The new foundling hospital for wit ... Part the fifth [T139945] [ecco]

DMI number:

1162

Publication Date:

1772

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T139945

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB130779150

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BL

Full Title:

THE | NEW FOUNDLING HOSPITAL | FOR WIT. | BEING | A COLLECTION OF CURIOUS PIECES | IN VERSE AND PROSE, | SEVERAL OF WHICH WERE NEVER BEFORE PRINTED. | BY | [two columns] [col1] SIR C. HANBURY WILLIAMS | EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, | --DELAWARR, | --BATH, | --HARDWICKE, | --CARLISLE, | LORDS LYTTELTON, | -- HARVEY, | -- CAPEL, | LADY M. W. MONTAGUE, | HON. C. YORKE, | --H. WALPOLE, | --C. MORRIS, | SIR J. MAWBEY, | T. POTTER, | C. TOWNSHEND, [/col1] | [col2] SOAME JENYNS, | DR. KING, | DR. ARMSTRONG, | C. ANSTEY, | T. EDWARDS, | C. CHURCHILL, | J. THOMSON, | J. S. HALL, | J. WILKES, | D. GARRICK, | R. BENTLEY, | S. JOHNSON, | B. THORNTON, | G. COLMAN, | R. LLOYD, &c. &c. [/col2] Adorned with a curious Frontispiece. | [rule] | PART THE FIFTH. | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed for J. ALMON, in PICCADILLY. | 1772.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Frontispiece.

Comments:

Contents: prose pp. 68-70. QUERY: something odd is going on with the ECCO vol: the contents don't match those given on the contents page. Is it just that the ECCO vol (BL original) mixes the prefatory matter of Part 5 with the contents of (what is probably) Part 6? Is this a problem only in the ECCO copy or is it more widespread among other copies of this miscellany?

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Advertisement [1p]; Contents [2pp].

References:

Donald W. Nichol, 'The New Foundling Hospital for Wit: From Hanbury Williams to John Wilkes' Studies in the Literary Imagination 34.1 (2001) pp. 101-19. Donald W. Nichol ed., The New Foundling Hospital for Wit 1768-1773 (Pickering and Chatto 2006) 3 vols.

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Publisher:

John Almon

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Leave Garrick the rich landscape proudly gay

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

To Mr. Garrick, From Mount Edgecumbe

Attribution:

By The Earl of Chatham.

Attributed To:

William Pitt

First Line:

When Peleus' son untaught to yield

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

Upon the Earl of Chatham's Verses To Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The gods on thrones celestial seated

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

Mount Edgecumbe.

Attribution:

By Lord Lyttelton.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

When one and two fold seven and mystic three

Page No:

pp.8-10

Poem Title:

Merlin At The Masquerade

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In Aesop's famous world of wit

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

The Following Lines Were Found Near A Late Statue.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A cock within a stable pent

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The Four Following Epigrams Were Written By Mr. John Hackett, Formerly Of Baliol College.

Attributed To:

John Hackett

First Line:

Frank who will any friend supply

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. John Hackett

Attributed To:

John Hackett

First Line:

From morning to evening and evening to morning

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

To Mr. W--.

Attribution:

By Mr. John Hackett

Attributed To:

John Hackett

First Line:

When fancies queer plagued Menelaus' head

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. John Hackett

Attributed To:

John Hackett

First Line:

If ever I quit the single life

Page No:

pp.14-15

Poem Title:

The Way to Chuse A Wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tears such as angels weep should now diffuse

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

On The Death of Lady Shelley.

Attribution:

By The Revd. Dr. Delap.

Attributed To:

John Delap

First Line:

While superstition teaches to revere

Page No:

pp.15-18

Poem Title:

Verses In Memory Of King Henry The Sixth. Founder Of King's College Cambridge. (Written February 2, 1738.)

Attribution:

By The Honourable Horace Walpole.

Attributed To:

Horace Walpole

First Line:

Escaped a race whose vanity never raised

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

Inscription For The Neglected Column In The Place Of St. Mark At Florence (Written In The Year 1740)

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Walpole]

Attributed To:

Horace Walpole

First Line:

In a fair summer's radiant morn

Page No:

pp.21-22

Poem Title:

The Entail, A Fable.

Attribution:

By The Same. [i.e. Walpole]

Attributed To:

Horace Walpole

First Line:

Too much my heart of beauty's power hath known

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

On Love. An Elegy.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akenside. Never Published.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Now to the utmost southern goal

Page No:

pp.27-29

Poem Title:

Ode For the Winter Solstice, December 11, 1740.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Bright Venus Covent Garden's queen

Page No:

pp.30-31

Poem Title:

Ode To Venus, On Opening The Pantheon...Imitated from Horace.

Attribution:

By a Young Lady of Fashion.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From slavish mean dependance raised

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

On A Late Marriage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well may suspicion shake its head

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

The Following Epigram Was Written...On Finding A Pair Of Shoes On The Bed Of One Of The Female Members Of The Coterie.

Attribution:

By G. A. s-lw-n, Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

May ye never play in tune

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

A Catch, To A Company Of Bad Fiddle-Scrapers. To The Tune Of Water Parted From The Sea.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When in your language I unskilled address

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

A Fragment of Milton. From The Italian. Not In His Works.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since you dear doctor saved my life

Page No:

pp.33-35

Poem Title:

Mr. Hedges To Sir Hans Sloane.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Shall love alone for ever claim

Page No:

pp.35-38

Poem Title:

Love And Music

Attribution:

By William Shenstone, Esq. [Not in his Works]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Now in the cowslip's dewy cell

Page No:

pp.38-40

Poem Title:

Ode To Cynthia. On The Approach Of Spring.

Attribution:

By The Same [Not in his Works] [i.e. Shenstone]

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Hail happy bride for thou art truly blessed

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

On The Death Of Mrs. Bowes.

Attribution:

By Lady M. W. Montague.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

Says Ch-dl-gh to a certain dame

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail poetess for thou art truly blessed

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

The Answer.

Attribution:

By The Duke of Wharton.

Attributed To:

Philip James Wharton

First Line:

In me false Thais as you pass

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

Written On A Looking Glass.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By custom doomed to folly sloth and ease

Page No:

pp.42-46

Poem Title:

On Mr. Pope's Characters Of Women.

Attribution:

By Anne, Late Viscountess Irwin, Aunt To The Present Earl of Carlisle.

Attributed To:

Anne Ingram [nee Howard; other married name Douglas]

First Line:

No longer seek the needless aid

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

To A Young Lady Curling Her Hair. From The Latin Of Dr. Lowth.

Attribution:

By The Late W. Duncombe, Esq.

Attributed To:

William Duncombe

First Line:

When stately Fusca stalks along

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

On Fusca, Suspected Of Painting. Attempted In The Manner Of Lord Dorset.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Can the good dust of Alfred sleep

Page No:

pp.48-51

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let dull politicians eternally prate

Page No:

pp.51-54

Poem Title:

The Walden Hunt.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Jenny to confess my mind

Page No:

pp.54-55

Poem Title:

Hor. Lib. I. Ode 38, Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Theron among his travels found

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say Jockey Lord adventurous maccaroni

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

On The Talked Of Marriage Of Lord March With The Fair Lady Harriet Stanhope.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While you bright Celia tread the minuets round

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

On Celia's Dancing.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stanhope wouldst thou condescend

Page No:

pp.59-61

Poem Title:

Epistle To The Earl Of Chesterfield. From The Hills Of Howth In Ireland, Where The Author Was Drinking Goat's Whey.

Attribution:

By Lord Viscount Clare. [At that time Robert Nugent, Esq]

Attributed To:

Robert Nugent

First Line:

While I those hard commands obey

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

To Corinna.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Nugent]

Attributed To:

Robert Nugent

First Line:

Fitly to hail this happy day

Page No:

pp.62-64

Poem Title:

Ode To Frederick, Prince Of Wales's Birthday. Written In The Year 1739.

Attribution:

By The Same. [i.e. Nugent]

Attributed To:

Robert Nugent

First Line:

With no poetic ardour fired

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

Verses Left By Mr. Pope, On His Lying In The Same Bed Which Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Used At Adderbury, Then Belonging To The Duke of Argyll.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Mindless of fate in these low vile abodes

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

To His Grace The Duke Of Argyll, Upon Reading The Preamble To The Patient, Creating Him Duke of Greenwich.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Ingenious Higgons never sought

Page No:

p.66

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Higgons.

Attribution:

By Mr. Waller. [Not in his Works.]

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

In times by selfishness and faction soured

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

On The Earl Of Chesterfield Being At Bath, July, 1772.

Attribution:

By Soame Jenyns, Esq;

Attributed To:

Soame Jenyns

First Line:

The world's a bubble and the life of man

Page No:

pp.71-72

Poem Title:

A Parody.

Attribution:

By Francis, Lord Verulum.

Attributed To:

Sir Francis Bacon

First Line:

How have I heard the fair lament

Page No:

pp.72-74

Poem Title:

The Cause of Inconstancy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why Chloe like the tender fawn

Page No:

p.72

Poem Title:

Hor. Book 1. Ode XXIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come thou laughter loving power

Page No:

pp.74-76

Poem Title:

An Ode, Wrote A Few Days Before The Long College-Vocation, [sic] 1763.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hartis.

Attributed To:

C.T. Hartis

First Line:

Lo where this silent marble weeps

Page No:

pp.76-77

Poem Title:

An Epitaph In A Country Church Yard In Kent.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gray. (Author Of The Elegy In A Country Church-Yard.) [Not In The Volume Of His Poems.]

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

I knew thee living thou wert then all fair

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

Written On The Gravestone Of An Unfortunate Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah Delia fairer than the new blown rose

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

On The Death Of Delia. An Irregular Ode.

Attribution:

By The Same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O S the muse's darling and the muse's friend

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

To Mr. S.

Attribution:

By The Same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From Belgia's clime a clime of old

Page No:

pp.80-81

Poem Title:

To The Same. From The Hague.

Attribution:

By The Same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In ancient days as Chaucer sung

Page No:

pp.82-83

Poem Title:

May. An Irregular Ode.

Attribution:

By The Same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Accept dear girl the trifle that I send

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

To A Young Lady, With A Set Of Books, Consisting Of A Collection Of Fugitives.

Attribution:

By The Same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nature when she formed a man

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

The Progress Of Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou bane to my empire thou spring of contest

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

Dialogue Between Cupid And Hymen.

Attribution:

By Sir John Vanbrugh.

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

Cruel disease thus to invade

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

On Celia's Sickness.

Attribution:

By Isaac Hawkins Browne, Esq. (Not In The Volume Of His Poems.)

Attributed To:

Isaac Hawkins Browne

First Line:

Preber's great soul disdained what fortune sent

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Upon Reading The Life Of The Jesuit Preber.

Attribution:

By The Late Mr. C. Churchill. [Not In His Works.]

Attributed To:

Charles Churchill

First Line:

Tom T--y has set up this thing for his wife

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

On A Certain Grave Stone.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There is no virtue but when vice by turns

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

On Vice And Virtue.

Attribution:

By The Late Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

Here lives a half pay poet run to rust

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

Extempore

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Churchill]

Attributed To:

Charles Churchill

First Line:

Knight of the polar star by fortune placed

Page No:

pp.90-98

Poem Title:

An Heroic Epistle To Sir William Chambers, Knight, Comptroller General Of His Majesty's Works, And Author Of A Late Dissertation On Oriental Gardening. Enriched With Explanatory Notes, Chiefly Extracted From That Elaborate Performance.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Mighty goddess who whilom through Hudibras spoke

Page No:

pp.99-146

Poem Title:

The Toast: A Poem.

Attribution:

By Dr. King.

Attributed To:

William King

First Line:

Dear Wilkes whose lively social wit

Page No:

pp.146-156

Poem Title:

The New River Head. A Tale. Attempted In The Manner Of Mr. C. Dennis. And Inscribed To John Wilkes, Esq.

Attribution:

By Robert Lloyd.

Attributed To:

Robert Lloyd

First Line:

A virtuous man whose acts and thoughts are pure

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

Hor. Lib. I. Ode 22. Imitated.

Attribution:

By Miss Elizabeth Carter. [Not In Her Poems.]

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Now nature quickens with the vernal breeze

Page No:

pp.158-159

Poem Title:

A Translation.

Attribution:

By The Same. [Not In Her Poems.] [i.e. Carter]

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Nor form nor substance in my being share

Page No:

pp.159-160

Poem Title:

A Riddle.

Attribution:

By The Same. [Not In Her Poems.] [i.e. Carter]

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Whatever we think on it fortune's but a toy

Page No:

pp.161-162

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By The Same [Not In Her Poems.] [i.e. Carter]

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

When heaven's decrees a prince's fate ordain

Page No:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

On The Death Of Her Sacred Majesty Queen Caroline.

Attribution:

By The Same. [Not In Her Poems.] [i.e. Carter]

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Accept O Duck the muse's grateful lay

Page No:

pp.164-165

Poem Title:

To Mr. Duck, Occasioned By A Present Of His Poems.

Attribution:

By The Same. [Not In Her Poems.] [i.e. Carter]

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Thou power supreme by whose command I live

Page No:

pp.166-168

Poem Title:

In Diem Natalem.

Attribution:

[This Is In Her Works, But Much Alter'd.] [i.e. Carter]

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

If wit or honesty could save

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

True's Epitaph...Transcribed From The Harleian Collection of MSS. No. 7316, Page 28.

Attribution:

By Matthew Prior, Esq.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Lost to the world tomorrow doomed to die

Page No:

pp.169-182

Poem Title:

An Epistle From William Lord Russel, To Willian [sic] Lord Cavendish.

Attribution:

By The Late George Canning, Of The Middle Temple, Esq.

Attributed To:

George Canning