Genre: Commonplace books / Subject (Topic): Occasional verse, English

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1. A discription of a shower in London

Call Number:: Osborn c116
Collection Title:: [Commonplace book],
Image Count:: 3
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Topic):: English poetry --18th century, English wit and humor, Occasional verse, English, and Women authors
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A discription of a shower in London

2. A miscellany of poems

Creator:: Lockman, John, 1698-1771
Published / Created:: 1740
Call Number:: Osborn c268
Image Count:: 10
Resource Type:: Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:: Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of approximately 105 poems divided into "Miscellaneous Pieces," "Songs," "Cantatas," "Odes," Satirical Pieces," "Mock-Pieces relating to the Stage," and "Imitations." The first "Imitation" is a sonnet concerning an abortion scandal surrounding Mademoiselle de Guerchi in 1660, and is addressed in her voice to her aborted "embrio;" other poem titles include "An Ode, Inscrib'd to his grace the Duke of Buckingham, on his Embarking for France," "The paper Bonnets worn by Ladys," "On seeing lewd Women refus'd Admittance," "Fungus," "The poor & Rich Rogue," "Prologue to a Puppet-Show," and "The Shipwrack'd Sailors." The collection is prefaced by a dedication to Viscount Nessuno in the voice of an "orphan Muse" who writes, "should she beg your Lordship...to favour her with a corner of the Green-house in delightful Groves of Utopia; there to correct at Leisure, the numberless Reams she has scribbled within these twelve years: And should she afterwards implore your Lordship to assist the publication of her labours, by raising a handsom subscription among your friends for that purpose...she is certain your Lordship would not deny her one of them." Many additional poems, in a smaller hand and with numerous corrections, appear in the margins.
Description:: Additional poems, in a smaller hand and with numerous corrections, appear in the margins., Binding: full sueded calf., Laid in at the beginning of "Imitations": a piece of paper with an engraving in red ink., and Pasted onto pages at beginning at end: printed poems by Lockman, with handwritten corrections.
Subject (Name):: Lockman, John, 1698-1771
Subject (Topic):: English drama--18th century, English literature--18th century, English poetry--18th century, Epigrams, Occasional verse, English, and Verse satire, English
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A miscellany of poems

3. A riddle

Published / Created:: Undated
Call Number:: Osborn c578
Collection Title:: Miscellan. poems,
Image Count:: 2
Alternative Title:: The skillet
Subject (Topic):: English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, and Occasional verse, English
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A riddle

4. An anecdote of Dr. Johnson, not published in any life of him

Creator:: Negus, Francis Colman, 1744-1818
Published / Created:: Undated
Call Number:: Osborn c631
Image Count:: 1
Alternative Title:: Commonplace book, 1770-1818
Subject (Name):: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Subject (Topic):: English literature --18th century and Occasional verse, English
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An anecdote of Dr. Johnson, not published in any life of him

5. An epitaph upon a child in Stilton (?)

Call Number:: Osborn fb142
Collection Title:: [Commonplace book],
Image Count:: 1
Alternative Title:: Epigramma, Epitaph on a miser, Love after marriage, The happy life of a country parson, and Verses wrote on a lady's ivory table book
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Topic):: Elegiac poetry, English, English wit and humor, Occasional verse, English, and Satirical verse, English
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An epitaph upon a child in Stilton (?)

6. By Dean Swift

Call Number:: Osborn fc185
Collection Title:: Gleanings in prose and verse, selected by Joseph Taylor,
Image Count:: 2
Alternative Title:: On censure
Subject (Topic):: English wit and humor, Occasional verse, English, and Verse satire, English
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > By Dean Swift

7. Commonplace book, circa 1756

Call Number:: Osborn c135
Image Count:: 24
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of eleven English poems on such subjects as happiness, ambition, nature, and friendship. Titles include A pastoral tale; On happiness; Ode in praise of friendship; Meditations and reflections on a storm of thunder and lightning; and To a lady with some of the author's verses. The collection also contains sonnets on ambition and on the death of a child; and, pasted in, a poem in Latin titled On Holbein's picture of Lord Cromwell
Description:: In English and Latin., Inside front cover: bookplate of Philip Yorke, 2nd earl of Hardwick., Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full red morocco; gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Topic):: Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry, Friendship, Nature, Occasional verse, English, Sonnets, English, and Social life and customs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, circa 1756

8. Gleanings in prose and verse, 1799

Creator:: Taylor, Joseph
Call Number:: Osborn fc185
Image Count:: 378
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 390 entries in verse and prose, which present satirical as well as sentimental and elegiac perspectives on the subjects of love, women, religion, and death. Titles include A reflection on death; On the death of a mother; Written in consequence of the execution of a young man for forgery, by Mrs. Taylor; Hymn by Miss Scott; To a lady who sung in too low a voice; On kissing; On female neatness after marriage; Advice to a young lady lately married; Unbeliever's creed; Sir Isaac Newton's creed; and numerous humorous epigrams and epitaphs. Several anonymous poems are labeled "Forton Prison" and dated 1795; the collection also includes poems by Tobias Smollett, Samuel Bishop, Samuel Rogers, Samuel Butler, and William Cowper
Description:: In English., 16-page index at beginning of manuscript., Title from title page. Also on title page: Vol 1., Laid in: newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph dated April 16, 1974., and Binding: half calf over paper-covered board; back cover missing. In gilt on spine: Gleanings.
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Bishop, Samuel, 1731-1795., Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680., Cowper, William, 1731-1800., Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727., Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855., Taylor, Joseph., and Forton Gaol.
Subject (Topic):: Elegiac poetry, English, English wit and humor, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Occasional verse, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Women, Conduct of life, and Religious life and customs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gleanings in prose and verse, 1799

9. [Collection of poems]

Published / Created:: [circa 1760]
Call Number:: Osborn c188
Image Count:: 48
Abstract:: Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of 35 poems, bound in together. The verses are primarily lighthearted and address the subjects of love and women, occasionally in the form of occasional verse. Titles include A tale of Fidelia’s quarrell with her looking-glass; On a robin redbreast that in a stormy day flew in at a window and settled on a lady’s breast; The dangler; A prologue spoken at the opening of Punches Theatre at Bath; To Mrs Catherine Flemming at the Lord Digby’s at Coleshill; and The comical dreamer. Two comic poems address the marriages of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess Strathmore. The collection also includes Colley Cibber’s Ode for the new year as well as poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Anne Finch, countess of Winchilsea.
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):: Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757, Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762, Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680, Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800, and Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720
Subject (Topic):: English poetry --18th century, Humorous poetry, English, Occasional verse, English, Women authors, and Women --Conduct of life
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Collection of poems]