A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 5] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
- DMI number:
- 1635
- Publication Date:
- 1775
- Volume Number:
- 5 of 6
- ESTC number:
- T144724
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- N/A
- Shelfmark:
- BL 11613.de.4
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | IN SIX VOLUMES. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [ornament] | LONDON: | Printed for J. DODSLEY, in PALL-MALL. | M DCC LXXV.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Miscellaneous collection
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [2], [1]-336.
- Bibliographic details:
- HALF-TITLE: [ornamental rule] | A | COLLECTION of POEMS. | VOL. V. | [ornamental rule] ESTC T144724 describes the 1775 octavo edition, this is a duodecimo from the same year, unrecorded.
- Other matter:
- BACK MATTER: Index pp.333-336
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 1] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
- Publication Date:
- 1775
- ESTC No:
- T144724
- Volume:
- 1 of 6
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
- Publication Date:
- 1775
- ESTC No:
- T144724
- Volume:
- 2 of 6
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 3] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
- Publication Date:
- 1775
- ESTC No:
- T144724
- Volume:
- 3 of 6
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 4] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
- Publication Date:
- 1775
- ESTC No:
- T144724
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 6] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
- Publication Date:
- 1775
- ESTC No:
- T144724
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Robert Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- James Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 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 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:
- Anacreontic. 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 Landscape.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [p.38] [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:
- pp.39-40
- Poem Title:
- Song III.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [p.38] [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. [p.38] [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. [p.38] [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. [p.38] [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.
- 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:
- p.60
- 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. Whistler]
- 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 Basildon. 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. 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. Graves]
- Attributed To:
- Richard Graves
- First Line:
- Thus real genius is respected
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- Moral.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [p.63] [i.e. 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. 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. 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. [p.72] [i.e. 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. 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. 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. Jago]
- Attributed To:
- Richard Jago
- First Line:
- Seek not in these paths to view
- Page No:
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- Transcrib'd form the Rev. Mr. Pixel's Parsonage Garden near Bermingham, 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 Dr. D----. 1739.
- 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. Dr. D----.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye nymphs that from Diana's sport retired
- Page No:
- pp.102-104
- Poem Title:
- Epithalamium. John Dodd, Esq; and Miss St. Leger.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Dr. D----]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thy sanguine hope completed in a boy
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Dodd, on the Birthday of his Son.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Dr. D----]
- 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, Mr. Horace Walpole and Mr. Dodd, born on the same Day.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Dr. 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. Earl]
- Attributed To:
- Jabez Earle
- First Line:
- How like you sir the splendor of the day
- 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, Esq;
- 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 Reverend Mr. Birt.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams]
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
- First Line:
- What glorious verse from love has sprung
- Page No:
- pp.138-140
- 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. 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. Hawkesworth.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawkesworth
- First Line:
- Lend thy voice celestial maid
- Page No:
- pp.143-146
- Poem Title:
- The Hymn 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
- 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:
- 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.189-201
- 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, 1753.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My earliest flame to whom I owe
- Page No:
- pp.210-212
- Poem Title:
- A Letter to Corinna 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. Merrick]
- Attributed To:
- James Merrick
- First Line:
- As two young bears in wanton mood
- Page No:
- p.221
- Poem Title:
- The Bears and Bees. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. 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. Merrick]
- Attributed To:
- James Merrick
- First Line:
- Oft has it been my lot to mark
- Page No:
- pp.223-225
- Poem Title:
- The Cameleon: A Fable, after Monsieur De La Motte.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. 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:
- [no title]
- 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:
- Kambromyomachia: Or The Mouse-Trap; Being a Translation of Mr. Holdsworth's* Muscipular, 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. [i.e. By * * * *.]
- 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. [i.e. By * * * *.]
- 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. [i.e. By * * * *.]
- 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. [i.e. By * * * *.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- New to the school of hard mishap
- Page No:
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- Plate V. Marylebone church, where he marries a rich old woman.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. By * * * *.]
- 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. [i.e. By * * * *.]
- 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. [i.e. By * * * *.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail beauteous pair whom friendship binds
- Page No:
- p.275
- Poem Title:
- On the Friendship of two young Ladies. 1730.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. * * * *]
- 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. Newcombe's School at Hackney, 1748; Spoken by Mr. J. Y. in the Character of Falstaff, Pushed 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... Spoken by Miss Morrison, in the Character of a Lady of Fashion. She enters with a Number of Tickets in her Hand.
- 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 Judgement, but fewer good Manners.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. 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. 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. Taylor]
- Attributed To:
- William Taylor
- First Line:
- Quoth John to his teacher good sir if you please
- Page No:
- pp.292-293
- Poem Title:
- Grace and Nature.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. 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. Taylor]
- Attributed To:
- William Taylor
- First Line:
- It blew an hard storm and in utmost confusion
- Page No:
- p.294
- Poem Title:
- Absolution.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Taylor]
- Attributed To:
- William Taylor
- First Line:
- A drunken old Scot by the rigorous sentence
- Page No:
- p.295
- Poem Title:
- Penance.
- 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.
- 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 lernid 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. By the Same.
- 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 Sommerville, 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
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