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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

Rowe, Richard, fl. 1797. Calligraphy exercise book, 1797.

Title: Calligraphy exercise book, 1797.

Manuscript exercise book of calligraphic writing kept by Richard Rowe in 1797. Writing is in pen and brown ink throughout. Rowe employs a number of different styles of script, with multiple styles employed on most pages. Calligraphic embellishments frame many of the pages of text, and some of the calligraphy weaves in subtle representations of faces or animals. On a number of pages the author signs his name, "Richard Rowe scripsit", and he occasionally notes dates, ranging from 21 September to 25 October, 1797. The texts all appear to be copied from published works intended for the moral improvement of youth. They include a number of excerpts from William de Britaine, as well as short extracts from Thomas Dilworth's A new guide to the English tongue, Alexander Pope's An essay on criticism, John Pomfret's Upon the divine attributes, John Dryden's Aureng-Zebe, John Gay's Fables, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (24 p.) : ill. ; 21 x 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702185586 View

Pomfret, John, 1667-1702. The choice : [poem] / by John Pomfret.

Title: The choice : [poem] / by John Pomfret.

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Pomfret, John, 1667-1702. Poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1775.

Title: Poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1775.

M.a.165 contains mainly extracts from Pope, including the whole of "The Rape of the Lock," but also some other extracts. Bound in are two printed books, De-La-Cour's A prospect on poetry, 1734, and Pope's An essay on criticism, 1709, cataloged separately. M.a.166 contains, as its binder's title states, a number of pieces by John Pomfret, also many by other persons, mostly not identified, but including some by Pope. The date is wholly conjectural; the extracts are almost entirely from 18th century works, the latest being Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands, first published in 1775.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; 23 x 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/667626506 View

Pomfret, John, 1667-1702. A satyr on the justices wch were sent out off commission by King James 2 : manuscript, [not before 1700].

Title: A satyr on the justices wch were sent out off commission by King James 2 : manuscript, [not before 1700].

Unsigned English manuscript of three poems, the first being a satire of unknown authorship dated 1688 and directed at Justices of the Peace Sir John Napier, Sir Francis Wingate, Justice Snagg, Justice Bedford, and P---M, sent out of commission by King James II, the second a copy of John Pomfret's popular poem of 1700 entitled "The choice," and the third an untitled anonymous parody of Pomfret's "The choice." Includes a prefatory inscription, probably by Sir Francis Palgrave, dated 1842 and signed "F. Palgrave."

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (16 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58758738 View