The humours of the times [T100962] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1391

Publication Date:

1771

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T100962

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW124666297

Shelfmark:

ECCO BOD

Full Title:

THE | Humours of the Times, | BEING A | COLLECTION | OF | SEVERAL CURIOUS PIECES, | In VERSE and PROSE. | By the most CELEBRATED GENIUSSES, | For MIRTH, WIT, and HUMOUR: | PARTICULARLY, | [2 columns] [column 1] Lord CHESTERFIELD, | Lord LYTTELTON, | Mr, WILKES, [/column 1] | [column 2] Mr. CHURCHILL, | Mr. POTTER, and | Dr. AKENSIDE. [/column2] | &c. &c. &c. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year MDCCLXXI. | Printed in the Year MDCCLXXI. | [Price Four Shillings and Sixpence.]

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Unknown

Price:

4 shillings sixpence

Comments:

Query: check this item with Don Nichol. And double check ECCO copy (Based on BL original) against Bodleian copy. Contents: Prose pp. 47-53, 117-122, 157-162, 164-171, 174-176, 205-211, 224-229, 291-322, 351-369; drama pp. 54-75, 230-238.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Contents, pp. [v]-viii Contents to Part II and III, pp. ix-xii.

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Title:

The humours of the times being a selection of curious pieces in verse and prose [N66237] [*IR*]

Publication Date:

1772

ESTC No:

N66237

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Chaste Dian's crescent on her front displayed

Page No:

p.1

Poem Title:

An Epigram On A Certain Lady's Coming into the Room at Bath, with a Diamond Crescent in Her Hair.

Attribution:

Mr. Potter

Attributed To:

Mr. Potter

First Line:

Not gentler virtues glowed in Cambray's breast

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

Written under the Picture of Dr. Hayter, Bishop of Norwich, Soon after he was dismissed from his Post of Governor to the Prince of Wales, in 1752.

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First Line:

Corinna in the country bred

Page No:

pp.3-5

Poem Title:

A Simile

Attribution:

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First Line:

So lost to sense of shame and duty

Page No:

pp.6-9

Poem Title:

Doll Common. A Fragment. In answer to the foregoing.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Corinna virtue's child and chaste

Page No:

pp.10-11

Poem Title:

Corinna Vindicated

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First Line:

With all thy titles all thy large estate

Page No:

pp.12-14

Poem Title:

Some Stanzas Addressed To No Minister Nor Great Man.

Attribution:

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First Line:

With titles honours and a large estate

Page No:

pp.15-17

Poem Title:

Stanzas Addressed to a Great Minister and Great Man.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Once on a time how long ago

Page No:

pp.18-25

Poem Title:

The Beavers. A Fable.Written in MDCCLIX.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Houses churches mixed together

Page No:

pp.26-27

Poem Title:

A Description of London.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The old Egyptians hid their wit

Page No:

pp.28-29

Poem Title:

On Mr. Nash's Picture, At Full Length, Between the Busts of Sir I. Newton, And Mr. Pope, At Bath.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Chesterfield.

Attributed To:

Philip Dormer Stanhope

First Line:

Says sir John to lord E- how uncrowded we sit

Page No:

p.30

Poem Title:

A Dialogue in a thin House.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In ancient times the roman laws decreed

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

Epigram. On the Battle of Minden.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In famed cathedral who'd expect

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

On The Monuments. In Westminster-Abbey.

Attribution:

By the Late Mr. C. Churchill.

Attributed To:

Charles Churchill

First Line:

When Pope to satire gave its lawful way

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

Verses Written in Windsor Park. In the Year MDCCLXII.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Churchill]

Attributed To:

Charles Churchill

First Line:

Never yet in vain did heaven its omens send

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

On Mr. Pitt's Resignation. In MDCCLXI.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Virtue and fame the other day

Page No:

pp.35-37

Poem Title:

Virtue and Fame. To the Countess of Egremont.

Attribution:

By Lord Lyttelton.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

Fame heard with pleasure straight replied

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

Addition Extempore.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Hardwicke.

Attributed To:

Philip Yorke

First Line:

Methought I saw before my feet

Page No:

pp.38-39

Poem Title:

Lord L-'s Letter to the Earl of Hardwicke. Occasioned by the foregoing verses.

Attribution:

Lord L-

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When peace shall on her downy wing

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

Invitation to the Dowager Duchess D'Aiguillon

Attribution:

By Lord Lyttelton

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

Drumgold whose ancesters from Albion's shore

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

To Colonel Drumgold

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Lyttelton]

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

A plague on Egypt's arts I say

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

Quin's Soliloquy, On Seeing Duke Humphrey at St. Alban's.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Says epicure Quin should the devil in hell

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

Epigram

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First Line:

Dear sir | Having found with surprize that my late resignation

Page No:

pp.44-46

Poem Title:

Mr. Pitt's Letter To his Friend in the City, versifed. It was written on Occasion of his resigning the Seals in MDCCLXI.

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First Line:

To honour virtue in the lord of Stowe

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

On the Dismission Of Earl Temple From the Lieutenancy Of The County Of Bucks.

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First Line:

Hail black November in whose foggy rear

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

On the Thirtieth of November, Being St. Andrews Day, and the Birth-Day of The Princess Dowager of Wales.

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First Line:

Say when will England be from faction freed

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

Epigram

Attribution:

E. G.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A courtier professed much esteemed by the great

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

A Singular Advertisement versified. To The Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Gloucester.

Attribution:

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First Line:

See from his colours turncoat Y-- retreat

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

On A Certain Lawyer's Taking A Patent Of Precedence In 1764.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Whence can arise these dread alarms

Page No:

pp.81-85

Poem Title:

An Ode. MDCCLXIV.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Thou who the verdant plain dost traverse here

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

An Inscription For a Column At Runnymede, Windsor.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akenside

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Since the times are so bad and are still growing worse

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

Sent with a Piece of painted flowered Silk, to Lady Charles Spencer, who had said she was low in Pocket

Attribution:

By the Right Hon. Countess Temple.

Attributed To:

Anna Chamber

First Line:

By commerce Albion and by arms refined

Page No:

pp.88-90

Poem Title:

To the Earl Temple. On Gardening.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Countess Temple]

Attributed To:

Anna Chamber

First Line:

To the memory of Signior Fido

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

In The Above Noble Lord's Beautiful Gardens at Stowe, is the following singular Inscription.

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First Line:

A beauty comes a heroine in her air

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

L--y H----.

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First Line:

The crescent shines N- is near

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

L--y N------d.

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First Line:

A well timed pr--cy has title gained

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

D------ of --------

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First Line:

Affected wisdom has a woman made

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

L--y P-----.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Behold the wonder of her sex and time

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

L--y C-v-nt-y.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In riches titles honours see her soar

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

L--y H--dw--e

Attribution:

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First Line:

A wife as Pallas fair without design

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

L--y Pl-m--th.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Brighter than Phoebus in his fierce career

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

L--y W-ld-gr-ve.

Attribution:

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First Line:

How vain are hopes how changeable is man

Page No:

pp.95-97

Poem Title:

A Sketch. Written On The Change Of The Ministry In 1765.

Attribution:

N. C. M. S. C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

And does it gall you then ye venal crew

Page No:

pp.97-99

Poem Title:

To The Late Minority. Written On Reading The History Of Their Conduct, Entitled, "An History Of The Late Minority, &c.".

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. N. C. M. S. C.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When my Clio is gay

Page No:

pp.99-102

Poem Title:

The Muse At A Horse Race: A Ballad, Addressed To C---t And Country Jockies.

Attribution:

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First Line:

God prosper long our noble king

Page No:

pp.103-116

Poem Title:

A Parody Upon The Famous Battle of Chevy Chase.

Attribution:

W.Y.W

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The tories od rat em

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

An Apology For Mr. P-.

Attribution:

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First Line:

My lord great commoner no more

Page No:

pp.124-125

Poem Title:

The Earl. An Ode. Imitated From Horace.

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First Line:

How happy a state does lord C--m possess

Page No:

pp.126-129

Poem Title:

The Coronet: A Song.

Attribution:

A Trifler.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Having heard that your doggrel's in mighty renown

Page No:

pp.130-135

Poem Title:

An Epistle To A Friend In The Country.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The first was I that helped thee to be known

Page No:

pp.137-139

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

The western sun had sought his evening grave

Page No:

pp.139-151

Poem Title:

The E--l of C--m's Apology.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Forgive my lord an homely muse

Page No:

pp.152-155

Poem Title:

To Lord C--m. An Ode.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I hold for faith

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

The Jesuits double-faced Creed

Attribution:

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First Line:

Ayliffe and -- when called in days of old

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

On the Execution of John Ayliffe, Esq. For a Forgery Respecting Lord Holland.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The swift paced hours convoke again

Page No:

pp.172-174

Poem Title:

The Analogy between Legislation and Horse-Racing

Attribution:

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First Line:

Since the state is in want of some bold forward youth

Page No:

pp.177-179

Poem Title:

The Offer Of A Young Minister To The Public, In This Time Of Necessity.

Attribution:

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First Line:

No more my friend of vain applause

Page No:

pp.179-183

Poem Title:

The Present Age.

Attribution:

O.W.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A pair of doves and sent me by my Bute

Page No:

pp.183-184

Poem Title:

An Article Having Been In The Papers, Of the Earl Of Bute Presenting a Pair of uncommon fine doves and a Parrot To the P-- Of W--; The following lines appeared soon after.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

As the devil and B- were conversing of late

Page No:

pp.184-185

Poem Title:

An Epigram Written Extempore, On Reading a Paragraph Importing the Retirement of a Certain Great Favourite.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

How vain are guards when guilty fear

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

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First Line:

As on a board well poised boys sink and rise

Page No:

pp.186-187

Poem Title:

Epigram

Attribution:

By an Eton boy.

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Not attributed

First Line:

When Samson full of wrath devised

Page No:

p.186

Poem Title:

An Epigram

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First Line:

St George to save a maid the dragon slew

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

Upon St. George For England.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Lead up join hands

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

The Thane's Dance

Attribution:

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First Line:

Had paving London streets in taste

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

On the Scotch Pavement

Attribution:

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First Line:

The world's a printing house our words our thoughts

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

On A Printing-House.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Will Ch--m resign or continue in place

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

On a late promised Resignation.

Attribution:

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First Line:

If bees a government maintain

Page No:

pp.190-191

Poem Title:

The Rats and the Cheese

Attribution:

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First Line:

Adzooks master Hodge you are welcome to town

Page No:

pp.192-193

Poem Title:

A Dialogue Between Ralph and Hodge

Attribution:

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First Line:

Says great Will-m P-tt with his usual emotion

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

Epigram

Attribution:

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First Line:

At Marlborough inn obliged to stop

Page No:

pp.193-194

Poem Title:

On A Late Whimsical Event. That Befel Sir ---- at the Castle Inn at Marlborough, In the Month of Feb. 1767.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Ye sons of Bacchus come and join

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

Anacreontic, On the Death of Sir Harry Bellendine.

Attribution:

By Lord Middlesex.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Prose driving dunces waddling fools in rhyme

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

On Mr. Churchill's Death

Attribution:

J. C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stay passenger and though within

Page No:

pp.195-196

Poem Title:

The Following Copy Of Verses Are to be seen on a small Cottage or building, in the rustic Taste, intended as a Place of Retirement, built by --- Powis, Esq; in a Grove by the River Severn, about a Mile from Little Walcot, in the County of Salop.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Good morning dear cousin pray how do you do

Page No:

pp.196-199

Poem Title:

The Morning Visit. A Dialogue Between Lady Rattle And Lady Pam.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Though born where Devon's hills arise

Page No:

pp.200-204

Poem Title:

Imitation Of The IXth Ode Of The IVth Book Of Horace. To A Friend.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Have ye never seen a net

Page No:

pp.211-123 [i.e. 213]

Poem Title:

Stanzas to the Ladies. On their Head-Dress for the Year 1768.

Attribution:

Squoxam.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye foplings and prigs and would be smart things

Page No:

pp.123 [i.e. 213]-215

Poem Title:

A Song For the Mall. A Parody on Whitehead's Song for Ranelagh.

Attribution:

By a Lady.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Mass houses churches mixed together

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

Description of Dublin.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Ladies whose dress wit sprightliness and air

Page No:

pp.216-217

Poem Title:

A Sketch of Paris.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When wise philosophers explain

Page No:

pp.218-219

Poem Title:

On a Young Lady, By a wilful Mistake reading 'Rubies' for 'B--bb--s.'

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Though kind your words how full of sorrow

Page No:

pp.219-222

Poem Title:

Miss Courtney to Miss Anne Conolly, May, 1753.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hail tricking monarch more successful far

Page No:

pp.238-240

Poem Title:

The British Ambassadress's Speech To the French King, Soon after the Peace of Utrecht.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What do I see ridiculously clad

Page No:

pp.241-242

Poem Title:

On the Modern Plaid-Wearers.

Attribution:

Euryalus.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

According to the Romish creed

Page No:

pp.242-246

Poem Title:

Fable I. The River With A Petition.

Attribution:

By J. H. S. Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That every female's a coquette

Page No:

pp.246-249

Poem Title:

Fable II. The Phoenix and her Lovers.

Attribution:

By J. H. S. Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A hen one evening to enjoy the cool

Page No:

pp.249-253

Poem Title:

Fable III. The Ducklings and the Wise Birds.

Attribution:

By J. H. S. Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A cock an officer of foot

Page No:

pp.253-255

Poem Title:

Fable IV. La Noblesse de France, The Fighting Cock and the Craven.

Attribution:

By J. H. S. Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Interest fascinates both age and youth

Page No:

pp.256-258

Poem Title:

Fable V. The Dog and the Cat.

Attribution:

By J. H. S. Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With malice fell

Page No:

pp.258-261

Poem Title:

Fable VI. The Spider and the Fly.

Attribution:

By J. H. S. Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

After a tedious flight

Page No:

pp.261-266

Poem Title:

Fable VII. The Wild-Ducks and Water-Spaniel.

Attribution:

By J. H. S. Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A certain dog of middling birth

Page No:

pp.266-270

Poem Title:

Fable VIII. The Advice of an Old Spaniel.

Attribution:

By J. H. S. Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ladies I love you dearly

Page No:

pp.273-284

Poem Title:

An Epistle To the grown Gentlewomen, The Misses of ****

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. J. H. S. Esq]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gentlemen I am your friend and adviser

Page No:

pp.285-290

Poem Title:

A Lyric Epistle, To the Grown Gentlemen, the Students of divinity in -- college, Oxford.

Attribution:

By Tristram Shandy, Gent.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Old and abandoned by each venal friend

Page No:

pp.323-324

Poem Title:

Inscription for the Villa of a decay'd Statesman on the Sea-Coast.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

While every truly english breast

Page No:

pp.324-325

Poem Title:

Epistle to John Wilkes, Esq; in Confinement.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To contradict Wilkes now M-- replies

Page No:

p.326

Poem Title:

The whole present Dispute in Law and Politics.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Can Apollo resist or a poet refuse

Page No:

pp.327-328

Poem Title:

Harry and Nan. An Elegy, in the Manner of Tibullus.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Little Moll faith and I from Wapping came up

Page No:

pp.328-332

Poem Title:

A Sailor's Description of the Masquerade: As played before the King of Denmark to a crouded, motley audience in the Hay-market.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

William sends health to John

Page No:

pp.333-337

Poem Title:

Parody on Cato, Act II. Scene II. On Occasion of the Middlesex Election in December, 1768, when the Candidates were John Glynn, Esq; (who was elected) and Sir W. B. Proctor,

Attribution:

M.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

God prosper long our noble king

Page No:

pp.338-341

Poem Title:

The Middlesex Election. A Ballad on the same Occasion. To the Tune of 'Chevy Chace'.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The muses and graces to Phoebus complained

Page No:

p.342

Poem Title:

The Temple of the Muses. To the Countess Temple.

Attribution:

The three following Pieces are said to be writen [sic] by Mr. W-s.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Again I tune the vocal lay

Page No:

pp.343-344

Poem Title:

To Miss W-- on her Birth-Day, August 16, 1767. Wrote in France.

Attribution:

by Mr. W-s.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How shall the muse in prison sing

Page No:

pp.344-345

Poem Title:

To Miss W-- on her Birth-Day, August 16, 1768. Wrote in Prison.

Attribution:

by Mr. W-s.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In youth tis said you easily may scan

Page No:

pp.345-348

Poem Title:

A Copy of Verses....on his Schoolfellows at Eton.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable the Earl of Carlisle.

Attributed To:

Frederick Howard

First Line:

My lord your verses penned with so much ease

Page No:

pp.348-349

Poem Title:

To the Earl of Carlisle, On the preceeding Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To form a minister the ingredients

Page No:

pp.349-350

Poem Title:

The Grand Catholicon. Being an genuine Family Receipt. Written in 1753.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though life's not worth a thought

Page No:

pp.350-351

Poem Title:

On Health.

Attribution:

By the late Lord Hervey.

Attributed To:

John Hervey

First Line:

Stranger whoever thou art bestow

Page No:

pp.370-371

Poem Title:

In Inscription.

Attribution:

Written in 1749, by the late Right Honourable Charles Townshend, on Lady C- wishing to be buried in his Shrubbery at Adderbury in Oxfordshire.

Attributed To:

Charles Townshend

First Line:

Ye maids who Britain's court bedeck

Page No:

pp.371-373

Poem Title:

Earl Delawarr's Farewel to the Maids of Honor, on his being promoted to his late Father's Troop, and resigning the Place of Vice Chamberlain to the Queen.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What do scholars and bards and astronomers wise

Page No:

pp.373-374

Poem Title:

On the Dutchess of Rutland

Attribution:

By the Earl of Chesterfield.

Attributed To:

Philip Dormer Stanhope

First Line:

As over the swelling ocean's tide

Page No:

pp.374-377

Poem Title:

On the Banishment of Cicero.

Attribution:

Written by the Duke of Wharton, and first printed when Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, was banished in 1724.

Attributed To:

Philip James Wharton

First Line:

Beat on proud billows Boreas blow

Page No:

pp.377-382

Poem Title:

Written when he was a prisoner in the Tower, during Cromwell's usurpation.

Attribution:

Stanzas by Lord Capel.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go soul the body's guest

Page No:

pp.382-385

Poem Title:

Verses

Attribution:

By Sir Walter Raleigh.

Attributed To:

Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]

First Line:

Go truth unwelcome guest

Page No:

pp.386-387

Poem Title:

A Parody on the Foregoing. Written in 1764.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me ye sons of Phoebus what is this

Page No:

pp.387-388

Poem Title:

On Good Humour. Written at Eton School, 1729.

Attribution:

Lyttelton.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

The man who feels the dear disease

Page No:

pp.388-389

Poem Title:

A Man in Love.

Attribution:

By Lady Mary Wortley Montague.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

The chiming bells from every steeple

Page No:

pp.389-395

Poem Title:

The laughing Philosopher.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Says Townley to Fletcher what causes this rout

Page No:

pp.398-400

Poem Title:

A Conversation between the two Heads upon Temple Bar: an Occasion of the Merchants Address, March, 1769.

Attribution:

Temple-Bar.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh Englishmen Englishmen can't you be quiet

Page No:

pp.400-403

Poem Title:

A Dialogue at St. James's Gate on the same Occasion; between a Noble Lord and the Mob.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A witch that from her ebon chair

Page No:

pp.403-405

Poem Title:

The Witch: A Fable.

Attribution:

J. Cunningham.

Attributed To:

John Cunningham

First Line:

Serene the morn the season fine

Page No:

pp.405-406

Poem Title:

The Review. Written in the Year 1719; and never before printed.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed