173 results filtered with: Epic poetry, English - Early works to 1800
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The rape of the lock. An heroi-comical poem. In five canto's. Written by Mr. Pope.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.Date: 1714- Books
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The Harlot's progress. Being the life of the noted Moll Hackabout, in six hudibrastick canto's. With a curious print to each canto; ingrav'd from Mr. Hogarth's originals. Containing, I. Her Coming to Town in the York Waggon; and being betray'd by an old Bawd into the Arms of Colonel Ch-s; with several comical Dialogues, &c. II. Her being kept by a Jew; with her Intrigues in his House. III. Her living in a Bawdy-House in Drury-Lane. A diverting List of the Decorations of her Lodging. Her being detected by Sir J-n G-n, &c. IV. Her Usage at Tothil-Fields Bridewell; and the Humours of the Place. V. Her Sickness and Death. Disputes between two noted Quacks. Her last Will. VI. Burial. Characters of the principal Assistants at the Funeral Pomp, &c. VII. A curious and entertaining Riddle, which Moll learned of the Jew, while in his Keeping, and which Colonel Ch-s could never answer to her Satisfaction. The sixth edition. Whereunto is prefix'd, never before printed, a most excellent ballad (sent from Scotland presently after the Burial of Col. Ch-s) intitl'd, Satan's defeat; or Jack Presbyter triumphant.
Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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The battle of the bards. An heroic poem. In two cantos. The author Mauritius Moonshine, F. R. S. Ox. Cant. Dubl. et Edin. Soc. A. B. C. & D. &c. &c.
Moonshine, Mauritius.Date: 1800- Books
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The downfall of the Roman confederacy; or, the ever memorable 12th of April 1782. A heroic poem, in three cantos. By the Rev. Mr Colvill of Dysart, V.D.M.
Colvill, Mr. (Robert), -1788.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The scribleriad: an heroic poem. In six books.
Cambridge, Richard Owen, 1717-1802.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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The hastiniad; an heroic poem. In three cantos.
Ryves, Elizabeth, 1750-1797.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Saint George, and Saint Patrick: or, the rival saintesses. An epic poem of the eighteenth century.
Date: 1800- Books
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The thimble, an heroi-comical poem, in four cantos. Dedicated to Miss Anna-Maria Woodford. By a gentleman of Oxford.
Hawkins, William, 1722-1801.Date: [1744]- Books
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Carmen irenicum. The union of the imperial crowns of Great Britain. An heroick poem.
Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.Date: M DCC VII. [1707]- Books
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The critical minute: a poem of the epick kind. In two books. Inscrib'd to the Reverend Dr. S. By Michael Tracey, Gent.
Tracey, Michael, active 18th century.Date: 1731- Books
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The nowiad: an heroic poem ... humbly inscrib'd to the most renown'd Tom Thumb the Great, ... With notes historical and critical. By a spectator.
Spectator.Date: [1755]- Books
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The famous history of the renown'd and valiant prince Robert, sirnamed the Bruce, King of Scotland. And of sundry other valiant Knights, Both Scots and English. Enlarged with an Addition of the Scottish Kings, lineally descended from Him, to Charles now Prince. Together with a Note of the Beginnings of the most Part of the Ancient and Famous Nobility of Scotland. A History both pleasant and profitable, Set forth and done in heroic verse, by Patrick Gordon gent.
Gordon, Patrick, active 1615-1650.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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Flora triumphans. Wanstead Garden. An Heroick Poem Most Humbly Addrest to the Honourable Sir Richard Child, Bar.
Date: 1712 [1713?]- Books
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Prince Eugene: an heroic poem on the victorious progress of the confederate arms in Italy; under the conduct of his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy, and Prince Eugene.
Bolton, J.Date: 1707 [1706]- Books
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The eastern Theatre erected. An heroi-comic poem. In three cantos.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Human happiness; or the sceptic. A poem, in six cantos. By Thomas Holcroft, Author of Duplicity, a Comedy.
Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Chevy-Chase, with a preface endeavouring to prove that the author intended the Earl of Douglass for his hero; and notes on some passages of the poem. To which is subjoined, Hardy Knute: a fragment. Being the first canto of an epic poem, with notes.
Date: M,DCC,LIV. [1754]- Books
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The scrubs of Parnassus: or, all in the wrong. A comi-tragical heroic poem, in Hudibrastic verse, addressed to the authors of the Rosciad, the Fribbleriad, the Churchiliad, the Naiads of Fleet-Ditch, and the Gentlemen of both Theatres. I sing dire faction, and the cruel strife Of bards that live, and bards that write for life; Of lawyers, coxcombs, connoisseurs, and players, Of parsons, critics, apes, and dancing bears. Pasquinade, altered. By Whackum Smackum, Esq;
Smackum, Whackum, Esq.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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A duel and no duel; or, the skirmish of the West-India heroes. A burlesque account of the cause, rise and progress of the quarrel between Sir C-r O-le, and Governor T-ey, and the assault on His Excellency, in his own house, in Spanish Town, on the 22d of July last. With the letters that past; the remarkable trial; and other incidents of the extraordinary adventure that happen'd to our homeward-bound knight errants. By an honest sailor.
Honest sailor.Date: [1743]- Books
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The cries of Bellona, an heroic poem. By Quintus Persius, Esq.
Persius, Quintus.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Roman portraits, a poem, in heroick verse; with historical remarks and illustrations: By Robert Jephson, Esq.
Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803.Date: 1794- Books
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Three odes. The royal hero; to the king. The royal nuptials; to the queen. Religion and liberty triumphant; to the prince. By T. Sanderson, B. A. Of Emanuel-College, Cambridge.
Sanderson, Thomas, 1710?-1781.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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Eusebia triumphans. The Hannover succession to the imperial crown of England, an heroick poem.
Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.Date: 1702- Books
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The bath comedians. A poem in two cantos. Written in imitation of Hudibras.
Lund, John, active 18th century-19th century.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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The baffled hero: an heroic poem, In three books, On a Memorable Engagement. Humbly Inscribed to His Excellency Sir John Cope, Late Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in North Britain.
Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]