The Battle of the Quills [T104598] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 1096
- Publication Date:
- 1768
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T104598
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CHECK
- Shelfmark:
- BL - ECCO
- Full Title:
- THE | BATTLE of the QUILLS: | OR, | WILKES Attacked and Defended. | AN | IMPARTIAL SELECTION | Of all the most | INTERESTING PIECES, | Argumentative, Declamatory, and Humourous, | IN | PROSE and VERSE, | Relative to | JOHN WILKES, Esq; | Written by his Adversaries, his Partisans, and Himself, | From the Time of | His declaring himself a Candidate to represent the City | of LONDON in PARLIAMENT to his being elected | Knight of the Shire for the County of MIDDLESEX. | To which is prefixed, | An Account of the Nature of OUTLAWRY. | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed for J. WILLIAMS, at No. 38, in Fleet-street. | [rule] | M.DCC.LXVIII. [Price 1s. 6d.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Political miscellany and Collection including prose
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- 1s 6d
- Pagination:
- vi, 74pp. CHECK
- Publisher:
- J Williams
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- With longing look and faltering speech
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- Wilkes and Liberty
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come all ye good friends to your country's cause
- Page No:
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- Wilkes and Freedom: A New Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hear liberty waving her cap to us call
- Page No:
- p.7
- Poem Title:
- For Wilkes and our Country.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye joiners of England and joiners of France
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- The Joiners Joined; Or, Jack Gimlet, the Joiner, Triumphant.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come all ye brave boys who obey Wilkes's nod
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- A New Ballad composed by Squire Buckhorse in honour of Squire Wilkes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O sacred walls while in your midnight gloom
- Page No:
- pp.34-35
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Oscar.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Droop not my son thy laurels cannot fade
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- Britannia to John Wilkes, Esq.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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