Item 5 - Commonplace book of Robert Pemberton Milnes

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Commonplace book of Robert Pemberton Milnes

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  • [1840s-1850s?] (Creation)

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1 vol.
1 small sheet (now in two pieces).

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Contents as listed from front: Miscellaneous sayings &c &c; Original D[itt]o; Guesses at truth; D[itt]o politic. applicab; Various lies; Professionalisms; Yorkshireisms; Puns - phrases; Riddles; Irish character; D[itt]o of other nations; Facts; Sir J[oshua] Reynolds; Milton.

Contents as listed from back: Occasional Quotations; Forsyth's Italy - D[itt]o Eustaces; L[ad]y Morgan's d[itt]o; Book of [the] Boudoir; Tom Jones - D[itt]o Joe Andrews [Joseph Andrews?]. Tristan [sic] Shandy; Spineto; Scraps in Polacca; Kemble's Saxons; Guesses at Truth - Landor; Coleridge; Dryden; D[itt]o Goldsmith; Burnet; Shakespear - conversation etc; Expressions in Shakespear; Others in &c &c; L[ord] Shaftesbury. The list of contents is incomplete after this point but includes: Burke, Pope, Swift, Bridgwater treatises; Fragments from German ? by McAster; Sapientia ; Goethe's conversation.

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      Labelled on spine in gilt 'Adversaria R.P.M. Ob. 9. Nov 1858, with small gilt sheaf stamped on front cover.

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