Miscellaneous Verses, copies of letters, etc., in various hands, collected apparently...

Miscellaneous Verses, copies of letters, etc., in various hands, collected apparently by the Duchess of Portland, into quarto common-place books, now bound together in one volume.

Included among them are:-

I. "Isabella, or The Morning. Written in June, 1743", beg. "The monkey, parrot, lapdog, and her grace" (f.1); "Clytemnestra to Sappho. An Epistle, written in Aug, 1744", beg. "Read this, and if then art not lost to shame" (f.8); "Peter and My Lord Quidam. A Satire, written in Aug. 1743", beg. "Peter I've signed and seal'd" (f.16); "A Ballad, written in June, 1743", beg. "Some think Lord Carteret bears the sway" (f.22); "A Political Eclogue", on the Worcestershire election, 1740, beg. "The Meeting o'cr" (f.23); "A Political fable", beg. "A Lyon who o'er all the plain [?1754] (f.26), "A Dialogue between Giles Erle, of Marlborough St., and George Doddington, of Pall Mall", Jan., 1740-1741, beg. "My dear Pall Mall" (f.30); "To the Earl of Bath", Sep 1743, beg. "Oh, sigh no more at your disgrace" (f.32); "To Sir Thos. Robinson on his bringing over Wards drop in 1731-2", beg. "Say, Knight, for learning most renown'd" (f.33); "To the Rev. Saml. Hill, Canon of Wells, etc., etc," Aug., 1744, beg. "Dear Muse, as you have nothing else to do" (f.34).

II. "Apologie de Madame La Touche", mistress of the Duke of Kingston, de Hague, 30 Nov., 1736 (f.37); "The Enthusiast: an Ode", in the hand of Edward 2nd Earl of Oxford, beg. "Once I remember well the day" (f.54); "On Strawberry Hill...by the Earl of Bath", beg. "Some talk of Gunnersbury" (f.63); Epitaphs in verse (f.69b); "On the Duchess of Marlborough viewing Duke Humphrey vault at St. Albans", beg. "When Sarah, led by Fancy, Hate or Scorn" (f.75)

Autobiographical notes by Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork; 23 June, 1632 (f.77); "Character of the King of Prussia", by Lord Chesterfield (f.82); Dedication of Prior's "Turtle and Sparrow" to Lady Margaret Harley (f.96); "A receipt to make a soop, from Mr. Pope to Dean Swift", beg. "Take a knuckle of Veal" (f.97); Description of the Lake of Killarney, in prose (f.101); "Verses on Mr. Pope's Garden at Twickenham in 1734", beg. "Hail, blest recess" (f.108); "An Ode upon the death of General Wolfe", beg. "Britons, the work of war is done" - "by Mr. Ekins" (f.116); "The Vicar of Bray", beg. "In good King Charles's golden days" (f.131); To the Earl of Godolphin by Dr Garth", beg. "Whilst weeping Europe" (f.140); Translation of a Latin Hymn of Pico di Mirandola, beg. "Almighty God, whose Majesty alone", endorsed by Rob. Harley, Earl of Oxford, as "transcribed by dear sister Abigail, Nov., 1721" (f.144) "Mr. Prior's verses in Lady How's Ovid's Epistles", beg. "However high, however cold the fair" (f.161); "True's Epitaph, by Prior", beg. "If wit or honesty could save" (f.164).

III. Pope's lines on "Atossa" (Moral Essays, ii. 115-150) (f.180); Letter from Naples on an eruption of Vesuvius, 24 Dec., 1760 (f.183); Elizabeth, Lady Compton, to her husband, [William, 1st Earl of Northampton, 1681], as to her household requirements [marr. 1594] (f.189); Frederic the Great to the Lord Mareschal, on his defeat at [? Kollin, 8 June, 1757] (f.192); "Contemplation, by Mr. Cowper" (f.200); "The Fireside, a Pastoral Soliloquy" (f.208); "Ode au Roy par Mr. de Veltaire", beg. "Loin de moi fasteux delire" (f.215); Rev. Edw. Young to the Duchess of Portland, with verses by Lord Melcombe, 2, 13 Jan, 1763. Autograph. (ff.228, 230); Prior's verses to Lord Harley, "Pen, ink and wax", etc., Sept., 1717, with note by Lord Harley on the subject (f.238); "Lord Bolingbroke to Clara", beg. "Dear, thoughtless Clara" (f.242); "The Dream", beg. "Twas night, when sleep", - "by Mr. Pemberton" (f.244); "The Education of Achilles. In Spencer's Stanza", beg. "Ah me! is all our pleasure" (f.274).

Quarto; ff.313.