The Muse in a moral humour: being a collection of tales, fables, pastorals, by Several Hands. [Vol II] [ECCO] [ESTC T130696]
- DMI number:
- 896
- Publication Date:
- 1758
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T130696
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW3315433624
- Full Title:
- THE | Muse in a Moral Humour: | BEING, A | COLLECTION | Of Agreeable and Instructive | TALES, FABLES, | PASTORALS, [i]&c.[/i] | By SEVERAL HANDS. | [Rule] | VOL. II. | [Rule] | [Ornament] | [Double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for FRANCIS NOBLE, at [i]Otway's Head,[/i] | in [i]King-Street, Covent-Garden[/i] ; | AND | JOHN NOBLE, at [i]Dryden's Head,[/i] in [i]St. Martin's- | Court,[/i] near [i]Leicester-square.[/i] | M DCC LVIII.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Price:
- 3 Shillings
- Bibliographic details:
- Note, p. 242: 'The first Volume of this Work may be had alone, Price 3s. or the two Volumes, uniformly bound, at 6s.'
- Other matter:
- End matter: Advertisement: Books lately printed for F. and J. Noble. [2p]
- Publisher:
- Francis Noble
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- John Noble
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Since language never can describe my pain
- Page No:
- pp.1-8
- Poem Title:
- Monimia to Philocles: An Epistle from a Lady in France, to Mr. L----, a Gentleman at London, who had debauched her.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though down the bed where Miro lay
- Page No:
- pp.8-11
- Poem Title:
- The Fatal Inquisitor. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- By J--- G---.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A northern pair we waive the name
- Page No:
- pp.12-14
- Poem Title:
- The Power of Innocence. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- By C--- G--- H---.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oppressed with grief thus wandering in the shade
- Page No:
- pp.15-18
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of a Sister, 1757.
- Attribution:
- By T--- B--- B---rr.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye virgin train an artless dame inspire
- Page No:
- pp.19-24
- Poem Title:
- Inkle and Yarico. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ha not a breath of wind no gentle breeze
- Page No:
- pp.24-26
- Poem Title:
- An Enthusiasm: Occasion'd by walking through a Church-yard.
- Attribution:
- Written by a young Gentleman, for an Exercise, in the 18th Year of his Life.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ere that the flood with unresisted sway
- Page No:
- pp.27-36
- Poem Title:
- Shalum and Hilpa: Or, The Antediluvian Novel.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Price.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Price
- First Line:
- What gives the maiden blush its loveliest dye
- Page No:
- pp.37-46
- Poem Title:
- Beauty: Or, the Art of Charming.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dodsley.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Dodsley
- First Line:
- The counsel of a friend Belinda hear
- Page No:
- pp.46-49
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a Young Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Phoebus obliquely shot his feeble ray
- Page No:
- pp.50-53
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral Dialogue. Address'd to a Young Lady.
- Attribution:
- By R---. G---.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas in the blooming month of cheerful May
- Page No:
- pp.53-55
- Poem Title:
- The Rose and the Butterfly. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In my dark cell low prostrate on the ground
- Page No:
- pp.56-62
- Poem Title:
- Abelard to Eloisa.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Madan.
- Attributed To:
- Judith Madan [nee Cowper]
- First Line:
- Dear Peggy since the single state
- Page No:
- pp.62-65
- Poem Title:
- A Young Lady's Advice to one lately Married.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The village cock with piercing notes
- Page No:
- pp.66-69
- Poem Title:
- A Morning Rhapsody.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy the maid whose soul serene and chaste
- Page No:
- pp.70-73
- Poem Title:
- Advice to the Fair Sex.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail Phillis brighter than a morning sky
- Page No:
- pp.74-77
- Poem Title:
- The Month of August.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Leapor.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Nothing dear madam nothing is more true
- Page No:
- pp.77-81
- Poem Title:
- Essay on Happiness.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Leapor.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- To Artemisia tis to her we sing
- Page No:
- pp.81-85
- Poem Title:
- Essay on Friendship.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Leapor.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Strephon the sprightly and the gay
- Page No:
- pp.86-92
- Poem Title:
- The Mistaken Lover.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Leapor.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Celia and I to share the vernal gales
- Page No:
- pp.92-109
- Poem Title:
- The Rival Brothers.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Leapor.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Constantia now a saint was heavenly fair
- Page No:
- pp.110-128
- Poem Title:
- Father Francis and Sister Constance. From a Story in the Spectator.
- Attribution:
- By George Jeffreys, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Jeffreys
- First Line:
- Where proud Augusta rears her hundred spires
- Page No:
- pp.128-136
- Poem Title:
- The Lunatic. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your grief Philintus all your pungent care
- Page No:
- pp.137-147
- Poem Title:
- Abelard to Philintus. An Epistle.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Unkindly leaving the delightful plains
- Page No:
- pp.148-156
- Poem Title:
- Love and Resentment: A Pastoral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though gloomy thoughts disturbed my anxious breast
- Page No:
- pp.157-178
- Poem Title:
- Love triumphant over Reason. A Vision.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While pining anguish wild despair
- Page No:
- pp.178-182
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of a beloved Wife.
- Attribution:
- Written by her Husband upon her Coffin.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why under covert of this beechen shade
- Page No:
- pp.182-186
- Poem Title:
- Rosalinda. A Pastoral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A tender miss whom mother's care
- Page No:
- pp.186-190
- Poem Title:
- Miss and the Butterfly. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Close by a stream whose flowery bank might give
- Page No:
- pp.190-195
- Poem Title:
- The Parting of Sireno and Diana.
- Attribution:
- English'd by Sir Car. Scrope
- Attributed To:
- Sir Carr Scrope
- First Line:
- By fops addressed by beaux admired
- Page No:
- pp.195-197
- Poem Title:
- Kitty's Wedding.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Close by the entrance of the woodland plain
- Page No:
- pp.197-203
- Poem Title:
- The British Swain. In Five Pastorals. Pastoral I. The Charm.
- Attribution:
- By W. Dawson.
- Attributed To:
- William Dawson
- First Line:
- Beneath a shady wood at break of day
- Page No:
- pp.204-210
- Poem Title:
- The British Swain. Pastoral II. The Plaint.
- Attribution:
- By W. Dawson. [p. 197]
- Attributed To:
- William Dawson
- First Line:
- I sing the carols of two blithesome swains
- Page No:
- pp.211-215
- Poem Title:
- The British Swain. Pastoral III. The Brawl.
- Attribution:
- By W. Dawson. [p. 197]
- Attributed To:
- William Dawson
- First Line:
- Where gangst thou Grubbinol what into town
- Page No:
- pp.216-220
- Poem Title:
- The British Swain. Pastoral IV. The Matin.
- Attribution:
- By W. Dawson. [p. 197]
- Attributed To:
- William Dawson
- First Line:
- To close the prospect of the grassy plains
- Page No:
- pp.221-224
- Poem Title:
- The British Swain. Pastoral V. The Moan.
- Attribution:
- By W. Dawson. [p. 197]
- Attributed To:
- William Dawson
- First Line:
- Happy the man to whom kind heaven
- Page No:
- pp.225-228
- Poem Title:
- Rural Happiness.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The nymph who walks the public streets
- Page No:
- pp.229-231
- Poem Title:
- The Spider and the Bee. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To friends when absent is remembrance due
- Page No:
- pp.231-237
- Poem Title:
- Evening; or, the Exclamation.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How calm the evening see the falling day
- Page No:
- pp.238-242
- Poem Title:
- Daphnis and Lycidas. A Pastoral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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