The session of the critics [electronic resource] : or, the contention for the nettle. A poem. To whi...
The session of the critics [electronic resource] : or, the contention for the nettle. A poem. To which is added, a dialogue between a player and a poet. With Notes, Explanatory and Critical, after the Manner of the Learned Dr. Bentley. With the following Miscellanies, viz. I. On a Thanksgiving, which happened just before Lent. By Dean Swift. II. Rules and Directions for Behaviour at Bath. III. The Art of thriving at Bath. IV. Battle-Royal, reviv'd. A Ballad. Occasioned by Religious Controversy. V. Verses laid on Sir Cloudesly Shovel's Tomb, &c. VI. On Tate and Brady's Psalms. Vii. On a Person's pronouncing the Syllable Phra, in Euphrates, short. Viii. On a certain Arch in Oxfordshire. IX. Verses stuck on the Gate of Jesus College, Oxford, with a Piece of Cheese. X. The Receipt. XI. On Phyllis. XII. Have you not in a Chimney seen, &c. Translated. XIII. The Resolution. XIV. A Conflict on Business. XV. The Button Hole. A Riddle. XVI. A Mad Song.
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London : printed, and sold by T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row; and by the booksellers of London and Westminster, [1737]
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[1737]
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16p. ; 2°.
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London : printed, and sold by T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row; and by the booksellers of London and Westminster, [1737]
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England
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[1737]
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The session of the critics [electronic resource] : or, the contention for the nettle. A poem. To which is added, a dialogue between a player and a poet. With Notes, Explanatory and Critical, after the Manner of the Learned Dr. Bentley. With the following Miscellanies, viz. I. On a Thanksgiving, which happened just before Lent. By Dean Swift. II. Ru...
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Advertised in the London magazine, March 1737.
Braces in imprint.
Includes sixteen other short poems, probably by various authors; the attribution to Dean Swift on the titlepage as the author of one of these poems, entitled 'On a thanksgiving, which happened just before Lent', is doubtful.
Price from imprint: price One Shilling.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library....
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ESTC N22215.
Foxon, S225.
Teerink-Scouten, 953.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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