The fugitive miscellany: a collection of fugitive pieces in prose and verse [vol 1] [T118867] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 1177
- Publication Date:
- 1774
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T118867
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW113491202
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - BOD
- Full Title:
- THE | FUGITIVE MISCELLANY. | BEING A | COLLECTION of such | FUGITIVE PIECES, | In PROSE and VERSE, as are not in any other | Collection. | With many PIECES never before published. | LONDON: | Printed for J. Almon, opposite Burlington-house, in | Piccadilly. | M.DCC.LXXIV.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of comic verse, Collection including prose, and Collection of occasional pieces
- Format:
- Octavo
- Bibliographic details:
- Query: on the ECCO facsimile ending and beginning words/letters were often lost in the inner margin, rendering them invisible or distorted. This could either be a problem with the binding of the hard copy, or simply a poor reproduction.
- Comments:
- A sequel to The new foundling hospital for wit, to be issued in parts annually every March; two parts only were published. Contents: Latin verse, pp. 106-107. Duplicate poem: ID 33362 appears twice in this miscellany, vol. 1, pp. 11-14, vol. 2, pp. 187-190.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory: advertisement [1pp] and contents [3pp]. End matter: advertisements [2pp].
- Title:
- The new foundling hospital for wit [T139949] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1771
- ESTC No:
- T139949
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fugitive miscellany: a collection of fugitive pieces in prose and verse [vol 2] [T118867] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1775
- ESTC No:
- T118867
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- John Almon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Also editor.
- First Line:
- Blush not dear Andrews nor disclaim
- Page No:
- pp.9-10
- Poem Title:
- To Dr. Andrews Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.
- Attribution:
- By George Lord Viscount Townshend.
- Attributed To:
- George Townshend
- First Line:
- If yet enslaved by vice there rest
- Page No:
- pp.11-14
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle To the Hon. Mr. ----, in behalf of an unfortunate young Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To pensive minds superior truths belong
- Page No:
- pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- To Lady Boynton, cutting her name in the bark of a tree.
- Attribution:
- By Sir Griffith Boynton.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Griffith Boynton
- First Line:
- With downcast look and pitying eye
- Page No:
- pp.16-18
- Poem Title:
- To the memory of the Right Honourable Charlotte, Viscountess Townshend, Baroness Ferrers in her own right, who died at Leixlip in Ireland, on the 5th of September, 1770.
- Attribution:
- By Lord Clare.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye dames of distinction condemned to be wives
- Page No:
- pp.18-20
- Poem Title:
- The Coterie. A new ballad.
- Attribution:
- By a Woman of Fashion.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Say not fair one that I flatter
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- To A Lady, Who Accused The Author of Flattery.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When for the world's repose my Celia sleeps
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady Sleeping.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- So many thousands for a house
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- Upon a certain Lord's giving some thousand pounds for a house.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair dames if puppets may presume to sue
- Page No:
- pp.21-22
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To a Puppet-shew. Addressed to the Ladies.
- Attribution:
- T. H. I.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold ye fair on every pane
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- Written under a Lampoon upon a window.
- Attribution:
- T. H. I.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While ancient dames and heroes in us live
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to All for Love, acted in Blenheim-house, in the summer, 1718.
- Attribution:
- Written by Bishop Hoadley, and spoken by Lady Bateman, who acted Cleopatra.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Hoadly
- First Line:
- From Grecian Aesop to our Gay
- Page No:
- pp.25-27
- Poem Title:
- The Petition of the Fools to Jupiter. A Fable. ...and addressed to the late Earl of Chesterfield.
- Attribution:
- Said to be written by David Garrick, Esq
- Attributed To:
- David Garrick
- First Line:
- Garrick I've read your Fool's Petition
- Page No:
- pp.27-29
- Poem Title:
- An Answer in the name of Lord Chesterfield.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where woods the hoary cliffs embrown
- Page No:
- pp.29-32
- Poem Title:
- Ode for the Fifth of November. Coll. Ball. Oxon. 5 Nov. 1769.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Barbers shavers dressers all
- Page No:
- pp.33-35
- Poem Title:
- PERIWIGOMENOS. A congrutulatory [sic] Ode from the body of Barbers to the King, upon wearing a Wig, written at the request of the fraternity of Shavers
- Attribution:
- By Cha. Curl.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain have sages strove to tell
- Page No:
- pp.35-37
- Poem Title:
- The Rapture. On L--y M--- H---, now L--y -----.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Accept sweet maid each scene that Shakespeare drew
- Page No:
- pp.37-40
- Poem Title:
- Verses to a Young Lady, with a new edition of Shakespeare.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Welcome thou friendly earnest of fourscore
- Page No:
- pp.41-42
- Poem Title:
- An Address to the Gout, on its first Visit
- Attribution:
- by a young Country Patient.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Prior's Kitty ever fair
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- Occasioned by the above.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To many a Kitty love his car
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- Impromptu ... on seeing the Duchess of Queensbury walk at the Princess Dowager of Wales's funeral.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Horace Walpole
- Attributed To:
- Horace Walpole
- First Line:
- When wit and science trimmed their withered bays
- Page No:
- pp.43-44
- Poem Title:
- To Miss -----, of Horsemanden, in Kent.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail Caledonian bard whose rural strains
- Page No:
- pp.44-47
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Allen Ramsay, upon his publishing his second volume of Poems.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Somerville.
- Attributed To:
- William Somervile
- First Line:
- To your charge the other day
- Page No:
- pp.47-49
- Poem Title:
- Epistle to a friend by the late William Hogarth, occasioned by a Picture's being returned on his hands by Sir R. G.
- Attribution:
- by the late William Hogarth
- Attributed To:
- William Hogarth
- First Line:
- Happy the man whose life's whole scene has laid
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- The Old Man of Verona.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. J. Langhorne.
- Attributed To:
- John Langhorne
- First Line:
- A certain maid too prudishly inclined
- Page No:
- pp.50-52
- Poem Title:
- A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In Albion's isle ere hoary time grew old
- Page No:
- pp.53-55
- Poem Title:
- Verses said to have been written by Lady B-----t L--e, on seeing the Padlock performed at Weston, the seat of Sir Henry Bridgman, Bart.
- Attribution:
- by Lady B-----t L--e
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You I love my dearest life
- Page No:
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle. Written from the Author to his Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A thousand horrid prodigies foretold it
- Page No:
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- Present State of Great Britain.
- Attribution:
- By Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- First Line:
- That man who would a tyrant be
- Page No:
- pp.58-59
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Proud Buckingham for law too mighty grown
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- The following six lines are not inserted in Mr. Churchill's works, though well known to be written by him.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Churchill
- First Line:
- Go to the urchins with foot blinded eyes
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- Lines on the the three Chimney-sweepers, who having received six shillings, a half-crown, two shillings, and three sixpences, for killing three dogs, in order to make a just division, changed the whole into pence, and alternately took a halfpenny each.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies honest Ned because he is dead
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sir G-- put off that strange disguise
- Page No:
- pp.61-64
- Poem Title:
- The Converts: a familiar Ode. Addressed to Sir G----- L--------, when Chan-----r of the Ex------r, in 1756.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Two ministers in the republic of letters
- Page No:
- pp.87-91
- Poem Title:
- Hilary Term, 1766. P versus C, in the Common-Pleas
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Daughters of beauty who enraptured hail
- Page No:
- pp.91-96
- Poem Title:
- Ode at the Encoenia, held at Oxford, July 1773, for the Reception of the Right Hon. Frederick Lord North, Chancellor of the University.
- Attribution:
- Written by Dr. Wheeler, Professor of Poetry; and set to Music by Dr. Hayes.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Wheeler
- First Line:
- Sons of corruption who obedient hail
- Page No:
- pp.96-100
- Poem Title:
- Ode, as it ought to have been performed at the Encoenia held at Oxford, July 1773.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas at the royal feast for won degrees
- Page No:
- pp.101-106
- Poem Title:
- An Ode On a Bachelors Meeting at Cambridge. A Parody on Dryden's Ode.
- Attribution:
- By a Gentleman of Oxford.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stay traveller and see what's here
- Page No:
- pp.107-108
- Poem Title:
- R----t Lord ----- on his dog Bobtail.
- Attribution:
- The clergyman of the parish
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Britain's fond matrons whose endearments prove
- Page No:
- pp.109-115
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Signora Barbarigo. (To be forwarded by the ladies of England).
- Attribution:
- By Michael Clancy, M. D. Of Durrow, in Ireland, Jan. 1, 1769.
- Attributed To:
- Michael Clancy
- First Line:
- Have I not offered god of love
- Page No:
- pp.119-121
- Poem Title:
- Verses to the God of Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas when the god if such there are
- Page No:
- pp.121-124
- Poem Title:
- The Death of Cruso. An Ode on the murder of Miss Smith's favourite dog.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As Julia once a slumbering lay
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- The Captivated Bee; or, Little Filcher.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An oaken broken elbow chair
- Page No:
- pp.125-126
- Poem Title:
- An Inventory of Dr. Swift's Goods, upon lending his House to the Bishop of M. [Not printed in his works.]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas in the pleasant month of May
- Page No:
- pp.126-128
- Poem Title:
- The Sparrows; or, A Picture of Matrimony.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Avaunt ye noisy sons of wine
- Page No:
- p.128
- Poem Title:
- Inscription for a Bench beneath a favourite Tree.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Take holy earth all that my soul holds dear
- Page No:
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- In the Cathedral at Bristol. In Memory of Mrs. Mason, who died at the Hotwells, in 1767.
- Attribution:
- W. Mason.
- Attributed To:
- William Mason
- First Line:
- Twas at the rabble rout when Mima won
- Page No:
- pp.132-137
- Poem Title:
- Fitzgig's Triumph; or, the Power of Riot: an Ode, in honour of the 25th and 26th of January, and the 24th of Feburary, 1763.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Instead of hair bright Celia wears a tete
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- On the Ladies Tetes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wise was the man with emblematic hand
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- Written on a Window.
- Attribution:
- T. H. I.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Half limp half strut as Jerry hied
- Page No:
- pp.156-158
- Poem Title:
- Thames and the Doctor. Addressed to the Pr-v-st of E----. In imitation of the 15th Ode of the first book of Horace. Cambridge, Feb. 1, 1774.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For ever o merciless fair
- Page No:
- pp.158-159
- Poem Title:
- The Expostulation. To Delia.
- Attribution:
- by Lord G.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O cease to mourn unhappy youth
- Page No:
- pp.159-160
- Poem Title:
- The Reply.
- Attribution:
- By Lady Mary S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whenever my friend you chance to find
- Page No:
- pp.160-162
- Poem Title:
- The Choice of a Wife.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You ask if the thing to my choice were submitted
- Page No:
- pp.163-164
- Poem Title:
- The Choice of a Husband.
- Attribution:
- By a Lady.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oft I've implored the gods in vain
- Page No:
- pp.165-167
- Poem Title:
- A Prayer to Indifference.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Greville.
- Attributed To:
- Frances Greville [nee Macartney]
- First Line:
- Tis night dead night and over the plain
- Page No:
- pp.167-171
- Poem Title:
- Elegy I.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When young life's journey I began
- Page No:
- pp.171-174
- Poem Title:
- Elegy II.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Consigned to dust beneath this stone
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- The Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since you permit the lowly muse
- Page No:
- pp.175-177
- Poem Title:
- Stanzas, to -----, with the foregoing elegies.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poet of nature thou whose boundless art
- Page No:
- pp.177-178
- Poem Title:
- Verses to a young Lady, with a new edition of Shakespeare.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of C-----.
- Attributed To:
- Frederick Howard
- First Line:
- Good nature and courtesy sisters I ween
- Page No:
- pp.178-181
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral Ballad, Composed one hundred years ago.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ordained to tread the thorny ground
- Page No:
- pp.181-182
- Poem Title:
- The Lawyer's Prayer. A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No longer hope fond youth to hide thy pain
- Page No:
- pp.183-184
- Poem Title:
- Love Elegy. To Damon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You ask why bachelors take state
- Page No:
- pp.184-186
- Poem Title:
- Imitation of the eight Ode in the third Book of Horace ... To the Honourable Thomas Winnington, Esq.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Harris.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas at a city feast for honours won
- Page No:
- pp.186-190
- Poem Title:
- Ode at a celebrated Entertainment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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