Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of poems, including numerous occasional verses addressed to friends, family members, and their children. Titles include "Ode to the Ship, in which Mr. F J. H. Wollaston sails," "A Lilliputian Ode, on my l...
Description:
Incomplete index in back of manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1757-1817., Burney family., Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774., and Wollaston, Francis John Hyde, 1762-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Children, Drama, English literature, English poetry, Occasional verse, and Social life and customs
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of serious and comic poems dated 1778-1780. The manuscript includes two poems based on Oliver Goldsmith's "Hermit," English translations of poems by Bacchylides, an "Epistle to a Lady, with a present of M...
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a copy of Dickens' poem Bill of Fare, a parody of Oliver Goldsmith's Retaliation. Written for a private dinner party, the poem imagines a dinner party in which the guests are to be eaten; declares each guest to be a c...
Description:
Paper WM 1825.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870., Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774., and Winter, Maria Sarah Beadnell, 1811 or 12-1886.
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, English poetry, English wit and humor, Epitaphs, Parodies, English, Verse satire, English, and Social life and customs
Volume 2, page 53. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Interior scene in a tavern, at left a woman rasies a large tankard to her lips, the man sitting near her with his hand around her waist, another customer sitting beside them encourages her to take a drink, a cigar(?) in his hand, behind a woman bends...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published April 7th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Drinking vessels, and Newspapers
Never performed here. By particular desire, for the benefit of Mr. Johnston. By their majesties servants, from the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane, London. At the theatre in Canterbury
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774. and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
