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.
- 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:
- 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.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Corinna in the country bred
- Page No:
- pp.3-5
- Poem Title:
- A Simile
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Corinna virtue's child and chaste
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- Corinna Vindicated
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Once on a time how long ago
- Page No:
- pp.18-25
- Poem Title:
- The Beavers. A Fable.Written in MDCCLIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Houses churches mixed together
- Page No:
- pp.26-27
- Poem Title:
- A Description of London.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In ancient times the roman laws decreed
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. On the Battle of Minden.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Says epicure Quin should the devil in hell
- Page No:
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- Epigram
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whence can arise these dread alarms
- Page No:
- pp.81-85
- Poem Title:
- An Ode. MDCCLXIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A beauty comes a heroine in her air
- Page No:
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- L--y H----.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The crescent shines N- is near
- Page No:
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- L--y N------d.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A well timed pr--cy has title gained
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- D------ of --------
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Affected wisdom has a woman made
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- L--y P-----.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold the wonder of her sex and time
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- L--y C-v-nt-y.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In riches titles honours see her soar
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- L--y H--dw--e
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A wife as Pallas fair without design
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- L--y Pl-m--th.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Brighter than Phoebus in his fierce career
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- L--y W-ld-gr-ve.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My lord great commoner no more
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- The Earl. An Ode. Imitated From Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The first was I that helped thee to be known
- Page No:
- pp.137-139
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The swift paced hours convoke again
- Page No:
- pp.172-174
- Poem Title:
- The Analogy between Legislation and Horse-Racing
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How vain are guards when guilty fear
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- An Ode.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Samson full of wrath devised
- Page No:
- p.186
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- St George to save a maid the dragon slew
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- Upon St. George For England.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lead up join hands
- Page No:
- pp.188-189
- Poem Title:
- The Thane's Dance
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Had paving London streets in taste
- Page No:
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- On the Scotch Pavement
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The world's a printing house our words our thoughts
- Page No:
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- On A Printing-House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Will Ch--m resign or continue in place
- Page No:
- p.189
- Poem Title:
- On a late promised Resignation.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If bees a government maintain
- Page No:
- pp.190-191
- Poem Title:
- The Rats and the Cheese
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Adzooks master Hodge you are welcome to town
- Page No:
- pp.192-193
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue Between Ralph and Hodge
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Says great Will-m P-tt with his usual emotion
- Page No:
- p.192
- Poem Title:
- Epigram
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mass houses churches mixed together
- Page No:
- pp.215-216
- Poem Title:
- Description of Dublin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ladies whose dress wit sprightliness and air
- Page No:
- pp.216-217
- Poem Title:
- A Sketch of Paris.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- 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
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