Manuscript in a single hand containing copies of more than 60 poems, both secular and religious. Poets include Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, and George Lyttelton. Among the religious poems are five poems by Mehetabel Wesley Wright, the sister of John and Charles Wesley; these include "To an Infant at the Point of Death" and "A Farewell to the World." The volume also contains copies of Thomas Gibbons' "On the Death of Mordecai Andrews" and "On the Deity, by a dissenting Clergyman at Bristol."
Description:
In English., Annotated in pencil on recto of front flyleaf: found amongst Miss Martyns things. Mary [Marshall] Amphlett., and Binding: contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
Subject (Name):
Wesley family. and Wesley, Mehetabel, 1697-1750.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, Methodism, Religious poetry, English, and Women poets
A Methodist minister standing before a building, possibly meant to represent Whitefield's tabernacle in Tottenham Court Rd., is confronted by two women, an older one who gestures toward the church and a young one, fashionably dressed and pulling him toward the public house on the right. The sign on the latter reads "The old goat new Reviv[ed]" and before it stands a donkey between two bales of hay
Alternative Title:
Divinity in danger
Description:
Title from item. and A reduced and reversed copy of The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak (George 4609) designed by J. Collet.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
