Manuscript, in a single hand, of 8 descriptions in poetry and prose of William Shenstone's Leasowes estate, each titled "Shenstone's Walks" and numbered 1 to 8. Addressed to "Zattoo," the narrator leads the reader through various walks on the grounds, commenting on the views and interspersing his narrative with verses inscribed on various objects he encounters, as when he explains to Zattoo, "From this Place the Path leads some few Yards, till it opens to a wide & very uneven, irregular Lawn--We shall recover our Path again, so let us quit it, while we go and contemplate that Urn, which is fixed in the Center, & thus inscribed..." The narrator also describes encountering "the Gothic Bower," which is inscribed with a poem "in old English characters" exhorting the reader not to look down upon those who rest contentedly there; and elsewhere, directs his listener's attention to an urn erected to "Miss Dolman, a first Cousin of W. Shenstone's" and to the elegy to her inscribed upon it.
Description:
Printed description of the manuscript included with the collection.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century and Leasowes Garden (Halesowen, England)
Subject (Name):
Hull, Thomas,--1728-1808 and Shenstone, William,--1714-1763
Subject (Topic):
Architectural inscriptions, Elegiac verse, English, English poetry--18th century, Gardens, English, and Gardens--Great Britain
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of about 36 essays and verse translations on various subjects. The collection begins with an essay titled "Character & Design of the Author," which compares his collection of works to the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian. In addition to subsequent essays which address such topics as "A Vision on human Life," "Against ignorant Pretenders to Politicks," and a letter "on the present state of the Theatre from Will. Drama," the manuscript also contains verse translations of classical works such as those of Silius Italicus and Theocritus.
Description:
Binding: half calf., In English., and Table of contents at beginning of manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke,--Earl of,--1720-1790, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, and Theocritus
Subject (Topic):
English periodicals, English poetry--18th century, Philosophy, and Theater--England
Autograph manuscript of a poem on the debate contest at King Darius' court chronicled in I Esdras 3-4. In the end Darius promises to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple as Zerubbabel's prize for his winning oration which argued that "women were more strong than wine; the ample pow'r of kings to them decline; but truth the strongest." The dedicatory preface quotes and compares several examples of classical and biblical verse, and explains that the Muses which he invokes in the poem are only a metaphor for natural poetic inclinations.
Description:
Binding: stitched, Marbled-paper endsheets, with handwriting beneath. and Dedication: To my ever-honoured father, Joseph Rose of Alesbury in the County of Bucks.
Subject (Name):
Rose, Aquila,--1695-1723 and Zerubbabel--(Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Esdras, 1st, Bible--History of Biblical events--Poetry--Early works to 1800, English poetry--18th century, and Religious poetry, English--18th century
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 83 poems, primarily political verse satires, from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. A number of the poems satirize King William III, including The lamentation of the French king for the death of K. William, a ballad to the tune of the The dragon of Wantley; and A simile. Other targets of satire include Parliament; Queen Anne; and John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. Other poem titles include Matthew Prior's Ode to the memory of the Honble Col. George Villiers drown'd in the River Piava; The history of the conformity bill; The opening of the sessions in the House of Commons; and To the vice chancellor of Cambridge.
Description:
Binding: full calf; gilt decoration on spine., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Index at end of volume., and Written on title page: Anecdota 1700. Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--17th century and Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century
Subject (Name):
Great Britain.--Parliament, Marlborough, John Churchill,--Duke of,--1650-1722, Prior, Matthew,--1664-1721, and William--III,--King of England,--1650-1702
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--18th century, Political poetry, English, and Verse satire, English
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 43 primarily sentimental, melancholy, and religious poems on such subjects as death and divine and human love. Titles of poems include Seraphick love; To melancholy; On death; On the day of judgment; On love; Love undiscovered; Friendship in absence; On beauty; and The vanity of man in the similitude of a bubble. The poems are by various authors, whose identities are indicated only by their initials.
Description:
Autograph on front cover: Anne Woolfe. Other pen trials also appear on front cover., Binding: paper. Written on front cover: A Collection of Poems., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
Subject (Topic):
Death--Poetry, English poetry--18th century, Love poetry, English, Religious poetry, English, and Sentimentalism in literature
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 39 primarily sentimental and occasional poems on such subjects as friendship, death, solitude, nature, and women's beauty, by various authors, including Edward Jerningham, David Garrick, Hannah More, William Hayley, and Hester (Mulso) Chapone. Other poems have been written by Heigham's acquaintances, including several sonnets by Charlotte Smith and an elegy by Mr Hammond. Moreover, the collection contains several theatrical epilogues, including one altered from that written by Richard Sheridan and performed by "Henry Heigham." At the end of the volume, in another hand, is a poem titled On the death of a most indulgent mother by her son.
Description:
Autograph inside front cover: Anne Heigham 1781., Binding: contemporary vellum., and Table of contents at beginning of manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David,--1717-1779, Hayley, William,--1745-1821, Heigham, Anne, Jerningham, Edward,--1737-1812, More, Hannah,--1745-1833, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--18th century, Occasional poetry, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Theater--Great Britain--18th century, and Women authors
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of about 25 primarily satirical or lighthearted poems, many on the subject of women and love. Poem titles include Damon to Philomel; Advice to a lady, by George, 1st baron Lyttleton; On Sr Isaac Newton; Upon the death of Mrs Page's dove; and A receipt to make an epigram by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield. Other poets include John Hervey, baron of Ickworth and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu., The last section of the manuscript contains a 19th-century collection of social letters by religious figures addressed to Mr. or Mrs. Young and Miss Anna Young, pasted or tipped into the volume., and The poems are followed by a copy of a letter from the Earl of Orrery to Thomas Southern, dated 1735; and several poems, including one on the death of Lady Caroline Seymour, and several rebuses and poems on flowers.
Alternative Title:
A receipt to make an epigram; said to be wrote by Lord Chesterfield
Description:
Autograph inside front cover: Mary Dyott 10 Febry 1792., Binding: contemporary panelled calf; gilt decoration. The front cover is detached., Partial index at end of volume., Written on flyleaf: My brother Willm & Family came to my mother April the 26 1808 Retd from May the 26 1808 left July the 10th., and Written on flyleaf: This book was given me by Dear Mrs Ogle January the 15 1747.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--19th century and Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Dyott, Mary--Autograph, Ickworth, John Hervey,--Baron,--1696-1743, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton,--Baron,--1709-1773, and Montagu, Mary Wortley,--Lady,--1689-1762
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--18th century, Rebuses, Verse satire, English, Women authors, and Women--Conduct of life
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of fifteen 18th-century satirical poems, epigrams, and epitaphs. The poems are primarily political and satirize the royal family and the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford. The volume includes such titles as A song made on the funeral of the Duke of Marlborough; The brothers; Norfolk hours; and General Churchill's address to Venus. Authors represented in the collection include Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, John Hervey, baron Hervey of Ickworth, and Samuel Westley, while the satiric butts of the poem include King George II; Caroline, queen of George II; Sir Robert Walpole, and John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough. The manuscript also contains a serious epitaph for Henry Saint-John, 1st viscount Bolingbroke.
Description:
Binding: panelled speckled calf; gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1702-1714, and Great Britain--Politics and government--1714-1760
Subject (Name):
Caroline,--Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain,--1683-1737, George--II,--King of Great Britain,--1683-1760, Ickworth, John Hervey,--Baron,--1696-1743, Marlborough, John Churchill,--Duke of,--1650-1722, and Walpole, Robert,--Earl of Orford,--1676-1745
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--18th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Political poetry, English, and Verse satire, English
