Commonplace book, [1803 or later].

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Commonplace book, [1803 or later].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702176624

Autograph manuscript collection primarily of elegies, love poems, and occasional verses by various authors, with some patriotic and religious verse. "The Year of Sorrow" and others by William R. Spencer; several poems by William Cowper, Samuel Rogers, Richard B. Sheridan, Robert Southey and Horace Walpole; several verses related to and/or composed at Crewe Hall; some attributed to Colman, David Garrick, Gray, Col. Grenville, Moore, Wordsworth, and others; translated excerpts from Pindar and Euripides. A few riddles, rebuses, and short comic verses. Several verses attributable to Charles Burney (1757-1817).

1 v. (369 p.) ; 24 x 20 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8024877

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Burney, Charles, 1757-1817

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