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3.
A love song

Published / Created:
Undated
Call Number:
Osborn c546
Collection Title:
[Commonplace book],
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Bishop Hall speaking of the dress of ladies in his time ..., Epigram on Dick, Epitaph, Epitaph on a grave stone ..., On the window of an inn in Guilford, and Return of spring
Subject (Name):
Lyttelton, William Henry, 1724-1808
Subject (Topic):
English poetry --18th century
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A love song

4.
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

5.
Annotations in the Spectator, 1794-1812.

Creator:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
Published / Created:
1794-1812
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 527
Image Count:
3
Abstract:
Extensive holograph annotations in The spectator (London: Printed by H. Hughs, for Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis ...,1789).
Description:
Armorial bookplate of Thomas Hughes in volumes 1-7., Binding: contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt. Spines gilt with red morocco gilt title labels., Formerly owned by Prince Albert. Ex libris Thomas Hughes. Formerly owned by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. Formerly owned by Paula Peyraud. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2009., Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821), author and diarist, published one of the first biographies of Samuel Johnson, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786); her Thraliana, a combined diary and commonplace book, was not published until 1942., and Piozzi's annotations range from brief notes on the text of the essays to lengthy anecdotes; quotations from and comments on other English authors; and social and historical observations. There are eight references to Samuel Johnson, and several to the Prince of Wales; other historical figures mentioned include the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Nelson. Historical observations include the disappearance of road signposts; changes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays; variations in women's fashions and in attitudes toward women authors. Piozzi also includes personal reminiscences and corrections to the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719., Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861--Autograph, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Anecdotes, Hughes, Thomas--Bookplate., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Anecdotes, Peyraud, Paula, 1947-2008--Ownership, Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821--Autograph, Spectator (London, England : 1711), and Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading --Great Britain, English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, English prose literature --18th century, and Women writers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Annotations in the Spectator, 1794-1812.

7.
Spoken extempore by Dean Swift on his curate's complaint of hard duty

Published / Created:
Undated
Call Number:
Osborn c150
Collection Title:
[Commonplace book],
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Subject (Topic):
English poetry --18th century, English wit and humor, and Verse satire, English
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Spoken extempore by Dean Swift on his curate's complaint of hard duty

10.
[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]