The art of poetry on a new plan [vol I] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1015

Publication Date:

1762

Volume Number:

1 of 2

ESTC number:

T56146

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW114116333

Shelfmark:

ECCO British Library

Full Title:

THE | ART | OF | POETRY | ON A | NEW PLAN : | Illustrated with a great Variety of | Examples from the best ENGLISH POETS; | AND OF | TRANSLATIONS from the ANCIENTS: | Together with such | REFLECTIONS and critical REMARKS as may tend to | form in our YOUTH an elegant TASTE, and render | the Study of this Part of the BELLES LETTRES | more rational and pleasing. | [rule] | VOL. I. | [double rule] | LONDON : | Printed for J. NEWBERY, at the [i] Bible [/i] and [i] Sun [/i] | in St. [i] Paul's Church-yard. [/i] | M DCC LXII.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of extracts/snippets and Collection including prose

Format:

Duodecimo

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: To the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Holdernesse (pp. iii-vi) Advertisement (pp. vii-viii) Contents Errata to Vol. I. Errata to Vol. II. The Introduction (pp. [i]-vi)

Related Miscellanies

Title:

The art of poetry made easy, [...]: being the seventh volume of the Circle of the sciences [T120153]

Publication Date:

1746

ESTC No:

T120153

Volume:

7 of 7

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

The art of poetry on a new plan [vol 2] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1762

ESTC No:

T56146

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

John Newbery

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Numbers and rhymes and that harmonious sound

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The duke of Buckingham in his Essay on Poetry, very justly observes:

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Two syllables our English feet compose

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

an excellent writer

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A shower of soft and fleecy rain

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Glittering stones and golden things

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The battle near

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou shalt not wish her thine thou shalt not dare

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

one of the best poets this nation has produced

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He spoke and awful bends his sable brows

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Homer

Attributed To:

Homer

First Line:

He above the rest

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton's Paradise Lost

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

On the other side Satan alarmed

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton's Paradise Lost

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Far as a shepherd from some point on high

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

O thou that with surpassing glory crowned

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

On heavenly ground they stood and from the shore

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Six wings he wore to shade

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

When Philomela ere the cold domain

Page No:

pp.24-25

Poem Title:

from a poem, entitled, The Omniscience of the divine Being

Attribution:

by Mr. Smart

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

Now rose the ruddy morn from Tithon's bed

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virgil

Attributed To:

Virgil

First Line:

The morn ensuing from the mountain's height

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virgil

Attributed To:

Virgil

First Line:

Look love what envious streaks

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The purple morning left her crimson bed

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Tasso

Attributed To:

Torquato Tasso

First Line:

Now when the rose fingered morning fair

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

What are yon towers

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Smart's poem

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

With thee conversing I forget all time

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton's Paradise Lost

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Close at mine ear one called me forth to walk

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

His wonder was to find unwakened Eve

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

As new waked from soundest sleep

Page No:

p.30

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

So cheered he his fair spouse and she was cheered

Page No:

p.30

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Thou sun said I fair light

Page No:

p.30

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Under his forming hands a creature grew

Page No:

pp.30-31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Adam the while

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Her long with ardent look his eye pursued

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Neither her outside form so fair nor ought

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

He added not and from her turned but Eve

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

He scrupled not to eat

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Some cursed fraud

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Must I then leave thee paradise thus leave

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

This most afflicts me that departing hence

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Now the bright morning star day's harbinger

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Wilt thou be gone it is not yet near day

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear's

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

In Pope I cannot read a line

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

She too might have poisoned the joys of my life

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He that is valiant and dares fight

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

Hudibras

Attribution:

Butler

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Is thy ambition sweating for a rhyme

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

from the satires of Dr. Young

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Let high birth triumph what can be more great

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

from the satires of Dr. Young

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Nothing exceeds in ridicule no doubt

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

from the satires of Dr. Young

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

The man who builds and wants wherewith to pay

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

from the satires of Dr. Young

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

The sylvan race our active nymphs pursue

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

from the satires of Dr. Young

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Close to her grott within the grove

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

And the plain ox

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Before him power divine his way prepared

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Up he rode

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Tis dumb amaze and listening terror all

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Whence it is sir that none contented lives

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Francis's Horace.

Attributed To:

Philip Francis

First Line:

Wished morning's come and now upon the plains

Page No:

p.51-52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

an example from Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

If virtue's self were lost we might

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Waller.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

When Chloe's picture was to Venus shown

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

Venus mistaken

Attribution:

Mr. Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

When famed Varelst this little wonder drew

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

On a Flower, painted by Varelst

Attribution:

Mr. Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

See whilst thou weepest fair Chloe see

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

To Chloe weeping

Attribution:

Mr. Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Flavia the least and slightest toy

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

On a Fan

Attribution:

Dr. Atterbury, late bishop of Rochester

Attributed To:

Francis Atterbury

First Line:

Paul so fond of the name of a poet is grown

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst in the dark on thy soft hand I hung

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

On an ugly Woman

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Helen was just slipped into bed

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

A reasonable Affliction

Attribution:

Mr. Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

While faster than his costive brain indites

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

How wretched does Prometheus' state appear

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

Prometheus draen by a bad Painter

Attribution:

Mr. Cowley

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

One day in Chelsea gardens walking

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

An Epigram on an Epigram

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While Butler needy wretch was still alive

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Wesley

Attributed To:

Samuel Wesley

First Line:

When Phoebus was amorous and longed to be rude

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Smart

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

No longer Orpheus shall thy sacred strains

Page No:

p.62

Poem Title:

On Orpheus

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Underneath this marble hearse

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

On Mary Countess Dowager of Pembroke

Attribution:

said to be written by the famous Ben Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Underneath this stone doth lie

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ben Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Of manners gentle of affections mild

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

On Mr. Gay.

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Nobles and heralds by your leave

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Henceforth be every tender tear suppressed

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Smart

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

Beneath this verdant hillock lies

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a Miser

Attribution:

Dr. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Heroes and kings your distance keep

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Reader

Page No:

p.66

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here continueth to rot

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Arbuthnot

Attributed To:

John Arbuthnot

First Line:

Here lie sequestered from the various calamities of life

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Mr. Dove, an Apothecary; who unfortunately murdered himself by canvassing at Elections

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To the memory of Signior Fido

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade

Page No:

pp.70-72

Poem Title:

To the memory of an unfortunate Lady

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

Page No:

pp.73-76

Poem Title:

An Elegy. Written in a country church-yard.

Attribution:

Mr. Gray

Attributed To:

William Gray

First Line:

Mourn hapless Caledonia mourn

Page No:

pp.76-78

Poem Title:

The Tears of Scotland. Written in the Year 1746.

Attribution:

Dr. Smollet

Attributed To:

Tobias George Smollett

First Line:

Let others boast their heaps of shining gold

Page No:

pp.78-81

Poem Title:

A Love Elegy

Attribution:

by Mr. Hammond

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Well tis as Bickerstaff has guessed

Page No:

pp.82-84

Poem Title:

An Elegy on the supposed death of Mr. Partridge, the Almanack-maker.

Attribution:

Dr. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

To Amaryllis lovely nymph I speed

Page No:

pp.87-89

Poem Title:

Amaryllis: Or the third Idyllium of Theocritus

Attribution:

Mr. Fawkes

Attributed To:

Francis Fawkes

First Line:

Beneath the shade which beechen boughs diffuse

Page No:

pp.89-93

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

we are obliged to Mr. Dryden for the translation

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Lo Colin here the place whose pleasant sight

Page No:

pp.93-96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Spenser

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Is it not Colinet I lonesome see

Page No:

pp.97-101

Poem Title:

Mr. Philips's second Pastoral

Attribution:

Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays

Page No:

pp.101-104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Thy younglings Cuddy are but just awake

Page No:

pp.104-108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

The wretched Flavia on her couch reclined

Page No:

pp.109-111

Poem Title:

The Small-Pox. A Town Eclogue

Attribution:

By the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

Ye nymphs of Solyma begin the song

Page No:

pp.112-116

Poem Title:

Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

While you my lord the rural shades admire

Page No:

pp.117-121

Poem Title:

A Letter from Italy to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax, in the Year 1701.

Attribution:

By Mr. Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Immortal bard for whom each muse has wove

Page No:

pp.121-123

Poem Title:

A Letter from the Right Honourable the Lord Lyttleton to Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

from lord Lyttleton

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

See the wild waste of all-devouring years

Page No:

pp.123-125

Poem Title:

From Mr. Pope to Mr. Addison. Occasioned by his dialogue on Medals.

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

From frozen climes and endless tracts of snow

Page No:

pp.125-127

Poem Title:

Mr. Philips to the Earl of Dorset

Attribution:

Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

As some fond virgin whom her mother's care

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

From Mr. Pope to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town after the Coronation.

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Hence loathed melancholy

Page No:

pp.129-132

Poem Title:

L' Allegro: Or the lively Pleasures of Mirth

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Hence vain deluding joys

Page No:

pp.133-137

Poem Title:

Il Penseroso: Or the gloomy Pleasures of Melancholy

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Be gracious Heaven for now laborious man

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Thomson

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

The north east spends his rage he now shut up

Page No:

pp.138-140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomson

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Shall man whom nature formed of milder clay

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomson

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

When now no more the alternate twins are fixed

Page No:

pp.141-145

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomson

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Behold slow settling over the lurid grove

Page No:

pp.145-148

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomson

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Soon as the morning trembles over the sky

Page No:

pp.149-152

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomson

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

As thus the snows arise and foul and fierce

Page No:

p.153-154

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomson

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

As yet tis midnight deep the weary clouds

Page No:

pp.153

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomson

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Tis done dread winter spreads his latest glooms

Page No:

p.155-156

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomson

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The bliss of man could pride that blessing find

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Cease then not order imperfection name

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

What if the foot ordained the dust to tread

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Two principles in human nature reign

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Passions like elements though born to fight

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Whatever the passion knowledge fame or pelf

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Look round our world behold the chain of love

Page No:

p.165-166

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Thus then to man the voice of nature speak

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

For forms of government let fools contest

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Take nature's path and mad opinions leave

Page No:

pp.167-168

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

If then to all men happiness was meant

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Know all the good that individuals find

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

What nothing earthly gives or can destroy

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

A wit is a feather and a chief a rod

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Unwise and thoughtless impotent and blind

Page No:

pp.171-173

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Baker

Attributed To:

Henry Baker

First Line:

The sun reveals the secrets of the sky

Page No:

pp.174-175

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis usual now an inmate grass to see

Page No:

pp.175-176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some peasants not to omit the nicest care

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p.176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

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But easy quiet a secure retreat

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pp.177-178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virgil

Attributed To:

Virgil

First Line:

But neither median woods a plenteous land

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p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virgil

Attributed To:

Virgil

First Line:

The calf by nature and by genius made

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p.178-180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virgil

Attributed To:

Virgil

First Line:

Lo while he toils the galling yoke beneath

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pp.180-181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virgil

Attributed To:

Virgil

First Line:

The fiery courser when he hears from far

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p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virgil

Attributed To:

Virgil

First Line:

Describe we next the nature of the bees

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pp.182-184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virgil

Attributed To:

Virgil

First Line:

You must not every worm promiscuous use

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pp.185-187

Poem Title:

in his Rural Sports

Attribution:

Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Nor less the spaniel skilful to betray

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pp.187-189

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Good housewives all the winter's rage despise

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pp.190-191

Poem Title:

his Trivia, or Art of Walking the Streets

Attribution:

Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

What though the gathering mire thy feet besmear

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pp.192-195

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

O roving muse recall that wondrous year

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pp.195-196

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

But you who seek to give and merit fame

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p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

First follow nature and your judgement frame

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p.197

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

You then whose judgement the right course would steer

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pp.197-198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Some beauties yet no precepts can declare

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pp.198-199

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Of all the causes which conspire to blind

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pp.199-200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

A perfect judge will read each work of wit

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pp.200-201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Some never advance a judgement of their own

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p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Learn then what morals critics ought to show

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pp.203-205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Unhappy wit like most mistaken things

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p.203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Yet shun their fault who scandalously nice

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p.203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Him all the nine inspire

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p.205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

It is not air

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p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Without thy cheerful active energy

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p.207

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Green rise the Kentish hills in cheerful air

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pp.208-210

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

While yet you breathe away the rural wilds

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p.208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Mean time at home with cheerful fires dispel

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pp.210-211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

If droughty regions parch

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p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Mean time the moist malignity to shun

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pp.211-212

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

How sickly grow

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pp.212-213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Nothing so foreign but the athletic hind

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p.213

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Choose leaner vianer viands ye whose jovial make

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p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Some with high forage and luxuriant ease

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p.214

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Is by superior faculties misled

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p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

When hunger calls obey nor often wait

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pp.215-216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Would you long the sweets of health enjoy

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p.215

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

It much avails

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p.216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Pale humid winter loves the generous board

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pp.216-217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Now come ye Naiads to the fountains lead

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p.217

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

The task remains to sing

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pp.217-218

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Nothing like simple element dilutes

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pp.218-219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Behold the labourer of the glebe who toils

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pp.219-220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

For know whatever

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p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Then learn to revel but by slow degrees

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p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Sometimes at eve

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pp.220-221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Begin with gentle toils and as your nerves

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p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

But when the hard varieties of life

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p.221

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Against the rigours of a damp cold heaven

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p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

But from the recent meal no labours please

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pp.222-223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Let those who from the frozen Arctos reach

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p.222

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

But would you sweetly waste the blank of night

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p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

The shades descend and midnight over the world

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p.223

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

By toil subdued the warrior and the hind

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p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

In study some protract the silent hours

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p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

The body fresh and vigorous from repose

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p.224

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

The cold and torrid reigns

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p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

There is they say and I believe there is

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pp.225-226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Hence the lean gloom that melancholy wears

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p.226

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

While reading pleases but no longer read

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pp.226-227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

For while yourself you anxiously explore

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p.227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

But soon your heaven is gone a heavier gloom

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p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Go soft enthusiast quit the cypress groves

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p.228

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

How to live happiest how avoid the pains

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pp.228-229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Let nature rest be busy for yourself

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pp.229-230

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Versed in the woes and vanities of life

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p.229

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Is health your care or luxury your aim

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p.230

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Thus in his graver vein the friendly sage

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p.230

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

But there is a passion whose tempestuous sway

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p.231

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

For where the mind a torpid winter leads

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p.231

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

While choler works good friend you may be wrong

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p.231

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

But he the muse's laurel justly shares

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p.232

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Armstrong

Attributed To:

John Armstrong

First Line:

Far in a wild unknown to public view

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pp.236-242

Poem Title:

The Hermit. A Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Parnel.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

Sceptics whose strength of argument makes out

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pp.242-245

Poem Title:

A true Story of an Apparition

Attribution:

by Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

A juggler long through all the town

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pp.246-248

Poem Title:

The Jugglers. A Fable.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Why Celia is your spreading waist

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pp.248-250

Poem Title:

The Poet and his Patron. A Fable.

Attribution:

By Mr. Moore.

Attributed To:

Edward Moore

First Line:

A bag wig of a jaunty air

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pp.250-251

Poem Title:

The Bag-Wig and the Tobacco-Pipe.

Attribution:

by Mr. Smart

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart