The foundling hospital for wit [vol. III] [T64450]

DMI number:

757

Publication Date:

1746

Volume Number:

3 of 3

ESTC number:

T64450

EEBO/ECCO link:

N/A

Shelfmark:

BOD Radcl. e.243

Full Title:

THE | Foundling Hospital, | FOR | WIT. | Intended for the | Reception and Preservation of such Brats of WIT and | HUMOUR whose Parents chuse to Drop them. | [rule] | NUMBER III. to be Continued Occasionally. | [rule] | CONTAINING, | [2 columns] [column 1]1. Ode to the E--- of [i]B----[/i]. | 2. The Heroes: To the Commanders of | the 15 New Regiments. | 3. Arms and the Man: To the D----. | 4. Importan Question resolved: To Sir | [i]John[/i] | | 5. Honesty the best Policy. [[i]B----[/i]. | 6. An Epigram on [i]W--k--n W-- W--[/i] | and [i]C--tt--n[/i]. | 7. An Epigram by the E-- of [i]C----d[/i]. | 8. The Ball at [i]W------[/i]. | 9 [i]P--tt[/i] excus'd. | 10. Battle of [i]Falkirk:[/i] To [i]G---- H-----[/i] | 11. On the Stocks in [i]W----[/i] Chapel. | 12. On [i]Cha. S------pe Esq; drinking | Tar-Water. | 13. The: Monkies To our Modern [i]Beaus[/i]. | 14. A Song on Miss [i]Molly Carr[/i].[/column 1] [column 2]15. An Epilogue intended to be spoke | by Mrs. [i]Woffington[/i]. | 16. An Ode from [i]P--l F-y[/i] to [i]N-s F-y.[/i] | 17 [i]Orpheus[/i] and [i]Hecate[/i]: To Lady [i]B---[/i]. | 18. Sr [i]J. Suckling[/i], a Ballad, adapted to a | Modern General. | 19. A Ballad on Lord [i]D---n---l[/i]'s alter- | ing his Chapel into a Kitchen. | 20. A D------'s Ghost to [i]P------[/i]. | 21. The Unembarrass'd Countenance. | 22. Long & Short Verses: To [i]P----[/i]. | 23. Verses on the D--s of [i]M------h[/i]. | 24. Advice to [i]Clara[/i]. by Mr. [i]P-----[/i]. | 25. Universal Business 1st and 2d part. | 26. Modern Fine Gentleman and Lady. | 27. An Epilogue on the Duke's Birth | Day: Spoke by Mr. [i]Garrick[/i]. | 28 The Surprising History of a late long | Administration.[/column 2] | [i]With many Curious Pieces never before printed, and a | General Table of Contents to the Whole. | [rule] | By[/i] TIMOTHY SILENCE, [i]Esq[/i]; | [rule] | LONDON: Printed for W. WEBB, near St. [i]Paul[/i]'s. 1746. | Where may be had Number I and II. Containing all the Satires, Odes, Ballads, and | Epigrams by the Prime WITS of this Age since the Change of the late Earl of | [i]O--------d[/i]'s Administration.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Political miscellany and Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[2], [1]-62

Bibliographic details:

There are two variants of volume III. This one has a comma after 'Hospital' in the title; sig. F2 is misprinted F3: I2 is unsigned (ESTC; Case)

Comments:

Miscellany Contents: pp.58-62. Query: check ECCO number - doesn't seem to include this vol.

Other matter:

Prefatory Material: Contents (1p.)

References:

Case 440 (3) (a)

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Publication Date:

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Publication Date:

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Title:

The foundling hospital for wit. [T64445] [different setting to T64444]

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Title:

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Publication Date:

1749

ESTC No:

T64449

Volume:

2 of 6

Relationship:

Part of a Series

Comments:

Title:

The foundling hospital for wit. Number II. [T64447]

Publication Date:

1743

ESTC No:

T64447

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Part of a Series

Comments:

Title:

The foundling hospital for wit [T64444] [different setting to T64445]

Publication Date:

1743

ESTC No:

T64444

Volume:

1 of 6

Relationship:

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Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

Webb||W.||Jr.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Away ambition let me rest

Page No:

pp.[1]-3

Poem Title:

An Ode from the E---- of B---- to Ambition.

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First Line:

Of all the jobs that ever have passed

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pp.3-5

Poem Title:

The Heroes: A New Ballad. To the Tune of ---- Sally in our Alley.

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First Line:

God prosper the king and the king's noble sons

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pp.5-7

Poem Title:

Arms and the Man. A new Ballad.

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First Line:

That patriotism's a joke we must allow

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p.7

Poem Title:

Honesty The Best Policy.

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First Line:

That rock which gave thee glory proved thy doom

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p.7

Poem Title:

To Mr. P---- on the Hanover Troops.

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First Line:

To what does France her present greatness owe

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p.7

Poem Title:

The Important Question Resolv'd.

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First Line:

As late at W------ it fell out

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pp.8-12

Poem Title:

The Ball.

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First Line:

Flavia's a name a deal too free

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p.8

Poem Title:

An Answer.

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First Line:

In Flavia's eyes is every grace

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p.8

Poem Title:

An Epigram on Miss Eleanor Ambrose, a celebrated Beauty in Dublin.

Attribution:

By the E-- of C----d.

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First Line:

Says W-k-n to C-tt-n I thought my lord G--r

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p.8

Poem Title:

An Epigram.

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First Line:

As Larissa on the billows

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p.12

Poem Title:

On Larissa.

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First Line:

Piqued at the C----t she knew not why

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p.12

Poem Title:

P----tt Excus'd.

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First Line:

Nature and fortune blithe and gay

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p.13

Poem Title:

Nature and Fortune, to the E-- of Ch------ld.

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First Line:

Give me generous love and wine

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p.14

Poem Title:

On Love and Wine. In Imitation of Anacreon.

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First Line:

I'll tell you a tale for a groat

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pp.14-16

Poem Title:

The G--z--e of January 23, 1745-6: Verified.

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First Line:

The old English cause knocks at every man's door

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pp.16-17

Poem Title:

A Song. To the Tune of, The Cut-purse.

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First Line:

Will and John at a plumber's once happened to stop

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p.17

Poem Title:

Epigram.

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First Line:

Tis plain ye holy sinners

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p.18

Poem Title:

Upon seeing a Pair of Stocks in W---sor-Chapel.

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First Line:

When Charles by rule episcopal

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p.18

Poem Title:

On Ch---- S------pe, Esq; drinking Tar-Water.

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First Line:

Whoever with curious eye has ranged

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pp.18-20

Poem Title:

The Monkies. To our Modern Beaus.

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First Line:

Beauty's gay queen fair aphrodite

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p.20

Poem Title:

Anacreontic.

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First Line:

I have lost my mistress horse and wife

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p.20

Poem Title:

Epigram.

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First Line:

When I from my window am gazing

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pp.21-23

Poem Title:

A Song, On Miss Molly Carr. ---- Brussels, 1744.

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First Line:

Away let naught to love displeasing

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pp.23-24

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Plague of all cowards say I why bless my eyes

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pp.24-25

Poem Title:

An Epilogue intended to be spoken by Mrs. Woffington, in the Habit of a Volunteer, upon reading the Gazette, containing an Account of the late Action at Falkirk.

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First Line:

Never dear Faz torment thy brain

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pp.26-28

Poem Title:

An Ode. Imitated from Ode XI. Book II. of Horace. From P--l F--y to N--s F--y, Esq;

Attribution:

By a Person of Honour

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First Line:

When Orpheus as old poets tell

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pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Orpheus and Hecate. An Ode. Inscribed to the Patroness of the Italian Opera. To Lady B------.

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First Line:

Sir John he bought him an ambling nag

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pp.30-31

Poem Title:

Sir John Suckling, an old Ballad, Adapted to a Modern General.

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First Line:

By Ovid amongst many more wonders we're told

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pp.31-33

Poem Title:

On Lord D--n----l's altering his Chapel at Gr----e into a Kitchen.

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First Line:

As musing on his bed the speecher lay

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pp.33-34

Poem Title:

A D----ss's Ghost to Orator H----r P----t.

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First Line:

To a certain old chapel well known in the town

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pp.34-36

Poem Title:

The Unembarrass'd Countenance, A New Ballad. To the Tune of, a Cobler there was &c. &c.

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First Line:

Since one there is who with uncommon art

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pp.37-39

Poem Title:

An Epistle to William Pitt, Esq;

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First Line:

Since one hath writ

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pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Short Verses, in Imitation of Long Verses: in an Epistle to W----m P----tt, Esq;

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First Line:

But what are these to great Atossa's mind

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pp.42-43

Poem Title:

Verses upon the late D------ss of M------

Attribution:

By Mr. P----

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First Line:

Dear thoughtless Clara to my verse attend

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pp.43-44

Poem Title:

To Clara.

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First Line:

Lady Dorothy Drum sends her compliments

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p.45

Poem Title:

Universal Business. Message the First.

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Sir Francis my lady and both the miss D--nts

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pp.45-46

Poem Title:

Message the Second.

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First Line:

Just broke from school pert impudent and raw

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pp.46-49

Poem Title:

The Modern Fine Gentleman.

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First Line:

At Hackney or at Chelsea bred

Page No:

pp.49-52

Poem Title:

The Modern Fine Lady. Or, A Counterpart to a Poem lately published, called, The Modern fine Gentleman.

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First Line:

Here lies who in her farthingale and ruff

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p.53

Poem Title:

Epitaph for Lady ------. In Imitation of the above Epigram.

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First Line:

King hero philosopher author musician

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p.54

Poem Title:

Epigram on the K. of Pr----. [...] English'd.

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First Line:

That pencil happy to be thine

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p.54

Poem Title:

Extempore left on Mad. De Pompadour's Toilet, [...] while she was Drawing. [...] In English.

Attribution:

by Voltaire,

Attributed To:

Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

First Line:

Would he were gone what rout is here

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pp.55-56

Poem Title:

A Poem on his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield's being about to leave Ireland.

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First Line:

Tis not a birth to titles pomp or state

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

An Epilogue On the Birth-Day of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.

Attribution:

Written by the Farmer, and spoken by Mr. Garrick.

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