A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. With Notes [Vol 5] [T116246] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1132

Publication Date:

1782

Volume Number:

5 of 6

ESTC number:

T116246

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW3312607842

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | IN SIX VOLUMES. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | WITH NOTES. | [Ornament] | LONDON: Printed for J. DODSLEY, in PALL-MALL. | M DCC LXXXII.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Other matter:

Index, pp. 355-360.

Related People

Publisher:

James Dodsley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

While orient skies restore the day

Page No:

pp.1-14

Poem Title:

Rural Elegance: An Ode to the Duchess of Somerset. Written in 1750.

Attribution:

By William Shenstone, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Shepherd wouldst thou here obtain

Page No:

pp.14-16

Poem Title:

Inscription near a Sheep-cote. 1745.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

The western sky was purpled over

Page No:

pp.17-19

Poem Title:

Nancy of the Vale. A Ballad.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Ah why for ever on the wing

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

Ode to Indolence, 1750.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

O health capricious maid

Page No:

pp.22-24

Poem Title:

Ode to Health, 1750.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Ah what is science what is art

Page No:

pp.26-27

Poem Title:

To a Lady of Quality, Fitting up her Library, 1738.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

On fair Asteria's blissful plains

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

Upon a Visit to the same in Winter, 1748.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Too long a stranger to repose

Page No:

pp.29-34

Poem Title:

An irregular Ode after Sickness, 1749.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Twas in a cool Aonian glade

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

Anacreontick. 1738.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Twas not by beauty's aid alone

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

Ode. Written 1739.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

A tear bedews my Delia's eye

Page No:

pp.38-40

Poem Title:

The Dying Kid.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

I told my nymph I told her true

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Song I.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

How pleased within my native bowers

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

Song II. The Landskip.

Attribution:

By the Same. [p. 40; i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Go tuneful bird that gladdest the skies

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

Song IV. The Sky-Lark.

Attribution:

By the Same. [p. 40; i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Ye gentle nymphs and generous dames

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

Song III.

Attribution:

By the Same. [p. 40; i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

On every tree in every plain

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

Song V.

Attribution:

By the Same. [p. 40; i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Yes Fulvia is like Venus fair

Page No:

pp.44-45

Poem Title:

Song VI. The Attribute of Venus.

Attribution:

By the Same. [p. 40; i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Twas in a land of learning

Page No:

pp.45-48

Poem Title:

The Rape of the Trap, a Ballad; written at College, 1736.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

What village but has often seen

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

A Simile. By the Same.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Sir will you please to walk before

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

The Ceremonial.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Hail curious wights to whom so fair

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

The Beau to the Virtuosos; alluding to a Proposal for the Publication of a Set of Butterflies.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Have you not seen my gentle squire

Page No:

pp.53-55

Poem Title:

Verses to a Friend.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

To thee fair freedom I retire

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

Written at an Inn on a particular Occasion.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Shenstone.]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

I asked a friend amidst the throng

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

The Price of an Equipage.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

From Lincoln to London rode forth our young squire

Page No:

pp.58-59

Poem Title:

A Ballad.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

When Tom to Cambridge first was sent

Page No:

pp.59-60

Poem Title:

The Extent of Cookery.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Says Richard to Thomas and seemed half afraid

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

The Progress of Advice. A common Case.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Beneath a churchyard yew

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

Slender's Ghost.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Have you not known a small machine

Page No:

pp.63-64

Poem Title:

Upon Riddles.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Ah boast not those obscuring lays

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

Verses to a Writer of Riddles.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Resolve me Strephon what is this

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

To ******

Attribution:

By Anthony Whistler, Esq;

Attributed To:

Anthony Whistler

First Line:

Let wisdom boast her mighty power

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Anthony Whistler, Esq;]

Attributed To:

Anthony Whistler

First Line:

Glide smoothly on thou silver Thames

Page No:

pp.68-69

Poem Title:

To Lady Fane on her Grotto at Basilden. 1746.

Attribution:

By Mr. Graves.

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

What mortal burns not with the love of fame

Page No:

pp.69-70

Poem Title:

The Invisible ... Written at College, 1747.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Graves.]

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

The squire had dined alone one day

Page No:

pp.70-73

Poem Title:

The Pepper-box and Salt-seller. A Fable. To * * * * * Esq;

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Graves.]

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

Each saucy cit who strolls from town

Page No:

pp.74-76

Poem Title:

Written near Bath. 1755.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Graves.]

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

Thus real genius is respected

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

Moral.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Graves.]

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

These spotless leaves this neat array

Page No:

pp.77-79

Poem Title:

Verses to William Shenstone, Esq; On receiving a Gilt Pocket-Book. 1751.

Attribution:

By Mr. Jago.

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

Ere yellow autumn from our plains retired

Page No:

pp.79-82

Poem Title:

The Swallows. Written September, 1748.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Jago.]

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

At length the winter's surly blasts are over

Page No:

pp.82-84

Poem Title:

Part II. Written April, 1749.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Jago.]

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

The tuneful choir in amorous strains

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

Valentine's Day.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Jago.]

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

Awake my muse prepare a loftier theme

Page No:

pp.85-89

Poem Title:

The Scavengers. A Town Eclogue. In the Manner of Swift.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Jago.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To print or not to print that is the question

Page No:

pp.89-90

Poem Title:

Hamlet's Soliloquy, Imitated.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Jago.]

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

Seek not in these paths to view

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

Transcrib'd from the Rev. Mr. Pixel's Parsonage Garden near Birmingham, 1757.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With bounteous hand the gracious king of heaven

Page No:

pp.91-94

Poem Title:

Malvern Spa, 1757. Inscribed to Dr. Wall.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Perry.

Attributed To:

John Perry

First Line:

Hark what a mournful solemn sound

Page No:

pp.94-97

Poem Title:

Some Reflections upon hearing the Bell toll for the Death of a Friend.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. Giles.

Attributed To:

Joseph Giles

First Line:

O come thou melancholy muse

Page No:

pp.97-99

Poem Title:

The Robin: An Elegy. Written at the close of Autumn, 1756.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. J. Giles.]

Attributed To:

Joseph Giles

First Line:

If ever sharp sorrow from thine eyes did flow

Page No:

pp.99-100

Poem Title:

An Epitaph.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. J. Giles]

Attributed To:

Joseph Giles

First Line:

As once the muse reclining on her lyre

Page No:

pp.100-102

Poem Title:

Ut Pictura Poesis.

Attribution:

By Mr. Nourse, of All-Souls College Oxon, 1741.

Attributed To:

John Nourse

First Line:

Sceptre of ease whose calm domain extends

Page No:

pp.103-105

Poem Title:

Vacuna.

Attribution:

By Dr. Sneyd Davies, 1739.

Attributed To:

Sneyd Davies

First Line:

What ken mine eyes enchanted man of ease

Page No:

pp.106-109

Poem Title:

On John Whaley Ranging Pamphlets.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Sneyd Davies.]

Attributed To:

Sneyd Davies

First Line:

Ye nymphs that from Diana's sport retired

Page No:

pp.110-112

Poem Title:

Epithalamium. John Dodd, Esq. and Miss St. Leger.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Sneyd Davies.]

Attributed To:

Sneyd Davies

First Line:

Thy sanguine hope completed in a boy

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

To Mr. Dodd, on the Birth-day of his First Son.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Sneyd Davies.]

Attributed To:

Sneyd Davies

First Line:

There are it seems who think the natal star

Page No:

pp.113-114

Poem Title:

On two Friends, Mr. Horace Walpole and Mr. Dood, born on the same Day.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Sneyd Davies.]

Attributed To:

Sneyd Davies

First Line:

The man whose constitution's strong

Page No:

pp.115-118

Poem Title:

A Winter Thought.

Attribution:

By J. Earle.

Attributed To:

Jabez Earle

First Line:

Stella and Flavia every hour

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Pilkington.

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

How like you sir the splendor of the day

Page No:

pp.119-125

Poem Title:

Verses spoken at Westminster School, at their Annual Feast, on Queen Elizabeth's Birth-day, 1729-30.

Attribution:

Footnotes.

Attributed To:

Marius D'Assigny

First Line:

Sir | While at the helm of state you ride

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

A Letter to Sir Robert Walpole.

Attribution:

By Henry Fielding, Esq;

Attributed To:

Henry Fielding

First Line:

If yet great sir your heart can comfort know

Page No:

pp.128-140

Poem Title:

An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King, after the Battle of Ramillies.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pardon great duke if Britain's style delights

Page No:

pp.140-142

Poem Title:

To the Duke of Marlborough.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why should I thus employ my time

Page No:

pp.143-144

Poem Title:

An Ode on Miss Harriet Hanbury at Six Years old.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

Dear doctor of St Mary's

Page No:

pp.144-146

Poem Title:

A Song. Upon Miss Harriet Hanbury, address'd to the Rev. Mr. Birt.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

What glorious verse from love has sprung

Page No:

pp.147-149

Poem Title:

To Mr. Garnier and Mr. Pearce of Bath. A grateful ODE, In return for the extraordinary Kindness and Humanity they shewed to me and my eldest Daughter, now Lady Essex, 1753.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

Yet a few years or days perhaps

Page No:

pp.150-155

Poem Title:

Ode to Death. Translated from the French of the King of Prussia.

Attribution:

By Dr. Hawkesworth.

Attributed To:

John Hawkesworth

First Line:

Lend thy voice celestial maid

Page No:

pp.155-158

Poem Title:

The Hymns of Dionysius: Translated from the Greek.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Merrick.

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow

Page No:

pp.159-168

Poem Title:

A Satire in the Manner of Persius, in a Dialogue between Atticus and Eugenio.

Attribution:

By Lord Hervey.

Attributed To:

John Hervey

First Line:

Apollo of old on Britannia did smile

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Bindon at Bath.

Attribution:

By the Honourable Sir C. H. Williams.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

I'll not believe that Phoebus did not smile

Page No:

pp.169-170

Poem Title:

Sir Charles's Reply.

Attribution:

Sir Charles [Hanbury Williams]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

When home I returned from the dancing last night

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

Mrs. Bindon's Answer.

Attribution:

Mrs. Bindon

Attributed To:

Mrs Bindon

First Line:

Your compliments dear lady pray forbear

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

To a Lady, who sent Compliments to a Clergyman upon the Ten of Hearts.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Adieu awhile forsaken flood

Page No:

pp.171-181

Poem Title:

The Grotto. [...] Printed in the Year 1732, but never published.

Attribution:

Written by the late Mr. Green of the Custom-House, under the Name of Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford.

Attributed To:

Matthew Green

First Line:

Our wits Apollo's influence beg

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

The Grotto. [...] Printed in the Year 1732, but never published.

Attribution:

Written by the late Mr. Green of the Custom-House, under the Name of Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford.

Attributed To:

Matthew Green

First Line:

My dears tis said in days of old

Page No:

pp.181-187

Poem Title:

The Bee, the Ant, and the Sparrow: A Fable. Addressed to Phebe and Kitty Cotton at Boarding School.

Attribution:

By Dr. Cotton.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Cotton

First Line:

With gallant pomp and beauteous pride

Page No:

pp.187-190

Poem Title:

Ode on a Storm.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come near ye nations and give ear o earth

Page No:

pp.190-105

Poem Title:

Isaiah XXXIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Idumea and the nations round

Page No:

pp.195-200

Poem Title:

Isaiah XXXV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Kind heaven at length successfully implored

Page No:

pp.201-216

Poem Title:

Woodstock Park. A Poem.

Attribution:

By William Harrison. 1706.

Attributed To:

William Harrison

First Line:

Farewell vain world and thou its vainest part

Page No:

pp.217-219

Poem Title:

A Fit of the Spleen. In Imitation of Shakespear.

Attribution:

By Dr. Ibbot.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Ibbot

First Line:

Naiad of this healthful stream

Page No:

pp.219-225

Poem Title:

Hymn to Miss Laurence, in the Pump-Room. Bath, 1752.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My earliest flame to whom I owe

Page No:

pp.226-239

Poem Title:

A Letter to Corina from a Captain in Country Quarters.

Attribution:

By Isaac Hawkines Browne, Esq.

Attributed To:

Isaac Hawkins Browne

First Line:

If virtue prompt thy willing mind

Page No:

pp.230-236

Poem Title:

A Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Merrick.

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

How short is life's uncertain space

Page No:

pp.236-237

Poem Title:

The Wish.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Merrick.]

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

As two young bears in wanton mood

Page No:

pp.238-239

Poem Title:

The Bears and the Bees. A Fable.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Merrick.]

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

God of my health whose bounteous care

Page No:

pp.239-240

Poem Title:

Hymn to the Creator.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Merrick]

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

Oft has it been my lot to mark

Page No:

pp.240-243

Poem Title:

The Camelion: A Fable after Monsieur de la Motte.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Merrick.]

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

When black-browed night her dusky mantle spread

Page No:

pp.243-256

Poem Title:

Immortality: or, the Consolation of Human Life. A Monody.

Attribution:

By Thomas Denton, M. A.

Attributed To:

Thomas Denton

First Line:

Langton dear partner of my soul

Page No:

pp.256-257

Poem Title:

To the Memory of a Gentleman, who died on his Travels to Rome. Written in 1738.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Dr. Shipley.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Shipley

First Line:

Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet

Page No:

pp.258-262

Poem Title:

Captain Thomas, of Battereau's Regiment in the Isle of Skie, to Captain Price at Fort Augustus.

Attribution:

C. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Time flies so you and Horace sing

Page No:

pp.262-267

Poem Title:

To Mr. John Hoadly at the Temple, occasioned by a Translation of an Epistle of Horace. 1730.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Straight, of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Attributed To:

John Straight

First Line:

Sir | Promises are different cases

Page No:

pp.267-270

Poem Title:

To the Rev. Mr. J. Straight. 1731.

Attribution:

By J. Hoadly.

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

My dearest boy

Page No:

pp.270-272

Poem Title:

Answer to the foregoing, 1731.

Attribution:

By J. Straight.

Attributed To:

John Straight

First Line:

Adam alone could not be easy

Page No:

pp.272-273

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. by J. Straight.]

Attributed To:

John Straight

First Line:

To deck her bosom Chloe chose

Page No:

pp.273-275

Poem Title:

Cupid and Chloe.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. J. Straight.]

Attributed To:

John Straight

First Line:

Wonder not faithless woman if you see

Page No:

pp.275-276

Poem Title:

The Poet to his false Mistress.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. J. Straight.]

Attributed To:

John Straight

First Line:

Behold the lordly pedant in his school

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

On Mr. ****, Schoolmaster at ***.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. J. Straight.]

Attributed To:

John Straight

First Line:

The Mountain Briton first of men who framed

Page No:

pp.277-288

Poem Title:

Kambromyomaxiaa: Or The Mouse-Trap; Being a Translation of Mr. Holdsworth's Muscipula, 1737.

Attribution:

By Dr. John Hoadly.

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

O vanity of age untoward

Page No:

pp.288-289

Poem Title:

Plate I. Scene, The room of the miserly father.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Prosperity with harlot's smiles

Page No:

pp.289-290

Poem Title:

Plate II. The rake's levee.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

O vanity of youthful blood

Page No:

pp.290-291

Poem Title:

Plate III. A brothel.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

New to the school of hard mishap

Page No:

pp.291-292

Poem Title:

Plate V. Marybone church, where he marries a rich old woman.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

O vanity of youthful blood

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

Plate IV. St. James's street where the rake is arrested.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Gold thou bright son of Phoebus source

Page No:

p.292

Poem Title:

Plate VI. A gaming house.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Happy the man whose constant thought

Page No:

p.293

Poem Title:

Plate VII. A prison.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Madness thou chaos of the brain

Page No:

pp.293-294

Poem Title:

Plate VIII. Bethle'm.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Hail beauteous pair whom friendship binds

Page No:

pp.294-295

Poem Title:

On the Friendship of two young Ladies, 1730.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

In shape in air in face and voice

Page No:

pp.295-296

Poem Title:

Chloe's unknown Likeness, 1738.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Grown sick of crowds and noise

Page No:

pp.297-298

Poem Title:

The Bird of Passage, 1749.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Our father's victims the two Henries see

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

Verses said to be fixed on the Gate of the Louvre at Paris. 1751. [...] English.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

As Chloe on flowers reclined over the stream

Page No:

pp.300-301

Poem Title:

Chloe resolved. A Ballad. Set to Music by Dr. Green. 1743.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

A plague upon all cowards still I say

Page No:

pp.301-302

Poem Title:

Epilogue to Shakespear's first Part of King Henry IV, Acted by Young Gentlemen at Mr. Newcome's School at Hackney, 1748; Spoken by Mr. J. Y. in the Character of Falstaff, Push'd in upon the Stage by Prince Henry.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Well I've been beating up for volunteers

Page No:

pp.303-305

Poem Title:

Prologue to Comus. Performed for the Benefit of the General Hospital at Bath, 1756. And spoken by Miss Morrison, in the Character of a Lady of Fashion.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Wouldst thou by Attic taste approved

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

Martial, Book IV. Ep. 87.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Before a swan behind a crow

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

Book III. Ep. 43.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Curmudgeon the rich widow courts

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

Book I. Ep. 11.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

When Arria from her wounded side

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

Book I. Ep. 14.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

When dukes in town ask thee to dine

Page No:

pp.306-307

Poem Title:

Book VII. Ep. 75.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

With lace bedizened comes the man

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

Book IV. Ep. 78.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Alike in temper and in life

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

Book VIII. Ep. 35

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Is there to enroll amongst the friendly few

Page No:

p.307-308

Poem Title:

Book I. Ep. 40.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Ned is a sober fellow they pretend

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

Book XII. Ep. 30.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

You sell your wife's rich jewels lace and clothes

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

Book XII. Ep. 103

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Your teeth from Hemmet and your hair from Bolney

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

Book XII. Ep. 23.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. By Dr. John Hoadly.]

Attributed To:

John Hoadly

First Line:

Happy the worms that spun their lives away

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

A very gallant Copy of Verses, (but somewhat silly) upon the Ladies, and their fine Cloaths at a Ball.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Taylor.

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

How strangely doth the power of custom rule

Page No:

pp.309-310

Poem Title:

Another on the same Subject, written with more Judgment, but fewer good Manners.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

Honest William an easy and good natured fellow

Page No:

pp.310-311

Poem Title:

The Brewer's Coachman.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

Mother Breedwell presented her husband each year

Page No:

pp.311-312

Poem Title:

Female Caution.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

Quoth John to his teacher good sir if you please

Page No:

pp.312-313

Poem Title:

Grace and Nature.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

Long time did a silly old proverb prevail

Page No:

pp.313-314

Poem Title:

Hull Ale.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

It blew an hard storm and in utmost confusion

Page No:

p.314

Poem Title:

Absolution.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

A drunken old Scot by the rigorous sentence

Page No:

p.315

Poem Title:

Penance.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A cannon ball one bloody day

Page No:

p.315

Poem Title:

The Mistake.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Taylor.]

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

O favourite muse of Shenstone hear

Page No:

pp.316-318

Poem Title:

Upon an Alcove, now at Parson's Green.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Bennet

Attributed To:

Mrs Bennet [nee Bridgen]

First Line:

Right wele of lernid clerkis is it sed

Page No:

p.316

Poem Title:

A Fragment of Chaucer.

Attribution:

By J. Harris, Esq;

Attributed To:

James Harris

First Line:

Between the smooth descent of yonder hills

Page No:

pp.318-322

Poem Title:

The Country Parson.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Bathian Venus the other day

Page No:

pp.322-325

Poem Title:

Plain Truth.

Attribution:

By Henry Fielding, Esq;

Attributed To:

Henry Fielding

First Line:

Are these thy palms oh queen of love

Page No:

pp.325-327

Poem Title:

Ode to Venus, from her Votaries of the Street.

Attribution:

By * * * * *

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I dropped a thing in verse without a name

Page No:

p.327

Poem Title:

An Epigram.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The glow-worm scribblers of a feeble age

Page No:

p.328

Poem Title:

The Poet's Importance.

Attribution:

By Dr. H * * *

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Spite of beauty air and grace

Page No:

p.329

Poem Title:

To Polly Laurence, quitting the Pump. Bath, January 1756.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While soft through water earth and air

Page No:

pp.330-333

Poem Title:

Ode, to a Lady in London.

Attribution:

By Miss C * * *

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail genial goddess blooming spring

Page No:

pp.332-334

Poem Title:

Ode to Spring.

Attribution:

By Miss Ferrer of Huntingdon, Since married to the Rev. Mr. Peckard.

Attributed To:

Martha Peckard [née Ferrar]

First Line:

Sister of Phoebus gentle queen

Page No:

pp.334-335

Poem Title:

Ode to Cynthia.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss Ferrer.]

Attributed To:

Martha Peckard [née Ferrar]

First Line:

Sweet warbler to whose artless song

Page No:

pp.335-336

Poem Title:

Ode to a Thrush.

Attribution:

By Miss Pennington.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Pennington

First Line:

Ah me that restless bliss so soon should fly

Page No:

pp.336-338

Poem Title:

Elegy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Vain are these pomps thy funeral rites to grace

Page No:

pp.338-345

Poem Title:

A Poem To the Memory of Thomas, Late Marquis of Wharton, Lord Privy Seal.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Kind relief in all my pain

Page No:

pp.345-346

Poem Title:

Paraphrase upon a French Song.

Attribution:

By the William Somervile, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Somervile

First Line:

What time the jocund rosy bosomed hours

Page No:

pp.347-354

Poem Title:

The Tomb of Shakespear. A Vision.

Attribution:

By John Gilbert Cooper, Esq;

Attributed To:

John Gilbert Cooper