The gentleman's journal: or the monthly miscellany [January 1692]
- DMI number:
- 1737
- Publication Date:
- 1692
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 3
- ESTC number:
- P2023
- Full Title:
- The | Gentleman's Journal: | OR THE | MONTHLY | MISCELLANY. | By way of | LETTER | TO A | Gentleman in the COUNTRY. | Consisting of | [i]News, History, Philosophy, Poetry, | Musick, Translations,[/i] &c. | JANUARY 169 1 2 | [rule]
- Epigraph:
- [i]paulum sepultae distat inertia | Celata virtus. non ego te meis | Chartis inornatum silebo: | Totve tuos patiar labores | Impune, [/i]Lolli, [i]carpere lividae | Obliviones. - Hor.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Quarto
- Pagination:
- 1-34
- Dedicatee:
- William Cavendish
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Peter Anthony Motteux
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printer:
- R. Baldwin
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printed and are to be sold by R. Baldwin
- First Line:
- What is't presumptious poets will not dare
- Page No:
- pp.2-4
- Poem Title:
- On their majesties pictures drawn by the life by Mr Kneller
- Attribution:
- Nahum Tate
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A frog that left her native mud
- Page No:
- Poem Title:
- The frog and the ox
- Attribution:
- Not attributed
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me o Lydia for by heaven I swear
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of the 8th Ode of the first book of Horace, Lydia dic per omnes &c
- Attribution:
- Not attributed
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What the bully of France and our friends on the Rhine
- Page No:
- pp.13-14
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of the 11th Ode of the 2d Book of Horace, Quid Bellicosus Cantaber &c
- Attribution:
- Not attributed
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My usual dwelling's never low
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- On another subject
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Magpye and linnet each perched on a tree
- Page No:
- pp.22-23
- Poem Title:
- The Linnet and the Magpye A Fable
- Attribution:
- Not attributed
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With petty ills and vulgar mischiefs tired
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- Cupid turned Vulcan
- Attribution:
- Not attributed
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Health to my friend who loves the town so well
- Page No:
- pp.30-31
- Poem Title:
- From I.S. to C.S.
- Attribution:
- Not attributed
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dryden in never dying verse
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- An imitation of the Sixth Ode of Horace's first book of lyrics
- Attribution:
- Not attributed
- Attributed To:
- Horace
- First Line:
- Four crowns the British Empire claims
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- To his majesty William, by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, France and Ireland
- Attribution:
- Not attributed
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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