The fugitive miscellany: a collection of fugitive pieces in prose and verse [vol 2] [T118867] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1178

Publication Date:

1775

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T118867

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW112923309

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. | PART THE SECOND. | LONDON: | Printed for J. Almon, opposite Burlington-house, in | Piccadilly. | MDCCLXXV.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of comic verse, Collection of erotic verse, and Collection including prose

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, p. 44; French verse, p. 118. Duplicate poem: ID 33362 appears twice in this miscellany, vol. 1, pp. 11-14, vol. 2, pp. 187-190.

Other matter:

Prefatory: contents [3pp], advertisement [1pp]. End matter: advertisements [1pp].

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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 1] [T118867] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1774

ESTC No:

T118867

Volume:

1 of 2

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Title:

The flower-piece, a collection of modern poems [T213573]

Publication Date:

1780

ESTC No:

T213573

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

John Almon

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Also editor.

Content/Publication

First Line:

Why so pensive this morning when all things are gay

Page No:

pp.8-12

Poem Title:

A Tete a Tete Dialogue on the Fete de Champetre.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Oh Boston late with every pleasure crowned

Page No:

pp.12-23

Poem Title:

The Times. An Elegy. Written in America, 1775.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twixt Death and Schomberg the other day

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

Death and the Doctor. ... To Dr. Schomberg, of Bath.

Attribution:

By Paul Whitehead, Esq.

Attributed To:

Paul Whitehead

First Line:

What ecstasies her bosom fire

Page No:

pp.28-30

Poem Title:

To a Lady, On Her Passion for Old China.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

To Schomberg quoth Death I your patient will have

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

By the same.

Attributed To:

Paul Whitehead

First Line:

Near half an age with every good man's praise

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on the Monument of the Late Worthy and Rev. Mr. Beighton, of Egham, who was Vicar of that Place for Forty-Five Years.

Attribution:

D. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Tell me the meaning you who can

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

Upon Seeing Mr. Taylor's Pictures, of Bath, and Hearing a Connoisseur Swear that "They Were Finely Painted for a Gentleman."

Attribution:

Written by D. Garrick, Esq.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Immortal Wolfe sculptor thy laureled bust

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

On General Wolf.

Attribution:

By Sir William Draper, Esq.

Attributed To:

Sir William Draper

First Line:

After much hiding sir and dodging

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

Epistle from Mr. Geo. Lacy. To the Rev. Mr. Boudry.

Attribution:

Mr. Geo. Lacy.

Attributed To:

George Lacy

First Line:

Come powers of taste nor while the vacant hours

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

On the Alterations in St, James's Park,

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Soft inmate of the love fraught breast

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

Sonnet: To Two Redbreasts Tho Were Building But on Sight of the Author, Fled.

Attribution:

Philo.

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Not attributed

First Line:

What car ye Sirens can endure the pest

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Freedom's charms alike engage

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

On Freedom.

Attribution:

By the Late Dr. Hawkesworth.

Attributed To:

John Hawkesworth

First Line:

Friendship is the joy of reason

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

On Friendship.

Attribution:

By the Late Dr. Hawkesworth.

Attributed To:

John Hawkesworth

First Line:

Her comic vein had every charm to please

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

Inscription Upon the Monument of Mrs. Pritchard, which was put up last Wednesday, at the east end of Westminster Abbey, next to Shakespeare, and opposite to Handel's monument.

Attribution:

W. Whitehead, P. L.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Here lies lord Chesterfield the wit

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

Epitaph on the late Lord Chesterfield.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies that wretched favourite ridden thing

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Lewis XIII.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In days of old ere Ampthill towers were seen

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

said to be written by Mr. Horace W----e.

Attributed To:

Horace Walpole

First Line:

If fate deceive not where this stone is lain

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

Motto to the Scotch Stone under the Coronation Chair at Westminster. ('Ni fallit fatum, Scoti, quorumq; locatum') In English thus:

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Says Celia to a reverend dean

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe's charms are so refined

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

Chloe.

Attribution:

T. H. I.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If when the breast is rent with pain

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

To Miss Woffington.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In the isle of Great Britain a laurel once grew

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

The Gardener's Congress on Colley Cibber's Being Appointed Poet Laureat.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Turned out of Honiton

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Twas on the bank of that fair tide

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

The Voice of Truth. An Ode.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Ah dear Clarinda we are undone

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

Extempore Apology to Mrs. Clare Byrne, for a mistake at whist, which lost the game.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Within the circle of this magic ring

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

To My Mother, With Her Wedding Ring.

Attribution:

By My Father.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis said of monkeys that their race can talk

Page No:

pp.64-71

Poem Title:

The Colony of Beasts. An Allegorical Poem.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Vice once with virtue did engage

Page No:

pp.72-78

Poem Title:

The Wife and the Nurse: A Ballad. Written in 1743.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Amongst the daughters of great Jove

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

Ode to Health, Inscribed to Miss ----, since Mrs. ---- Southampton, July 1765.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This is my last will | I insist on it still

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

The Following is the Singular Will of Mr. William Hickington, whose Death was Lately Mentioned in the York Courant, and which has been Proved in the Deanry Court.

Attribution:

W. Hickington.

Attributed To:

William Hickington

First Line:

In Chatworth's groves and vales I've seen

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

Lines Written in a Seat in the Garden of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Few words are best I wish you well

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

To Mr. C. St. James's Place. London, October 22.

Attribution:

Verses by Pope. Not in his Works.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

See Nerissa the young and the fair

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Goodman Death | To please his palate

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

the late Alexander Pope, Esq.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

What I am going to bequeath

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

The Underwritten Lines are Copied from the Original Will of the Late Nathaniel Lloyd, Esq. Who Died Lately at his Seat at Twickenham.

Attribution:

Nathaniel Lloyd

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lloyd

First Line:

In vain ye seek the warmer sky

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Ode to Health. Written March 10, 1775.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis done the well earned wages freely paid

Page No:

pp.88-89

Poem Title:

Written on Saturday Night.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Loud blew the winds and from the shore

Page No:

pp.89-90

Poem Title:

Translation of a Fragment of Simonides.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thee on thy radiant throne sublime

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

Sappho's Ode to Venus.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Mistaken fair in vain you try

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

To a Lady who was Writing a Defiance to Cupid in Verse.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Once on a time it came to pass

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

Fable of the Ass, Nightingale, and Kid.

Attribution:

By the Late Lord E----.

Attributed To:

Richard Edgcumbe

First Line:

Feign would I kind and learned friend

Page No:

pp.97-98

Poem Title:

Verses to the Author's Tutor at C. C. C. Oxon. From the Country.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

In vain poor sable son of woe

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

On a Black Marble Statue of a Slave, Standing at the Porch of One of the Inns of Court.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When in the opening of the youthful year

Page No:

pp.98-99

Poem Title:

The Three First Stanzas of the Twenty Fourth Canto of Dante's Inferna [sic] made into a Song. In Imitation of the Earl of Surry's Stile.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Swift say wouldst thou refuse with me

Page No:

pp.100-101

Poem Title:

The Sixth Ode of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated. Addressed to Dean Swift, Esq; of Castle Ricard in Ireland. Written in the Year 1747.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me o muse if aught you know

Page No:

pp.102-103

Poem Title:

Verses Written at Bath, on the New Game of E and O.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hence dull lethargic peace

Page No:

pp.104-110

Poem Title:

Il Bellicoso.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mason.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Kind nature with a mother's joys

Page No:

pp.110-114

Poem Title:

The Pleasures of the Mind.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If Dodington will condescend

Page No:

pp.114-115

Poem Title:

An Invitation to the Right Hon. George Dodington, esq; ... In Allusion to Horace, B. I, Epist. 5.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

Among the well bred natives of our isle

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

To my Brother Mr. Christopher Pitt, an Epistle; on his Having a Fit of the Gout.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here sleeps what once was beauty once was grace

Page No:

pp.116-117

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Miss Drummond, Daughter Of The Archbishop Of York.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mason.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Cries Damon teazed by dearest life

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

A Song. Written in 1765.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Health pleasure's handmaid loves my beech crowned hill

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

Health.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Eating a mitey cheese elate with pride

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[Epigram. ('Damon dit en mangeant d'un Chester plein de mites')]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The Ionian quarter of the Cyprian shore

Page No:

pp.119-121

Poem Title:

The Court of Venus. From Claudian. Being Part of the Epithalamium on the Marriage of the Emperor Honorius with Maria, the Daughter of Stilicho.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now six and thirty rapid years are fled

Page No:

pp.121-122

Poem Title:

On His Birth-Day.

Attribution:

I.H. Browne, Esq.

Attributed To:

Isaac Hawkins Browne

First Line:

There lived in York an age ago

Page No:

pp.122-124

Poem Title:

The Choice of a Wife by Cheese.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Ralph Clod a yeoman of the west

Page No:

pp.124-125

Poem Title:

The Pair of Beasts. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Phoebus was amorous and longed to be rude

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

An Epigram on Modern Marriages.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Enchanting nymph of heavenly birth

Page No:

pp.125-127

Poem Title:

On Beauty.

Attribution:

By Lord P---n.

Attributed To:

Henry Temple

First Line:

Avert proud death thy lifted spear

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

On Seeing the Figure of Death In a Dream.

Attribution:

By Dr. Harrington.

Attributed To:

Henry Harington

First Line:

Alwhyle ye drinke midst age and ache ybent

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

Written in the Pump-Room at Bath.

Attribution:

Edgar.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let the keen sportsman rising with the dawn

Page No:

pp.130-133

Poem Title:

From Partridge-Shooting. An Eclogue.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Oft when I've seen the new fledged morn arise

Page No:

pp.134-140

Poem Title:

The Sportsman:

Attribution:

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First Line:

Illustrious Bladud best of kings

Page No:

pp.141-142

Poem Title:

New-Year Ode, To His Most Escellent Majesty King Bladud of Bath.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

I cannot eat but little meat

Page No:

pp.142-144

Poem Title:

Song, Written About Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Say image by what sculptor's hand

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

From the Greek of Posidippus. A Dialogue. The Traveller and Statue of Opportunity.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Full humble is my prayer I ween

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

An Humble Prayer.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What cheerful sounds salute our ears

Page No:

pp.146-147

Poem Title:

The Triumph of Ceres: or the Harvest-Home. To The Tune Of "What Beauteous Scenes Inchant My Sight!".

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Parret whose artless windings lead

Page No:

pp.147-148

Poem Title:

To the Parret.

Attribution:

E. L. N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In times when gloomy superstition reigned

Page No:

pp.149-150

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Plays at H---. Acted November 24th and 25th, 1774. Spoken by Lord P----.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My golden locks time hath to silver turned

Page No:

pp.151-152

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Taken From Walpole's Antiquities [...] Sir Henry Lea

Attributed To:

Henry Lea

First Line:

The mimic form on the other side

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

Lines ... Upon the Back of His Own Picture, which was Sent Lately to a Gentleman of the University of Oxford.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Garrick

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

The quality of mercy is not stained

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A youth the meanest of the muse's train

Page No:

pp.156-162

Poem Title:

To The King.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If yet the mole that heaves thy dirty breast

Page No:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

To Him Only Who Feels the Justness of The Character.

Attribution:

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First Line:

While blooming youth and gay delight

Page No:

pp.164-166

Poem Title:

To Caelia.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Canst thou shepherd canst thou tell

Page No:

pp.166-167

Poem Title:

The Nymph's Question.

Attribution:

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First Line:

For once ye muses chaste as fair

Page No:

pp.167-168

Poem Title:

Verses Occasioned by a Rape on an Irish Captain.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Checquered with plumes of various dies

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

On a Lady's Muff.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Read or oh say does some amorous fair

Page No:

pp.170-181

Poem Title:

An Epistle From Obera, Queen of Otaheite, to Joseph Banks.

Attribution:

Translated by T. Q. Z. Esq. Professor of The Otaheite Language in Dublin

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Welcome fair nymph from Hockerill's gloomy plains

Page No:

pp.181-187

Poem Title:

The Orange-Girl at Foote's To Sally Harris: Or, The Town to the Country Pomona. An Heroic Epistle.

Attribution:

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First Line:

If yet enslaved by vice there rest

Page No:

p.187-190

Poem Title:

The Answer. To the Right Hon. Mr. ----

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For me my fair a wreathe has wove

Page No:

pp.190-191

Poem Title:

From the Spanish.

Attribution:

By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Behold the Cerberus the Atlantic plow

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

Impromptu. On The Sailing of The Cerberus, With The Three General Officers On The American Expedition.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed