The muse's mirrour: being a collection of poems [vol I] [T124632] [ecco]

DMI number:

1376

Publication Date:

1783

Volume Number:

1 of 2

ESTC number:

T124632

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116312890

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

THE | [g]MUSE'S MIRROUR:[/g] | BEING A | COLLECTION OF POEMS, | Written by the following AUTHORS: | [three columns] [col 1] Mr. Pope | Swift | Churchill | Gray | Colman | Wilkes | Lloyd | Thornton | Garrick | Ansty | Jernyngham | C. Denis | Sheridan | Cumberland | Cunningham | Edmund Waller | Julius Mickle | Schomberg | J. Philips | Law. Sterne | Newell-Puddicombe | T. Vaughan [/col 1] | [col 2] Mr. Soam Jenyns | H. Kelly | Fowkes | Woty | Aaron Hill | Bryant Edwards | M'Millan | Cha. Crawford | Wm. Whitehead | Paul Whitehead | Evelyn Meadows | Dr. Parnell | Young | Goldsmith | Berkley | Langhorne | S. Johnson | Sheridan | Burton | Rev. Mr. Mason | Caswal |P. Stockdale [/col 2] | [col 3] Rev. Mr. Ogilvie | Nath. Lloyd | Lord Carlisle | Lyttelton | Palmerston| Sir. Tho. H. Williams | Alex. Schomberg | Hon. C. Townshend | Mr. Fitzpatrick | C. Fox | Mr. Erskine | Capt. Thompson | Rice | Lady M. W. Montague | Mrs Montague | Lady Craven | Mrs. Vaughan | Lennox | Greville | Miss Sally Carter | H. Moore | Aikin [/col 3] | [rule] | VOL. I. | [rule] | SECOND EDITION. | [rule] | LONDON: | Sold by J. DEBRETT, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly; and | RICHARDSON and URQUHART, under the Royal Exchange. | M DCC LXXXIII.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

In ECCO copy Contents are placed at the beginning of the volume even though the pagination suggests they should be at the end.

Comments:

Contents: prose pp. 176-177; prose epitaph pp. 212-213; verse in Italian and Latin p. 251.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Preface pp. [i]-vi; Dedication from Philips' Splendid Shilling pp. vii-viii; Contents pp. [257]-278; Errata [1p].

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Title:

The muse's mirrour: being a collection of poems [vol 2] [T124632] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1783

ESTC No:

T124632

Volume:

2 of 2

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Content/Publication

First Line:

Whoever like me with trembling anguish brings

Page No:

pp.1-2

Poem Title:

Epitaph. On a Lady who died of a Consumption at Bristol Wells.

Attribution:

Written by her Husband.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Reply mine host to hapless England's rhymes

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

To an Inn-Keeper on the Western Road, who hangs out the Sign of the Ass and Crown.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thrice happy Heartley who at once could gain

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

On the marriages of Mr. Heartly to Miss Lavender; and of Mr. Stephney to Miss Champaigne, Jan. 1768.

Attribution:

E. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The bridegroom he is a stout tanner

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

An Impromptu, in 1768...upon a lady in the Borrough, being married to a Tanner.

Attribution:

By G--- C---, Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What various passions rule the human race

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

Epigram, On a country 'Squire who kissed his dog - and turn'd on his beautiful wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To our good father abbot and eke to the meeting

Page No:

pp.5-6

Poem Title:

The Epistle of Paul to the Med'nhamites.

Attribution:

P. W.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So strange the humours of the human race

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Hobby horse.

Attribution:

Written by G. Colman, Esq. and spoken by Mr. Bensley.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

All must old Hogarth's gratitude declare

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

On Hogarth's Print of Bathos, or the Art of Sinking in Painting.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. C. Churchill when at Mr. Dell's, in Kew-foot Lane, April 18, 1764.

Attributed To:

Charles Churchill

First Line:

How I suffered awake how I suffered in dream

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

A Sonnet, On the Report of another War, in 1764.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Master Hoole

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

Extempore on seeing Hoole's Tragedy of Cyrus.

Attribution:

S.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So death the old stager

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

To the Memory of Major Alderton, who was twice run thro' the body, and once shot: who for bravery, charity, and generosity, few equall'd, and none excell'd.

Attribution:

By Capt. Thompson.

Attributed To:

Edward Thompson

First Line:

Well did the amorous sons of Wadham

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

On the College of Wadham at Oxford being insured from Fire, after a Member had been suspected of an unnatural Crime.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I saw I saw I know not what

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

On a Lady's sporting a Somerset.

Attribution:

By the Facetious Lawrence Sterne.

Attributed To:

Laurence Sterne

First Line:

How rash is the vow which thy poet hath made

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[A Madame du Bocage. By M. de Voltaire ('J'avois fait un voaeu temiraire')] Imitated, and addressed to the fair Miss Bosville.

Attribution:

E. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The half of depressa resurgam omit

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

Epigram, On the Double Mistake, and the Motto to it, "Depressa Resurgam":

Attribution:

By Capt. Thompson.

Attributed To:

Edward Thompson

First Line:

Joy to my friend as English wit

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

Lines written by Mr. Garrick, Dec. 20, 1765, at Hampton, in Colman's Translation of Terence.

Attribution:

by Mr. Garrick

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Of a dull heavy folio here rests the last page

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

On the Death of Tom Osborne the Bookseller, in Sept. 1766.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If to be born a poet and a tar

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

By the Rev. Mr. George Caswell, to his Friend, in 1766.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. George Caswell.

Attributed To:

George Caswell

First Line:

To cards the fair dame is so very a slave

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

To a Lady fond of the Game of Quadrille.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Capt. Thompson]

Attributed To:

Edward Thompson

First Line:

Heroes and kings your distance keep

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

Lines...on Mr. Pope's Monument in Twickenham Church. Here lies one who refused to be interred in Westminster-Abbey. Poeta Loquitur.

Attribution:

written by the Bishop of Gloucester.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That maxim of matches being made up in heaven

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

On an ill-match'd Couple in Cornwall, Mr. Carew and his beautiful Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The arch the height of his ambition shows

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

The Great John, Duke of Marlborough, built a superb Arch over a gutter in Blenheim Park, which gave occasion to a wit of that period, to write the following characteristic distich on the Occasion.

Attribution:

a wit of that period

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Strive to what end dear Thompson that you please

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

A Prophetic Epigram.

Attribution:

By Charles Churchill, in 1765.

Attributed To:

Charles Churchill

First Line:

This tumbledown city so famous of yore

Page No:

pp.17-27

Poem Title:

A New Description Of Lisbon and of Cyntra, The Paradise of Portugal. In a Letter to a Friend at London.

Attribution:

E. T----

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who has not heard what few have seen

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

Character of Modern Poetry...Ode To Sensibility.

Attribution:

By Mr. McMillan

Attributed To:

Mr. Mcmillan

First Line:

In that sad season when the hapless belle

Page No:

pp.28-33

Poem Title:

Dorinda, A Town Eclogue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Fitzpatrick.

Attributed To:

Richard Fitzpatrick

First Line:

And durst thou then insulting youth demand

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

Eliza, in Answer to *****.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A pot-bellied justice who thought a good feast

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

The English Justice. The Thought taken from Monsieur de la Fontaine.

Attribution:

Gracchus.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Farewell great painter of mankind

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Hogarth

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Said B---dg---t to Will I am told you're a poet

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

The following Verses were sent to Lady B--dg--t L--e, on her insisting upon the Author's writing something to discover whether he had any Genius or not.

Attribution:

Gracchus.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Prior's Kitty ever fair

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

Occasioned by Mr. Walpole's Impromptu on the Duchess of Queensberry.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A nymph of every charm possessed

Page No:

pp.38-40

Poem Title:

The following Verses were written upon a young Lady, Miss F----s, who was dressed in the habit of a Judge at a Masquerade at Southampton...Cupid Jealous.

Attribution:

by Lord Palmerston.

Attributed To:

Henry Temple

First Line:

Why down that neck whose veins meandering flow

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

To Miss **** ********* of Ipswich.

Attribution:

D***y D**t

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A foreign count was asked how he found

Page No:

pp.42-43

Poem Title:

Character of the English.

Attribution:

Cosmopolitan.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He who would act must think for thought will find

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

The Actor's Epitome.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If any here are Britons but in name

Page No:

pp.44-45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The following Epilogue was the production of Mr. Garrick's pen many years ago...

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Zara farewell beneath

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

The Dying Lover. A Fragment.

Attribution:

L.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Queen of fragrance lovely rose

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pleasure now in love's alcove

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

Barton Grove, An Invitation to Myra.

Attribution:

Damon

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Grieve not for me my dearest dear

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

Upon a Widow's Wooden Tomb-stone in Hertfordshire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I am not grieved my dearest life

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

A Wag going by underwrote.

Attribution:

A Wag

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who can the matchless Devonshire survey

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

On the Dutchess of Devonshire.

Attribution:

M. P.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here is an end of love and folly

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

To the Memory of Miss Dolly Twist.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Precedence forsooth by what title or right

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

To Mrs. R-------, at Bath.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See every plague around me twine

Page No:

pp.51-53

Poem Title:

Stanzas written under confinement for Debt.

Attribution:

C-- B--tt--.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As long on silver Thames I rowed

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

An Epigram...on Lord Pembrooke refitting the back front of his House towards the Thames.

Attribution:

written by the Hon. Charles Townsend.

Attributed To:

Charles Townshend

First Line:

If taste would wander from the south

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

Bon-Hill.

Attribution:

Written by Capt. Thompson in the year 1769.

Attributed To:

Edward Thompson

First Line:

While the two nightingales contend in voice

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

The Vauxhall Nightingales. August 1765.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You say the ministry are young tis truth

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

An Epigram, Written in 1765

Attribution:

By Co: and Co: // An Independant.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nash had a head and in that head

Page No:

pp.58-59

Poem Title:

Mr. Derrick when he succeeded Mr. Nash, put on a white Hat; this occasioned a number of Lampoons; and among the many, the following one.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When thy wild notes in warbling rise or fall

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

To Miss Wright, on her playing the Character of Daphne.

Attribution:

G. C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The fairest flower which did our gardens grace

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

A Flosculous Epigram, On the Death of Sweet William, Duke of Cumberland.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Winds catch the sound and on your rosy wings

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

On Powell's playing Posthumus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sweet imitator of Fontaine

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

To Mr. Charles Denis on his Attempt to defend Dr. Johnson's Edition of Shakespeare.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On the banks of the Leven near deep flowing Clyde

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

Dumbarton Ferry: Or, The Lass without Stocking or Shoe.

Attribution:

E. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While Scot like a strumpet calls whore first aloud

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

To Mr. Scot, a Scribler paid by Lord Sandwich, and the reputed Author of a Paper, sign'd Anti-Sejanus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too soon I take my sad my long adieu

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

The Sailor's Mistress. Consign'd to his Friend.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who would be tossed like chips about the sea

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

The Sailor's Soliloquy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye gods how I grieve that old Hogarth is dead

Page No:

pp.64-66

Poem Title:

The Character of a Cornish 'Squire, who was lineally descended from Bampfield Carew, the King of the Gypsies.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Although the lion's skin he wears

Page No:

p.66

Poem Title:

Extempore...on seeing Mr. S---w---dge in a Print, habited as a Roman Senator.

Attribution:

By J-- W-- Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Earth when parched and thirsty grown

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

The Nineteenth Ode of Anacreon imitated.

Attribution:

E. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lives an half pay poet run to rust

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

By Charles Churchill

Attributed To:

Charles Churchill

First Line:

As when if truth in ancient story lies

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

On Shakespeare.

Attribution:

S.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath this tree fleet smoker's limbs are laid

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

Translation of a Latin Epigram, on a Greyhound.

Attribution:

B. J. S.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In every soul tis said are seen the rise

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

Cause of the Diversity of Mankind.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A grape stone stifled poor Anacreon's breath

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

On the New Edition of Shakespeare.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Shakespeare divine whatever the magic power

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

On the Same.

Attribution:

T. H.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A mother who vast pleasure finds

Page No:

pp.71-74

Poem Title:

A true Tale; to be added to Mr. Gay's Fables.

Attribution:

Supposed to be written by Dr. Parnell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

From thy sacred abodes o sweet spirit descend

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

An Invocation to the departed spirit of the much-lamented and Rev. Mr. W-s.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hogarth who copied nature's works

Page No:

pp.75-77

Poem Title:

Verses from a Crooked Gentleman to a Strait Lady.

Attribution:

C. B.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me the meaning you who can

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

Upon seeing Mr. Taylor's Pictures, of Bath, and hearing a Connoisseur swear that "they were finely painted for a Gentleman."

Attribution:

By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

I kept the time with that religious zeal

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

The Disappointment. To Dulcebella.

Attribution:

E. Thompson.

Attributed To:

Edward Thompson

First Line:

Sweet object of the zephyr's kiss

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

The Withered Rose

Attribution:

The last composition of the late Mr. Cunningham, written by him a few weeks before his death, and intended, as he expressed himself to a friend to whom he presented it, as a true image of himself, being then in a very poor state of health.

Attributed To:

John Cunningham

First Line:

Stranger whatever thou art whose restless mind

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

Verses copied from the Window of an obscure Lodging-House in the neighbourhood of London.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My puritan jolly

Page No:

pp.80-81

Poem Title:

To the Rev. Mr. B. on his late marriage with Miss J. P.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies poor Ned Purdon from misery freed

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

The following Extempore was written on the death of Mr. Edward Purdon, formerly of Trinity-college, Dublin

Attribution:

by Dr. Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

Poet of nature thou whose boundless art

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

Verses sent to a young Lady, with the new Edition of Shakespeare.

Attribution:

By the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle.

Attributed To:

Frederick Howard

First Line:

When youth my Celia's in the prime

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

Verses to Celia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The muse disgusted at an age and clime

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

On the prospect of Arts and Sciences in America.

Attribution:

Written near fifty years ago by the celebrated Dr. George Berkeley, Dean of Derry, and afterwards Lord Bishop of Cloyne, while he was in America.

Attributed To:

George Berkeley

First Line:

London farewell thy dusky domes I fly

Page No:

pp.86-88

Poem Title:

The Deserted Town.

Attribution:

By the Author of the Tears of Genius.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair Venus the goddess of beauty and love

Page No:

pp.88-90

Poem Title:

Nottingham Ale. A Ballad.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Old Shakespeare was sick for a doctor he sent

Page No:

pp.90-93

Poem Title:

Shakespeare's Bedside. A new Ballad.

Attribution:

Rigdumfunnidos.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let others not thyself proclaim

Page No:

pp.93-94

Poem Title:

Ad filium meum.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Celia to Phoebus thus addressed

Page No:

pp.95-96

Poem Title:

To Caelia, upon hearing her wish for a Genius for Poetry.

Attribution:

Said to be written by the Rev. Mr. C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You ask why frenchmen are inclined

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

On Voltaire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou the choicest boon of heaven

Page No:

pp.98-99

Poem Title:

Ode to Friendship.

Attribution:

Alexis.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thief of my rhymes o more unpitying thief

Page No:

pp.100-101

Poem Title:

Sonnet. To a Lady who carried off two Volumes of the Author's Poems, Dec. 1773.

Attribution:

Chiron.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Amidst a dreary British plain

Page No:

pp.102-105

Poem Title:

The Tower and the Ivy, a Tale. Addressed to the Admirers of Shakespeare.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A tender tale o Hannah wilt thou hear

Page No:

pp.105-108

Poem Title:

The Lost Shepherdess. To H. M. on her appearing in the character of a Shepherdess of the Alps, at a late Masquerade.

Attribution:

Chiron.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While priestly malice haunts thy fated name

Page No:

pp.108-110

Poem Title:

A Character. Addressed to Miss ------ of H--ps--d.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Alwhyle ye drinke midst age and ache ybent

Page No:

pp.110-111

Poem Title:

Verses in the Pump-room at Bath.

Attribution:

Said to be written by a Gentleman at Oxford. // Edgar.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of all professions on the globe

Page No:

pp.111-112

Poem Title:

The Lawyers. To the Tune of the Georgians.

Attribution:

Expertus.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To speak with freedom dignity and ease

Page No:

pp.113-114

Poem Title:

Prologue. Spoken by a Great Personage before the Tragedy of Cato, in the year 1749, whne he performed the part of Portius.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Descend Hygeia from thy seat the effulgent realms above

Page No:

pp.114-118

Poem Title:

An Invocation to Health.

Attribution:

G. L----d.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In seventeen hundred and forty five

Page No:

pp.119-120

Poem Title:

The Patriots.

Attribution:

I. R.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Slanderer that thou and thine may know

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

Epigram. In imitation of Martial. Non amo te, Sabidi, &c.

Attribution:

J. Newell Puddicombe, A youth of Lyme Regis, in Dorsetshire.

Attributed To:

J. Newell Puddicombe

First Line:

With undigested thoughts oppressed

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

On the Day of Judgment.

Attribution:

By Dr. Swift, and not published among his Works. // By the late Mr McMillan, who published the above lines as Dr. Swift's.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

Mr. Mcmillan

First Line:

How prone the bosom is to sigh

Page No:

pp.122-124

Poem Title:

The Tear.

Attribution:

E. F.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath this sod concealed from mortal eyes

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

To the memory of Mr. Burgh, a learned School-master, and the ingenious and laborious author of Political Disquisitions, and the Dignity of Human Noture.

Attribution:

By Capt. Thompson.

Attributed To:

Edward Thompson

First Line:

Dorinda's bacon

Page No:

pp.125-126

Poem Title:

A little Man's little Ode on a little Woman frying Bacon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While D--n with gay delight

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

Verses addressed to Miss D-------n, in Drontheim, in Norway.

Attribution:

J. H. / G. P. O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where the loveliest expression to features is joined

Page No:

pp.130-131

Poem Title:

The following Lines were written upon Mrs. Crewe,

Attribution:

By the Hon. Charles James Fox.

Attributed To:

Charles James Fox

First Line:

Cries Macpherson with pride every mortal that knows him

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

Homer Humbled. An Epigram.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

These polished times we must allow

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

To General Gage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Would you that Delville I describe

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

A description of Dr. Delaney's Villa.

Attribution:

By Dr. Sheridan.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sheridan

First Line:

On Pindus top your bards of old

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

Verses to Miss Clara Haywood,

Attribution:

By Mr. M-----s.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whence comes it that in Clara's face

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

The Rose and Lily. Addressed to Lord W. and his Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hither deputed by theatric friends

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

Prologue. Spoken at Portsmouth.

Attribution:

written by the Rev. Mr. Stockdale, Author of the Poet, &c.

Attributed To:

Percival Stockdale

First Line:

Eliza you say that all songs are the same

Page No:

pp.139-140

Poem Title:

To a young Lady who observed that almost all Songs were alike.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Could I in verse the griefs of Scotland paint

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

Upon Lord Stormont's losing his St. Andrew at Court, on the 23d of June, 1775.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear damned distracting town farewell

Page No:

pp.141-143

Poem Title:

A Farewell To London. In the Year 1717.

Attribution:

By A. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The times are changed winds are not now as erst

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

Upon Lord's [sic] North's being unanimously elected Chancellor of Oxford.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You ask me friend to paint the dame

Page No:

pp.144-146

Poem Title:

The Portrait. Written at the request of a Gentleman going to be married, dedicated to him by the Author, and published by his permission

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How fickle a heart would a lover come at

Page No:

pp.146-148

Poem Title:

To Miss --

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye patriot dames rejoice and sing

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

Ode On Wilkes's Election for the Lord Mayor.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Then thou at last art laid in tomb

Page No:

pp.150-152

Poem Title:

Tears of Isis. On the much lamented death of Mr. Willis Faulkener, of St. Mary-hall Lane, Peruke-maker, Hair-dresser, and Cutter.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Jo implore Dan Phoebus skill

Page No:

pp.152-153

Poem Title:

To the Author of the Idyllium to the Bishop of St. Asaph.

Attribution:

Hispaniensis Llanddufnensis.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Advice that opposes a passion like thine

Page No:

pp.154-156

Poem Title:

To --, on a mistaken Attachment.

Attribution:

By Mr. M--s.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who uninspired can tread this sacred ground

Page No:

pp.157-159

Poem Title:

Written in the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxford's Library, at Wimpole, 1729.

Attribution:

By Soame Jenyns.

Attributed To:

Soame Jenyns

First Line:

As Shakespeare ranged over the regions below

Page No:

pp.159-161

Poem Title:

Shakespeare in the Shades.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lady Bridget at church on the conjugal day

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

Epigram On Lady Bridget T----'s refusing to repeat part of the Matrimonial vow after the Clergyman.

Attribution:

Snap.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye old Yorkshire clothes and ye gay Norwich stuffs

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

A Taylor's Epigram of Manchester Velvet.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I thought the graces were but three

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

Epigram On seeing the pictures of Lady Townshend and her Sister, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Seek not Phillis to discover

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

On a Lady's reproving the Author for his unusual distance when conversing with her.

Attribution:

T. Vaugn.

Attributed To:

Thomas Vaughan

First Line:

O my baby my baby

Page No:

pp.164-165

Poem Title:

A New Song. Supposed to have been sung by Goody N--h, by way of Lullaby to the Foundling Brat, the Popish Quebec Bill. To the Tune of 'O my Kitten, my Kitten'.

Attribution:

The Bellman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou whose gentle voice and magic lyre

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

Flaminius' Hymn to Apollo translated.

Attribution:

L. L.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Charles's vigilance makes full amends for poor Stephen

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

On the imprisonment of the two Woodfalls and Williams, at the instigation of C---- F----

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pocket your handkerchiefs nor sob or weep

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

On the death of the somnisick Lord Holland.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On Cr-t-ell's cheek the lovely rose

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Cr---t---ell, at Bath.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In vain Maria do you strive

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

On seeing a faded Rose in a Nosegay, worn by Mrs. B. at Ranelogh.

Attribution:

T. Vaughn.

Attributed To:

Thomas Vaughan

First Line:

Sweetest daughter of the year

Page No:

pp.169-170

Poem Title:

Stanzas on May.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. McMillan.

Attributed To:

Mr. Mcmillan

First Line:

My client Tom god grant he ever find

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

A Case.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While nobles burn thy tedious chains to break

Page No:

pp.171-173

Poem Title:

A poetical Billet, from Captain Roach to Mrs. Rudd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As when in ancient tales some nymph compelled

Page No:

pp.173-175

Poem Title:

To Clara.

Attribution:

L.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I lie not here that on the awful day

Page No:

pp.175-176

Poem Title:

Epitaph designed for a Gentleman in Gloucestershire, who intends his Burial Place shall be on the top of a high hill, at a distance from the Church.

Attribution:

Crotchet.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You was so obliging to send us a pig

Page No:

pp.178-179

Poem Title:

The Rev. Mr. F. to Mr. J. C.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Assist all ye muses and join to rehearse

Page No:

pp.179-181

Poem Title:

The noble Game of Cricket.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nature her sons of genius rare

Page No:

pp.182-184

Poem Title:

On seeing Mr. Garrick in Don John, and his age in the public Papers.

Attribution:

By the Rev. P. Stockdale.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O yet a moment to the pensive tale

Page No:

pp.185-188

Poem Title:

Elegy on the death of Lord Lyttleton. A. D. 1773.

Attribution:

Philander.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Wilkes and Lord T--- first met in the house

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

On Mr. Wilkes and Lord T-- being sworn in together in the Commons House.

Attribution:

N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well what shall we say to this marriage so odd

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

Impromptu On the Marriage of Mr. Long to Miss Broad.

Attribution:

By T. Vaughan.

Attributed To:

Thomas Vaughan

First Line:

Once more dear Dido you afford retreat

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

Verses written by a Lady under a Picture in the Temple of Dido, at Stowe, in a storm, to which she and some other Ladies were exposed, by being very politely shewn out of the house during the rain.

Attribution:

By a Lady

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go leaf and tell Murilla fair

Page No:

pp.191-192

Poem Title:

To Miss M. of Edinburgh.

Attribution:

H. B.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Trace not for splendor yonder starry skies

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

To Miss Louisa Belville.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou who dost all my worldly thought employ

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

Verses from a Lady, dying of a consumption at Bath, to her husband in London.

Attribution:

A Lady [Daughter to Dr. Welwood, and wife to Capt. Molesworth.]

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Wellwood Molesworth

First Line:

Oh Bath it is a fine town it has a great recorder

Page No:

pp.195-196

Poem Title:

A New Ballad.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In this strange town a different course we take

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

The enclosed lines were transcribed from the original, in the hand-writing of Mr. Pope. They were added after the present conclusion of his address to Miss M. B. on her leaving town. "As some fond virgin, &c."

Attribution:

Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Two sturdy mastiffs and the tale's well known

Page No:

pp.198-199

Poem Title:

To -- F-tz-d, Esq.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pray which of the nine shall I humbly invoke

Page No:

pp.199-202

Poem Title:

The Sea-Voyage. A Song. To the Tune of A Cobler there was, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As near beauteous Boston lying

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

A New Song. To the plaintive tune of Hosier's Ghost.

Attribution:

Britanno Americanus.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If to a statesman you aspire

Page No:

pp.204-205

Poem Title:

To the Hon. Charles Hazard, Esq. one of the faithful Lords of the Treasury, An extempore Sketch.

Attribution:

V.w.x.y.z.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To make new converts truly blessed

Page No:

pp.206-208

Poem Title:

The Monk and Jew. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When rarely now to public eyes confessed

Page No:

pp.208-209

Poem Title:

To Mr. Garrick. On the Report of his leaving the Stage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Good sense confined his narrow view

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

Epitaph on the late Dr. Nugent, of Gray's Inn.

Attribution:

E. P.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Reason may sooth but strives in vain to heal

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

On seeing Miss Lance interred in Canterbury Cathedral, Feb. 27.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So by each bard an alderman shall sit

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Thus Britain loved me and preserved my fame

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

A. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Ah gentle hero little dost thou prove

Page No:

pp.213-215

Poem Title:

Leander to Hero.

Attribution:

By Capt. Thompson.

Attributed To:

Edward Thompson

First Line:

Guarded by all that's mean old ugly evil

Page No:

pp.215-218

Poem Title:

To her who knows it to be designed for her.

Attribution:

********

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye church made macaroni beaux

Page No:

pp.218-220

Poem Title:

Lambeth Ferry. A new Song to an old Tune.

Attribution:

E. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O my yankee my yankee

Page No:

pp.220-222

Poem Title:

A New Song. To the Old Tune of "O my Kitten, my Kitten."

Attribution:

E. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of parts and learning which the wise approve

Page No:

pp.222-224

Poem Title:

Tom and Betsey.

Attribution:

Leguleius.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come my muse a Venus draw

Page No:

pp.224-226

Poem Title:

The Picture, an Ode to Delia. In imitation of Anacreon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Animal beloved and beauteous

Page No:

pp.226-227

Poem Title:

The Lady's Lap-Dog.

Attribution:

Written by an Officer in the Army at New-York, 1777.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Flavia why surmise a power

Page No:

pp.227-228

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Horatio.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here foremost in the dangerous paths of fame

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

Epitaph, On Sir William Williams.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Little Moll faith and I from Wapping came up

Page No:

pp.230-233

Poem Title:

A Sailor's Description of the Masquerade, as played before the King of Denmark to a crouded, motley audience, in the Hay-market.

Attribution:

By Capt. Thompson.

Attributed To:

Edward Thompson

First Line:

Fair was the tree on which the blossom bloomed

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

To the memory of Miss Peach.

Attribution:

E. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O hester they by whom the shaft is thrown

Page No:

pp.234-235

Poem Title:

Reprisals. A Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Motley nymph whose power we own

Page No:

pp.235-236

Poem Title:

Ode to Fashion.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The fickle fops which range abroad

Page No:

pp.238-239

Poem Title:

On Mortimer's Paintings.

Attribution:

E. Thompson.

Attributed To:

Edward Thompson

First Line:

Wit is a feather this we all admit

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

To her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire, in answer to all the absurd and illiberal aspersions cast on the fashionable feathers by churlish old women, ridiculous prudes, and brutish censors.

Attribution:

Carlisle.

Attributed To:

Frederick Howard

First Line:

Start not ye fair nor dread the poet's lyre

Page No:

pp.240-241

Poem Title:

To some Oxford Ladies.

Attribution:

Mercutio.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath this sod great Otho lies

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on Otho, buried at Acton, June 1, 1775, at the expence of Mr. Hobbs.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Terence lived twas thought a merit

Page No:

p.242

Poem Title:

On Colman's Terrence.

Attribution:

E. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Blessed with sense with temper blessed

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

A Nuptial Song.

Attribution:

By a Happy Husband to his Wife.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A gardener I come to this gay masquerade

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

Lines deliver'd at Ranelagh, by a Masque in the character of a Gardener.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Charles reads the papers deems tis true

Page No:

p.245

Poem Title:

Reynard's Disappointment. An Epigram.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The dewy morn her saffron mantle spreads

Page No:

pp.246-247

Poem Title:

To Miss -------, Walnut-Tree Walk

Attribution:

Celadon.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say Jockey Lord adventurous maccaroni

Page No:

pp.248-249

Poem Title:

On the talk'd of Marriage of Lord March with the fiar Lady Harriet Stanhope.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Boroughs beware for if you lose your charters

Page No:

pp.249-250

Poem Title:

On a certain Cornish Borough with its new Charter.

Attribution:

C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While Donaldson with gay delight

Page No:

pp.252-255

Poem Title:

Verses addressed to Miss Donaldson, at Drontheim, in Norway.

Attribution:

J. H.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whether from fate or some more potent cause

Page No:

p.256

Poem Title:

Fortuna fortes meluit, ignavos premit. Sen.

Attribution:

T. L.

Attributed To:

Not attributed