ID18624
CollectionMrs Frances Woodman, poetry
Collection DescriptionFair copies of poetry and hymns made by Frances Woodman, no indication as to their authorship. There is a pencilled name 'Mrs ?Price' on the first flyleaf.
Collection Web Addresshttps://manuscripts.catalogue.tcd.ie/CalmView/
ReferenceTCD MS 11366
Description

Titles as follows: To a Virgin; A Hymn for the Morning; A Hymn for the Evening; An Evening Hymn; A Hymn before the Sacram[en]t; A Hymn after the Sacram[en]t; A Hymn on Death; A Hymn on the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour; A Hymn on the Vanity of this World; An Evening Hymn; A Hymn for Christmas Day; A Hymn in Sickness; An Ode in Praise of Humane Life; An Ode in Dispraise of Humane Life; A Meditation upon Death; A Midnight Thought; Occasioned by the early singing of a Lark; In Answer to the Question, What is Thought?; To Women; The Old Woman's Advice to the Maids; On Cupid Stung by a Bee (4 poems); An Epitaph on One who Died for Love; An Old Man and Death in Imitation of the Fable in Aesop; An Epitaph upon Charles Poor; On the Ladies Hoops and Hatts now Worn An Epigram published in the year 1719; ... the Performance of one of the Fair Sex ... a Paraphrase on the Sacred Text Isaiah 3 C. 16V; The Dog and the Shadow Anno 1720; On Purgatory; Plato's Two Cupid's; On Humane and Divine Love; An Epitaph on a Good Woman; the Wonder of all Wonders that ever the World Wondered at. (Unrelated to the Swift work of the same name); A Dialogue Between a Man and his Wife; Upon One who was brib'd whilst he was at Prayers ... to vote contrary to his Promise; An Epitaph on One Brawn an Irishman but a Cornish Beggar (which may be ascribed to Richard Carew the author of the Survey of Cornwall (1602)); On Profane Swearing; The Cyclops' Cave (which was written by Alexander Pennicuik (1652-1722)); The Barber's Sign-Post; On a Butterfly (2 -line epigram); On a Flea (2 -line epigram); On radishes (2 -line epigram); Upon the House of Commons ... Trying Doctor Henry Sacheverell ... 1709; Another on the Same; On the Burning of the Presbyterian Pulpits ... 1709; A True copy of the Duke of Buckingham's Epitaph ...; Severall other Translations of the said Epitaph (x3); On the Martyrdom of King Charles ye 1st written by the Marquis of Montrose ... ; 'the following Copy of verses was occasioned by the Death of a poor tame Sparrow ...; On Birth (2-line epigram);On a Purse (2 -line epigram ); On a Ram (2-line epigram); On a Rotten Olive (2 -ine epigram); A Paraphrase upon the Story of Daniel 1722; Meditations; Fortunes Unconstancy; On a Herring (2 -line epigram); On Bran (2-line epigram); On Liquorish (2 -line epigram); On an Onion (2 -line epigram); On the Devil; On Physicians (2 -line epigram); Martial. Ep.37. Lib.3 (2 -line epigram); The same (2 -line epigram); 'Douce eris Felix ...' translated as 'If fortune wrap thee warm ...' (by Nathaniel Lee (d. 1690)); On Beauty and Virtue (2 -line epigram); On a Tulip (2 -line epigram); On Hail (2 -line epigram); On Lightning (2 -line epigram); On Asparagus (2 -line epigram); On the Death of his Mistress;To his Mistress; An Epitaph upon a Husband and Wife, who died both in One Day ... An index follows the main texts.

AccessBy prior appointment.
Date1725
Century18th
Keywords
Repository NameTrinity College Dublin, Manuscripts and Archives Department
AddressOld Library Dublin 2
EircodeD02 PN40
Telephone(01) 896-1189
Telephone 2(01) 896-3384
Email Addressmscripts@tcd.ie
Repository Web Addresshttps://www.tcd.ie/library/research-collections/manuscripts.php
CommentThe information listed from this repository has been extracted from lists available in the archives. The lists were compiled by staff of Trinity College, Dublin Library and we are grateful for their assistance. Due to time constraints not all items in this repository were examined individually. We are grateful to Felicity O'Mahony for providing information on items and collections added since 1999.
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longitude-6.25684