Commonplace book : autograph manuscript, circa 1818

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Volume: 3 Identifier: MS Hyde 35, (5)

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Commonplace book : autograph manuscript, circa 1818

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Poems transcribed by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi ca. 1818, mostly attributed to other authors or unattributed.

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Many of the unattributed pieces are clearly by Piozzi, particularly those addressed to her daughters Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith; Sophia Thrale Hoare; Cecilia Thrale Mostyn; and Susanna Arabella Thrale. Page 50. Stanzas by Voltaire, in French with three translations, [Balderston, 324-328]. Included are:

  • Page 1. Invocation to Venus, addressed to Sophia Thrale
  • Page 6. Scena nel opera di Guilio Cesare, in Italian, with translation by Charles Burney
  • Page 8. The Prior of St. Catherine’s Rev’d John Newton on a lady who lisp’d and stammer’d
  • Page 9. Lines addressed to Miss Susan Thrale written in a fortune-telling book
  • Page 10. Stanzas written among the ruins of Denbigh Castle [Balderston, 898-899]
  • Page 14. On seeing a portrait of Gen’l Dumourier drawn by Sophia Thrale
  • Page 16. To Mrs. Thrale upon the arrival of her present of a gold-headed cane immediately after a severe fit of sickness
  • Page 18. On seeing a drawing by Sophia Thrale of the market of love
  • Page 19. Inscription for a hermitage
  • Page 20. On being asked to make 20 lines impromptu on Lady G___n’s assembly ten minutes before dinner [Balderston, 554-555]
  • Page 21. To Mrs. Thrale
  • Page 22. An old English poem, no name annexed to it
  • Page 23. Invitation
  • Page 24. Lines addressed to Miss Susan Thrale on her accusing the authour of indolence
  • Page 26. On the death of a British officer, by Mr. Sheridan
  • Page 30. Epigram
  • Page 31. Lines to Mr. Cambridge, with his pencil which he had left at Streatham [Balderston, 557]
  • Page 32. Love and reason, or, the amende honorable!
  • Page 33. Parody of Hamlet’s soliloquy written in the bookseller’s shop at Brighthelmstone
  • Page 38. Sur l’ecriture, in French
    Page 39. Written on a lady’s fan
  • Page 40. Epigramme, in French
  • Page 41. To Mrs. Thrale, in her presenting the authour with a gold pen [Balderston, 216]
  • Page 43. Translated from Metastasio
  • Page 44. The three black crows [Balderston, 592-593]
  • Page 47. Il dono delle tu sorelle alla spoza, alle Misses Thrale e Mrs. Mostyn, in Italian
  • Page 48. On a lady whose lip was stung by a wasp which she bit in two
  • Page 50. Stanzas by Voltaire, in French with three translations, [Balderston, 324-328]
  • Page 61. 69: epigram of martial, Book 1, in Latin with translation
  • Page 62. Improviso lines written between eleven and twelve o’clock, 1794 Dec. 31 [Balderston, 905-906]
  • Page 63. Answer to the above
  • Page 65. Lines addressed to Miss Sophia Thrale
  • Page 66. Letter in verse
  • Page 71. Translated from the Italian
  • Page 72. On a lady’s mole
  • Page 74. Epitaph, on Fitzpatrick
  • Page 75. Il giudizio alle Signore Thrale, in Italian
  • Page 76. Untitled poem in Italian, with English imitation
  • Page 78. The invention of the kiss, addressed to Louisa Crofton
  • Page 79. Epigramme, in French, with English imitation
  • Page 80. Romances a Esterucha por el Dia de su feliz Nacimento, in Italian with translation
  • Page 82. Enigma
  • Page 84. Four untitled lines [from Martial] in Latin, with six translations
  • Page 86. Lines addressed to Miss Susan Thrale
  • Page 87. Adriano, in Italian, with translation
  • Page 88. Written during a violent storm, 1788 Dec.
  • Page 90. Epitaph
  • Page 91. Epigramme, in French, with translation
  • Page 91. Inscription for a cold bath
  • Page 91. Improviso lines
  • Page 92. On hearing a lady express some uneasiness that a tree, planted on the day of her birth, was blown down by the wind
  • Page 94. A song, descriptive of love, by Mrs. Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Previously listed as Mrs. Barbauld
  • Page 97. Lines addressed to Elizabeth Armistead, previousle listed as Mrs. Armistead, by Charles Fox
  • Page 98. La plus belle, in French
  • Page 99. Lines address’d to a young lady on her writing the author a good night
  • Page 100. The husband’s apology to his wife
  • Page 101. Epigram on the Emperor’s repayment of the British loan
  • Page 102. Lines addressed to Sophia Thrale with a present of a padlock, heart, key, and chain
  • Page 103. Lines by R.B. Sheridan Esq. to the memory of the late Mrs. S., by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Page 104. Chanson, amoureux, in French
  • Page 105. To a lady, upon hearing her express a certainty of dying unmarried
  • Page 106. Extempore on being desir’d to write some lines on a tulip
  • Page 107. Epigram, by Charles Fox
  • Page 107. On the death of an infant
  • Page 107a. A simile
  • Page 108. From a gentleman to his wife, who reproached him for being inconstant
  • Page 109. Addressed to a lady
  • Page 110. From the Begum of Oude, to the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, after the manner of Shenstone
  • Page 112. Inscription for the apartment in Chepston Castle, where H. Marten the regicide was imprisoned thirty years, with a parody
  • Page 114. The adieu
  • Page 115. Lines by William Spencer, Esq.
  • Page 116. Lines addressed to Miss Mary Bouverie, on her claiming payments and arrears upon verses due to her on her birth-day last past, from a revenue officer
  • Page 118. Epitaph on an unfortunate young lady, who died of a consumption
  • Page 119. Chanson, in French
  • Page 120. A party to Richmond
  • Page 124. Orders to my porter
  • Page 126. Inscription over a cottage door in Gwannonog Woods near Denbigh, N.W.
  • Page 127. The embarrassment
  • Page 128. Le plaisir des rois, et le roi des plaisirs, in French
  • Page 131. On hearing a lady play divinely on the harp
  • Page 132. A riddle, by Hester Lynch Piozzi
  • Page 134. The fracas
  • Page 138. Epitaph on Duke Hamilton
  • Page 140. On the termination of the campaign in 1795
  • Page 140. Addressed to the French nation
  • Page 141. Paraphrase of the fifty-fourth ode of Anacreon, written at Harrowgate
  • Page 142. Lines written by a lady
  • Page 144. On Sir George Rodney…
  • Page 145. Occasional epilogue to the tragedy of the gamester
  • Page 148. Sent to a young lady, with a pair gloves, by an elderly gentleman of the name of Page
  • Page 149. To Misses Susabel and Sophia
  • Page 158. On a lady, with answer
  • Page 159. Sent by a youth of the York Party, to his mistress of the Lancastrian, with a white rose
  • Page 159. Vers ecrits sous un portrait de Madme. la Comtesse de Charolois, qui s’etoit fait peindre en habit de Cordelier, in French
  • Page 160. A description of the Harrowgate ordinary
  • Page 163. On a lady refusing to dine in company from having a blood-shot eye
  • Page 163. Enigme, in French
  • Page 164. Madame la Marechale de Luxembourg…, in French
  • Page 166. By Mr. Erskine who was taken ill, when dancing with Lady Payne
  • Page 166. Addressed to Sophia Thrale
  • Page 167. To Shenstone’s shade, with three verses in French
  • Page 171. Lord North and the Right Hon. Charles James Fox
  • Page 172. A caution
  • Page 175. A ninon de l’enclos, in French, with response in French
  • Page 178. Beth Gilert, or, the grave of the grey-hound (ballad written in 1800 by William Robert Spencer, taken from a traditional story from Wales)
  • Page 185. Epitaph on a beautiful youth who died of love
  • Page 186. To the lily of the valley
  • Page 189. The renovating elixir…, epigram in French with translation by Piozzi
  • Page 190. Letter in verse, from Piozzi to Sophia Thrale
  • Page 192. Jeu d’esprit, upon a patient and his physician
  • Page 194. The nursing of true love, by William Spencer
  • Page 197. A dialogue between Lord G___y and Mr. H___d
  • Page 204. Lines addressed to a lady
  • Page 205. Verses written under a portrait or print of Mr. E___
  • Page 206. Verses addressed to the three Miss Thrales, on their leaving Lowestoffe Dec. 18th
  • Page 208. Written in a mixed company on twelfth night, 1797
  • Page 209. Translated a l’improviso, by Piozzi
  • Page 210. Elegy on Mrs. Bowes, who died three months after her marriage, by Lady M.W. Montague
  • Page 211. On saving a lady from a fall
  • Page 212. By Miss Trefusis, addressed to her own picture, painted by Shelley for Miss Bickerton
  • Page 213. Lines addressed to Miss Trefusis
  • Page 214. Lines addressed to Mrs. Piozzi by Helen Maria Williams on being confined to her room at Streatham Park by illness, 1797 Jan. 1
  • Page 216. Verses on an idiot’s grave
  • Page 218. Powell
  • Page 219. To a friend, who in some complimentary verses, had placed Miss Trefusis amongst the muses, by Elizabeth Trefusis [Balderston, 850]
  • Page 220. Seditious ballad, 1794 [Balderston, 900-901]
  • Page 223. Antidote to the foregoing seditious ballad, by Piozzi, 1794 [Balderston, 901-902]
  • Page 226. A sonnet to hope
  • Page 227. Improviso lines to Sophia Thrale
  • Page 228. Characters of the portraits painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds hung round the library at Streatham [Balderston, 470-476]
  • Page 240. Verses by Mr. Sheridan, with answer
  • Page 243. Upon Mrs. Crewe, by Charles J. Fox, 1775
  • Page 244. Verses by Elizabeth Trefusis
  • Page 245. Melancholy reflection
  • Page 246. On lost affection
  • Page 247. By Genl. F___ick
  • Page 248. An invocation to love
  • Page 249. On an action between two Jews for slander…
  • Page 250. After supper conversation, 1803 Oct. 31 (includes Nothing by George Henry Glasse) [Balderston, 1046-1047]
  • Page 253. Lines written by the Princess Amelia
  • Page 254. Verses to Sophia Thrale from Prestatyn, by Piozzi, 1804 Sept. 20
  • Page 256. On Madame de Stael
  • Page 257. Love will find out the way
  • Page 259. The two Herveys
  • Page 260. Impromptu lines by Mr. Thomas Moore a few days previous to his departure from Philadelphia…
  • Page 262. Epigram by Garrick, on being accused by Dr. Hill of altering the letter U to the letter I in pronouncing nature
  • Page 263. By Barbarina Wilmot, previously listed as Mrs. Wilmot, addressed to Mr. Mathias with her translations from Petrarch
  • Page 264. Lines addressed to a lady
  • Page 266. Verses by Piozzi
  • Page 268. Verses by Piozzi
  • Page 269. Lines spoken after a play acted at the Marquis of Abercorn’s
  • Page 270. These following lines have erroneously been given to various authors, but it is unquestionably the production of Mr. Mason, whose lady died of a consumption at Bristol Hotwells
  • Page 272. To Sophia Thrale on her having produced a dissertation alluding to the amours of plants
  • Page 274. Lines from Pietro Metastasio, in Italian, with translation
  • Page 275. A ballad on Lord Nelson’s victory and death, by Piozzi
  • Page 276. Le tems, in French, with imitation by Piozzi in English [imitation in Balderston, 1073-1074]
  • Page 280. Malherbe’s epitaph sur un octogenaire, in French, with imitation in English by Piozzi
  • Page 282. Canzone di Petrarca, in Italian, with translation by Barbarina Wilmot, previously listed as Mrs. Wilmot
  • Page 302. Impromptu lines on hearing Sarah Siddons, previously listed as Mrs. Siddons read Milton, by Sir William Weller Pepys
  • Page 303. Verses written in Cecilia Thrale Mostyn’s, previously listed as Mrs. Mostyn’s album
  • Page 304. Dialogue entre Buonaparte et l’echo, 1813, in French
  • Page 305. Dialogo fra Buonaparte e l’echo, by Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith
  • Page 306. A dialogue between Buonaparte and Echo, by Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith
  • Page 307. Nuptial repartee
  • Page 308. The frolic
  • Page 310. The death of the minuet
  • Page 317. Lines by a gentleman to a lady, who while playing at chess with him, talked so much to him, that he lost his queen
  • Page 318. Lines given to Sophia Thrale at a masquerade
  • Page 320. Incantation of the witches to raise the phantom, 1789 Jan.
  • Page 323. Lady S. to her husband
  • Page 324. A collection of epigrams on a certain prelate, very profitably, though not very episcopally engaged over a certain card-table at Brighton
  • Page 326. On a tear, by Lord Byron, 1815
  • Page 327. A celebrated character
  • Page 328. Le coeur national, le brave et bon Henri, et Louis 18, in French
  • Page 330. On Canova’s statue (in the Church of Santa Croce at Florence) being loaded with drapery, in Italian
  • Page 331. Untitled, by Miss K. Fanshaw
  • Page 334. Lady Byron’s answer to her lord’s ‘Farewell’
  • Page 336. Extempore by a gentleman in a party of ladies whose names all began with B
  • Page 337. Untitled, by Piozzi
  • Page 338. Epigram on Mr. Southey’s poem of Roderick, King of the Goths
  • Page 339. Answer to the author of the preceding lines, by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (1787-1871)
  • Page 340. By a beautiful youth who drowned himself for love
  • Page 341. Hymn sung at Bromhill, Wilts., on the funeral of the Princess Charlotte, by the Rev. L.W. Boules [not before 1817 Nov. 7]

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