The miscellaneous works of the Right Honourable the late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon [Vol II] [T95468]

DMI number:

171

Aliases

Works of Rochester, Roscommon, etc.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1707

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T95468

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW112019010

Shelfmark:

BOD Harding C65

Full Title:

[rule] | THE POETICAL | WORKS | OF | The Right Honourable | THE | EARL of [i]ROSCOMMON[/i] | [rule] | With a Collection of Miscellanious POEMS | by the Most Eminent Hands. | [i]Never before Printed[/i]. | [rule]

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse and Miscellany dominated by poet

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[2] 3-32, i-ii, 1-161 [5] pp

Bibliographic details:

Mispagination: 13 mispaginated as 23, 88 as 89, 89 as 88, 124 as 224, 126 as 108. This miscellany the second of two volumes (although this is not stated on the titlepage). The first volume contains Rochester's poems; this one, the second volume, has a new title page, begins pagination again from p.1., and contains poems by Roscommon and other hands. Both volumes contain an alphabetical table of contents at their close. Although Suarez and the ESTC list this miscellany as 'in two parts' rather than volumes, it is here entered as two separate volumes.

Comments:

Contents: Poems by Roscommon, pp. 1-32, 1-35; 'Miscellany Poems by Several Hands' pp. 36-161.

Other matter:

Alphabetical Table of Contents and list of books 'Just Published'. [5pp]

References:

Case 242.

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1707

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The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset [Vol II] [T94657]

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1718

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The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset [Vol. II] [ECCO] [N25977]

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1720

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T95241

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1 of 2

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The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol II] [T152378]

Publication Date:

1721

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T152378

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2 of 2

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The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire, &c. [Vol I] [T152378 ]

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1721

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T152378

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The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c [Vol I] [T95242]

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1752

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T95242

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1 of 2

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The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c [Vol II] [T95242]

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1752

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T95242

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The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset: the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol II] [T119718]

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1777

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T119718

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The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset: the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. [Vol I] [T119718]

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1777

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T119718

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The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset; the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol I] [ECCO] [N35511]

Publication Date:

1756

ESTC No:

N35511

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1 of 2

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Title:

The Works of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester [T94656]

Publication Date:

1756

ESTC No:

T94656

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1 of 1

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Unknown

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Title:

The works of the Right Honourable the Earls of Rochester, and Roscommon... The Third Edition (1709) [N36008]

Publication Date:

1709

ESTC No:

N36008

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1 of 1

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Unknown

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Title:

The works of the Right Honourable the Earls of Rochester, and Roscommon... The Third Edition. [II]. [**query: should be deleted??**]

Publication Date:

1709

ESTC No:

N36008

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2 of 2

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The Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon [Vol I]. [T94652]

Publication Date:

1707

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T94652

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1 of 2

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Title:

The Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon [Vol II] [ECCO] [T94652]

Publication Date:

1707

ESTC No:

T94652

Volume:

2 of 2

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Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

Benjamin Bragg

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Title page of Vol I.

Content/Publication

First Line:

From deepest dungeons of eternal night

Page No:

pp.3-7

Poem Title:

The Ghost Of the Old House of Commons To The New One. Appointed to meet at Oxford 1682.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Stand sun of justice sovereign God most high

Page No:

pp.8-15

Poem Title:

The Prayer of Jeremy Paraphras'd. Prophetically Representing the Passionate Grief of the Jewish People, for the loss of their Town and Sanctuary.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

The day of wrath that dreadful day

Page No:

pp.16-20

Poem Title:

On The Day of Judgment.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Virtue dear friend needs no defence

Page No:

pp.21-22

Poem Title:

An Imitation of Horace. Lib. I. Ode XXII.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

O azure vaults o crystal sky

Page No:

pp.23-28

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase On the 148th Psalm.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon�s name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat

Page No:

pp.29-31

Poem Title:

The Grove.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Shame of my life disturber of my tomb

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Ross's Ghost.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Rome was not better by her Horace taught

Page No:

pp.1-4

Poem Title:

Of This Translation And Of The Use of Poetry.

Attribution:

By Edm. Waller, Esq

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

If in a picture Piso you should see

Page No:

pp.5-35

Poem Title:

Horace Of The Art of Poetry.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Janus did ever to thy wondering eyes

Page No:

pp.36-39

Poem Title:

A Description of the Battel and Victory at over the French and Bavarians at Blenheim, near Hochstet, obtain'd by his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, in the Year 1705.

Attribution:

By Mr. Smith, of Oxford

Attributed To:

Edmund Smith

First Line:

Had Alexander your bright form surveyed

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

An Epigram made on Sight of the Countess of Sunderland, at Tunbridge Wells, in the Year 1705.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Do not most fragrant earl disclaim

Page No:

pp.40-42

Poem Title:

An Imitation of the Fourth Ode of Horace, Book II.

Attribution:

Inscrib'd to the E---- of S-----, written by the Lord G------lle.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As fair Aenone justly did complain

Page No:

pp.43-47

Poem Title:

The Perjur'd Lover. An Imitation of Ovid.

Attribution:

By a Lady.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beat on proud billows Boreas blow

Page No:

pp.47-51

Poem Title:

Upon Confinement.

Attribution:

By Sir Roger L'Estrange.

Attributed To:

Sir Roger L'Estrange

First Line:

Cursed be those dull unpointed doggerel rhymes

Page No:

pp.52-79

Poem Title:

A faithful Catalogue of our most Eminent Ninnies. A Satyr.

Attribution:

Written in the Year 1686, by the Earl of Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

A monk sir and his brother

Page No:

pp.79-81

Poem Title:

The Widow's Delivery: Or, The Dragooning Monk. To the Tune of a Soldier and a Sailer.

Attribution:

By Captain B---

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Diana come attend this mournful story

Page No:

pp.82-83

Poem Title:

The Grey-hound Strip's Elegy, with a piece of his Skin annexed.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Haste Charon haste it's Noll commands thy speed

Page No:

pp.84-87

Poem Title:

A Dialogue between Oliver Cromwell, the late Usurper, and Charon.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hall of Hereford

Attributed To:

Henry Hall

First Line:

Of ramblings and follies you oft have been told

Page No:

pp.87-94

Poem Title:

The Royal Folly, written in 97.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Much much thou owes to bounteous nature's care

Page No:

pp.94-98

Poem Title:

On a certain Nobleman's Seat, The Family being remov'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In Zembla the emblem of eternal night

Page No:

pp.98-101

Poem Title:

Their Return.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The power those charming accents do reveal

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

The Command.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In grey haired Celia's withered arms

Page No:

pp.103-104

Poem Title:

The Indulgent Whore: Or, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King.

Attribution:

Written by the Earl of Dorset, in 1697

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Hail tuneful pair say by what wondrous charms

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

Upon Segniora Francisca Marguarita's Singing.

Attribution:

By the Lord H-x.

Attributed To:

Charles Montagu

First Line:

When faithless Paris through the yielding sea

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

Horace, Lib.I. Ode 15. Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes

Page No:

pp.107-108

Poem Title:

On a Lady who fancy'd her self a Beauty.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Brown]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Traitor to God and rebel to thy pen

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

To Mr. Dryden, on his Conversion.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tho. Brown.

Attributed To:

Thomas Brown

First Line:

If liberty of conscience ever was good

Page No:

pp.108-109

Poem Title:

Written on the Bog-House in Grays-Inn, presently after the Act of Toleration was publish'd.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Brown]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When first my friend you found an amorous fire

Page No:

pp.109-116

Poem Title:

A Consolatory Epistle to a Friend, on his Disappointment in Marriage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O born when heavens propitious deigned to smile

Page No:

pp.117-121

Poem Title:

The Fifth Ode of Horace's Fourth Book, turn'd into English by way of Imitation, and humbly address'd to his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, instead of Augustus, to whom it is dedicated in the Original.

Attribution:

By the Author of the Case of the Church of England's Memorial fairly stated, &c.

Attributed To:

William Pittis

First Line:

When envy does at Athens rise

Page No:

pp.123-224[i.e. 124]

Poem Title:

On the Report of my Lord Somers's being to be removed from his Office of Lord High Chancellor.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Prior]

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Ye active streams where ever you waters flow

Page No:

pp.123

Poem Title:

English'd

Attribution:

By the same' i.e. 'Prior'

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

The mighty rivals whose destructive rage

Page No:

pp.224-108 [i.e. 124-126]

Poem Title:

The Prologue to Pompey, a Tragedy, as it was perform'd at the Theater in Dublin, before the King, in the Year 1677. Translated from the French of Mons. Corneille, by Mrs. Katherine Phillips.

Attribution:

Written by the Earl of Roscommon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

What arts have we not tried what labour taken

Page No:

pp.127-131

Poem Title:

A Prologue, in Vindication of the New Theatre. Spoken by Mr. Booth.

Attribution:

Written by Capt. B----n.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Clasped in the arms of her I love

Page No:

pp.131-133

Poem Title:

The Enjoyment.

Attribution:

By Mr. Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

I did but look and love a while

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

The Enchantment.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Otway]

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Here lives a great and mighty monarch

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

Posted on White-Hall-Gate.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Rochester]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By heavens 'twas bravely done

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

My Lord Rochester attempting to Kiss the Dutchess of Clevelaud, [sic] as she was stepping out of her Chariot at White-Hall-Gate, she threw him on his Back, and before he Rose, he spoke the following Lines.

Attribution:

Collected under Rochester's name

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

A knight delights in deeds of arms

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

The Virgin's Desire.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Rochester]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The man that's resolute and just

Page No:

pp.137-142

Poem Title:

Horace, Lib. III. Ode III. Imitated.

Attribution:

By William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife

Page No:

pp.143-161

Poem Title:

Dryden's Satyr, To his Muse; Being an Answer to Absalom and Achitophel.

Attribution:

Written by the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers.

Attributed To:

John Somers