The foundling hospital for wit [vol. V] [T64454]
- DMI number:
- 756
- Publication Date:
- 1748
- Volume Number:
- 5 of 5
- ESTC number:
- T64454
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW116438329
- Shelfmark:
- BOD G. Pamph. 1289
- 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 V. To be Continued Occasionally. | CONTAINING, | [2 columns] [column 1]1. The Litchfield Defeat. | 2. The Answer. | 3. Ode to [i]P. Y----ke[/i], Esq; | 4. [i]Richmond[/i], a Vision. | 5. [i]Bergen-op-zoom[/i], a Ballad. | 6. [i]Balaam[/i] and [i]Palaam[/i]. | 7. Green-Room Scuffle. | 8. Epistle from [i]G. Hinde[/i]. | 9. Hymn for the 9th of [i]Oct[/i]. | 10. Advice to the [i]French[/i] King's Painter.[/column 1] [column 2]11. Lamentations of [i]Lewis[/i] 15. | 12. On the Tax on Coaches. | 13. Ode to Sir [i]C--- H--- W---[/i]. | 14. [i]Diggon Davy[/i] and [i]Colin Clout[/i]. | 15. An Apology. | 16. Downfall of [i]Westm.[/i] Bridge. | 17. Plot and no Plot. | 18. [i]Boeotia[/i]. | 19. [i]Europe[/i] in Masquerade. | 20. Speech of King [i]Harry[/i] | the Ninth.[/column 2] | [i]With many other Curious Pieces, some of which never | before printed. | [rule] | By[/i] TIMOTHY SILENCE, [i]Esq[/i]. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i]. | Printed for W. WEBB, near St. [i]Paul[/i]'s, 1748. | [Price One Shilling.] | Where may be had any of the Preceding Numbers.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Political miscellany and Collection including prose
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- 1 s.
- Pagination:
- [2], [1]-62
- Bibliographic details:
- Octavo in fours. BOD. G. Pamph. 1289 is bound with vol. 6 (T64456) only.
- Comments:
- Miscellany Contents: prose pp.14-17; pp.26-27; pp.59-62.
- References:
- Case 440 (5) (a)
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [T64446] [reprint of T64445]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T64446
- Volume:
- 1 of 4
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. II] [T64448]
- Publication Date:
- 1744
- ESTC No:
- T64448
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. III] [T64451] [different setting to T64450]
- Publication Date:
- 1746
- ESTC No:
- T64451
- Volume:
- 3 of 3
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. IV] [T64452]
- Publication Date:
- 1747
- ESTC No:
- T64452
- Volume:
- 4 of 4
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. IV] [T64453]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T64453
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. V] [T64455]
- Publication Date:
- 1764
- ESTC No:
- T64455
- Volume:
- 5 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. VI] [T64456]
- Publication Date:
- 1749
- ESTC No:
- T64456
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. VI] [T64457] [different setting to T64456]
- Publication Date:
- 1749
- ESTC No:
- T64457
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit. [T64445] [different setting to T64444]
- Publication Date:
- 1743
- ESTC No:
- T64445
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit. Number II [T64449]
- 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:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. III] [T64450]
- Publication Date:
- 1746
- ESTC No:
- T64450
- Volume:
- 3 of 3
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Webb||W.||Jr.
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- God prosper long our noble king
- Page No:
- pp.1-4
- Poem Title:
- The Litchfield Defeat.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- God prosper long great George our king
- Page No:
- pp.4-6
- Poem Title:
- The Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For quiet Yorke the sailor cries
- Page No:
- pp.6-8
- Poem Title:
- An Ode to the Honourable Philip Y--ke, Esq; Imitated from Horace, Ode XVI. Book II.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In that soft season when the blushing rose
- Page No:
- pp.8-11
- Poem Title:
- Richmond, a Vision.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Haven't you heard of a fortress renowned in fame
- Page No:
- pp.11-13
- Poem Title:
- A Ballad on the Rape of Bergen-op-Zoom.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye peers ye cits and beaux
- Page No:
- pp.17-20
- Poem Title:
- The Green-Room Scuffle: Or Drury-Lane in an Uproar. To the Tune of Gossip Joan.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Master an't please you I do zend
- Page No:
- pp.20-22
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from George Hind, Clerk of the Parish of M----rd----n in Dorset, to the absent Vicar Mr------
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come Britons in triumphant songs
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- A Hymn for the 9th of October 1746, being the Thanksgiving Day for the Victory over the Rebels at Culloden.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Painter display in honour of the state
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- Advice to the French King's Chief Painter, how to represent in its true light, the Glory of his Master, and the Happiness of his Subjects and his Allies.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Before Bohemian Anne was queen
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- Upon the Tax on Coaches, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Genius of Britain spread thy Guardian wing
- Page No:
- pp.29-30
- Poem Title:
- To the Genius of Britain.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why our forces miscarried the wonder is out
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- Thought on the late Expedition.
- Attribution:
- J. L.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies an head that often ached
- Page No:
- pp.30-31
- Poem Title:
- An Anatomical Epitaph on an Invalid.
- Attribution:
- Written by * Himself. [asterisked note reads: 'The Learned, Facetious and Rev. Wm. Goodwin, late Fellow of Eaton College, and Vicar of St. Nicholas in Bristol, who dy'd in June last, and left several other Pieces of the like kind.']
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We saw Sir Andrew's but Ld W--poole's first
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- Part of a Letter from a Gentleman, who had lately visited N--f--k, to his Friend.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On a hill from danger free
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- The Heroism of Lewis XV. at the late Battle of Val.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When the French heretofore like the Gauls whence they spring
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- Remark.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The states at last with one accord
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- Europe in Masquerade: Or the Royal Farce.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who's this what H----y the lyric
- Page No:
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- An Ode to Sir C---- H---- W------s. Occasion'd by seeing an Ode inscrib'd to L------d C------d.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath an hawthorn bush secreted shade
- Page No:
- pp.36-39
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral. Diggon Davy and Colin Clout.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In nature twas kind by the charms of a face
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- On Miss Madan, after hearing repeated, | 'If to her Share some Female Errors fall, | 'Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. | Pope's Rape of the Lock.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain you boast poetic names of yore
- Page No:
- pp.39-40
- Poem Title:
- To Lady Winchelsea, occasioned by four verses in the Rape of the Lock.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope (not in his Works.)
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Disarmed with so genteel an air
- Page No:
- pp.40-41
- Poem Title:
- Lady Winchelsea's Answer.
- Attribution:
- Lady Winchelsea's Answer.
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- O night dark night wrapped round with Stygian gloom
- Page No:
- pp.41-43
- Poem Title:
- New Night-Thoughts on Death. A Parody. By Mr. Wh****.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Wh****.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Zealous for truth and careless of applause
- Page No:
- pp.43-44
- Poem Title:
- An Apology.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By your honour's command
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- A Sailor in his Majesty's Sloop the Tartar, being sentenc'd to the Cat-o'-nine-tails, spoke the following Lines to his Commander.
- Attribution:
- A Sailor
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Her lance inverted head reclined
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- Britannia revived; the Hint suggested by Mr. R. Y.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Take a Tory that measures two yards in the waist
- Page No:
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- A Whimsical receipt, perfectly in the Modern Taste.
- Attribution:
- C. B.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When good St David as old writs accord
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- In Honour of the first of March.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I sing not of battles nor do I much choose
- Page No:
- pp.48-52
- Poem Title:
- The Downfall of Westminster Bridge.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye lords and ye commons give ear to my ditty
- Page No:
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- Plot or No Plot. Or Sir William and his Spy foiled. A new Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As late I mused upon the fates
- Page No:
- pp.54-59
- Poem Title:
- Boeotia; a Poem. Humbly Addressed to his Excellency Philip Earl of Chesterfield.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. William Dunkin, D. D.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunkin
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