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Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)2
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Dryden, John (1631-1700)2
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Everingham, Robert (1700-)2
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Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)2
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R.K. Brady

1947-1969

One letter makes reference to time spent in Malta and encourages Berry to visit Portugal (dated 18th December 1947). The other letter provides postal addresses for Brady's short stay in Scotland and i...

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John Murray

1940-1963

Correspondence concerning Berry's Postgraduate Scholarship and appointment in Sheffield, arrangments for visits and thanks for books sent by Berry.

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'North Carriageway'

1976

This item is a published copy of the Paul Mills collection 'North Carriageway' (1976) as published.

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Mills, Paul (1948-)

1978

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BC MS Lt 3, p. 69: An extract from Samuel Colvil's 'The Mock Poem', Part 2, including the section beginning
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Mock poem or Whiggs supplication, by Samuel Colvil

Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)

c.1680

Part Two (only) of Colvil's long Hudibrastic satire, largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, ending with a Latin version of the final 36 English lines.

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The Muses farewel to popery & slavery, or A collection of miscellany poems, satyrs, songs, &c. made by the most eminent wits of the nation, as the shams, intreagues and plots of priests and Jesuits gave occasion

1690

Numerous errors in pagination: 122-123, 126-127 and 192 called 200-201, 204-205 and 92 respectively; 139 and 138 interchanged. Published in 1697 under the title: Poems on the affairs of state, The s...

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The annual miscellany: for the year 1694 : Being the fourth part of Miscellany poems

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Everingham, Robert (fl.1680-1700); Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)

1694

Two pieces by Dryden ('The third book of Virgil's Georgicks' and 'To Sir Godfrey Kneller') appeared here for the first time. Pages 222, 223, 238, 239 misnumbered 122, 123, 138, 139. Y4v-Z1v: Table...

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The annual miscellany: for the year 1694 : Being the fourth part of Miscellany poems

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Everingham, Robert (fl.1680-1700); Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)

1694

Two pieces by Dryden ('The third book of Virgil's Georgicks' and 'To Sir Godfrey Kneller') appeared here for the first time. Pages 222, 223, 238, 239 misnumbered 122, 123, 138, 139. Y4v-Z1v: Table...

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BC MS Lt 2, f. 24r: The opening of
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Mock poem or Whiggs supplication, by Samuel Colvil, and other poems added later

Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)

c.1680

As well as poems by Colvil the manuscript contains several by Sir Philip Sidney

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BC MS Lt 67, f. 13v: The opening of
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Collection of transcribed and autograph poems, gathered together with other papers, largely poetical

c.1700-1755

Ff.1r-68v: transcriptions of poems, taken largely from the published 'Divine Hymns and Poems on Several Occasions', 1704 (Case 231), gathered in leaf endorsed 'Divine poems & c by sundry hands'; ff.69...

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