The Chester Miscellany [T166017]

DMI number:

840

Publication Date:

1750

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T166017

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115609574

Shelfmark:

BL - G.17708

Full Title:

THE | [i] CHESTER [/i] | MISCELLANY. | BEING A | COLLECTION | Of several PIECES, both in | PROSE and VERSE, | Which were in the | [i] CHESTER [/i] COURANT | From JANUARY 1745, to MAY 1750. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i] CHESTER: [/i] | Printed by and for ELIZ. ADAMS; and sold by | S. NEWTON, Bookseller in [i] Manchester [/i]; and M. COOPER, | at the [i] Globe [/i] in [i] Pater-noster-row, London. [/i] | [short rule] | MDCCL.

Epigraph:

[i]Quicquid agunt homines, concursus, praelia, carmen, | Hic epos, hic elegus, nostri est farrago libelli. [/i]

Place of Publication:

Chester

Genres:

Newspaper spinoff, Political miscellany, Collection including prose, and Subscription Miscellany

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

CHECK: v,416p.; Pp. 254 and 348 misnumbered 245 and 48 respectively (ESTC)

Comments:

Contents: contains prose and verse derived from the Chester Courant; items are annotated with the dates on which they had first appeared in the Chester Courant. Includes prose reports of the Jacobite rebellion pp. 4-169.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: 'To The Reader'pp.iii-iv.

References:

Case, 468

Related People

Publisher:

Elizabeth Adams

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

And printer.

Sold by:

Mary Cooper

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Sold by:

S Newton

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Since with the new year a new change hath begun

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pp.1-2

Poem Title:

A New Ballad For Seventeen Hundred Forty-five.

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As when a dog and bear engage

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p.3

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A Simile.

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This friendly waistcoat keeps my body warm

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p.58

Poem Title:

Spoken extempore by a Soldier the Day after he receiv'd a Flannen Waistcoat, thro' the Bounty of the Quakers.

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I'll tell you a tale for a groat

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p.112

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A late Gazette Extraordinary

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I sing the wonders of a mimic throng

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pp.170-172

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Machinae Gesticulantes. The Puppet-Show. From the Latin of Mr. Addison.

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Doctor tis false I'll never believe

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pp.187-188

Poem Title:

A Friend's Advice to a Parson. From Martial Ep. 53. Lib. 2.

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See from the year are all its honours fled

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pp.188-189

Poem Title:

A Winter Evening.

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The rolling year begins his course

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pp.189-190

Poem Title:

A New Year's Ode. To Myra.

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First the great gods thy utmost reverence claim

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pp.190-192

Poem Title:

The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, translated.

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Where proud Augusta blessed with long repose

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pp.195-199

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Bedlam.

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Thee thee my rising soul aspires to sing

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pp.200-203

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase of the CVIth Psalm.

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Antaeus was a mighty lord

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pp.203-205

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Antaeus. A Tale.

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View not my friend with envy in thy breast

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pp.205-206

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on Part of the xxxviith Psalm.

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Since defalcation is the way

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pp.207-208

Poem Title:

On the new Scheme for Frugality.

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Oxoniensis.

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Fair as the dawning light auspicious guest

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pp.208-210

Poem Title:

Chearfulness.

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Jack reckons up the A-----ls we have

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p.210

Poem Title:

A Tarpaulian Opinion, upon the New Promotions.

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Forth from the whirlwind thundering voices broke

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pp.213-214

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on the xxxviiith Chapter of Job.

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You a magistrate chief his wife tauntingly said

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p.215

Poem Title:

On a certain Methodist Teacher's being caught in Bed with his Maid.

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You have all heard no doubt of the devil at Lincoln

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p.217

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The Manchester Rebels. A New Song. To the Tune of, The Abbot of Canterbury.

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Ye sons of Israel once Heaven's favourite care

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pp.218-219

Poem Title:

David's Lamentation, from the 1st Chapter of the 2nd Book of Samuel.

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The pencil's glowing lines the painter's care

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pp.220-223

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A Version of Mr. Addison's Latin Poem, entituled, The Resurrection; painted above the Altar in Magdalen-College Chapel, Oxon.

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Fly fly far hence consuming cares

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pp.226-229

Poem Title:

May-Day

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A wolf with hunger fierce and bold

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p.230

Poem Title:

Gay's Fables, Vol. I. Fab. xvii. The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf.

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John Gay

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Now the bright morning star day's harbinger

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p.232

Poem Title:

Milton's Song on May Morning.

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Milton

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John Milton

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Now hinds if you regard your country's good

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pp.233-234

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Young John Bull's Address to his Countrymen, occasion'd by the Coach and Window-Taxes.

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A son of Galen learned indeed

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pp.234-236

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The Astrological Physician. A Fable. Imitated from Mons. De la Motte.

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Avaro lived a private life

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pp.236-238

Poem Title:

The Father. A Tale.

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Go last of Britons who hast dared be free

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p.238

Poem Title:

To Edward Vernon, Esq.

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Happy the man like those of old

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pp.239-241

Poem Title:

Ode In Praise of a Country Life, In Imitation of Horace, Epod. II.

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Poets invoke when they rehearse

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p.242

Poem Title:

The Tea-Table. In the Manner of Mr. Waller.

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An honoured letter would we mention

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p.243

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On the Letter P.

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Think not I write my innocence to prove

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pp.244-246

Poem Title:

Roxana to Philocles.

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Nor gentle purpose nor endearing smiles

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p.251

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Milton

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John Milton

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The doleful dumps I sing and direful woes

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pp.255-259

Poem Title:

Marian's Distress. In the manner of Mr. Gay.

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Beneath an hawthorn bush secreted shade

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pp.259-262

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A Pastoral. Diggon Davy and Colin Clout.

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To villains who their native country sell

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p.262

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[No title]

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The trees to politics inclined

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pp.263-264

Poem Title:

Jotham's Parable, On the ixth Chapter of Judges. Translated from the Latin, lately publish'd in Holland.

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By every bird and beast of prey

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p.265

Poem Title:

The Breed Changed.

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Guy Faux no doubt deserved to hang

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pp.265-266

Poem Title:

The Golden Plot

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Wondrous machine thy curious fabric shows

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pp.268-269

Poem Title:

Upon the Silk-Mills at Derby

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In politics dare women draw the pen

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pp.269-270

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The following Lines were wrote by a Lady, on Account of the Taxes.

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What flood O Deva may with thine compare

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p.272

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An Imitation of Horace, Book III. Ode 13.

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When once a king enquired no matter who

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pp.272-273

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One Thing Wanting

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Whenever this stone now hid beneath the lake

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pp.273-274

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To Posterity

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This string by Hke and Wn worn

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p.274

Poem Title:

The Red Ribband

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Dear object of my love whose powerful charms

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p.276

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[No title]

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Let Israel now the votive trophies raise

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pp.277-280

Poem Title:

A Version of Deborah's Song. Judges, Chap. V.

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Hail mighty P of the coasts joint chief

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pp.284-285

Poem Title:

From a Commorant, to His Honour.

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Where now are all my flattering dreams of joy

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pp.285-286

Poem Title:

Despair. An Elegy, in Imitation of Tibullus.

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A favourite cat that long in brewhouse dwelt

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pp.286-287

Poem Title:

The Cat in Drink. A Fable.

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Stanzarius.

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A peace a peace is better far

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pp.287-288

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[No title]

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Eboracensis.

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Britons awake your country's cause

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p.287

Poem Title:

The Advice; or, An Extempore Address to the Freeholders of the Country of Northampton.

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Struck with grief I scarce believe my eyes

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p.288

Poem Title:

News of Preliminary Articles, signed April 30, N.S. Maestricht, capit. May 7.

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If any ask who made this peace we'll tell em

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p.289

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Two Lines wrote on the Wall in an Inn at St. Albans, 1548.

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Proceed great men at naval conquests cease

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p.289

Poem Title:

To the Peace-Makers.

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Beauty is but a vain and fleeting good

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pp.289-290

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Beauty's Value...From a very correct Manuscript.

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By William Shakespear.

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William Shakespeare

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Three different schemes philosophers assign

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pp.290-291

Poem Title:

On Chance and Predestination.

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To sea Tom and shakes he never will go

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p.290

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A good Riddance of Either

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Hence ye prophane I hate ye all

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pp.291-292

Poem Title:

Horace. Lib. III. Ode I. imitated

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Why Damon with the forward day

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p.293

Poem Title:

A Soliloquy

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Ah Celia where are now the charms

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pp.294-295

Poem Title:

To Celia, Upon her growing a little into Years.

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The fool that is wealthy is sure of a bride

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p.295

Poem Title:

Fools have Fortune

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Close in her hallowed grot where mildly bright

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pp.307-310

Poem Title:

Isis

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Backwards rode Filch who pockets used to rifle

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pp.319-320

Poem Title:

Filch at the Gallows

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Jove in distress the goddess Thetis brings

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p.320

Poem Title:

The Hoop

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Quoth Robin Tom take off thy can

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p.321

Poem Title:

A Dialogue between two British Sailors

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Whether inspired by heaven or moved by H--

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p.321

Poem Title:

On the Thanksgiving, and the Jubilee-Ball, that is to follow it.

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The sun that used to cheer our hearts

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p.322

Poem Title:

For the Night of the Fireworks.

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Dolly whose form by envy stands confessed

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p.326

Poem Title:

An Extempore Answer to the Extempore Panegyrick

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Dolly whose form could please in days of yore

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p.326

Poem Title:

An Extempore Panegyrick on her Majesty Dorothy Haterump.

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Briton behold if patriot worth be dear

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p.327

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Well girls such officers was ever aught so stupid

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p.328

Poem Title:

Queen D—thy's late Speech at the Dismission of her Privy Council.

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Well sirs such a rhymer so hobbingly stupid

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p.328

Poem Title:

Imitated.

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Asses milk half a pint take at six or before

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p.329

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Advice to a certain young Lady.

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Reader behold this monument of death

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p.330

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The following remarkable Inscription is taken from a new erected Tomb-Stone, in Islington Church-Yard.

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Isis reject not the advice I send

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p.340

Poem Title:

Advice to Oxf—d

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Who tell us matters go not well in

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pp.340-341

Poem Title:

Gentlemen Britons

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An arch and sturdy bellman of the town

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pp.342-344

Poem Title:

The Bellman and the Captain. A Tale.

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Whilst anxious mortals strive in vain

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pp.344-346

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Life the dear precarious boon

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pp.346-48 [i.e. 348]

Poem Title:

Life, an Ode

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This humble dirge O Kynnaston attends

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pp.350-353

Poem Title:

On the Death of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart. To Edward Kynnaston, Esq; Knight of the Shire for the County of Mountgomery.

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While fell corruption sets the realm to sale

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pp.353-355

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Without a friend without a foe

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pp.356-357

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The Present State of Europe. A new Edition.

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This feast O Britons with devotion heed

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p.357

Poem Title:

For All-Saints Day

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Why all asleep when justice bids you rise

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p.358

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To the Anti-Gallicans.

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If Roman geese could cackle Gauls away

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p.358

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On certain Stollers. An Epigram.

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Some doubt in part the story of this plot

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pp.358-359

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For Gunpowder Treason

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To form a Mstr the ingredients

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p.359

Poem Title:

The Grand Catholicon, Being a genuine Family Receipt

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What muse what numbers shall our anguish tell

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p.360

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Breetons my frippery countremans are come

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pp.364-365

Poem Title:

Prologue Spoke by Monsieur le Chevalier Desca—x. (Great Shadow of a Poet!) At the Opening of the Little French Playhouse.

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Conscience thou native guide of human kind

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pp.366-367

Poem Title:

Conscience. An Ode. In Imitation of the late Earl of Rochester.

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Floridore.

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A new year's ode God save the king

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pp.372-373

Poem Title:

Prognostications For the Year 1750

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Accept O king an humble muse's lay

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pp.376-377

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The following Lines, address'd to William King, L. L. D, Principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxon, and Author of a late celebrated Oration, are taken from the London Evening-Post.

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Religion in truth is an excellent thing

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pp.377-378

Poem Title:

Religion and Liberty; Or, C—t-Craft Display'd.

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On closing flowers when genial gales diffuse

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pp.387-394

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The Triumphs of Isis. A Poem. Occasion'd by Isis, an Elegy.

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When loud the blustering tempest roars

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pp.394-396

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In Imitation of the 16th Ode of the Second Book of Horace. Address'd to — —.

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May health and safety still attend

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pp.396-398

Poem Title:

The Tenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace, imitated. To a Friend at the Metropolis.

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Whence these returning throws convulsive throbs

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pp.398-400

Poem Title:

On the late Earthquakes.

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The rude inclement binding blast

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pp.400-402

Poem Title:

Return of the Spring. Horace, Book I. Ode 4. translated.

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In mournful lays whilst others justly grieved

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pp.409-410

Poem Title:

On the Death of the much-lamented Robert Hyde of Nerquis, Esq; lately deceased. An Elegy.

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Whilst your Devanus in exalted lays

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pp.411-412

Poem Title:

Thomae Kenyon filii natu maximi Lloyd Kenyon de Gredington in Com. Flint. armig.

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