The Lovers Cabinet [ESTC T114089]
- DMI number:
- 839
- Publication Date:
- 1755
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T114089
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW114498662
- Shelfmark:
- BL bbb.13.11601
- Full Title:
- THE | LOVERS CABINET: | A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS: | CONTAINING, | [2 columns] [column 1]I. The FAIR CIRCASSIAN. | A Dramatic Performance. | By a Gentleman of [i]Ox- | ford[/i]. | II. The MIDSUMMER WISH. | By the same. | III. To SYLVIA. By the same. | IV. HEATHEN PRIEST- | CRAFT. By the same. | V. The NAKED TRUTH. | By the same. [/column 1] [column 2]VI. On FLORINDA bathing | herself. By the same. | VII. HELOISE to ABELARD. | By [i]Alexander Pope,[/i] Esq; | VIII. The Answer of ABE- | LARD. By Mrs [i]Cent- | livre[/i]. | IX. TO CHLOE. | X. The OECONOMY of | LOVE. A Poetical Essay. | By Dr. [i]Armstrong.[/i][/column 2] | Carefully Collated and Revised. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | DUBLIN: | Printed for L. FLIN, at the [i]Bible[/i] in [i]Castle-street,[/i] | near [i]Silver-Court[/i]. MDCCLV.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Insanire docet certa ratione modoque. | --- fine Me, Liber, ibis in Urbem. [/i] OVID.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin
- Genres:
- Made-up miscellany
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [4], [iii]-xvi, [1]-84, [2], [3]-22
- Bibliographic details:
- A made-up miscellany containing The Fair Circassian...to which are added Several Occasional Poems (Ninth edition); and The Oeconomy of Love, both with London imprints and dated 1751. Separate title page p. [41]: [ornamental rule] OCCASIONAL | POEMS | By the same AUTHOR. | [ornamental rule]
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Prefatory matter precedes The Fair Circassian pp. [iii]-xvi; also introduces 'Occasional Poems by the same Author' p. [xliii]-xliv.
- Author:
- A Merryman
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Identified as printer on the title page of the two constituent pamphlets of this miscellany.
- Publisher:
- L. Flin
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Virgins of Albion ye fair female kind
- Page No:
- pp.17-39
- Poem Title:
- The Fair Circassian.
- Attribution:
- By a Gentleman-Commoner of Oxford.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Waft me some soft and cooling breeze
- Page No:
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- The Midsummer Wish...Written when the Author was at Eton School.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Were I invited to a nectar feast
- Page No:
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- Sylvia.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Still let us love my Sylvia and be wise
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- To Sylvia.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sylvia forever lovely dearest maid
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- To Sylvia.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I grant that ever since the world began
- Page No:
- pp.50-54
- Poem Title:
- Heathen Priestcraft. From the First Book of Ovid's Fastorum.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of the gay Sylvan god that widely roves
- Page No:
- pp.55-59
- Poem Title:
- The Naked Truth. From the Second Book of Ovid's Fastorum.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas summer and the clear resplendent moon
- Page No:
- pp.60-63
- Poem Title:
- On Florinda, Seen while she was bathing.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In these deep solitudes and awful cells
- Page No:
- pp.67-76
- Poem Title:
- Heloise to Abelard. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- In my dark cell low prostrate on the ground
- Page No:
- pp.77-82
- Poem Title:
- Abelard to Heloise. A Poem. In Answer to that wrote by Mr. Pope.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. C---er.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- May all be hushed each ruder passion cease
- Page No:
- pp.82-84
- Poem Title:
- A Disuasive from Marriage. To Cloe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thy bounties love in thy soft raptures when
- Page No:
- pp.3-22
- Poem Title:
- The Oeconomy of Love. A Poetical Essay.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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