Commonplace book, 1770-1818.

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Commonplace book, 1770-1818.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702181595

Comonplace book in a single hand kept by the Rev. Francis Negus and containing mostly English literary excerpts in verse and prose. Poets quoted include Milton, Shakespeare, Cowley, Dryden, Rowe, Prior, Akenside and Arne; prose authors include Gibbon, Lyttelton, Sterne, and a variety of sermon authors. The volume also contains some occasional verses attributed to friends of Negus; a supposedly unpublished remark by Samuel Johnson; and a satirical verse on the second marriage of Hester Thrale Piozzi. A few entries at the end of the volume are in a later hand and are accompanied by a few newspaper clippings and printed items.

1 v. (108 p., many blanks) ; 24 x 19 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8026050

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821

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Hester Lynch Thrale (born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage, Hester Lynch Piozzi ) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century life. From the description of Autograph poem, unsigned, an adaptation of Francis Fawkes's "An Autumnal Ode, " no date [paper watermarked 1813]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864928 From the description of...

Negus, Francis Colman, 1744-1818.

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Francis Colman Negus (1744-1818) was the son of the attorney Daniel Negus and Elizabeth Colman of Suffolk. Educated at Bury St. Edmunds grammar school and Cambridge University, he was rector of Brome and Oakley in Suffolk for many years. From the description of Commonplace book, 1770-1818. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702181595 ...

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...