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[BROWN ( Nicholas ) ]. The North-Country-Wedding, and the Fire

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[BROWN ( Nicholas ) ]. The North-Country-Wedding, and the Fire

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
[BROWN ( Nicholas ) ]. The North-Country-Wedding, and the Fire, two poems in blank verse. Dublin : Printed by A. Rhames, for F. Hyde, Bookseller, in Dame-Street, 1722FIRST EDITION, 16-pages, 4to, sewn into old blue paper wrappers : light staining in the blank fore-margin, but still a very good copy of a remarkably rare item. Foxon B506. ESTC, this edition only, records copies at D, Dp, O and CtY. "Nicholas Brown (c.1699-1734) was the son of Rev. Nicholas Brown, the Church of Ireland rector at Rossgarn, Co. Fermanagh, who was an Irish speaker. After a childhood spent in Co Fermanagh, Brown was sent to school in England, butnreturned to Ireland and entered Trinity College Dublin in 1716. He was ordained and became rector of Timolin in the diocese of Leighlin. He seems to have published only two poems, both when he was in his early twenties, 'The North-Country-Wedding' and 'The Fire' - a poem describing the discomforts of life in Trinity College and the consequent attractions of the nearby alehouse run by Nurse Musgrove. The two poems appeared in Dublin in 1722 and again in Matthew Concanen's 1724 'Poems by Several Hands'. The 'north-country' of the poem's tile is the area of counties Tyrone and Fermanagh." - Andrew Carpenter. " … his poems are interesting." - O'Donoghue 43.ENGLISH PRE 1801; DUBLIN PRINTED; VERSE; ENGLISH LITERATURE; IRELAND; TYRONE; FERMANAGH; TOPOGRAPHICAL VERSE; ; ; ;