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Preface and Acknowledgment |
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Chronology |
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Note |
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General Introduction |
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From William to Anne |
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Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713) |
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From Anne to George |
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The Wellesley Manuscript |
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The Ensuing Years |
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Textual Introduction |
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The Present Edition: Contents and Editorial Procedures |
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Presentation of the Texts, Explanatory and Textual Notes |
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Account of the Texts |
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Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions |
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An Overview of the Issues Printed |
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Copy-Text |
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Textual Variation in Finch's Authorized Print Volume |
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Some Terms |
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Title-Page Variants |
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Canceled Leaves and Stop-Press Corrections |
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Errata and Heneage's Corrections |
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The Wellesley Manuscript |
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From Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions |
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Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions: The Complete List of Contents |
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The Bookseller to the Reader |
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Mercury and the Elephant. A Prefatory Fable |
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7 | (1) |
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The Mussulman's Dream of the Vizier and Dervis |
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The Shepherd Piping to the Fishes |
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11 | (2) |
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The Decision of Fortune. A Fable |
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The Brass-Pot, and Stone-Jugg. A Fable |
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15 | (2) |
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Fanscomb Barn. In Imitation of Milton |
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A Description of One of the Pieces of Tapistry at Long-Leat, Made after the Famous Cartons of Raphael; in Which, Elymas the Sorcerer Is Miraculously Struck Blind by St. Paul before Sergius Paulus, the Proconsul of Asia. Inscribed to the Honble Henry Thynne, under the Name of Theanor |
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Part of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia, a Tragedy, Written in French by Monsieur Racine |
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25 | (2) |
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The Following Lines Occasion'd by the Marriage of Edward Herbert Esquire, and Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert |
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27 | (1) |
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La Passion Vaincue. Done into English with Liberty |
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The Owl Describing Her Young Ones |
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28 | (3) |
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The Philosopher, the Young Man, and His Statue |
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The Hog, the Sheep, and Goat, Carrying to a Fair |
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The Shepherd and the Calm |
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33 | (2) |
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35 | (2) |
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37 | (1) |
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The Young Rat and His Dam, the Cock and the Cat |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (2) |
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A Tale of the Miser, and the Poet. Written about the Year 1709 |
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42 | (3) |
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Enquiry after Peace. A Fragment |
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45 | (1) |
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On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne, Younger Son to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Weymouth |
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46 | (4) |
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The Critick and the Writer of Fables |
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50 | (2) |
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An Epistle from a Gentleman to Madam Deshouliers, Returning Money She Had Lent Him at Bassette, upon the First Day of Their Acquaintance. Translated with Liberty from the French |
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To Edward Jenkinson, Esq; a Very Young Gentleman, Who Writ a Poem on Peace |
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To the Painter of an Ill-Drawn Picture of Cleone, the Honorable Mrs. Thynne |
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The Atheist and the Acorn |
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The Tradesman and the Scholar |
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58 | (2) |
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Man's Injustice towards Providence |
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60 | (2) |
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The Eagle, the Sow, and the Cat |
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62 | (2) |
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64 | (2) |
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66 | (1) |
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Fragment at Tunbridge-Wells |
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67 | (1) |
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68 | (2) |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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Fragment ("So here confin'd") |
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The Battle between the Rats and the Weazles |
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75 | (1) |
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Democritus and His Neighbours. Imitated from Fontaine |
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75 | (3) |
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78 | (3) |
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On Lady Cartret Drest Like a Shepherdess at Count Volcra's Ball |
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83 | (1) |
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The Puggs a Dialogue between an Old and Young Dutch Mastiff |
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84 | (5) |
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A Letter from Sr A. F. to Ardelia [ by Sir Andrew Fountaine] |
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The Agreeable in an Answer to the Foregoing Letter by Ardelia |
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To Flavia, by Whose Perswasion, I Undertook the Following Paraphrase |
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92 | (1) |
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To the Right Honble: the Countess of Winchilsea. On Her Obliging Compliance with My Request, to Paraphrase the Last Chapter in Eclesiastes [ by Catherine Fleming] |
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93 | (1) |
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The Last Chapter of Eclesiastes Paraphras'd. Inscribed to Mrs: Catherine Fleming |
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94 | (6) |
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To His Excellency the Lord Cartret at Stockholm. Upon Recieving from Him a Picture in Miniature of Charles the Twelth King of Sweden |
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100 | (3) |
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On the Death of the Queen |
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103 | (4) |
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Upon Lady Selena Shirly's Picture Drawn by Mr Dagar |
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107 | (1) |
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To the Right Honourable Frances Countess of Hartford Who Engaged Mr. Eusden to Write upon a Wood Enjoining Him to Mention No Tree but the Aspin and No Flower but the King-cup |
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108 | (6) |
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An Hymn of Thanksgiving after a Dangerous Fit of Sickness. In the Year 1715 |
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114 | (2) |
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116 | (2) |
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An Epistle to Mrs Catherine Fleming at Coleshill in Warwickshire but Hastily Perform'd and Not Corrected. London October the 18th: 1718 ("'Tis now my dearest") |
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118 | (3) |
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Upon an Impropable Undertaking |
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121 | (1) |
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A Letter to Mrs: Arrabella Marow |
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122 | (2) |
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Advertisement for the Gazette, Flying Post, Weekly Journal &c. |
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124 | (4) |
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128 | (1) |
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A Letter to the Honble: Lady Worseley at Long-Leat. Lewston August the 10th: 1704 |
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129 | (1) |
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A Ballad to Mrs: Catherine Fleming in London from Malshanger Farm in Hampshire ("From me who whileom") |
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130 | (4) |
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After Drawing a Twelf Cake at the Honble: Mrs Thynne's |
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134 | (1) |
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The White Mouses Petition to Lamira the Right Honble: the Lady Ann Tufton Now Countess of Salisbury |
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135 | (1) |
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To the Honble. Mrs. H --- n ("Where is the trust") |
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136 | (3) |
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139 | (1) |
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139 | (1) |
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To the Right Honble: Ann Countess of Winchilsea Occasion'd by Four Verses in the Rape of the Lock [ by Alexander Pope] |
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140 | (1) |
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To Mr Pope in Answer to a Coppy of Verses, Occasion'd by a Little Dispute, upon Four Lines in the Rape of the Lock |
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141 | (1) |
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An Apology for My Fearfull Temper in a Letter in Burlesque upon the Firing of My Chimney at Wye College March 25th: 1702 |
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142 | (3) |
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These Verses Were Inserted in a Letter to the Right Honble: the Lady Vicountess Weymouth Written from Lewston the Next Day after My Parting with Her at Long Leat |
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On My Being Charged with Writing a Lampoon at Tunbridge |
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146 | (2) |
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To the Lord March upon the Death of His Sparrow |
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To a Lady Who Having Desired Me to Compose Somthing upon the Foregoing Subject Prevail'd with Me to Speak the Four First Lines Extempore and Wou'd Have Had Me So Proceeded in the Rest Which I Sent to Her at More Leasure, with the Following Verses |
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Under the Picture of Sr George Rooke |
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150 | (1) |
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Under the Picture of Mr John Dryden |
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150 | (1) |
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Under the Picture of Marshall Turenne Taken from His Epitaph Written in French |
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150 | (1) |
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Over the Picture of Major Pownoll |
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150 | (1) |
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Mary Magdalen at Our Saviour's Tomb a Fragment |
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151 | (1) |
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Moderation or the Wolves and the Sheep. A Fable |
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151 | (2) |
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To the Rt. Honble. the Ld Viscount Hatton &c. |
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153 | (2) |
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A Suplication for the Joys of Heaven |
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155 | (3) |
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From St. Austin's Manual English'd by Roger's Chapter the 3d: The Desire of That Soul Which Hath a Feeling of God |
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158 | (2) |
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The Happynesse of a Departed Soul |
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160 | (2) |
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162 | (1) |
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The Following Poem Is Taken from the Epistle for the Monday before Easter |
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To the Right Honble: the Lord Viscount Hatton by Way of Excuse for My Having Not in Sometime Replied to His Last Copy of Verses in Which He Gives Himself the Name of Corydon Not Approved by Me Who in This Poem Offer at an Imitation of Madame Deshouliers in Her Way of Badinage |
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165 | (3) |
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A Tale ("Over a cheerfull") |
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168 | (7) |
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175 | (2) |
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Occasion'd by the Death of Collonel Baggot, Who Had Been Groom of the Bedchamber to King James, Together with Collonel Finch (Now Earl of Winchilsea) and Captain Lloyd &c. |
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On These Words. --- For as Much as Ye Did It unto the Least of These My Brethren Ye Did It unto Me |
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178 | (3) |
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On These Words Thou Hast Hedg'd in My Way with Thorns |
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181 | (7) |
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188 | (1) |
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An Ode Written upon Christmasse Eve in the Year 1714 upon These Words And Again They Said Alleluia. Inscribed to the Rt: Honble. the Lady Catherine Jones |
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189 | (5) |
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Written after a Violent and Dangerous Fitt of Sicknesse in the Year 1715 |
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194 | (3) |
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197 | (1) |
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199 | (1) |
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200 | (5) |
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205 | (302) |
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An Invocation to the Southern Winds Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Winchelsea at His Arrival in London, after Having Been Long Detained on the Coast of Holland |
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207 | (4) |
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The Tunbridge Prodigy ("Protect our State, and let our Marlbro' Thrive") |
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211 | (2) |
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The Prodigy ("Protect the State and let old England thrive") |
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213 | (2) |
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The Nightingale, and the Cuckoo |
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215 | (1) |
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To Mr. Jervais on the Sight of Mrs. Chetwinds Picture |
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216 | (1) |
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An Epilogue to the Tragedy of Jane Shore. To Be Spoken by Mrs. Oldfield the Night before the Poet's Day |
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217 | (2) |
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To Mrs. Arabella Marrow upon the Death of Lady Marrow |
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219 | (1) |
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An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. Thynne, Persuading Her to Have a Statue Made of Her Youngest Daughter, Now Lady Brooke |
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219 | (2) |
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To the Countess of Hartford on Her Lord's Birth-day |
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221 | (2) |
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223 | (1) |
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A Fable ("A Man whose house") |
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223 | (1) |
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The Mastif and Curs, a Fable Inscrib'd to Mr. Pope |
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224 | (2) |
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226 | (2) |
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Upon a Double Stock-July-Flower, Full Blown in January, and Presented to Me, by the Rt: Honble. the Countesse of Ferrers, from Twittenham |
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228 | (3) |
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To Mr. Pope ("The Muse, of ev'ry heav'nly gift allow'd") |
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231 | (1) |
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A Ballad to Mrs Catherine Fleming at the Lord Digby's at Coles-hill in Warwickshire ("To Cole's-hill seat") |
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232 | (3) |
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To the Right Honourable the Countesse of Hartford ("Of sleeplesse Nights") |
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235 | (1) |
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236 | (1) |
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A Fragment of a Dessign'd Poem upon Pitty, Found in a Loose Paper Written with [ ] Own Hand |
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237 | (1) |
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On a Short Vissit Inscribd to My Lady Worsley |
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237 | (2) |
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239 | (2) |
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Explanatory and Textual Notes |
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241 | (266) |
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507 | (89) |
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A Reception and Transmission History of Finch's Work: Illustrative Cases from the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries |
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525 | (71) |
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525 | (3) |
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Discovery and Recovery: Anonymous Printing and Unprinted Poems |
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528 | (5) |
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Changing Tastes and Values |
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533 | (16) |
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Revisions and Rediscoveries in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries |
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549 | (7) |
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Selected References to and Reprintings of Finch's Works |
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556 | (1) |
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556 | (3) |
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559 | (37) |
List of Source Copies |
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596 | (4) |
Selected Bibliography |
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600 | (55) |
Index of First Lines |
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655 | (4) |
Index of Titles |
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