The minor poets or the works of the most celebrated authors [vol 1] [N6033]
- DMI number:
- 790
- Publication Date:
- 1751
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 2
- ESTC number:
- N6033
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW117172651
- Shelfmark:
- BL RB.23.a.6443
- Full Title:
- THE | MINOR POETS: | OR, THE | WORKS | OF THE MOST | Celebrated AUTHORS, | Of whose WRITINGS there are but | small Remains, [i]Viz.[/i] | [2 cols] [col. 1]The Earl of ROSCOMMON, | The Earl of DORSET, | The Earl of HALLIFAX, | Sir SAMUEL GARTH, | GEORGE STEPNEY, Esq;[/col. 1] [col. 2]WILLIAM WALSH, Esq; | THOMAS TICKELL, Esq; | THOMAS SPRAT, Bishop | of [i]Rochester[/i].[/col2] | In TWO VOLUMES. | [i]DUBLIN:[/i] | Printed for P. WILSON, J. EXSHAW, J. ESDALL, | R. JAMES, S. PRICE, and M. WILLIAMSON. | [rule] | M DCCLI.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse and Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [8], [3]-[400] (p.312 mispaginated '213')
- Bibliographic details:
- sigs. F12r-v are a cancel, pasted in. Sections have separate title pages: p. 1: [rule] | POEMS | BY THE | EARL [i]of[/i] ROSCOMMON. | [rule] p. 47: [rule] | [i]HORACE[/i]'s | ART [i]of[/i] POETRY. | [rule] p. 69: [rule] | POEMS | BY THE | EARL [i]of[/i] DORSET. | [rule] p. 93: [rule] | POEMS | BY THE | EARL [i]of[/i] HALLIFAX. | [rule] p. 121: [rule] | THE | HIND [i]and the[/i] PANTHER | Transvers'd to the Story of the | [i]Country-Mouse[/i] and the [i]City-Mouse.[/i] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | Written in Conjunction with Mr. [i]Prior[/i]. | [rule] p. 153: [rule] | THE | WORKS | OF | Sir [i]SAMUEL GARTH[/i] | [rule] p. 155: [rule] | THE | DISPENSARY. | A POEM | IN | SIX CANTO'S. | [epigraph] | [rule] p. 231: [rule] | [i]CLAREMONT. | Address'd to the Right Honourable the | EARL [i]of[/i] CLARE, | NOW | DUKE [i]of[/i] NEWCASTLE. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] p. 317: [rule] ORATORIO | LAUDATORIA, | IN AEDIBUS | Collegii Regalis Med. Lond. | 17mo die Septembris. 1697. | [rule] p. 335: [rule] | THE | WORKS | OF | GEORGE STEPNEY, [i]Esq;[/i] | [rule]
- Comments:
- CONTENTS: The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd (pp.121-151) contains verse fragments: only those four lines or longer have been indexed. Sections have separate contents pages: Roscommon's poems p.67 Dorset's works p. 91 Hallifax's works p. 152 Garth's works p. 333 Stepney's works p. 400. Contents: French verse p. 86; Latin verse pp. 99-102, 392-6; The Hind and the Panther pp. 121-151; Prose pp. 258-288; Latin prose pp. 317-330; Latin inscription pp. 330-1.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Dedication 'To the Right Honourable Philip Dormer Earl of Chesterfield' signed 'The Editor' [2pp.]; Preface [2pp.]
- Title:
- The minor poets or the works of the most celebrated authors [vol 2] [N6033] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1751
- ESTC No:
- N6033
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- J. Esdall
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- J. Exshaw
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- M. Williamson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Peter. Wilson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- R. James
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- S. Price
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Happy that author whose correct essay
- Page No:
- pp.3-15
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- O azure vaults o crystal sky
- Page No:
- pp.16-18
- Poem Title:
- A Paraphrase on the CXLVIIIth Psalm.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Folly and vice are easy to describe
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue spoken to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, at Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- I first of Romans stooped to rural strains
- Page No:
- pp.21-24
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Eclogue. Silenus.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Hail sacred solitude from this calm bay
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- Ode upon Solitude.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Virtue dear friend needs no defence
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- The Twenty Second Ode of the First Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Virtue dear friend needs no defence
- Page No:
- pp.29-30
- Poem Title:
- The Same imitated.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Be gone you slaves you idle vermin go
- Page No:
- pp.30-32
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Dear happy groves and you the dark retreat
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- Part of the Fifth Scene of the Second Act in Guarini's Pastor Fido. Translated into English.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- From deepest dungeons of eternal night
- Page No:
- pp.34-36
- Poem Title:
- The Ghost of the Old House of Commons, to the New One, appointed to meet at Oxford.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- To the pale tyrant who to horrid graves
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- The Dream.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Thou happy creature art secure
- Page No:
- pp.36-37
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of a Lady's Dog.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Winter thy cruelty extend
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- Song. On a young Lady who sung finely, and was afraid of a Cold.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- You've seen tonight the glory of the east
- Page No:
- pp.38-39
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to Alexander the Great when acted at the Theatre in Dublin.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- The day of wrath that dreadful day
- Page No:
- pp.39-41
- Poem Title:
- On the Day of Judgment.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- The mighty rivals whose destructive rage
- Page No:
- pp.42-43
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to Pompey, A Tragedy, translated by Mrs. K. Philips, from the French of Monsieur Corneille, and acted at the Theatre in Dublin.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Shame of my life disturber of my tomb
- Page No:
- pp.43-44
- Poem Title:
- Ross's Ghost.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- The gods were pleased to choose the conquering side
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- Translation of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Those ills your ancestors have done
- Page No:
- pp.44-46
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Ode of the Third Book of Horace. Of the Corruption of the Times.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- If in a picture Piso you should see
- Page No:
- pp.49-66
- Poem Title:
- Horace Of The Art of Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Come on you critics find one fault who dares
- Page No:
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Edward Howard, On his incomparable incomprehensible Poem. called the British Princess.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Thou damned Antipodes to common sense
- Page No:
- pp.72-73
- Poem Title:
- To the Same, on his Plays.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Tarugo gave us wonder and delight
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- To Sir Thomas St. Serf, on the printing his Play called Tarugo's Wiles. Acted 1668.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Many have been the vain attempts of wit
- Page No:
- pp.74-75
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to Moliere's Tartuffe, translated by Mr. Medburne, spoken by Tartuffe.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Entreaty shall not serve nor violence
- Page No:
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue on the Revival of Ben. Johnson's Play, call'd, Every Man in his Humour.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- To all you ladies now at land
- Page No:
- pp.78-80
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written at Sea, in the first Dutch War, 1665, the Night before an Engagement.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Proud with the spoils of royal cully
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- On the Same.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Tell me Dorinda why so gay
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. Written in 1680.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- At noon in a sunshiny day
- Page No:
- pp.82-83
- Poem Title:
- Knotting.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Ah Chloris tis time to disarm your bright eyes
- Page No:
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- Song To Chloris from the Blind Archer.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long
- Page No:
- pp.84-85
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- May the ambitious ever find
- Page No:
- p.85
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- In grey haired Celia's withered arms
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- A Paraphrase of the foregoing.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Phillis the fairest of love's foes
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Phillis for shame let us improve
- Page No:
- pp.89-90
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Sylvia methinks you are unfit
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Farewell great Charles monarch of blessed renown
- Page No:
- pp.95-99
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles II.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Whilst black designs that direful work of fate
- Page No:
- pp.102-105
- Poem Title:
- Ode on the Marriage of the Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Not all the threats or favour of a crown
- Page No:
- pp.105-109
- Poem Title:
- The Man of Honour; Occasioned by a Postscript of Penn's Letter.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- What shall the King the nation's genius raise
- Page No:
- pp.109-116
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Charles Earl of Dorset, occasioned by his Majesty's Victory in Ireland.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Vandyke had colours softness fire and art
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- Written at Althrop, in a blank Leaf of Waller's Poems, upon seeing Vandyke's Picture of the old Lady Sunderland.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- All nature's charms in Sunderland appear
- Page No:
- pp.117-118
- Poem Title:
- Lady Sunderland.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Fairest and latest of the beauteous race
- Page No:
- p.117
- Poem Title:
- Lady Mary Churchill.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Of two fair Richmonds different ages boast
- Page No:
- p.117
- Poem Title:
- Dutchess of Richmond.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Offspring of a tuneful sire
- Page No:
- p.117
- Poem Title:
- Dutchess of Beaufort.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- The line of Vere so long renowned in arms
- Page No:
- p.117
- Poem Title:
- Verses written for the Toasting-Glasses of the Kit-cat Club, 1703. Dutchess of St. Albans.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Admired in Germany adored in France
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- Mademoiselle Spanheime.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Courage dear Moll and drive away despair
- Page No:
- pp.118-119
- Poem Title:
- On the Countess Dowager of ***
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Hail tuneful pair say by what wondrous charms
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- On Orpheus and Signora Francisca Margaritta.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- A milk white mouse immortal and unchanged
- Page No:
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- Yet had she oft been scared by bloody claws
- Page No:
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- Of these a slaughtered army lay in blood
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- The common hunt she timorously passed by
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- The divine blacksmith in the abyss of light
- Page No:
- p.136
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- A spotted mouse the prettiest next the white
- Page No:
- p.137
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- She in a masquerade of mirth and love
- Page No:
- pp.137-138
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- - did invite her home
- Page No:
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- Come at a crown a head ourselves we'll treat
- Page No:
- pp.141-142
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- Leave leave this hoary shed and lonely hills
- Page No:
- p.141
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- But here the white by observation wise
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- With these allurements did invite
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- As though 'tis controverted in the school
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- What need we find him we have certain proof
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- I've eyes as well as you to find the way
- Page No:
- p.144
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- But now at Piccadilly they arrive
- Page No:
- p.145
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- Thence to the devil and asked if Chanticleer
- Page No:
- p.145
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- Ere that Gazette was printed said the white
- Page No:
- pp.147-148
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- Sirrah says Brindle thou hast brought us wine
- Page No:
- p.149
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- Why what a devil shan't I trust my eyes
- Page No:
- p.149
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- But now with a weary yawn that showed her pride
- Page No:
- p.150
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- The constable alarmed by this noise
- Page No:
- pp.150-151
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Collected under Halifax's name; 'Written in Conjunction with Mr. Prior' (p.121).
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- Oh that some genius whose poetic vein
- Page No:
- p.165
- Poem Title:
- To Dr. G--th, upon the Dispensary.
- Attribution:
- C. Boyle.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Boyle
- First Line:
- Ask me not friend what I approve or blame
- Page No:
- pp.166-167
- Poem Title:
- To my Friend the Author, desiring my Opinion of his Poem.
- Attribution:
- Chr. Codrington.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Codrington
- First Line:
- To praise your healing art would be in vain
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- To my Friend Dr. G---th, the Author of the Dispensary.
- Attribution:
- Tho. Cheek.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Cheek
- First Line:
- As when the people of the northern zone
- Page No:
- pp.169-170
- Poem Title:
- To my Friend, upon the Dispensary.
- Attribution:
- H. Blount.
- Attributed To:
- H. Blount
- First Line:
- Speak goddess since tis thou that best canst tell
- Page No:
- pp.171-229
- Poem Title:
- The Dispensary.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- What frenzy has of late possessed the brain
- Page No:
- pp.233-243
- Poem Title:
- Claremont.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- In moving lines these few epistles tell
- Page No:
- pp.244-245
- Poem Title:
- To the Lady Louisa Lenos: With Ovid's Epistles.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- My lord | Our poet's rules in easy numbers tell
- Page No:
- pp.245-246
- Poem Title:
- To Richard Earl of Burlington, with Ovid's Art of Love.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Cease rural conquests and set free your swains
- Page No:
- pp.246-247
- Poem Title:
- To the Dutchess of Bolton on her staying all the Winter in the Country.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Go mighty prince and those great nations see
- Page No:
- pp.247-248
- Poem Title:
- To the Duke of Marlborough on his voluntary Banishment.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Whilst weeping Europe bends beneath her ills
- Page No:
- pp.248-249
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Godolphin.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Near the vast bulk of that stupendous frame
- Page No:
- pp.249-250
- Poem Title:
- On her Majesty's Statue in St. Paul's Churchyard.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Where where degenerate countrymen how high
- Page No:
- pp.250-251
- Poem Title:
- On the New Conspiracy, 1716.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Carlisle's a name can every muse inspire
- Page No:
- pp.251-252
- Poem Title:
- Verses written for the Toasting Glasses of the Kiy-Cat-Club. 1703. Lady Carlisle.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Pallas destructive to the Trojan line
- Page No:
- p.251
- Poem Title:
- On the King of Spain.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- At once the sun and Carlisle took their way
- Page No:
- p.252
- Poem Title:
- The Same.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Hyde though in agonies her graces keeps
- Page No:
- p.252
- Poem Title:
- On Lady Hyde in Child-bed.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- The bravest hero and the brightest dame
- Page No:
- p.252
- Poem Title:
- Lady Essex.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- The god of wine grows jealous of his art
- Page No:
- p.252
- Poem Title:
- Lady Hyde.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- To Essex fill the sprightly wine
- Page No:
- p.252
- Poem Title:
- The Same.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- When Jove to Ida did the gods invite
- Page No:
- p.252
- Poem Title:
- Lady Wharton.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Today a mighty hero comes to warm
- Page No:
- pp.253-254
- Poem Title:
- Prologue designed for Tamerlane.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Where music and more powerful beauties reign
- Page No:
- p.254
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Musick-meeting in York-Buildings.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Who dares not plot in this goodnatured age
- Page No:
- pp.254-255
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Cornish Squire, a Comedy.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Such was our builder's art that soon as named
- Page No:
- pp.256-257
- Poem Title:
- Prologue spoken at the Opening of the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- What odd fantastic things we women do
- Page No:
- pp.257-258
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to the Tragedy of Cato.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now Glaucus with a lover's haste bounds over
- Page No:
- pp.289-290
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book XIV. The Transformation of Scylla.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Here bulged the pride of famed Ulysses' fleet
- Page No:
- pp.290-291
- Poem Title:
- The Voyage of Aeneas continu'd.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now on his right he leaves Parthenope
- Page No:
- pp.291-292
- Poem Title:
- Aeneas descends to Hell.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- The galleys now by Pythecusa pass
- Page No:
- p.291
- Poem Title:
- The Transformation of Cercopians into Apes.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- I am no deity replied the dame
- Page No:
- pp.292-293
- Poem Title:
- The Story of the Sibyl.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Thus Achaemenides with thanks I name
- Page No:
- pp.293-294
- Poem Title:
- The Adventures of Achaemenides.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Then Macareus there reigned a prince of fame
- Page No:
- pp.294-295
- Poem Title:
- The Adventures of Macareus.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Before the spacious front a herd we find
- Page No:
- pp.295-296
- Poem Title:
- The Enchantments of Circe.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Picus who once the Ausonian sceptre held
- Page No:
- pp.296-300
- Poem Title:
- The Story of Picus and Canens.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Thus Macareus now with a pious aim
- Page No:
- p.300
- Poem Title:
- Aeneas arrives in Italy.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- After famed Ilium was by Argives won
- Page No:
- pp.301-302
- Poem Title:
- The Adventures of Diomedes.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Meanwhile the Latians all their power prepare
- Page No:
- pp.302-304
- Poem Title:
- The Trojan Ships transform'd to Sea-Nymphs.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Thus Diomedes Venulus withdraws
- Page No:
- p.302
- Poem Title:
- The Transformation of Appulus.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now had Aeneas as ordained by fate
- Page No:
- pp.304-305
- Poem Title:
- The Deification of Aeneas.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- A Hama-Dryad flourished in these days
- Page No:
- pp.305-308
- Poem Title:
- The Story of Vertumnus and Pomona.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Ascanius now the Latian sceptre sways
- Page No:
- p.305
- Poem Title:
- The Line of the Latian Kings.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Iphis of vulgar birth by chance had viewed
- Page No:
- pp.308-309
- Poem Title:
- The Story of Iphis and Anaxarete.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now Procas yielding to the fates his son
- Page No:
- pp.310-311
- Poem Title:
- The Latian Line continu'd.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Ere long the goddess of the nuptial bed
- Page No:
- pp.311-312
- Poem Title:
- The Assumption of Hersilia.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now warrior Mars his burnished helm puts on
- Page No:
- p.311
- Poem Title:
- The Assumption of Romulus.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Or as when Cippus in the current viewed
- Page No:
- pp.213[i.e. 312]-314
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book XV. The Story of Cippus.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Could he whom my dissembled rigour grieves
- Page No:
- pp.314-315
- Poem Title:
- A Soliloquy out of Italian.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Can you count the silver lights
- Page No:
- p.315
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of a French Author.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- When fame did over the spacious plain
- Page No:
- p.331
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Gay on his Poems.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Unwieldy pedant let thy awkward muse
- Page No:
- p.332
- Poem Title:
- To the merry Peotaster [sic] at Sadlers-Hall in Cheapside.
- Attribution:
- Sir Samuel Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- As victors lose the trouble they sustain
- Page No:
- p.337
- Poem Title:
- To King James II. Upon his Accession to the Throne. The Author then of Trinity-College, Cambridge.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Yes fickle Cambridge Perkins found this true
- Page No:
- pp.338-339
- Poem Title:
- On the University of Cambridge's burning the Duke of Monmouth's Picture, 1685. who was formerly their Chancellor. -- In Answer to this Question, --Sed quid | Turba Remi? sequitur fortunam, ut semper, & odit | Damnatos. --
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Sir | Since you oft invite me to renew
- Page No:
- pp.339-346
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Charles Montague, Esq; on his Majesty's Voyage to Holland.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- The youth whose fortune the vast globe obeyed
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- On the late horrid Conspiracy
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- He's gone and was it then by your decree
- Page No:
- pp.347-349
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Carlisle, upon the Death of his Son before Luxemburgh.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Once more my muse we must an altar raise
- Page No:
- pp.349-353
- Poem Title:
- A Poem dedicated to the Blessed Memory of her late Gracious Majesty Queen Mary.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- At Anna's call the Austrian eagle flies
- Page No:
- p.353
- Poem Title:
- The Austrian Eagle.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- At dead of night imperial reason sleeps
- Page No:
- pp.353-354
- Poem Title:
- The Nature of Dreams.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- When money and my blood ran high
- Page No:
- pp.354-355
- Poem Title:
- Verses imitated from the French of Monsieur Maynard, to Cardinal Richelieu.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Mun rarely credit common fame
- Page No:
- pp.355-356
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Edmund Smith.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Whenever I wive young Strephon cried
- Page No:
- p.357
- Poem Title:
- The Spell.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- What's the advantage or the real good
- Page No:
- pp.358-373
- Poem Title:
- Juvenal. The Eighth Sature.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Dear Molly why so oft in tears
- Page No:
- pp.385-386
- Poem Title:
- Horace. Book III. Ode VII. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Verses immortal as my bays I sing
- Page No:
- pp.386-388
- Poem Title:
- Horace. Book IV. Ode IX.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- If Memnon's fate bewailed with constant dew
- Page No:
- pp.389-391
- Poem Title:
- Elegy upon the Death of Tibullus. From Ovid.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Bright star by Venus fixed above
- Page No:
- pp.391-392
- Poem Title:
- To the Evening-Star. English'd, from a Greek Idyllium.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- The critics that pretend to sense
- Page No:
- pp.397-399
- Poem Title:
- The Audience.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- The gods and Cato did in this divide
- Page No:
- p.397
- Poem Title:
- Translation of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- George Stepney, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
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