The Edinburgh miscellany consisting of original poems, translations &c. [T217136]

DMI number:

448

Publication Date:

1720

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T217136

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB130573465

Shelfmark:

NLS Hall.195.j

Full Title:

FULL TITLE: THE | [i]Edinburgh Miscellany:[/i] | Consisting of | ORIGINAL POEMS, | TRANSLATIONS, &c. | [rule] | [g]By Various Hands.[/g] | [rule] | VOL. I. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]EDINBURGH[/i], | Printed by J. McEUEN and COMPANY, and to | be sold at the said [i]J. McEuen[/i]'s Shop in [i]Edinburgh[/i], | MDCCXX. HALF TITLE: THE | Edinburgh Miscellany: | Consisting of | ORIGINAL POEMS | TRANSLATIONS, &c. |

Epigraph:

[i]Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.[/i] | HOR.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Genres:

Collection of Scottish verse

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

i-iv [v-ix], 1-271 pp.

Bibliographic details:

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: Reissue with cancelled gathering: replacing a Jacobite poem with one less controversial?? HALF TITLE: THE | Edinburgh Miscellany: | Consisting of | ORIGINAL POEMS | TRANSLATIONS, &c. |

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATTER: Dedication to 'the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Lauderdale' signed 'the Publishers' (1pp.); Preface signed 'W. C' (pp. i-iv); Contents (3pp).

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Publication Date:

1720

ESTC No:

T203985

Volume:

1 of 1

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Title:

The Edinburgh miscellany consisting of original poems, translations &c. [2nd ed] [T72439]

Publication Date:

1720

ESTC No:

T72439

Volume:

1 of 1

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Dedicatee:

Charles Maitland

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

J. M'Euen

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Upon a time the fairy elves

Page No:

pp.1-2

Poem Title:

On the King of Fairy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No sooner was their king attired

Page No:

pp.3-4

Poem Title:

On the Queen.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I sing no triumphs nor such empty things

Page No:

pp.4-24

Poem Title:

Caelia's Country-House and Closet.

Attribution:

By Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, Advocate to K. Charles II. and K. James VII.

Attributed To:

Sir George Mackenzie

First Line:

Though I refused to tell off hand

Page No:

pp.24-26

Poem Title:

The Character of a Beau ... In a Letter to her intimate Friend.

Attribution:

By a young Lady, / C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Clarissa first appears that heavenly fair

Page No:

pp.27-29

Poem Title:

A Walk on Glasgow Green.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Enough my friend for tis in vain

Page No:

pp.29-32

Poem Title:

Horace's Ode XI. Book II. Imitated in a Letter to a Friend.

Attribution:

L.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When heaven's great Jove had made the world's round frame

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

In Praise of Women,

Attribution:

By Montrose

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

What means this noise thou poor inglorious stream

Page No:

pp.33-36

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a certain Person, Occasion'd by his Pride upon sudden Advancement, From the Italian of Fulvio Testi to Count Montecuccoli.

Attribution:

O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What wondrous art what genius brightly shines

Page No:

pp.36-38

Poem Title:

On Mr. Addison's Campaign.

Attribution:

B.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Pallas from the labouring brain of Jove

Page No:

pp.39-41

Poem Title:

A Poem Upon the Young-Company of Archers.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tho. Boyd.

Attributed To:

Thomas Boyd

First Line:

You mind dear Chloris t'other day

Page No:

pp.41-45

Poem Title:

To Chloris. Proving against her that Things are best, tho' not always most pleasing.

Attribution:

L.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By the side of a nobleman's house

Page No:

pp.45-48

Poem Title:

The jolly poor Poet. In Imitation of Colin's Complaint.

Attribution:

I.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As poets in the days of yore

Page No:

pp.48-56

Poem Title:

A Trip to Bar-le-duc.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

One evening the loveliest pair

Page No:

pp.57-59

Poem Title:

Horace's Ode IX. Book III. Imitated to the Tune of Colin's Complaint.

Attribution:

By Mr. James Arbuckle

Attributed To:

James Arbuckle

First Line:

The man that no indulgence gives

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

Horace's Ode XXII. Book I.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Arbuckle]

Attributed To:

James Arbuckle

First Line:

O tempt me not with flattering snares

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

A Song

Attribution:

by a young Lady

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My dear and only love I pray

Page No:

pp.62-64

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

These seven following by Montrose

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

My dear and only love take heed

Page No:

pp.64-67

Poem Title:

The Second Part.

Attribution:

by Montrose

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

There's nothing in the world can prove

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

II.

Attribution:

...by Montrose...

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

Unhappy is the man

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

III.

Attribution:

by Montrose

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

Burst out my soul in main of tears

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

IV.

Attribution:

by Montrose

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

Can little beasts with lions roar

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

V.

Attribution:

by Montrose

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

Great good and just could I but rate

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

VI. Epitaph on King Charles I.

Attribution:

...by Montrose...

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

Let them bestow on every airth a limb

Page No:

pp.71-72

Poem Title:

VII. On Himself, upon hearing what was his Sentence.

Attribution:

by Montrose

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

But whilst the Christian army laboured hard

Page No:

pp.72-76

Poem Title:

Lucifer's Speech, Out of the Eight [sic] Book of Tasso's Jerusalem. In Imitation of Milton's Stile.

Attribution:

R.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though I consented first and still approve

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

An Epistle From a Lady in Edinburgh, to her Lover on his Travels abroad. A Fragment.

Attribution:

C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our task tonight ye sons of Glotta know

Page No:

pp.79-81

Poem Title:

Prologue to Cato, Spoke in Glasgow May 28th 1719.

Attribution:

A.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here wholly freed from censures of the pit

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

Epilogue to Cato, Spoke in Glasgow, May 28th 1719.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now we may speak since rugged Cato's gone

Page No:

pp.82-84

Poem Title:

Epilogue intended for Cato.

Attribution:

A.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let Cupid weep and Venus' tears

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

Catullus de passere mortuo Lesbiae, imitated.

Attribution:

A.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Soon as the tidings came to David's ears

Page No:

pp.86-91

Poem Title:

David’s Elegy On the Death of Saul and Jonathan. Done into English Verse, from 2 Sam. i. 19, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Most gracious sovereign please to excuse

Page No:

pp.92-101

Poem Title:

The Poets Petition for Wine. Address'd to the King.

Attribution:

D.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sir | when I'm long absent from your house

Page No:

pp.102-103

Poem Title:

To a very Poring and Speculative Gentleman.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hume.

Attributed To:

Mr. Hume

First Line:

When on the thoughtless thing I cast mine eyes

Page No:

pp.103-104

Poem Title:

On a certain dull Beau at the Play-House.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Hume.]

Attributed To:

Mr. Hume

First Line:

Misers say can hoarded gold

Page No:

pp.104-105

Poem Title:

Ode xxiii. of Anacreon, Englished...On Gold.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Hume.]

Attributed To:

Mr. Hume

First Line:

Observe ye beaus Belinda walking

Page No:

pp.105-106

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Hume.]

Attributed To:

Mr. Hume

First Line:

Colin by promise being obliged to pay

Page No:

pp.106-110

Poem Title:

The Poor Client's Complaint. Paraphras'd out of Buchanan.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas in the pleasant month of May

Page No:

pp.110-112

Poem Title:

The Hawk and the Nightingale.

Attribution:

By a Student in the University, in his Fifteen [sic] Year.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On the frontier of a mountain

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Song, Occasion'd by the Absence of his Friend.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. By a Student in the University, in his Fifteen [sic] Year].

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While you dear Strephon with unwearied pain

Page No:

pp.114-116

Poem Title:

Verses Sent to His Friend, With a Hare taken by his Hound in the Country.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. By a Student in the University, in his Fifteen [sic] Year].

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To thee dear friend who pruned my fluttering wing

Page No:

pp.116-118

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. M----l.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. By a Student in the University, in his Fifteen [sic] Year].

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye swains that are courting a maid

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. By a Student in the University, in his Fifteen [sic] Year].

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While other poets different patrons choose

Page No:

pp.120-123

Poem Title:

An Address to the Masters in the University of Edinburgh.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. By a Student in the University, in his Fifteen [sic] Year]. J.C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While you in fair Augusta justly great

Page No:

pp.123-128

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hepburn.

Attributed To:

Mr. Hepburn

First Line:

I own the glorious subject fires my breast

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

Of Love to his Country.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Hepburn.]

Attributed To:

Mr. Hepburn

First Line:

How bright O lord's thy majesty divine

Page No:

pp.129-131

Poem Title:

Of the Glory of God and Heaven.

Attribution:

B.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold the slaughter of a cursed race

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

On the X. Chapter of Joshua.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. B.].

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold the rendezvous of kings unite

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

On the XI. Chapter of Joshua.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. B.].

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fond to survey the graces of the fair

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

Verses Occasion'd by the Dancing of two young Ladies at the Author's Request.

Attribution:

D.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where's now that thundering arm that lately shook

Page No:

pp.135-139

Poem Title:

The XIV. Chapter of Isaiah's Prophecy, from Verse 4. Paraphras'd in Blank Verse.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye sacred nine a beardless boy inspire

Page No:

pp.140-144

Poem Title:

The Penitent Prude. Written in a Pastoral Strain.

Attribution:

By a Boy of Fourteen. / S.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O sacred Phoebus thy assistance bring

Page No:

pp.144-147

Poem Title:

Panthea Lamentation.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. S / Boy of Fourteen]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why dearest Damon why so sad art thou

Page No:

pp.147-151

Poem Title:

The Shepherd's Recovery.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. S / Boy of Fourteen]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Reynard that intriguing sinner

Page No:

pp.151-152

Poem Title:

The Fable of the Fox and Grapes.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. S/ Boy of Fourteen]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Just so I heard a friend of mine

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

Reflection.

Attribution:

S.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When storms the hardy sailor overtake

Page No:

pp.153-154

Poem Title:

Horace's Ode xvi. Book III.

Attribution:

Translated by Mr. James Arbuckle.

Attributed To:

James Arbuckle

First Line:

The ills your ancestors have done

Page No:

pp.155-158

Poem Title:

Ode vi. Book III.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Arbuckle.]

Attributed To:

James Arbuckle

First Line:

Ye muses loves and graces now prepare

Page No:

pp.158-160

Poem Title:

Epithalamium On the Marriage of My Lord ---- with Lady ----

Attribution:

By a young Lady of the Fair Intellectual Club, present at the Marriage. / H.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Young Damon wounded with a dart

Page No:

pp.160-161

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. By a young Lady of the Fair Intellectual Club] / H.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Prologues to plays are now so common grown

Page No:

pp.162-163

Poem Title:

Prologue To Love at first Sight.

Attribution:

By Mr. Crawford.

Attributed To:

Mr. Crawford

First Line:

Well sirs you now expect an epilogue

Page No:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

Epilogue.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Crawford.]

Attributed To:

Mr. Crawford

First Line:

There is no worldly pleasure here below

Page No:

pp.164-166

Poem Title:

On Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I loved thee once I'll love no more

Page No:

pp.166-167

Poem Title:

On a Woman's Inconstancy, and the Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou that loved once now lovest no more

Page No:

pp.168-169

Poem Title:

The Answer, by the Author, at the King's Majesty's Command.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our love of others is but sense

Page No:

pp.169-171

Poem Title:

The Parallel.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I have too long endured her guilty scorn

Page No:

pp.171-174

Poem Title:

A Paraphrastical Translation of Ovid's X. Elegy, Lib. iii. Amorum.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis not your beauty nor your wit

Page No:

pp.174-176

Poem Title:

The Indifferent Lover.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The adamant doth draw indeed

Page No:

pp.176-177

Poem Title:

The Constant Lover.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come away do not pursue

Page No:

pp.177-179

Poem Title:

A Diswasive from Women.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stay o stay and still pursue

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

An Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Aurelia first I courted

Page No:

pp.180-181

Poem Title:

On the Lady Cast----n.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I do confess thou art smooth and fair

Page No:

pp.181-182

Poem Title:

Inconstancy Reproved.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye friendly swains who mourned Menalcas fate

Page No:

pp.183-186

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of her deceast Lover.

Attribution:

By a young Lady, a Member of the Fair Intellectual Club. / H.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To thee Orinda I may safely send

Page No:

pp.187-188

Poem Title:

To The Countess of ---- Concerning The Present State of Love and Poetry.

Attribution:

By a Member of the Fair Intellectual Club. / C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Bright Phoebus ruler of the day

Page No:

pp.189-192

Poem Title:

A Hymn to Phoebus, On New-Year's-Day, 1718.

Attribution:

By a young Gentleman in the University.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I hate the clamours of the smoky towns

Page No:

pp.193-197

Poem Title:

Of A Country Life.

Attribution:

By a Student in the University. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Warned by the summer sun's meridian ray

Page No:

pp.197-203

Poem Title:

Upon Happiness.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. By a Student in the University. /T.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Madam the flower that I received from you

Page No:

pp.203-204

Poem Title:

Verses On receiving a Flower from his Mistress.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. By a Student in the University. /T.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The mountain of the Delphian god

Page No:

pp.204-205

Poem Title:

Horace, Book I. Ode xiii.

Attribution:

By Mr. James Arbuckle.

Attributed To:

James Arbuckle

First Line:

Let rugged Thracians savage souls

Page No:

pp.206-207

Poem Title:

Ode xxvii.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Arbuckle.]

Attributed To:

James Arbuckle

First Line:

Dear Phoebus since in love we see

Page No:

pp.207-209

Poem Title:

Ode iv. Book II.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Arbuckle.]

Attributed To:

James Arbuckle

First Line:

Great offspring of the Tyrrhene kings

Page No:

pp.209-213

Poem Title:

Ode xxix. Book III.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Arbuckle.]

Attributed To:

James Arbuckle

First Line:

The snows are fled along the plain

Page No:

pp.213-215

Poem Title:

Ode vii. Book IV.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Arbuckle.]

Attributed To:

James Arbuckle

First Line:

Twas night the sky serene and fair

Page No:

pp.216-217

Poem Title:

Epod xvii.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Arbuckle.]

Attributed To:

James Arbuckle

First Line:

Why all in tears Menalcas prithee tell

Page No:

pp.218-222

Poem Title:

Philander. A Pastoral On the Death of James Duke of Hamilton.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The tender muse but now revealed to day

Page No:

pp.223-228

Poem Title:

A Pastoral, Inscrib'd to Mr. M----l.

Attribution:

By a Youth in his Fifteenth Year.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'm lovely as the rose whose blushing pride

Page No:

pp.229-231

Poem Title:

Chapter II. of Solomon's Song.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. By a Youth in his Fifteenth Year.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye shades and blissful scenes of secret love

Page No:

pp.232-233

Poem Title:

The Grove or Interview.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. By a Youth in his Fifteenth Year.] / D.M.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To thee dear friend I must impart

Page No:

pp.234-236

Poem Title:

Of A Swallow's Nest.

Attribution:

By a Lady, in a Letter to her Friend. / P

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In Babylon where ramparts rose on high

Page No:

pp.237-243

Poem Title:

Ovid's Fable of Pyramus and Thisbe Translated.

Attribution:

B.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What tender youth on bed of roses

Page No:

pp.243-245

Poem Title:

An Allusion to the Fifth Ode of Horace Book I.

Attribution:

By Mr. C--m--t--n

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sharp winter's blasts the grateful spring expels

Page No:

pp.245-246

Poem Title:

A Translation of Horace's Fourth Ode, Book I.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. C--m--t--n]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let other poets all their art employ

Page No:

pp.246-252

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Elegy.

Attribution:

By a young Gentleman in the University. / S.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Lydia when her heart is kind appears

Page No:

pp.252-254

Poem Title:

The Day chang'd: A Poem in blank Verse.

Attribution:

By a Boy in the University to his Governour. / W.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See Celia see where fair Evadne lies

Page No:

pp.254-259

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Elegy To the Memory of Mr. Foord.

Attribution:

By a Lady. / F.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The nuptial day and genial bed I sing

Page No:

pp.259-263

Poem Title:

Epithalamium On The Marriage of a Friend.

Attribution:

By a Boy in his Fifteenth Year. / D.M.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail powerful sleep who on thy downy breast

Page No:

pp.264-268

Poem Title:

On Sleep, In Imitation of the E--- of R------ Stile in his Copy of Verses on Nothing.

Attribution:

J.B.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Enough my soul of earthly joys

Page No:

pp.269-271

Poem Title:

The Elevation.

Attribution:

By Mr. C.----r.

Attributed To:

Not attributed