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Record ID 162837

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1768-1772. (UYLY207-1) (1768-1772, Type: Student). Page: 36

Pope's  Essay on Man

Borrowed: 1770/12/2 (Sunday). Returned: 1770/12/5 (Wednesday). Classmark: P3 . 40. Original Returned Text: Pope's Essay on man.


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Duncan Ferguson
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1379387804.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


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Alexander Pope (Male, born 1688-5-21, died 1744-5-30)
Genre: Poetry
The essay on man, Eloisa to Abelard, Verses to the memory of an unfortunate lady, Messiah a sacred eclogue, and a few other copies of Mr. Pope’s, on the most generally interesting subjects, being translated into Latin verse, with a second edition of the Essay on criticism corrected, amounting, in the whole, to near 3000 lines, the following proposals and specimen are submitted, with the greatest deference, to his literary admirers.
Classmark: P.3.40.