The beauties of poetry: or, a portable repository of English verse, on an entire new plan. [T85619] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1301

Publication Date:

1776

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T85619

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111102663

Shelfmark:

ECCO - nearest hard copy is in Bodleian Library.

Full Title:

THE | [i]BEAUTIES[/i] OF [I]POETRY:[/i] | OR, A | PORTABLE REPOSITORY | OF | English Verse, | ON AN | ENTIRE NEW PLAN. | [rule] | In THREE BOOKS. | [rule] | [i]GRAMMAR display'd, | Classes of RHYMES: And POEMS made | To suit the Times, &c.[/i] | By WILLIAM LE TANS'UR, | AUTHOR of The ELEMENTS of MUSIC: The LIFE of | Holy DAVID, in [i]Verse:[/i] MELODIA SACRA: and | The CHRISTIAN WARRIOR, &c. | [rule] | [i] This New[/i] Poetic INTRODUCTION | [i]Affords both[/i] Profit, [i]and[/i] Instruction ; | [i]Soft pleasing[/i] Strains [i]we here rehearse, | To shew the[/i] various [i]Kinds of[/i] Verse : | [i]Here[/i] Ancients [i]do with[/i] Moderns [i]shine, | Instructive,[/i] Moral, [i]and[/i] DIVINE, &c. | [double rule] | CAMBRIDGE, | Printed for the AUTHOR; and sold by all the Booksellers there, Also by S. CROWDER in Pater-noster-row, LONDON : | and by most Booksellers in Town and Country. | M.DCC.LXXVI. | (Price [i]Two Shillings,[/i] and [i]Six-pence[/i] stitch'd.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Format:

Duodecimo

Price:

2s 6d stitched

Comments:

One volume in three books.

Other matter:

'INTRODUCTION.' in verse [pp. 3-6], dated 'CAMBRIDGE, | [i]May[/i] 29, A. D. 1776. | W. LE TANS'UR.'

Content/Publication

First Line:

Glory to God who does impart

Page No:

pp.3-4

Poem Title:

Introduction.

Attribution:

W. Le Tans'ur.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Falsehood disguised under religion's veil

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Blank verse is prose wherein each line

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Le Tans'ur.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Could I but soar above the sky

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Le Tans'ur.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Elision and the apostrophe

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Le Tans'ur.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Take me away from wicked men

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Le Tans'ur

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Was I but innocent and free

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p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

We are linked to sin and must remain

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Le Tans'ur.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Regions of sorrow doleful shades where peace

Page No:

pp.4-5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

This I believe it often has been tried

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Regions of sorrow doleful shades

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Le Tans'ur.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Shakespeare and Milton took great pains

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Le Tans'ur.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

When blessed souls the earthly orb forsook

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Le Tans'ur.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Then crowned again their golden harps they took

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Great wits says Pope may gloriously offend

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

To mention heathen gods would show

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

W. Le Tans'ur

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twenty-six letters do compose

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

Of Orthography. $I. Of Letters, &c.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

A single comma set alone

Page No:

pp.8-9

Poem Title:

$2. Of Stops, or Pointing.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Grammar instructs us rightly to indite

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

Of Grammar.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Nouns follow a or the and an

Page No:

pp.9-10

Poem Title:

Of Nouns, or Substantives.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pronouns are used instead of names

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

$2. Of Pronouns, &c.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Verbs show the actions being of things and passion

Page No:

pp.10-11

Poem Title:

$3. Of Verbs, &c.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Adverbs denote and make appear

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

$5. Of Adverbs, &c.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Small participles do express

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

$4. Of Participles, &c.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Conjunctions unite words together

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

$6. Of Conjunctions, &c.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The prepositions make appear

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

$7. Of Prepositions, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

These have respect to time and place

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

$8. Of Interjections, &c.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Three personal names we do compare

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

$1. Of Persons, &c.

Attribution:

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First Line:

1 Positive is termed hard

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

$4. Of Degrees of Comparison, &c.

Attribution:

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First Line:

He is the gender masculine

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

$2. Of Genders, &c.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Tenses or time grammarians sum

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

$3. Of Tenses, or Time, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Mark well this useful nota bene

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

$6. Of Numbers, Singular, and Plural.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nine sense-assisting words or more

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

$5. Of Nine Auxiliary, of Helping Words.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

First is the nominative case

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

$7. Of the Six Cases, &c.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thus have I touched on every rule

Page No:

pp.16-17

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Here terminations stand in view

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

A stands for Adam made of earth

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

On the Letter A.

Attribution:

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First Line:

E second vowel we espy

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

I means myself one of the three

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

O numbers swell and is to me

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

U the fifth vowel as we see

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If particles well you join

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

Of double Rhymes, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When laws are amended

Page No:

pp.167-168

Poem Title:

Eight Examples.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Love and tranquility

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

Four Examples of triple Rhymes.

Attribution:

William Le Tans'ur

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath a sleeping infant lies

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on an Infant in Wisbech.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

God bless the king preserve the state

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

The Loyal Poet.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here is the spring where waters flow

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

Poetical Contents of the Holy Scriptures, originally wrote by John Marbeck, 1540.

Attribution:

John Marbeck

Attributed To:

John Marbeck

First Line:

Marble the pillar against which he stood

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

An Italian Epigram on Christ's being bound to a Pillar in Pilate's Judgment-Hall.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A catalogue of books wherein contains

Page No:

pp.172-175

Poem Title:

William Le Tans'ur recommends These Books to all his social Friends. The Bookseller's Shop.

Attribution:

William Le Tans'ur

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

First see the blade arrayed in pleasing green

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

Heavenly Instructions to Man: By our Saviour's Condescension to illustrate divine Truths, by Similitudes of Corn, Grass, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come try your thoughts ye thinking scribbling tribe

Page No:

pp.176-178

Poem Title:

Seventeen AEnigams in One.

Attribution:

W. L. T.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

To melt the soul to captivate the ear

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

On George Frederick Handel, Esq.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

God for the righteous doth provide

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

On God's Protection by Sea and Land.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

How prone the bosom is to sigh

Page No:

pp.180-181

Poem Title:

The Tear.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Father celestial monarch prostrate I

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

A Prayer in Adversity, or Sickness.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

God's sacred law let none profane

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

King Charles the First's Twelve golden Rules, A Monitor to Knaves and Fools, &c.

Attribution:

King Charles the First

Attributed To:

Charles I

First Line:

Brave souls may strive to parallel

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

On Mr. Henry Purcel, who Died in 1694.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Two wanton boys by river side

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

Advice to Youth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who would have thought that Christ would feel

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

Spiritual Joy from Heaven.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The gathering clouds with aspect dark

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

Serious Thoughts on the Troubles in America.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When all thy mercies lord of hosts

Page No:

pp.184-185

Poem Title:

On God's divine Providence over Man.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gay youth observe with constant care

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

Rule of Life.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Life's a jest and all things show it

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

On Gay's Monument in Westminster-Abby.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Serve God that made you whilst you have your breath

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

Advice to Youth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Virtue thou ornament of human life

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

Virtue commended.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Most mighty lord vouchsafe this day to bless

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

A Morning Soliloquy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Malice and spite does all their thoughts employ

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

On Envy and Hatred.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sun-delighting fly repairs at first

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

Advice against Drunkenness.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Father of all in every age

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

Universal Prayer.

Attribution:

A. P.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Death is the end of all our mortal race

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

An Acrostic on Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For forty years it was decreed

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

On the Israelites Bondage in Egypt, &c.

Attribution:

F. B.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He that too oft repeats a vile expression

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

A cautional Maxim.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A friend proposed to me a wife

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

The Refusal.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Hail social season cries the man of mirth

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

On Christmas.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

In river Ouse was lately found

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

The large Pike:- A Wonder.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Take two sixths of what Solomon largely possessed

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

An AEnigma.

Attribution:

J. B.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He that relieves his neighbour in distress

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

On Charity.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis hard to know what people think

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

On double Faces.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When fatal death has cut the thread of life

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

An Epitaph in Great Malvern Church-Yard, Worcestershire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Should those more tall reach to the pole

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

Dr. Watt's Answer to some Persons who reflected on the Lowness of his Person.

Attribution:

Dr. Watt's

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Christ is the word that spake it

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

Queen Elizabeth's Answer to a Popish Bishop, who asked her Opinion of Christ's Presence in the Holy Sacrament.

Attribution:

Queen Elizabeth

Attributed To:

Elizabeth I

First Line:

Errors like straws upon the surface flow

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

These lines below commemorate the death

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

An Epitath. A. D. M.DCC.LX.VII.

Attribution:

Will. Le Tans'ur

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

On every object here I see

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

On seeing the Sea-Shore.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The world's a book writ by the eternal art

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

On the World.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In memory of Francis Bell

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

An Epitaph.

Attribution:

W. L. T.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Of all the creatures betwixt earth and air

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

On Srtolling Players, &c. By a Gentleman of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When farmer's ale looks weak and pale

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Stern winter clad in frost and snow

Page No:

pp.196-197

Poem Title:

The Monk, and Jew. A Tale.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Misers make money all their god

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

The Miser's Monitor.

Attribution:

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First Line:

This comes with love to let you know

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

On good Dame Fortune, and her Daughter Miss Fortune. A Letter to a Friend, complaining of ill Success.

Attribution:

W. L. T.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

A thief may rob me of my wealth and store

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

On a Good Name.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The female who within this tomb is laid

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a Lady's Lap-Dog.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Two bakers thin

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

An Epigram.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Here lies a decoy man who lived like an otter

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on Andrew Williams, of Whittington, in Shropshire, Aged 84, 1776.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Well may some pinching farmers smile

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Whoever that fossil would behold

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

The Philosopher's Stone.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Dismal are they who lie confined

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p.200

Poem Title:

On poor Prisoners, &c.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In days of old some drest the Dead

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p.200

Poem Title:

The Shaver to the Hair-Dresser.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Strong Samson valiantly behaved

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

The Hair-Dresser, to the Shaver.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In merry old England when princes did rule

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p.201

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Some say that poets are so born

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

On Poor Poets.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Alas more hours are spent in pleasure

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Brewers attend whilst I relate

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

On the London Brewhouse, in 1741.

Attribution:

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First Line:

He that a watch would wear

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

A Caution to Watch-Wearers.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Women and wine I did refuse

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

Old Par's Answer to the King.

Attribution:

Old Par

Attributed To:

Thomas Parr

First Line:

A foe may shade one's name as gloomy night

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

Attribution:

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First Line:

As parched thorns under a pot

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

On noisy Laughter.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I've seen full seventy years and more

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p.203

Poem Title:

On Bad Times.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What though religion's like old breeches

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I know not which live most unnatural lives

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p.204

Poem Title:

A Quere, &c.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I've traced this life near eighty years

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

In social Friendship, &c.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In time of war to God we humbly pray

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

A true Remark. God and the Soldier.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When knaves contrive and fools believe

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

A seasonable true Remark.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The scriptures were divinely penned

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

The Unbiassed Reader.

Attribution:

W. L. T.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Crowned by the man with lasting praise

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pp.206-207

Poem Title:

The Carriage Pin.

Attribution:

S---e J--n---s, Esq;

Attributed To:

Soame Jenyns

First Line:

Some ladies plan their lives and forms by three

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Thief steals my good and slander my good name

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

The Thief and Slanderer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

What wondrous art what skill is there contained

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

An Acrostic; by Thomas Bedford of Royal.

Attribution:

by Thomas Bedford of Royal.

Attributed To:

Thomas Bedford

First Line:

A dog tax invented by some as I'm told

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

A third Heat for a Dog-Tax, on a new Plan.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The expression of woe when to anguish we wake

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

A Rebus.

Attribution:

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First Line:

As on her bed Corinna lay

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

The Quack a la mode.

Attribution:

G. E.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Says Celia to a reverend dean

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

A smart Repartee.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A place where the farmer sometimes lays his wheat

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

A Rebus.

Attribution:

J. B.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Old Gripus is dead and is gone to the devil

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

The Miser, and Spendthrift.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What Hodge says at Plow must be placed before

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

A Rebus.

Attribution:

F. B.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Young giddy girls or wanton boys

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

Advice to Youth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now money-making is a trade

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

On Money-mongers.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Saint Sarah and Tom

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p.211

Poem Title:

On Double-Worship.

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First Line:

Great sirs I humbly sue to ye

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p.212

Poem Title:

The humble Petition of the Printing-Press.

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First Line:

This world's a printing house in which enclosure

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

On a Printing-House, &c.

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First Line:

Behold we flowers that bloom from hour to hour

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p.213

Poem Title:

The Flowers Address.

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First Line:

Let England record

Page No:

p.213

Poem Title:

The Maidens prosperous Pea.

Attribution:

Christiana le Tans'ur.

Attributed To:

Christiana le Tans'ur

First Line:

Disclose your grievances to me

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p.214

Poem Title:

Dr. Sangrado's Answer to his Friend.

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First Line:

O that I was where I would be

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p.214

Poem Title:

A Wishing for Happiness.

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First Line:

Transferring was my trade whilst I had breath

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p.214

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on an eminent Stock-jobber.

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First Line:

Light air and motion joined in one

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

The Folly of Deism.

Attribution:

(See my Christian Warrior.)

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Observe the man of astrologic skill

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p.215

Poem Title:

An Epigram on Dr. Smith, the Coventry-Conjuror.

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First Line:

Poets are sure the strangest mortals known

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p.215

Poem Title:

A Thought on Poets.

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First Line:

Vain are all pleasures all delights are vain

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

An Acrostic.

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First Line:

From our first parents I my being claim

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p.216

Poem Title:

An AEnigma.

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First Line:

To spill men's blood is ten times worse

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p.216

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

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First Line:

When ancient Bess was England's queen

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p.216

Poem Title:

Modern Chastity: An Epigram.

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First Line:

From a small acorn see the oak arise

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p.217

Poem Title:

A Remark on English Oak.

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First Line:

I saw a cloud begirt with ivy round

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

A Paradox, in Prose, or Verse.

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First Line:

Though boisterous winds and raging waves

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p.217

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on a Sailor, in Margate Church-yard.

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First Line:

He's blest who lives from all dependance free

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

A true Maxim.

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First Line:

Says Curl in a rage contradicting his wife

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

An Answer in Truth.

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First Line:

Time with his scythe brings all to their last home

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p.218

Poem Title:

An Acrostic on Time.

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First Line:

When poverty and ill success

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

The Poor Man's Case.

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First Line:

Raised from the earthly secret mine

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

An AEnigma.

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First Line:

How blest and double blest is he

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p.220-221

Poem Title:

Some moral Reflections On perjur'd Elections, &c.

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First Line:

A man had three apples gave one to his mother

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p.221

Poem Title:

An AEnigma.

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First Line:

First give me grace Lord and a quiet life

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

Man's Choice.

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First Line:

Goods made for sale are all as traps

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p.221

Poem Title:

A Remark.

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First Line:

I have observed when I was young

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

A true Maxim.

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First Line:

No wonder Tom thy wanton wife

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p.221

Poem Title:

An Epigram: To a Cornuted Cork-Cutter.

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First Line:

Reader behold a genuine son of earth

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on John Abbdy, Late Huntsman to the Earl of Gainsborough, 1776.

Attribution:

H. C.

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First Line:

Whenever a tall and lofty tree

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

A true Maxim.

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First Line:

In younger years in war I shed my blood

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p.223

Poem Title:

A Soldier's Epitaph, in Waddesdon Church-Yard, Bucks.

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First Line:

Usurping Cromwell hell's revengeful rod

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

Oliver and Richard. An Anecdote contrasted.

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First Line:

When first the child is teeming in the womb

Page No:

pp.224-225

Poem Title:

The Twelve Stages of Man's Life, as the Twelve Months in the Year.

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First Line:

As David was the Lord's delight

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

On Holy David.

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First Line:

If true Christian knowledge

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

The young Student's Resolution.

Attribution:

W. L. T.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Some Danes of bad thinking

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

On the Origin of drinking Healths.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Some secret ladies sin to ease love's pain

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

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First Line:

This night is the day I speak it with sorrow

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p.227

Poem Title:

The Irish Bell-Man. on Nov. 5.

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First Line:

A milk-white steed and brawling wife

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

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First Line:

Here crumbling lies beneath this mold

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p.228

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on a Miser.

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First Line:

Take half a foreign soldier's name

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

A Rebus.

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First Line:

Two distant ranks of men in knowledge near

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

An Epigram.

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First Line:

Worth should determine every man his due

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

An Epigram on Merit.

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First Line:

This world's a drama scene or place of action

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

A serious Meditation on God's Bounty.

Attribution:

W. L. T. 1776.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Here lies father and mother and I

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

A whimsical Epitaph, in Andover Church-Yard.

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First Line:

I lay at the Angel in Doncaster town

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p.230

Poem Title:

The Traveller deceived.

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First Line:

Marriage that makes two bodies one

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

Marriage A-La-Mode.

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First Line:

None are so wretched or so poor

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p.230

Poem Title:

The Miser's State.

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First Line:

He that's uneasy with his bride

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p.231

Poem Title:

Rule of Life.

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First Line:

Poor Jo still jovial brisk and gay

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p.231

Poem Title:

An Epigram, on a social Acquaintance.

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First Line:

Stop passenger until my life you've read

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p.231

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on Margaret Scott's Tomb, of Dalkeith, in Scotland, 1738.

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First Line:

A man so various that he seemed to be

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p.232

Poem Title:

Whimsy A-La-Mode.

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First Line:

I'll trust not to a bending bow

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p.232

Poem Title:

Wilks' Resolution, when chosen Lord Mayor of London.

Attribution:

Wilks

Attributed To:

John Wilkes

First Line:

Dear good master Gill

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

The Hedge-Preacher's Order to his Barber.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When matters of state

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

National Physic.

Attribution:

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First Line:

An honest Yorkshire man lies here

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p.234

Poem Title:

An Epitaph at Scarborough. The Wonder of the World.

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First Line:

My sledge and hammer lie reclined

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p.234

Poem Title:

An Epitaph. On a Blacksmith: in Boston Church-Yard.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Orlando's flame to rest her chanced to come

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

An Epigram.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hopkins and Sternhold had great qualms

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

Rochester's Remark, On a bad singing Clerk.

Attribution:

Rochester

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

If bad diseases thou hast none

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A cap like a bat

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

Humorous Description of a Modern Head-Dress. By the Author of the New Bath Guide.

Attribution:

By the Author of the New Bath Guide.

Attributed To:

Christopher Anstey

First Line:

Dear madam if you'll tell me plain

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

The modest Question answered.

Attribution:

G. E.

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First Line:

Make way we are of room bereft

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

The Poetical Chairman, at the Parliament-House.

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First Line:

Now women's heads grow great and tall

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

A true Remark.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Take thou a wife of seventeen years

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

Friendly Advice.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Fierce lions roaring for their prey and then

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

On Daniel in the Lion's Den.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Here sleeps beneath this humble pile of earth

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

An Epitaph, in St. Ives' Church-yard Hunts.

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First Line:

Repeat not every idle tale

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

Rule of Life.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Thy size bright taper doth so quickly waste

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

The sick Man's Address to his Candle.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Observe this good rule and learn it by heart

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

The Caution.

Attribution:

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First Line:

There's many talk of Robin Hood

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

The Sham Christian.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Great good and just could I but rate

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on King Charles the First: written by the magnanimous James Marquis of Montross, with the Point of his Sword, in 1648.

Attribution:

by the magnanimous James Marquis of Montross

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

O pleasing death now to expire

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

An Epitaph, in Market-Harborough Church-yard, on David Le Tans'ur. AEtatis suae, 9 Years, 1742

Attribution:

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First Line:

Of all the blessings bounteous heaven doth give

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

The Author's Request.

Attribution:

W. L. T.

Attributed To:

William le Tans'ur

First Line:

Though I but seventeen do declare

Page No:

p.340

Poem Title:

Keys to the several AENigmas, &c.

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