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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].
Related Miscellanies
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:
Related People
Publisher:
John Almon
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Also editor.
Content/Publication
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