Jefferson made some use of Pope’s verses in his
Thoughts on English Prosody
. His quotations include the whole of the Epitaph beginning
Under this marble, or under this sill, and lines from other poems.
William Warburton, 1698-1779, Bishop of Gloucester, was an intimate friend of Pope, who, on his death in 1744, left to Warburton the properties
of all the printed works upon which he had already, or should in the future write commentaries.
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Cutt’s poetical exercises.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 145, no. 15, as above.
CUTTS,
John, Baron Cutts.
Poetical Exercises Written Upon Several Occasions. Presented, and Dedicated to Her Royal Highness, Mary Princess of Orange.
Licensed, March 23. 1686/7.
Roger L’Estrange.
London: Printed for
R. Bentley, and
S. Magnes,
1687.
First Edition. 8vo. 40 leaves.
Lowndes I, 574.
STC C7709.
Hazlitt I, 113.
Grolier Club,
Wither to Prior I, 241.
John Cutts, Baron Cutts of Gowrie, 1661-1707, a Lieutenant General in the English army, fought in a number of campaigns, including the Battle of Blenheim.
Some of his poems were published in the
Tatler
by Richard Steele, who was at one -time [punct.
sic--
Ed.] Cutts’s private secretary.
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Hudibrass.
16
s.
2. cop.
1815 Catalogue, page 146, no. 20, omitting 2 cop.
BUTLER,
Samuel.
Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the time of the Late Wars.
It is not known which edition was in Jefferson’s library. The entry is marked
missing in the contemporary working copy of the 1815 Library of Congress Catalogue, is entered in the manuscript of missing books
made at a later date, and no edition is credited to the Jefferson collection in the later catalogues, in none of which is
there an edition in small format.
Samuel Butler, 1612-1680, English poet.
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Cotton’s Virgil travestie.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 145, no. 18, as above.
[COTTON,
Charles.]
Scarronides: or, Virgile Travestie. A Mock-Poem. Being the First Book of Virgils Æneis in
English, Burlésque . . .
Imprimatur,
Roger L’estrange.
London: Printed by
E. Cotes for
Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane,
1664.
PR3369 .C3 A68 1664
First Edition. Sm. 8vo. 58 leaves, the first blank on the recto,
Brome’s woodcut device (a crowned gun with his initials) on the verso;
the references to Virgil are given in foot-notes.
Halkett and Laing V, 175 (by John Smyth of Magdalen College).
STC C6391.
Lowndes I, 533.
Hazlitt I, 102.
This edition not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Grolier Club,
Wither to Prior, I, 187.
Pforzheimer Catalogue I, 222.
Charles Cotton, 1630-1687, English poet, the friend of Izaak Walton, printed this poem anonymously in 1664. A second edition followed in
1670, and altogether six editions appeared during the lifetime of the author. The ascription to John Smyth of Magdalen College
(by á Wood and others) is erroneous. On March 2, 1663, the work was entered to Andrew Clarke, with Cotton’s name as the author:
“Entred . . . under the hands of Master Roger L’Estrange and Master Luke Fawne warden a booke or coppy intituled Scarronides
or Le Virgile Travesty, a mock poem, being the first booke of Virgill’s Eneis in English, Burlesque, by Charles Cotton, Esq
r.” (See Eyre,
Transcripts of the Stationers’ Register, II, 339.)
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