Detail View: Women Poets of the Romantic Period: Poems on several occasions

Women Poets of the Romantic Period

Poems on several occasions

Barber, Mary

ca. 1685-1755

Barber, Mary, approximately 1685-1755

Poets

Language material

1734

1734

Monograph/item

England--London

Printed for C. Rivington

English

electronic

application/pdf

xlviii, 283, [7] p. ; 30 cm

reformatted digital

To The Hon. Miss Carteret, Now Countetss of Dyfert 1 -- The Widow Gordon's Petition -- Written In the Conclusion of a Letter to Mr. Tickell, Entreating Him to Recommend the Widow Gordon's Petition -- A True Tale -- Written For My Son, And Spoken by Him at His First Putting on Breeches -- An Unanswerable Apology for The Rich -- Written For My Son and Spoken by Him at School to Some of The Fellows of The College of Dublin, At the Publick Examination for Victors -- The Prodigy. A Letter to A Friend in The Country -- Sincerity. A Poem. Occasioned By a Friend's Resenting Some Advice I Gave -- To Dr. Richard Helsham Upon My Recovery from A Dangerous Fit of Sickness -- To Mrs. ___ -- To The Right Honourable the Lady Dowager Torrington, With Some Verses Her Ladyship Commanded Me to Send Her -- Written For My Son, And Spoken by Him in School, Upon His Master's First Bringing in A Rod -- Occasuibed By Seeing Some Verses Written by Mrs. Constantina Grierson, Upon the Death of Her Son -- To The Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Brownlow, Upon Desiring Me to Send Her Some of My Poems -- The Resolution -- Written For My Son I N His Sickness, To One of His School Fellows -- To The Right Houourable the Lady Barbara North, Occasion'd by Some of The Company's Saying They Would Go to Faint-Fair, And Act a Play -- Upon Seeing a Raffle for Addison's Works Unfilled -- To A Lady at Bath -- The Oak and Its Branches. A Fable. -- An Apology Written for My Son to His Master, Who Had Commanded Him to Write Verses on The Death of The Late Lord ____ -- Written For a Gentlewoman in Distress. To Her Grace Adelida, Dutchess of Shrewsbury -- Written For My Son, To Some of The Fellows of The College, Who Took Care of The School in His Master's Absence -- A Letter Written for My Daughter, To A Lady Who Had Presented Her with A Cap -- To His Grace the Duke of Chandos -- The Conclusion of a Letter to The Rev. Mr. C___ -- Jupiter And Fortune, A Fable -- To The Right Honourable the Lady Sarah Cowper -- A Letter to A Friend, On Occasion of Some Libels Written Against Him -- A Hymn to Sleep. Written When the Author Was Sick -- On Sending My Son, As A Present, To Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, On His Birth-Day -- Occasioned By Reading the Memoirs of Anne of Austria on The Dutchess of Newcastle's Picture -- A Letter for My Son to One of His Schoolfellows, Son to Henry Rofe, Esq. -- To A Gentleman, Who Had Abus'd Waller -- Written For My Son, In A Bible Which Was Presented to Him -- To Mr. Rofe, Sent in The Name of The Honourable Mr. Barry, One of His Schoolfellows -- Written For My Son, To Mr. Barry; Occasion'd by The Foregoing Verses. -- Upon My Son's Speaking Latin in School to Less Advantage Than English: Written as From a School Fellow. By Mrs. Grierson -- An Apology Written for My Son to The Reverend Mr. Sampson, Who Had Invited Some Friends to Celebrate Lord Carteret's Birth-Day -- Apology To Dr. Clayton, Bishop of Killala and His Lady, Who Had Promis'd to Dine with The Author -- Written For My Son, Upon Lady Santry's Coming to School, So See Her Son, And Getting the Scholars A Play-Day -- Written For My Son to His Master, On the Anniversary of The Battle of The Boyne -- An Apology for My Son to His Master, For Not Bringing an Exercise on The Coronation Day -- Written From Dublin to A Lady in The Country -- Sent As from A Schoolfellow to My Son, Anno 1727 -- Apollo's Edict -- News From St. James's -- To A Lady Who Was Libell'd -- To The Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Germain, Upon Seeing Her Do a Generous Action--- Epilogue To a Comedy Acted at Bath -- The Humble Petition of The Little Jemmy Pen -- To The Honourable Mrs. Percival -- Written At Bath to A Young Lady Who Had Just Before -- Given Me A Short Answer -- Stella And Flavia -- A Letter Written for My Son to A Young Gentleman, Who Was Sent to Be Educated at The Jesuits College in Flanders -- To Mrs. S___. Written In My Sickness -- To A Lady, Who Invited the Author into The Country -- To His Excellence the Lord Carteret. Occasion'd By Seeing a Poem, Intitled, The Birth of Manly Virtue -- To The Honourable Mrs. Percival, On Her Desisting from The Bermudan Project. By Mrs. Grierson -- To Mrs. Newans, Encouraging Her to Draw Lady Killmorey's Picture -- To The Reverend Dr. L___. Occasion'd By His Sermon for The Support of The Charity-Children -- An Epigram on The Same Occasion -- An Epitaph on The Late Lord Mac-Cashel -- Written At Dr. Mead's House in Ormond-Street, To Mrs. Mead -- Written Upon the Rocks at Tunbridge, On Seeing the Names of Several Persons Written There -- A Letter Written from London to Mrs. Strangeways Horner, -- To Mrs. Frances-Arabella Kelly -- The Recantation: To the Same Lady -- To The Honourable Mrs. Percival, With Hutcheson's -- Treatise On Beauty and Order. By Mrs. Grierson -- To Mrs. Caesar, At the Speaker's Lodgings at Bath -- To The Right Honourable John Early of Orrery, At Bath, After the Death of The Late Earl -- The Earl's Answer, Written Extempore -- Reply To the Foregoing Verses -- On Leaving Bath -- An Epigram on The Battle of The Books -- Written At Camberwell, Near London, In the Study of Mr. Wainwright, Now Baron of The Exchequer in Ireland, Where the Author Accidentally Din'd Alone -- To Mrs. Putland Occasion'd by Seeing the Honourable ____ ____ Treat A Person of Merit with Insolence Who Came to Make a Request to Her -- To The Right Honourable the Lady Kilmorey, With A Letter, Which Was Written by The Lady Roydon, Of the Kingdom of Ireland, Just Before Her Death -- To Dr. Mead, On His Cape Wine -- To The Right Honourable the Early of Orrery, On His Promise to Sup with Me -- To Mr. Pope: Intreating Him to Write Verses to The Memory of Thomas, Late Earl of Thanet -- To Mrs. Anne Donnellan, With the Fourth Essay on Man -- Written For My Son, And Spoken Bt Him, At A Public Examination for Victors -- To Mrs. Armine Cartwright, At Bath -- To The Right Honourable the Earl of Thomond, At Bath, Who Charg'd the Author with Making an Irish Bull -- To Mrs. Strangeways Horner, With A Letter from My Son; Wherein He Desires Me to Accept His First Prize of Learning, Conferr'd on Him by The University of Dublin on Imagining a Friend Had Treated the Author with Indifference --To The Right Honourable Charlotte Lady Conway, On Her Resolving to Leave Bath -- An Invitation to Edward Walpole, Esq; Upon Hearing He Was Landed in Dublin -- To The Reverend Mr. Mabell, Of Cambridge, Who Has Publish'd Proposals for A Translation of Longinus. By William Ward, Esq. -- To The Right Honourable the Earl of Orrery, In Dublin: Upon Receiving an Account from Mrs. Barber, Of His Lordship's Great Generosity to Her. By William Ward, Esq. -- To Mrs. Ward. By William Ward, Esq. -- Written At Tunbridge-Wells, Where the Author Had, The Year Before, Been Honour'd with The Acquaintanceof Mrs. Strangeways Horner, Who, After, Went Abroad on Account of Her Health -- To Novella, On Her Saying Deridingly, That A Lady of Great Merit, And Fine Address, Was Bred in The Old Way -- The Speech of Cupid, Upon Seeing Himself Painted by The Honourable Miss Carteret (Now Countess of Dysert) On A Fan -- To The Honourable Mrs. Spencer, On Her Removing from Windsor to Rookly in Hampshire --To A Gentleman, Who Shew'd a Fine Poem as His Own -- To The Right Honourable John Barber, Esq, Lord Mayor of London, On Committing One of My Sons to His Care -- Spoken Extempore, To the Right Honourable the Lady Barbara North, On Her Presenting the Author with A White Ribband at Tunbridge-Wells. -- To His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, At the Camp Before Philipsburg -- By A Person Of Quality -- Verses Occasion'd by The Sickness of Mrs. Anne Donnellan -- An Epigram -- On Seeing an Officer's Widow Distracted, Who Had Been Driven to Despair, By A Long and Fruitless Sollicitation for The Arrears of Her Pension -- To Mrs. Mary Caesar, Upon Seeing Her Just After the Marriage of Her Friend, The Lady Margaret Harley to Sophronia -- Advice To the Ladies at Bath. Written By a Lady -- To A Gentleman, Who Took a Very Grave Friend of His, To Visit One of Quite a Different Turn -- To A Lady, Who Valu'd Herself on Speaking Her Mind in A Blunt Manner, Which She Call'd Being Sincere -- Prologue To Theodosius: Spoken by Athenais at Theatre in Dublin, When Lord and Lady Carteret Were in Ireland Written by Mrs. Grierson -- A Letter to Mrs. Barber, At Tunbrige-Wells by Constantine Barber -- To The Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Boyle, Daughter to The Right Honourable John Earl of Orrery, On Her Birth-Day May 7, 1733. By Constantine Barber -- To Mrs. Frances-Arabella Kelly, With A Present of Fruit by Constantine Barber -- Verses Ty'd About a Fawn's Neck, Which Was Presented to A Very Young Lady, Call'd Be Her Friends the Ivory Maid. By Constantine Barber -- To Mrs. Barber. By Constantine Barber -- An Apology to The Earl of Orrery, Dr. Swift, And Some Others of My Friends, For Falling into Tears Before Them, On My Leaving Ireland -- The Peacock. A Tale. -- To A Lady in The Spleen, Whom the Author Was Desir'd Amuse -- On The Earl of Oxford and Mortimer's Giving His Daughter in Marriage in Oxford-Chapel -- To Her Grace the Dutchess of Portland, With the Foregoing Lines -- Verses Written by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, On Her Drawing the Lord Boyle's Picture -- Lord Boyle's Answer to The Foregoing Verses -- To Robert Barber Esq; Deputy to The Treasurer's Remembrancer in The Court of Exchequer, On His Attending, Whilst His Son Repeated Gay's Fable of The Hare and Many Friends -- Verses Sent to A Lady, Who Took Delight in Ridiculing a Person of Very Weak Understanding, Whom She Reliev'd from Want -- To Lady H___ ____, Who Ask'd Had the Author Done Writing Verses -- On Seeing the Captives, Lately Redeem'd from Barbary by His Majesty -- To A Lady, Who Commanded Me to Send Her an Account in Verse, How I Succeeded in My Subscription

Dedication signed: Mary Barber

[Mary Barber]

Statement of responsibility

Head and tail pieces, initials

Includes index

With a letter from Jonathan Swift to Lord Orrery, prefixed; and laudatory verse to the author, by Constantia Grierson

Citation : Not in Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women; multiple copies in Worldcat.

Poetry

http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423828

WPRP 352

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