Amusements 1768-69 [Commonplace book], 1768-1769.

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Amusements 1768-69 [Commonplace book], 1768-1769.

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Manuscript, in two hands, of a collection of several dozen primarily serious poems and poetical extracts, many on moral and elegiac subjects. Titles include Hymn to adversity; On gratitude; On poverty; To Mrs Colston on the death of her only son; and An address from a mouse. The collection also includes the first three epistles of Alexander Pope's Essay on man; extracts from Thomas Gray's Elegy written in a country churchyard; Grey Blair's Grave; Oliver Goldsmith's Hermit; and John Cunningham's Contemplatist. Also in the volume are a series of moralizing prose extracts, many of them taken from the Spectator, on such subjects as anger, gratitude, the vanity of human life, and riches.

1 v. (235 p.) ; 19 x 13 cm.

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Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

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