Collection of poetry, including works by John Donne, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, Francis Phillips, Richard Corbett, Henry King, Thomas Campion, George Morley, William Strode, John Grange, Michael Drayton, John Ho...
"THE VANITIE and Follie of misplaced Love, a brief Reflection on Women": a collection of poems in one hand, on the subject of women, in different metres; followed by some religious meditations and miscellaneous poems. Some are dated from 1693 to 1698. Paper; ff. 331. Small Octavo. Poetry: "The ...
BACON'S ESSAYS; With the Characters of Julius Cæsar and Augustus at the end, and preceded by the dedication to the Duke of Buckingham and "Elogies" on the author by Ben Jonson and by A. Cowley, in his poem to the Royal Society. A printed edition, with the title-page torn out. On one of the fly l...
"CAMILLO'S COMPLAINT: a poem, inscribed to his Grace, George [Stone], Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh" [1747-1765]; and lamenting the brief vice-royalty of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1745-46. In 53 six-line stanzas. Paper; ff. 19. circ. 1747. Quarto. Ge...
COLLECTION of songs and verses, with the inscription on the cover: "Carnarvan 1745 [James Brydges, Marquis of Carnarvon, b. 1731, 3rd Duke of Chandos, 1771] ejus liber carminum, West- [monasteriensis] Alumn[us] Schol[æ]." Included are:-(a) "Verses by the Prince of Wales," beg. "Come, my dearest ...
"THE WICKER CHAIR: a Burlesque Poem in blank verse," after the manner of the "Splendid Shilling" and "Cyder" of John Philips. In three cantos; with an introduction in prose. The subject is country life, and the scene the neighbourhood of Evesham. Paper; ff. 31. XVIIIth cent. Folio. Poetry: "The...
"THE RAFFLE, or the Patriots": a poem in three cantos, with arguments in prose, ridiculing opponents of the Grenville administration, circ. 1763. Paper; ff. 29. XVIIIth cent. Quarto. Political and Satirical Poems: "The Raffle, or the Patriots ": circ. 1763.
COLLECTION Of miscellancous political and other poems, as follows:- 1. "Advice to a Painter, upon the Defeat of the Rebells in the West and the execution of the late Duke of Monmouth," beg. "Since by just flames the guilty Peice is lost." See Poems on Affairs of State, 1716, ii. p. 148. f. 1. ...
COLLECTION Of Miscellaneous political and other verses, written in several hands, apparently all feminine. Included are:- 1. Lines by [James Graham, 1st] Marquis of Montrose, written "as he was riding over the sands . . . . with his sword . . . . upon the news of the death of King Charles," be...
COLLECTION of amatory and other verses, with extracts from plays of Shakespeare, Dryden, and others, in a lady's hand. Included are:- 1. "Gently touch the Warbling Lyre. Burlesqued by Sr W[illiam] Y[onge, Bart?]," beg. "Gently stir and blow the fire." f 1. 2. "The Cambro-Briton rob'd of his ...
