying Thomas Sternhold's translation of Psalm 1.

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Title: To a lady. Sent on her birth-day.

Author: Pope, Alexander

Date(s): 1723

Manuscript: Lt 93

Contents: In celebration of a lady's birthday, wishing that she may have a comfortable and satisfying life on earth, a painless death and eternal life in heaven

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Title: A version of the first psalm for the use of a young lady

Author: Pope, Alexander

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 1716 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 35

Contents: Facetious advice to young women on gaining good husbands by shunning

wantonness, parodying Thomas Sternhold's translation of Psalm 1

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Title: On a young lady's leaving the town after the coronation

Author: Pope, Alexander

Attribution: Mr Pope

Date(s): 1714

Manuscript: Lt 36

Contents: On a young woman (Teresa Blount) sad to exchange the flirtatious pleasures of

London town, after the coronation of George I, for the monotony of the

country, describing the life she might lead there

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Title: To a young lady under the name of Zephalinda on her leaving the town after

the coronation

Author: Pope, Alexander

Date(s): 1714

Manuscript: Lt 20

Contents: On a young woman (Teresa Blount) sad to exchange the flirtatious pleasures of

London town, after the coronation of George I, for the monotony of the

country, describing the life she might lead there

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Title: On a Lady with one fault occasion'd by a spitefull persons saying she was deaf

Author: Pope, Alexander

Date(s): 1725 ?

Manuscript: Lt 72

Contents: In praise of Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk

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Title: To be inserted in the Epistle upon the Characters of Women by Mr.Pope. On the Duchess of M--.

Author: Pope, Alexander

Attribution: Mr. Pope

Date(s): 174- ?

Manuscript: Lt 119

Contents: Extract from Alexander Pope's "To a Lady: Of the characters of women", satirizing Katherine, Duchess of Buckingham, which first appeared in the 1744 edition.

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Court poems : Viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet. Publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a pocket-book taken up in Westminster-Hall, the last day of the Lord Winton's tryal

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762); Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1706 [i.e. 1716]

First edition. Date on title-page misprinted 1706. Authorship attributed by "Advertisement" to "a lady of quality," Pope or Gay. Nos. I and II are now ascribed to Lady Mary; included in the ms. of...

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The works of Monsieur Voiture : in two volumes (v.1)

Voiture Monsieur de (1597-1648); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Dennis, John (1657-1734)

1736

Head and tail pieces; initials.

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The works of Monsieur Voiture : in two volumes (v.2)

Voiture Monsieur de (1597-1648); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Dennis, John (1657-1734)

1736

Head and tail pieces; initials.

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A Miscellaneous collection of poems, songs and epigrams : By several hands. Publish'd by T. M. gent (v.1)

Mosse, T; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1721

Editorship ascribed to T. Mosse. "To a young lady: with the works of Voiture. by Mr. Pope": vol. 2, p. 199-205. In vol. 2, p. 71 is not numbered.

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