215 results filtered with: English poetry - Great Britain - 18th century
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Islington: a poem. Addressed to Mr. Benjamin Stapp. To which are subjoined several other poetical essays by the same author.
Nichols, John, 1745-1826.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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A short account of Bath.
Villiers, George, active 1785-1790.Date: 1790?]- Books
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The Excellent ballad of George Barnwell, who was brought to an untimely end by the allurements of a strumpet: she encouraged him to rob his master and afterwards to murder his uncle.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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Balad made on the present election. In the behalf of Squire H-----d. Tune of, You Commons and Peers, &c.
Date: 1727]- Books
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The Noble knight's garland, in four parts. 1. How a poor country ploughman, amongst many children, had one son, whom he well educated. And thereupon was beloved by many persons of quality, through his courteous carriage and behavour. 2. How he lived in a knight's family, where the noble knight's daughter fell in love with him, and other things worthy of note. 3. How they contrived a private marriage, under the pretence of a country journey, which not known till she prov'd with child. 4. How the knight finding his daughter had marry'd his servant, ordered him to fetch his father and mother to partake of his great fortune.
Date: Ap. 1749- Books
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Caledonia, a poem in honour of Scotland, and the Scots nation. In three parts.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCVII. [1707]- Books
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The Sharping landlady of Sunderland, ...
Date: 1790?]- Books
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A Farther and more particular account of a most strange and terrible ghost or apparition of a gentlewoman that appeareth both night and day at Mr Jennings's, in Hand-Alley, in Holborn: giving an account how she first appeared, and frightned the mister, mistress, the servants, and many of the neighbours. Also how several other people set up to watch, among whom were six ministers sent by the Bishop of London. With the prayer which the ministers us'd when they set up to watch.
Date: 1716- Books
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The Oxfordshire tragedy; Or, The virgin's advice. In two parts. Part I. How fair Rosanna of the city of Oxford was betrayed by a young gentleman of her virginity. Part II. His [e]ruety in murdering her, and how a rose bush sprung upon the grave, which blossomed all the year through, and how the murder same to be fond out by his cropping the roses.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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Health, a poem. Shewing how to procure, preserve, and restore it. To which is annex'd the doctor's decade. The third edition, corrected. By Edward Baynard, M.D.
Baynard, Edward, 1641-Date: 1721- Books
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The Parson preferred. A poem.
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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The Female champion: in three parts. I. The wandring female in man's apparel. II. Sorrow upon sorrow, or, mercy on the brink of ruin. III. The thing desired obtain'd, after along and tedious travelling by land, dangers at sea, and sharp hunger. Licensed and enter'd according to order.
Date: 1760?]- Books
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The shadows of Shakespeare: A monody, occasioned by the death of Mr. Garrick. Being a prize poem, written for the vase at Bath-Easton. By Courtney Melmoth.
Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749-1814.Date: [1779?]- Books
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Tar water, a ballad, inscribed to the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield: Occasioned by reading a narrative on the success of Tar Water, dedicated to his lordship by Thomas Prior, Esquire.
Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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The Priest and the lawyer. To the tune of "Derry down, or tantarrara knaves all."
Date: 1790?]- Books
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Bagatelles. In this collection is reprinted the fragment: or, Allen and Ella. Which (unknown to the author) appeared some years since under the title of Collin and Lucy. To which is subjoined, a journey to, and description of, the Paraclete, near the city of Troyes, in Champagne, where Abelard and Elos̐a were buried. All by the same hand.
Mills, Andrew Hervey.Date: 1767- Books
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The emigrant; A poem. By the Honourable Henry Erskine. To which is added, Dr. Smollet's Ode, to leven water.
Erskine, Henry, 1746-1817.Date: 1796- Books
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Ireland's prospect of happiness; Or A congratulatory poem on the arrival of His Excellency the Earl of Pembroke, to his government of Ireland. Written by a well-wisher to this country. And dedicated to all who are lovers of the same.
Well-wisher to this country.Date: 1707- Books
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Hardyknute, a fragment.
Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady, 1677-1727.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- Books
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Cadenus and Vanessa. A poem. To which is added, a true and faithful inventory of the goods belonging to Dr. S-t, vicar of Lara Cor; upon lending his house to the bishop of -, till his own was built. By Dr. S-t.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1726- Books
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Health, a poem. Shewing how to procure, preserve, and restore it. To which is annex'd the doctor's decade. The fifth edition, corrected. By Edward Baynard, M.D.
Baynard, Edward, 1641-Date: 1733- Books
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Larry O-Brien.
Date: 1793?]- Books
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Poems, by a gentleman.
Way, G. L. (Gregory Lewis), -1799.Date: 1782- Books
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Stigand: or, The antigallican. A poem, in Miltonic verse. By the Reverend John Free, D.D. Vicar of Runcorn, in Cheshire, and Lecturer of Newington, in Surry.
Free, John, 1712?-Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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The female muse. A poem on the coronation of Her Sacred Majesty Queen Ann.
Dyke, Ann.Date: 1702