The laws of poetry, as laid down by the Duke of Buckinghamshire in his Essay on poetry, by the Earl of Roscommon... and by the Lord Lansdowne. (N10409) [ECCO]

DMI number:

495

Publication Date:

1721

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

N10409

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW109987130

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Christ Church Library?; Cambridge University Library

Full Title:

[border] | [border] | THE | LAWS [i]of[/i] POETRY, | As laid down by the DUKE of | [i]BUCKINGHAMSHIRE[/i] | IN HIS | [i]Essay on[/i] POETRY, | By the EARL of | ROSCOMMON | IN HIS | [i]Essay on Translated Verse[/i], | And by the LORD | LANSDOWNE | ON | [i]Unnatural Flights in[/i] POETRY, | Explain'd and Illustrated. | [rule] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for [i]W. Hinchliffe[/i], at [i]Dryden[/i]'s [i]Head[/i], under the | [i]Royal-Exchange[/i]; and [i]J. Walthoe[/i]. [i]jun.[/i] over against the | [i]Royal-Exchange[/i], in [i]Cornhill[/i]. M DCC XXI. | [border] | [border] |

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellany dominated by poet, Collection including prose, and Probably not a miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

pp.[i]-[xiii], [1]-356. (check)

Comments:

CONTENTS: Main portion of text written in prose.

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATERIAL: 'Dedication to the Most Noble the Dutchess of Buckinghamshire, and Normanby' signed by 'Charles Gildon' [8pp.]; 'The Preface' [3pp.]

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Title:

The laws of poetry, as laid down by the Duke of Buckinghamshire in his Essay on poetry, by the Earl of Roscommon... and by the Lord Lansdowne. (1721; T86917)

Publication Date:

1721

ESTC No:

T86917

Volume:

1 of 1

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Author:

George Granville

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John Sheffield

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Dedicatee:

Duchess of Buckingham Katherine

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'To the Most Noble the Dutchess of Buckinghamshire, And Normanby, &c.': ESTC N10409

Editor:

Charles Gildon

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Publisher:

J. [John] Walthoe

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W. Hinchliffe

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Content/Publication

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Of things in which mankind does most excel

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pp.1-2

Poem Title:

Essay On Poetry, With Commentary.

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Of things in which mankind does most excel

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p.6

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Among the famed remains of ancient time

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p.7

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Orpheus inspired by more than human power

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pp.15-16

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as translated by my lord Roscommon

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Wentworth Dillon

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No sort of work requires so nice a touch

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p.16

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Some things admit of mediocrity

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p.17

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my lord Roscommon

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Wentworth Dillon

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Wine in its full perfection of decay

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p.18

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what my lord Dorset says

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Charles Sackville

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Tis not a flash of fancy which sometimes

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p.19

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the noble author under our consideration... says

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True wit is everlasting like the sun

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Which though sometimes behind a cloud retired

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p.21

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Not thus our heroes of the former days

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p.21

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my lord Roscommon

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Wentworth Dillon

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Number and rhyme and that harmonious sound

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p.62

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Harmonious sound

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Number and -- that harmonious sound

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p.63

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That harmonious sound

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p.64

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my noble author

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When the almighty from Mount Paran came

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p.66

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[no title]

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Mr. Dennis from 'Habbakuk', which I transcribe from his admirable 'Grounds of Criticism in poetry.

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John Dennis

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When god from Teman came

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pp.67-68

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got

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p.69

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[no title]

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First as to Waller, in these verses

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Edmund Waller

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Of many faults rhyme is perhaps the cause

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pp.70-71

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[no title]

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the following words of my Lord Roscommon...

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Wentworth Dillon

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Yet her alone let not your thunder seize

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p.70

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[no title]

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'And, thus Dryden in his Aurengezeb'

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John Dryden

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Without a genius too for that's the soul

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p.73

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A spirit which inspires the work throughout

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p.74

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A spirit which inspires the work throughout

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p.76

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Where dost thou dwell what caverns of the brain

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pp.76-77

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As all is dullness when the fancy's bad

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p.77

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Here I should all the various sorts of verse

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p.79

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What need has satire then to live on theft

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p.80

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Defects of witty men deserve a cure

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p.81

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First then of songs which now so much abound

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pp.81-82

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A faultless sonnet finished thus would be

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p.89

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Immodest words whatever the pretence

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p.90

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My lord Roscommon declares himself of the same opinion... in the following words

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Wentworth Dillon

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For tis but just

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p.90

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[no title]

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according to that of Mr. Cowley.

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Abraham Cowley

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Next elegy of sweet but solemn voice

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pp.92-93

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Not that warm thoughts of the transporting joy

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p.92

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Elegies were at first designed for grief

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p.94

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let us hear what Horace... upon the subject

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The elegy that loves a mournful style

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pp.94-95

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[no title]

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And Boileau thus

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Yet modern laws are made for later faults

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p.94

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But should this muse harmonious numbers yield

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pp.96-97

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Next elegy of sweet but solemn voice

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p.96

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But well those raptures if you'll make us see

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p.98

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And there too oft despairing love complains

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p.99

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In vain alas for who by wit is moved

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p.101

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The beauty of Israel is slain upon the high places how are the mighty fallen

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pp.103-104

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A higher flight and of a happier force

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pp.104-105

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- Without judgment fancy is but mad

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p.106

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A higher flight and of a happier force

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p.106

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These laws may sound a little too severe

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p.106

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Though all appear in heat and fury done

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p.106

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Her generous style at random oft will part

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p.107

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These two lines from Boileau

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Queen of all harmonious things

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pp.107-114

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Ode.

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written by Pindar himself, as we have it translated by Mr. Cowley

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Abraham Cowley

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I will sing unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea

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pp.116-117

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In my distress I called upon the Lord

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pp.117-119

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[no title]

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Mr. Dennis has cloathed it in his Grounds of criticism; it is part of the 18th Psalm

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John Dennis

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By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered thee o Sion

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pp.119-120

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The ode is bolder and has greater force

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p.122

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To Horace I shall add Monsieur Boileau.

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Gods heroes conquerors olympic crowns

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p.122

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[no title]

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my lord Roscommon

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Wentworth Dillon

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Of all the ways that wisest men could find

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pp.123-124

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Of all the ways that wisest men could find

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p.126

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And cures because the remedy is loved

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p.144

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But human frailty nicely to unfold

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p.144

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Here rest my muse suspend thy cares a while

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pp.145-146

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these are my lord's words

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Of chosen words some take not care enough

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p.145

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the following precepts which his Grace has given us about satire

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But since the poets we of late have known

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pp.154-156

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Frail state of man thy living lot I deem

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pp.160-161

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Thebans behold this Oedipus whose name

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p.160

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Oh may it ever be my fate

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pp.163-165

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The unities of action time and place

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p.166

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The unities of action time and place

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p.199

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First then soliloquies had need be few

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p.203

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Extremely short and spoke in passion too

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p.204

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To be or not to be &c

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p.206

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That famous soliloquy, which has been so much cry'd up in Hamlet [i.e. by Shakespeare]

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William Shakespeare

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Figures of speech which poets think so fine

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p.208

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Art's needless varnish to make nature shine

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p.210

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But to make rage declaim and grief discourse

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p.216

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the noble author of the Essay

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make rage declaim and grief discourse

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p.221

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What things are these that would be poets thought

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p.222

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What things are these that would be poets thought

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p.224

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noble author of our Essay on Poetry

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By nature not inspired nor learning taught

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p.225

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Some wit they have and therefore may deserve

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p.225

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But to write plays why tis a bold pretence

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p.227

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A poor player

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p.227

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the following lines of Shakespear, which are spoken in Mackbeth

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William Shakespeare

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A tale

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p.227

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this reflection of Shakespear; for they are exactly, and to a tittle [sic],

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William Shakespeare

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What's the worth of any thing

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p.227

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[no title]

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'for they seem of Hudibras's opinion,'

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Samuel Butler

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Nay more for they must look within to find

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p.231

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All this together yet is but a part

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pp.232-233

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Yet to our selves we justice must allow

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p.235

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First on a plot employ thy careful thoughts

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p.236

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Turn it with time a thousand several ways

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p.236

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Reject that vulgar error which appears

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pp.237-238

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This oft alone has given success to plays

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p.237

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A faultless monster which the world never saw

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p.238

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Some faults must be that his misfortunes drew

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p.240

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Besides the main design composed with art

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p.242

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Neither in comedy will this suffice

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p.245

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Think not so much where shining thoughts to place

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p.245

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Yet be not fondly your own slave for this

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p.245

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Expose no single fop but lay the load

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p.246

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But to collect like bees from every flower

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p.248

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to put it in his Grace's words

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Another fault which often does befall

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p.249

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That even his fools spoke sense as if possessed

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p.250

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That silly thing men call sheer wit avoid

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pp.250-251

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But since the poets we of late have known

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pp.252-253

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How shameful and what monstrous things are these

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p.254

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Breathless almost we are at last got up

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pp.255-256

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the noble author of the Essay

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Muse speak the man who since the siege of Troy

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p.259

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Arms and the man I sing

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p.260

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'And Virgil begins his Aeneis with'

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Of man's first disobedience and the fruit

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p.260

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I would a poet like a mistress try

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p.275

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one of their witty men has it

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Happy that author whose correct essay

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p.282

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to subjoin my Lord Roscommon's Essay on translated verse

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Wentworth Dillon

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Britain whose genius is in verse expressed

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p.282

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[no title]

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Mr. Waller, whose genius...in his verses before my Lord's translation of Horace's art of poetry tells us

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Edmund Waller

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He that proportioned wonders can disclose

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p.282

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in the eye of Mr. Waller

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Edmund Waller

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But since the press the pulpit and the stage

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p.283

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The pamphleteers their venom daily spit

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p.283

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[no title]

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'to which Mr. Dryden in a prologue of his refers'

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John Dryden

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The noblest fruits transplanted in our isle

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p.284

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Theocritus does now to us belong

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p.285

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But hear oh hear in what exalted strains

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p.286

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And his Lordship would have added a farther panegyrick to these three lines [i.e Roscommon]

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Wentworth Dillon

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When France had breathed after intestine broils

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pp.286-287

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[no title]

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My Lord [i.e. Roscommon]

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Wentworth Dillon

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From hence our generous emulation came

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p.287

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[no title]

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My Lord... But to proceed [i.e. Roscommon]

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Wentworth Dillon

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Serene and clear harmonious Horace flows

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p.288

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Those ills your ancestors have done

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pp.289-291

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The Sixth Ode Of The Third Book of Horace. Of the Corruption of the Times.

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Vain are our neighbours hopes and vain their cares

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p.291

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The weighty bullion of one sterling line

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p.292

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[no title]

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my Lord [i.e. Roscommon]

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Wentworth Dillon

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Tis true composing is the nobler part

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p.293

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[no title]

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his Lordship [i.e. Roscommon]

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Wentworth Dillon

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The soil intended for Paenan seeds

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p.294

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[no title]

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Let poets match their subject to their strength

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p.295

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[no title]

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his Lordships first rule... are a comment on this of Horace

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The first great work a task performed by few

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p.295

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After a serious and judicious choice

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p.296

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[no title]

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Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That wretch in spite of his forgotten rhymes

Page No:

p.296

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

my Lord [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Each poet with a different talent writes

Page No:

pp.297-298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Learn learn Crotona's brawny wrestler cries

Page No:

p.297

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

my Lord [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

United by this sympathetic bond

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

for my Lord proceeds

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Examine how your humour is inclined

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

his Lordship presses very well [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

The first impression in her infant breast

Page No:

pp.299-300

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With how much ease is a young muse betrayed

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

My lord [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Immodest words admit of no defence

Page No:

p.300

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

His Lordship's next rule...[i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

And such applause it must expect to meet

Page No:

p.301

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Variety of such is to be found

Page No:

p.301

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Instruct the listning world how Maro sings

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

his Lordship [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Yet tis not all to have a subject good

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

my Lord [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

For who without a qualm has ever looked

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

But my Lord goes on...[i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

But I offend - Virgil begins to frown

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

I am afraid his Lordship measures their...[i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

On sure foundations let your fabric rise

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

My Lord [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

A heat that glows in every line that's writ

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The Essay on Poetry has it thus

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A spirit that inspires the work throughout

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

in which his Lordship

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A pure an active an auspicious flame

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

my Lord goes on...[i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

But few oh few souls preordained by fate

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

But to go on with my Lord Roscommon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Beware what spirit rages in your breast

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

His Lordship here very justly informs us [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

How many ages since has Virgil writ

Page No:

pp.307-308

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pride of all others the most dangerous fault

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

My Lord [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Hail mighty Maro may that sacred name

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What I have instanced only in the best

Page No:

pp.308-309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

his Lordship [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Such secrets are not easily found out

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When things appear unnatural and hard

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

They who too faithfully on names insist

Page No:

pp.310-311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Truth still is one truth is divinely bright

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your style will this through all disguises show

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

his Lordship [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Not even the hardest of our foes could hear

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Not the most cruel of our conqu'ring foes

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Which to recount what Myrmidon forbears

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

thus Ogelby translates these verses

Attributed To:

John Ogilby

First Line:

Let Crassus's ghost and Labienus tell

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Words in one language elegantly used

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No longer his interpreter but he

Page No:

p.312

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

his Lordship's words [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Excursions are inexpiably bad

Page No:

p.313

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nor could they form O Cyllarus forestow

Page No:

p.313

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

I think Mr. Dryden himself... in his version of Ovid

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Affected noise is the most wretched thing

Page No:

p.314

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Vowels and accents regularly placed

Page No:

p.315

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Vowels and accents regularly placed

Page No:

p.317

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

my Lord [i. e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Whatever sister of the learned nine

Page No:

p.318

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A quack too scandalously mean to name

Page No:

p.322

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

My Lord to illustrate what he has said...[i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

But what a thoughtless animal is man

Page No:

p.323

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

first a little more of the English bard

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In Florence dwelt a doctor of renown

Page No:

p.324

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

And now to the French poet [Boileau?]:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

His name struck everywhere as great a damp

Page No:

pp.324-325

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

once more hear my Lord Roscommon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Here first the doctor's talent came in play

Page No:

p.325

Poem Title:

let us see the different fate of Monsieur Boileau's Quack

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Worried with debts and past all hope of bail

Page No:

pp.325-326

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

my Lord's [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

I pity from my soul unhappy men

Page No:

p.326

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The moral which my Lord [Roscommon] gives his tale

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

A rich ill poet is without excuse

Page No:

p.327

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

His Lordship farther observes [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Tis very dangerous tampering with a muse

Page No:

p.328

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

his Lordship [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Have you been led through the Cumaean cave

Page No:

pp.330-331

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He only makes me sad who shows the way

Page No:

p.330

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Ld. Roscom.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

No poet any passion can excite

Page No:

p.330

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

my Lord

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

We weep and laugh as we see others do

Page No:

p.330

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

[Ld. Roscom.]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

But though we must obey when heaven commands

Page No:

p.331

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The god within us rages in our breast

Page No:

p.331

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

And as Ovid has it.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When I at idle hours in vain thy absence mourn

Page No:

p.331

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

What my Lord means by this

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As when the cheerful hours too freely pass

Page No:

p.332

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Before the radiant sun a glimmering lamp

Page No:

p.333

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thus have I seen a rapid headlong tide

Page No:

p.333

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Absurd expressions crude abortive thoughts

Page No:

p.334

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The privilege that ancient poets claim

Page No:

p.334

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

his Lordship [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

I lose my patience when with saucy pride

Page No:

p.335

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

My Lord from this head proceeds to numbers [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

A skillful ear in numbers should preside

Page No:

p.336

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virgil almost every where expresses some image of the thing

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The delicacy of the nicest ear

Page No:

p.336

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

his Lordship justly adds [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

By secret infl'ence of indulgent skies

Page No:

p.337

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When by impulse from heaven Tyrtaeus sung

Page No:

p.337

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

my Lord [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Of many faults rhyme is perhaps the cause

Page No:

pp.340-341

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

these verses of his Lordship's [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

But now that Phoebus and the sacred nine

Page No:

p.343

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

which my Lord generously endeavours to stir up [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

I grant that from some mossy idol oak

Page No:

p.343

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

But now let's go on with my Lord [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Oh may I live to hail the glorious day

Page No:

p.344

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Have we forgot how Raphael's numerous prose

Page No:

pp.337-338 [i.e. 344-346]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

This my Lord confirms by the following quotation [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

As when some image of a charming face

Page No:

pp.348-352

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable The Lord Lansdowne

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

He's bound to please not to write well and knows

Page No:

p.350

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed