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Songs and verses upon several occasions, [ca. 1680?].

Title: Songs and verses upon several occasions, [ca. 1680?].

Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of about 59 satirical poems and songs by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, John Oldham, John Dryden, Aphra Behn, and others. Poems include Rochester's Satyr Against Man, Upon Nothing, and Tunbridge Wells; Dryden's MacFlecknoe; Shadwell's Upon A Late Fallen Poet; and George Etherege's Ephelia to Bajazet. The volume also contains a number of satirical songs, such as A New Ballad To the Tune of Chivey Chace and A New Ballad to an Old Tune Call'd Sage Leafe.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (406 p.) ; 21 x 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702174374 View

Austen, Thomas, Rev.,. Farrago : or a collection of sublime passages or witty speeches from all books of poems & plays as chance to come to hand / by me Tho. Austen of Rochester : manuscript, 1766.

Title: Farrago : or a collection of sublime passages or witty speeches from all books of poems & plays as chance to come to hand / by me Tho. Austen of Rochester : manuscript, 1766.

Commonplace book of excerpts from poems and plays by Thomas D'Urfey, George Etherege, Thomas Ward, Samuel Wesley, and others.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. (278, 176 p.) ; 22 cm.

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[Collection of poems], [late 17th century].

Title: [Collection of poems], [late 17th century].

Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of 21 primarily amorous and religious poems. Poems on love include Sir George Etherege's The Imperfect Enjoyment; To Lesbia; and To Chloris. Religious poems include an excerpt from Milton's Paradise Lost; Lamentations of Jeremiah; and a verse paraphrase of the 148th psalm; the volume also contains several elegiac poems on death, such as Temple of Death and John Pomfret's A Prospect of Death.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (58 p.) ; 20 x 15 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702174690 View

Fonds Edward Gordon Craig

Title: Fonds Edward Gordon Craig

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[Collection of 17th century poems], [1680-1700].

Title: [Collection of 17th century poems], [1680-1700].

Manuscripts, in different hands, of a collection of several dozen primarily satirical and anonymous poems, many scatological. The majority of the poems are political satires, especially concerning the abdication of King James II and the accession of King William III; other targets include Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax; religious zeal; and France. Other poems satirize women, including Barbara Villiers (afterwards Palmer), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, with reference to her affair with rope-dancer Jacob Hall; Mrs. Moseley and her link with Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley and 1st Earl of Shaftesbury; and women's conduct generally. The collection also includes a broadside printing of Packington's Pound, as well as numerous satirical songs sung to its tune.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (319 p.) ; 32 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702177391 View

White, Ignatius. Letters, 1653-1690.

Title: Letters, 1653-1690.

Consists of letters to Ignatius White, Marquis d'Albeville, and other documents, relating primarily to the Revolution of 1688 in Great Britain. The collection is made up largely of letters written to Albeville during his residence at the Hague. These letters were written by persons in England and on the continent and contain many details of current happenings. The other items in the collection are letters to Albeville from various European correspondents prior to the reign of James II and several miscellaneous documents concerning political events and the careers of Albeville and two of his brothers, Richard and Michael.

ArchivalResource: 335 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36383922 View

Prompt books and related materials from productions at the Harvard University Loeb Drama Center

Title: Prompt books and related materials from productions at the Harvard University Loeb Drama Center

Prompt books and related materials concerning productions of the Loeb Drama Center of Harvard University.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear feet (16 boxes)

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COLLECTION Of miscellancous political and other poems, as follows:-1. "Advice to a Painter, upon the Defeat of the Rebells in the West and the execution of the late Duke of Monmouth," beg. "Since by just flames the guilty Peice is lost." See Poems o...

Title: COLLECTION Of miscellancous political and other poems, as follows:- 1. "Advice to a Painter, upon the Defeat of the Rebells in the West and the execution of the late Duke of Monmouth," beg. "Since by just flames the guilty Peice is lost." See Poems o... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680. Plays and poems : manuscript, [between 1670 and 1680].

Title: Plays and poems : manuscript, [between 1670 and 1680].

Autograph manuscript, written in two different unknown hands. Contains libertine works; prose orations; political and satirical poems by Marvell, Oldham, and Rochester; and love poems by Crashaw, Etheredge and Sedley. Possibly originated as a series of separate books - each section separated by blank leaves - which was subsequently bound into a single volume. Compiled between 1670 and 1680, compiler unknown.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (418 p.) ; 21 cm.

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Edmund Poley papers, 1645-1707

Title: Edmund Poley papers 1645-1707

The papers consist of correspondence and diplomatic papers documenting aspects of English history and foreign policy between 1680 and 1705.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 6; Linear Feet: 3.25

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Sloane 1458Paper, 4to., ff. 55, XVII Century.1. Some humorous sentences, upon the different signification of words. f. 2b.2. 'Appendix jocorum quae occurrunt apud authores.' f. 3.3. Votivum Carolo, or a Welcome to his Majesty Charles the Second from ...

Title: Sloane 1458Paper, 4to., ff. 55, XVII Century.1.Some humorous sentences, upon the different signification of words. f. 2b.2.'Appendix jocorum quae occurrunt apud authores.' f. 3.3.Votivum Carolo, or a Welcome to his Majesty Charles the Second from ... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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COLLECTION Of Miscellaneous political and other verses, written in several hands, apparently all feminine. Included are:-1. Lines by [James Graham, 1st] Marquis of Montrose, written "as he was riding over the sands . . . . with his sword . . . . upo...

Title: COLLECTION Of Miscellaneous political and other verses, written in several hands, apparently all feminine. Included are:- 1. Lines by [James Graham, 1st] Marquis of Montrose, written "as he was riding over the sands . . . . with his sword . . . . upo... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Martin, Geoffrey. [Pedigree of Sir George Etherege, 1635-91, will of his sister Anne Etherege with other details relating to the Etherege family]

Title: [Pedigree of Sir George Etherege, 1635-91, will of his sister Anne Etherege with other details relating to the Etherege family] [1964]

ArchivalResource: [1 v.] genealogical tables. 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26143128 View