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Cowper, William, 1731-1800
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A volume containing 'Rousseau's Dream' by J. B. Cramer; Swiss airs and a Swiss dance; a quadrille; waltzes by Carl Maria von Weber, Balduci [sic, for Boildieu?], Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johan Nepomuka Hummel, etc.; a German drinking song; Gaelic, Tyrolese (one by Joseph Kuffner), Irish, French, Danish and German airs; marches; a pastorale by FranÒ«ois Adrien Boildieu; a harp air; gallopades; a polonaise; Hungarian melody; preludes for the harp by P. M. Meyer ('Not to be copied'); hymn-tunes (to words by Thomas Kelly, William Cowper, John Newton, Joseph Addison, Reginald Heber, etc.); Scotch airs (to words by Miss --- Drinkwater); chants by Sir J. Stepenson; a psalm-tune; a Portuguese song ('modinha'); etc.

English language compositions

The file contains poems on various subjects, including the restoration of Charles II [1660], scandalous behaviour of Mrs Price of Rhiwlas, [1779x1834], a translation of Robin Ddu's Prophesy, 1784, a copy of The Plough Boy by John O'Keefe, 1789, marriage of the Prince of Wales [1795], the French invasion, [1797], an Arthurian-style prophecy fortelling the rise of Welsh education and culture by Dr David Hughes of Ruthin school [c. 1797], copies of A Comparison by Francis Quarles and The Nosegay by William Cowper [c. 1807], lines on the tree under which William Penn made his treaty with the Indians by William Roscoe, 1813, death of Lieut. Thomas Griffith [1814], and Day by Beriah Botfield, 1821, an exercise book of John Griffith (3) of Garn containing a treatise on the lordships marcher, 1759, an exercise book containing a copy of an adventure story by Sir Bernard Burke, [1888x1919?], and a typescript composition by W.D.W. Griffith, dated 1925, about the encounter of his father, George, with Italian bandits in 1820.

Botfield, Beriah, 1807-1863

Beauties of poetry

Transcripts, entitled 'Beauties of Poetry', by Walter Davies from the works of Shakespeare, Dryden, Dr. Johnson, Cowper, etc.