A Collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 5] [T115893] [ECCO]

DMI number:

976

Publication Date:

1758

Volume Number:

5 of 6

ESTC number:

T115893

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW3310490427

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | IN SIX VOLUMES. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [Plate] | LONDON: Printed by J. HUGHS, | For R. and J. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall. | M DCC LVIII.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Other matter:

Index: pp.333-336

Related People

Printer:

J. Hughs

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

James Dodsley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

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Publisher:

Robert Dodsley

Confidence:

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Content/Publication

First Line:

While orient skies restore the day

Page No:

pp.1-13

Poem Title:

Rural Elegance: An Ode to the late Duchess of Somerset. Written in 1750.

Attribution:

By William Shenstone, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Shepherd wouldst thou here obtain

Page No:

pp.13-15

Poem Title:

Inscription near a Sheep-cote. 1745.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

The western sky was purpled over

Page No:

pp.16-18

Poem Title:

Nancy of the Vale. A Ballad.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Ah why for ever on the wing

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

Ode to Indolence, 1750.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

O health capricious maid

Page No:

pp.21-24

Poem Title:

Ode to Health, 1730.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Ah what is science what is art

Page No:

pp.24-25

Poem Title:

To a Lady of Quality, Fitting up her Library, 1738.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

On fair Asteria's blissful plains

Page No:

pp.26-27

Poem Title:

Upon a Visit to the same in Winter, 1748.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Too long a stranger to repose

Page No:

pp.28-32

Poem Title:

An irregular Ode after Sickness, 1749.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Twas in a cool Aonian glade

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

Anacreontick. 1738.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Twas not by beauty's aid alone

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

Ode. Written 1739.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

A tear bedews my Delia's eye

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

The Dying Kid.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

How pleased within my native bowers

Page No:

pp.38-39

Poem Title:

Song II. The Landskip.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

I told my nymph I told her true

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

Song I.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Ye gentle nymphs and generous dames

Page No:

p.pp.39-40

Poem Title:

Song III.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Go tuneful bird that gladdest the skies

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

Song IV. The Sky-Lark.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

On every tree in every plain

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Song V.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Yes Fulvia is like Venus fair

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

Song VI. The Attribute of Venus.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Twas in a land of learning

Page No:

pp.42-45

Poem Title:

The Rape of the Trap, a Ballad; written at College, 1736.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

What village but has often seen

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

A Simile. By the Same.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Sir will you please to walk before

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

The Ceremonial.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Hail curious wights to whom so fair

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

The Beau to the Virtuosos; alluding to a Proposal for the Publication of a Set of Butterflies.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Have you not seen my gentle squire

Page No:

pp.49-51

Poem Title:

Verses to a Friend.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To thee fair freedom I retire

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

Written at an Inn on a particular Occasion.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I asked a friend amidst the throng

Page No:

pp.52-53

Poem Title:

The Price of an Equipage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From Lincoln to London rode forth our young squire

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

A Ballad.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Tom to Cambridge first was sent

Page No:

pp.54-55

Poem Title:

The Extent of Cookery.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Says Richard to Thomas and seemed half afraid

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

The Progress of Advice. A common Case.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath a churchyard yew

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

Slender's Ghost.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Have you not known a small machine

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

Upon Riddles.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah boast not those obscuring lays

Page No:

pp.58-59

Poem Title:

Verses to a Writer of Riddles.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Resolve me Strephon what is this

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

To ******

Attribution:

By Anthony Whistler, Esq;

Attributed To:

Anthony Whistler

First Line:

Let wisdom boast her mighty power

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Anthony Whistler, Esq;]

Attributed To:

Anthony Whistler

First Line:

Glide smoothly on thou silver Thames

Page No:

p.62

Poem Title:

To Lady Fane on her Grotto at Basilden. 1746.

Attribution:

By Mr. Graves.

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

What mortal burns not with the love of fame

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

The Invisible.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Graves.]

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

The squire had dined alone one day

Page No:

pp.63-66

Poem Title:

The Pepper-box and Salt-seller. A Fable. To * * * * * Esq;

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Graves.]

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

Thus real genius is respected

Page No:

p.66

Poem Title:

Moral.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Graves.]

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

Each saucy cit who strolls from town

Page No:

pp.67-69

Poem Title:

Written near Bath. 1755.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Graves.]

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

These spotless leaves this neat array

Page No:

pp.70-72

Poem Title:

Verses to William Shenstone, Esq; On receiving a Gilt Pocket-Book. 1751.

Attribution:

By Mr. Jago.

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

Ere yellow autumn from our plains retired

Page No:

pp.72-75

Poem Title:

The Swallows. Written September, 1748.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Jago.]

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

At length the winter's surly blasts are over

Page No:

pp.75-77

Poem Title:

Part II. Written April, 1749.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Jago.]

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

The tuneful choir in amorous strains

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

Valentine's Day.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Jago.]

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

Awake my muse prepare a loftier theme

Page No:

pp.78-82

Poem Title:

The Scavengers. A Town Eclogue. In the Manner of Swift.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Jago.]

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

To print or not to print that is the question

Page No:

pp.82-83

Poem Title:

Hamlet's Soliloquy, Imitated.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Jago.]

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

Seek not in these paths to view

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

Transcrib'd from the Rev. Mr. Pixel's Parsonage Garden near Birmingham, 1757.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With bounteous hand the gracious king of heaven

Page No:

pp.84-87

Poem Title:

Malvern Spa, 1757. Inscribed to Dr. Wall.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Perry.

Attributed To:

John Perry

First Line:

Hark what a mournful solemn sound

Page No:

pp.87-89

Poem Title:

Some Reflections upon hearing the Bell toll for the Death of a Friend.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. G.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O come thou melancholy muse

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

The Robin: An Elegy. Written at the close of Autumn, 1756.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. J. G.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If ever sharp sorrow from thine eyes did flow

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

An Epitaph.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. J. G.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As once the muse reclining on her lyre

Page No:

pp.93-95

Poem Title:

Ut Pictura Poesis.

Attribution:

By Mr. Nourse, late of All-Souls College Oxon, 1741.

Attributed To:

John Nourse

First Line:

Sceptre of ease whose calm domain extends

Page No:

pp.95-98

Poem Title:

Vacuna.

Attribution:

By Mr. D----.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What ken mine eyes enchanted man of ease

Page No:

pp.98-101

Poem Title:

On J. W. ranging Pamphlets.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. D----.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye nymphs that from Diana's sport retired

Page No:

pp.102-104

Poem Title:

Epithalamium.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. D----.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy sanguine hope completed in a boy

Page No:

pp.104-105

Poem Title:

To a Gentleman, On the Birth-day of his First Son.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There are it seems who think the natal star

Page No:

pp.105-106

Poem Title:

On two friends born on the same day.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. D----.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The man whose constitution's strong

Page No:

pp.107-109

Poem Title:

A Winter Thought.

Attribution:

By J. Earl.

Attributed To:

Jabez Earle

First Line:

Stella and Flavia every hour

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. J. Earl.]

Attributed To:

Jabez Earle

First Line:

How like you sir the splendor of today

Page No:

pp.111-117

Poem Title:

Verses spoken at Westminster School.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sir | While at the helm of state you ride

Page No:

pp.117-118

Poem Title:

A Letter to Sir Robert Walpole.

Attribution:

By the late Henry Fielding.

Attributed To:

Henry Fielding

First Line:

If yet great sir your heart can comfort know

Page No:

pp.119-130

Poem Title:

An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King, after the Battle of Ramillies.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pardon great duke if Britain's style delights

Page No:

pp.130-132

Poem Title:

To the Duke of Marlborough.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why should I thus employ my time

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

An Ode on Miss Harriet Hanbury at Six Years old.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

Dear doctor of St Mary's

Page No:

pp.134-135

Poem Title:

A Song. Upon Miss Harriet Hanbury, address'd to the Rev. Mr. Birt.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

What glorious verse from love has sprung

Page No:

pp.136-138

Poem Title:

To Mr. Garnier and Mr. Pearce of Bath. A grateful ODE, In return for the extraordinary Kindness and Humanity they shewed to me and my eldest Daughter, now Lady Essex, 1753.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

Yet a few years or days perhaps

Page No:

pp.138-143

Poem Title:

Ode to Death. Translated from the French of the King of Prussia.

Attribution:

By Dr. Hawksworth.

Attributed To:

John Hawkesworth

First Line:

Lend thy voice celestial maid

Page No:

pp.143-146

Poem Title:

The Hymns of Dionysius: Translated from the Greek.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Merrick.

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow

Page No:

pp.147-155

Poem Title:

A Satire in the Manner of Persius, in a Dialogue between Atticus and Eugenio.

Attribution:

By the late Lord Hervey.

Attributed To:

John Hervey

First Line:

Apollo of old on Britannia did smile

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Bindon at Bath.

Attribution:

By the Honourable Sir C. H. Williams.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

I'll not believe that Phoebus did not smile

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

Sir Charles's Reply.

Attribution:

Sir Charles [Hanbury Williams]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

When home I returned from the dancing last night

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

Mrs. Bindon's Answer.

Attribution:

Mrs. Bindon

Attributed To:

Mrs Bindon

First Line:

Your compliments dear lady pray forbear

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

To a Lady, who sent Compliments to a Clergyman upon the Ten of Hearts.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Adieu awhile forsaken flood

Page No:

pp.159-168

Poem Title:

The Grotto. [...] Printed in the Year 1732, but never published.

Attribution:

Written by the late Mr. Green of the Custom-House, under the Name of Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford.

Attributed To:

Matthew Green

First Line:

Our wits Apollo's influence beg

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

The Grotto. [...] Printed in the Year 1732, but never published.

Attribution:

Written by the late Mr. Green of the Custom-House, under the Name of Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford.

Attributed To:

Matthew Green

First Line:

My dears tis said in days of old

Page No:

pp.169-174

Poem Title:

The Bee, the Ant, and the Sparrow: A Fable. Address'd to Phebe and Kitty C. at Boarding School.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With gallant pomp and beauteous pride

Page No:

pp.174-177

Poem Title:

Ode on a Storm.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come near ye nations and give ear o earth

Page No:

pp.177-182

Poem Title:

Isaiah XXXIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Idumea and the nations round

Page No:

pp.183-188

Poem Title:

Isaiah XXXV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Kind heaven at length successfully implored

Page No:

pp.188-201

Poem Title:

Woodstock Park. A Poem.

Attribution:

By William Harrison. 1706.

Attributed To:

William Harrison

First Line:

Farewell vain world and thou its vainest part

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

A Fit of the Spleen. In Imitation of Shakespear.

Attribution:

By Dr. Ibbot.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Ibbot

First Line:

Naiad of this healthful stream

Page No:

pp.204-209

Poem Title:

Hymn to Miss Laurence, in the Pump-Room. Bath, 1752.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My earliest flame to whom I owe

Page No:

pp.210-212

Poem Title:

A Letter to Corina from a Captain in Country Quarters.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If virtue prompt thy willing mind

Page No:

pp.213-219

Poem Title:

A Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Merrick.

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

How short is life's uncertain space

Page No:

pp.219-220

Poem Title:

The Wish.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Merrick.]

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

As two young bears in wanton mood

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

The Bears and the Bees. A Fable.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Merrick.]

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

When recent in the womb I lay

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

A Fragment.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Merrick.]

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

Oft has it been my lot to mark

Page No:

pp.223-225

Poem Title:

The Camelion: A Fable after Monsieur de la Motte.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Merrick.]

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

When black-browed night her dusky mantle spread

Page No:

pp.226-238

Poem Title:

Immortality: or, the Consolation of Human Life. A Monody.

Attribution:

By Thomas Denton, M. A.

Attributed To:

Thomas Denton

First Line:

Langton dear partner of my soul

Page No:

pp.239-240

Poem Title:

To the Memory of a Gentleman, who died on his Travels to Rome. Written in 1738.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Dr. Shipley.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Shipley

First Line:

Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet

Page No:

pp.240-243

Poem Title:

Captain T--- of Battereau's Regiment in the Isle of Skie to Captain P--- at Fort Augustus.

Attribution:

C. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Time flies so you and Horace sing

Page No:

pp.244-248

Poem Title:

To Mr. J. H. at the Temple, occasioned by a Translation of an Epistle of Horace. 1730.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. S----, of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sir | Promises are different cases

Page No:

pp.248-251

Poem Title:

To the Rev. Mr. J. S. 1731.

Attribution:

By J. H.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My dearest boy

Page No:

pp.251-253

Poem Title:

Answer to the foregoing, 1731.

Attribution:

By J. S.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Adam alone could not be easy

Page No:

pp.253-254

Poem Title:

[Untitled]

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. J. S.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To deck her bosom Chloe chose

Page No:

pp.254-256

Poem Title:

Cupid and Chloe.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. J. S.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wonder not faithless woman if you see

Page No:

pp.256-257

Poem Title:

The Poet to his false Mistress.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. J. S.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold the lordly pedant in his school

Page No:

p.257

Poem Title:

On Mr. ****, Schoolmaster at ***.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. J. S.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The Mountain Briton first of men who framed

Page No:

pp.258-268

Poem Title:

Kambromyomaxiaa: Or The Mouse-Trap; Being a Translation of Mr. Holdsworth's* Muscipula, 1737.

Attribution:

By * * * *.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O vanity of age untoward

Page No:

pp.269-270

Poem Title:

Plate I. Scene, The room of the miserly father.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By * * * *.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Prosperity with harlot's smiles

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

Plate II. The rake's levee.

Attribution:

By the Same. [* * * *, Attributed p. 269]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O vanity of youthful blood

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

Plate III. A brothel.

Attribution:

By the Same. [* * * *, Attributed p. 269]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O vanity of youthful blood

Page No:

pp.271-272

Poem Title:

Plate IV. St. James's street where the rake is arrested.

Attribution:

By the Same. [* * * *, Attributed p. 269]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gold thou bright son of Phoebus source

Page No:

pp.272-273

Poem Title:

Plate VI. A gaming house.

Attribution:

By the Same. [* * * *, Attributed p. 269]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

New to the school of hard mishap

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

Plate V. Marybone church, where he marries a rich old woman.

Attribution:

By the Same. [* * * *, Attributed p. 269]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Happy the man whose constant thought

Page No:

pp.273-274

Poem Title:

Plate VII. A prison.

Attribution:

By the Same. [* * * *, Attributed p. 269]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Madness thou chaos of the brain

Page No:

p.274

Poem Title:

Plate VIII. Bethle'm.

Attribution:

By the Same. [* * * *, Attributed p. 269]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In shape in air in face and voice

Page No:

pp.276-277

Poem Title:

Chloe's unknown Likeness, 1738.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Grown sick of crowds and noise

Page No:

pp.277-278

Poem Title:

The Bird of Passage, 1749.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our father's victims the two Henries see

Page No:

p.279

Poem Title:

Verses said to be fixed on the Gate of the Louvre at Paris. 1751. [...] English.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Chloe on flowers reclined over the stream

Page No:

pp.280-281

Poem Title:

Chloe resolved. A Ballad. Set to Music by Dr. Green. 1743.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A plague upon all cowards still I say

Page No:

pp.281-282

Poem Title:

Epilogue to Shakespear's first Part of King Henry IV, Acted by Young Gentlemen at Mr. Newcome's School at Hackney, 1748; Spoken by Mr. J. Y. in the Character of Falstaff, Push'd in upon the Stage by Prince Henry.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well I've been beating up for volunteers

Page No:

pp.283-285

Poem Title:

Prologue to Comus. Performed for the Benefit of the General Hospital at Bath, 1756. And spoken by Miss Morrison, in the Character of a Lady of Fashion.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wouldst thou by Attic taste approved

Page No:

p.285

Poem Title:

Martial, Book IV. Ep. 87.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Before a swan behind a crow

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

Book III. Ep. 43.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Curmudgeon the rich widow courts

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

Book I. Ep. 11.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Arria from her wounded side

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

Book I. Ep. 14.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When dukes in town ask thee to dine

Page No:

pp.286-287

Poem Title:

Book VII. Ep. 75.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With lace bedizened comes the man

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

Book IV. Ep. 78.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Alike in temper and in life

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

Book VIII. Ep. 35

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * * ]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Is there to enroll amongst the friendly few

Page No:

pp.287-288

Poem Title:

Book I. Ep. 40.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ned is a sober fellow they pretend

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

Book XII. Ep. 30.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You sell your wife's rich jewels lace and clothes

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

Book XII. Ep. 103

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your teeth from Hemmet and your hair from Bolney

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

Book XII. Ep. 23.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Happy the worms that spun their lives away

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

A very gallant Copy of Verses, (but somewhat silly) upon the Ladies, and their fine Cloaths at a Ball.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Taylor.

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

How strangely doth the power of custom rule

Page No:

pp.289-290

Poem Title:

Another on the same Subject, written with more Judgment, but fewer good Manners.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

Honest William an easy and good natured fellow

Page No:

pp.290-291

Poem Title:

The Brewer's Coachman.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

Mother Breedwell presented her husband each year

Page No:

pp.291-292

Poem Title:

Female Caution.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

Quoth John to his teacher good sir if you please

Page No:

pp.292-293

Poem Title:

Orthodox Advice.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

Long time did a silly old proverb prevail

Page No:

pp.293-294

Poem Title:

Hull Ale.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

It blew an hard storm and in utmost confusion

Page No:

p.294

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

A drunken old Scot by the rigorous sentence

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A cannon ball one bloody day

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

The Mistake.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

O favourite muse of Shenstone hear

Page No:

pp.296-297

Poem Title:

Upon an Alcove, now at Parson's Green.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Right wele of lerned clerkis is it sed

Page No:

p.296

Poem Title:

A Fragment of Chaucer.

Attribution:

By J. H. Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Between the smooth descent of yonder hills

Page No:

pp.298-301

Poem Title:

The Country Parson.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Bathian Venus the other day

Page No:

pp.302-305

Poem Title:

Plain Truth.

Attribution:

By Henry Fielding, Esq;

Attributed To:

Henry Fielding

First Line:

Are these thy palms oh queen of love

Page No:

pp.305-306

Poem Title:

Ode to Venus, from her Votaries of the Street.

Attribution:

By * * * * *

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I dropped a thing in verse without a name

Page No:

pp.306-307

Poem Title:

An Epigram.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The glow-worm scribblers of a feeble age

Page No:

pp.307-308

Poem Title:

The Poet's Importance.

Attribution:

By Dr. H * * *

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Spite of beauty air and grace

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

To Polly Laurence, quitting the Pump. Bath, January 1756.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While soft through water earth and air

Page No:

pp.309-310

Poem Title:

Ode, to a Lady in London.

Attribution:

By Miss C * * *

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail genial goddess blooming spring

Page No:

pp.311-312

Poem Title:

Ode to Spring.

Attribution:

By Miss. F.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sister of Phoebus gentle queen

Page No:

pp.312-313

Poem Title:

Ode to Cynthia.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss F.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sweet warbler to whose artless song

Page No:

pp.313-314

Poem Title:

Ode to a Thrush.

Attribution:

By Miss P * * *

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah me that restless bliss so soon should fly

Page No:

pp.314-316

Poem Title:

Elegy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Vain are these pomps thy funeral rites to grace

Page No:

pp.316-323

Poem Title:

A Poem To the Memory of Thomas, Late Marquis of Wharton, Lord Privy Seal.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Kind relief in all my pain

Page No:

pp.323-324

Poem Title:

Paraphrase upon a French Song.

Attribution:

By the late William Somervile, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Somervile

First Line:

What time the jocund rosy bosomed hours

Page No:

pp.325-332

Poem Title:

The Tomb of Shakespear. A Vision.

Attribution:

By John Gilbert Cooper, Esq;

Attributed To:

John Gilbert Cooper