The new foundling hospital for wit ... Part the third [T139946] [ecco]

DMI number:

1099

Publication Date:

1769

ESTC number:

T139946

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113919339

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

THE | NEW FOUNDLING HOSPITAL | FOR WIT. | BEING | A COLLECTION | OF | SEVERAL CURIOUS PIECES | IN VERSE AND PROSE. | Many of which were never before Printed. | WRITTEN BY THE | [two columns] [col 1] Earl of CHESTERFIELD, | Earl of CARLISLE, | Earl DELAWARR, | Lord LYTTELTON, | Lord HARVEY, | Lord CAPEL, | Lady M. W. MONTAGUE, | Sir CHARLES HANBURY | WILLIAMS, [/col1] | [col2] Sir WALTER RALEIGH, | Rt. Hon. CH. TOWNSHEND, | JOHN WILKES, Esq; | D. GARRICK, Esq; | B. THORNTON, Esq; | Mrs. LENOX, | Mr. RT LLOYD. | Mr W. KENRICK, | Mr. J. CUNNINGHAM; [/col2] | AND OTHER EMINENT PERSONS. | PART THE THIRD. | LONDON. | Printed in the Year MDCCLXIX.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of comic verse and Topical miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Frontispiece.

Comments:

Contents: prose pp. 1-28, 32-3, 58-69, 71-75, 89-105, 135-6.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Contents [4pp] Back matter: List of books printed for J. Almon [5pp.]

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

Related People

Editor:

John Almon

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

ESTC identifies Almon as editor.

Content/Publication

First Line:

Shouldst thou to justice honest thief be led

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

Epigram on a Counsellor's having his Hat stolen in Westminster-Hall.

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First Line:

Yorke's great humility I own

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

On Mr. Yorke's taking a Patent of Precedence in 1764.

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First Line:

Whenever this stone now hid beneath the lake

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

Inscription found upon a Stone ploughed up in a Field in Devonshire, that was formerly a Lake.

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First Line:

Their wish must be in form reversed

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p.30

Poem Title:

Answer to the Junto.

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First Line:

Thou essence of dock of valerian and sage

Page No:

p.30

Poem Title:

Extempore by a Poetical Junto, on hearing a certain impertinent Address in the News-Papers.

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First Line:

Ye desperate junto ye great or ye small

Page No:

p.30

Poem Title:

Dr. H-'s Reply to the Junto's Epigram.

Attribution:

Anti-Junto.

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First Line:

For physic and farces

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

Epigram...written soon after Dr. Hill's Farce called The Route was acted.

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First Line:

Reader within this turf raised grave

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Jerry Sneak the Taylor.

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First Line:

If tis true as you say that I've injured a letter

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p.31

Poem Title:

To Dr. Hill upon his Petition of the Letter I to Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Garrick]

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Sad verse to read but charming sight to see

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p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Cursed by the friends of liberty restored

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p.34

Poem Title:

To a certain Magistrate on the Dedication of a Tower to him in the Isle of Thanet

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First Line:

Old and abandoned by each venal friend

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

Inscription for the Villa of a decay'd Satesman [sic] on the Sea-Coast.

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First Line:

Fame's mouth is steep and he who dares ascend

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p.35

Poem Title:

The Times. 1768.

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First Line:

Would you wish to serve the state

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pp.36-37

Poem Title:

Imitation. Anacr. Od. 46. To J. W. Esq;

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First Line:

While every truly english breast

Page No:

pp.37-38

Poem Title:

Epistle to John Wilkes, Esq; in Confinement.

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First Line:

To contradict Wilkes now M-- replies

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

The whole present Dispute in Law and Politics.

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First Line:

Committed by the hand of power

Page No:

pp.39-41

Poem Title:

The Lion in the Toils. A political Fable.

Attribution:

By Mr. Kenrick

Attributed To:

Daniel Kenrick

First Line:

Can Apollo resist or a poet refuse

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pp.41-42

Poem Title:

Harry and Nan. An Elegy, in the Manner of Tibullus.

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First Line:

While a thousand fine projects are planned every day

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pp.42-44

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Blessed is that government where greedy knaves

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pp.44-45

Poem Title:

The Parliament of a happy Government.

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First Line:

Softly sweet in Lydian measure

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pp.45-47

Poem Title:

On the D. of B--'s Arrival in Ireland. 1768.

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First Line:

Little Moll faith and I from Wapping came up

Page No:

pp.48-51

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.

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First Line:

William sends health to John

Page No:

pp.51-55

Poem Title:

Parody on Cato, Act II. Scene II. On Occasion of the Middlesex Election in December, 1768, when the Candidates were John Glynn, Esq; (who was elected) and Sir W. B. Proctor.

Attribution:

M.

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First Line:

God prosper long our noble king

Page No:

pp.55-58

Poem Title:

The Middlesex Election. A Ballad on the same Occasion. To the Tune of "Chevy Chace".

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First Line:

Thou holy spirit power divine

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

O Bute if instead of contempt and of odium

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

Epigram.

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First Line:

How awful the morning breaks over yon hill

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

Written Extempore by a young Gentleman, from a Morning View on a Mountain in the South of Wales, a few Weeks since.

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First Line:

Whilst womanhood in habit of a nun

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

The following is an explanatory Note of a Passage in Mr. Churchill's Candidate, never before printed, where he speaks of Medmenham-Abbey.

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First Line:

The muses and graces to Phoebus complained

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

The Temple of the Muses. To the Countess Temple.

Attribution:

The five following Pieces are said to be written by Mr. W-s.

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First Line:

Revolving years add Laura to your charms

Page No:

pp.76-77

Poem Title:

To Laura on New Year's Day.

Attribution:

by Mr. W-s.

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First Line:

When beauteous Laura's gentle voice

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

To a Lady, who sung in too low a Voice.

Attribution:

by Mr. W-s.

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First Line:

Again I tune the vocal lay

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

To Miss W-- on her Birth-Day, August 16, 1767. Wrote in France.

Attribution:

by Mr. W-s.

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Not attributed

First Line:

How shall the muse in prison sing

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

To Miss W-- on her Birth-Day. August 16, 1768. Wrote in Prison.

Attribution:

by Mr. W-s.

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Not attributed

First Line:

In youth tis said you easily may scan

Page No:

pp.79-81

Poem Title:

A Copy of Verses...on his Schoolfellows at Eton.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable the Earl of Carlisle

Attributed To:

Frederick Howard

First Line:

My lord your verses penned with so much ease

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p.82

Poem Title:

To the Earl of Carlisle, on the preceding Poem.

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First Line:

Near his paternal seat here buried lies

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pp.82-83

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on the late Right Hon. Thomas Winnington, Esq.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

To form a minister the ingredients

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

The Grand Catholicon. Being a genuine Family Receipt. Written in 1753.

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First Line:

Though life itself is not worth a thought

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

On Health.

Attribution:

By the late Lord Hervey.

Attributed To:

John Hervey

First Line:

Three eminent men of the law

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

On a late Incident.

Attribution:

G. W--l--y.

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First Line:

A noble ambition this motto reveals

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

A Motto for the Hon. Charles Yorke, an orator of the long Robe - Spero meliora

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First Line:

Near London Bridge once stood a gate

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

The School of Rhetorick.

Attribution:

T. P.

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First Line:

Constant gamesters every day

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pp.88-89

Poem Title:

Verses address'd to some Ladies of Hampstead.

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First Line:

Six tedious months young Damon sighed

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

On a Gentleman who mistook a Kept Mistress for a Lady of Fashion.

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First Line:

Well what tonight says angry Ned

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

On the Run of Romeo and Juliet.

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First Line:

A tale I will tell you will great indignation

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pp.106-110

Poem Title:

Poetical Description of a Great Funeral...Never before printed.

Attribution:

By a late celebrated Bard

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First Line:

Stranger whoever thou art bestow

Page No:

pp.110-111

Poem Title:

An Inscription. Written in 1749

Attribution:

By the late Right Honourable Charles Townshend, on Lady C- wishing to be buried in his Shubbery at Adderbury in Oxfordshire.

Attributed To:

Charles Townshend

First Line:

Ye maids who Britain's court bedeck

Page No:

pp.111-113

Poem Title:

Earl Delawarr's Farewell to the Maids of Honor, on his being promoted to his late Father's Troop, and resigning the Place of Vice Chamberlain to the Queen.

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First Line:

The new Scottish pavement is worthy of praise

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

Epigram on the New Pavement.

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First Line:

What do scholars and bards and astronomers wise

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

On the Duchess of Rutland.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Chesterfield.

Attributed To:

Philip Dormer Stanhope

First Line:

As over the swelling ocean's tide

Page No:

pp.115-117

Poem Title:

On the Banishment of Cicero.

Attribution:

Written by the Duke of Wharton, and first printed when Atterbury. Bishop of Rochester, was banished in 1724.

Attributed To:

Philip James Wharton

First Line:

Beat on proud billows Boreas blow

Page No:

pp.117-121

Poem Title:

Written when he was a prisoner in the Tower, during Cromwell's usurpation.

Attribution:

Stanzas by Lord Capel.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Go soul the body's guest

Page No:

pp.122-125

Poem Title:

Verses

Attribution:

by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Attributed To:

Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]

First Line:

Go truth unwelcome guest

Page No:

pp.125-126

Poem Title:

A Parody on the Foregoing. Written in 1764.

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First Line:

Long on Golconda's shore a diamond lay

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

The Diamond. A Fable.

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First Line:

O happy he happiest of mortal men

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

The Farmer.

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First Line:

Tell me ye sons of Phoebus what is this

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

On a Good Humour. Written at Eton School, 1729.

Attribution:

Lyttelton.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

I whom thou seest begirt with towering oaks

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

Lucian's Greek Epigram. Inscribed on a Column erected in a Piece of Land, that had been often bought and sold; Imitated.

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First Line:

Now newmade silks the mercer's window shows

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

A Description of Spring on London.

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First Line:

O happiness where's thy resort

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

On Happiness.

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First Line:

A Persian monarch one of those

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

The Conqueror and the Old Woman. A Fable.

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First Line:

Ye lovely maids whose yet unpractised hearts

Page No:

pp.136-140

Poem Title:

The Art of Coquetry.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Charlotte Lenox.

Attributed To:

Charlotte Lennox

First Line:

With wit and genuine humour to dispel

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

On the Death of Yorick, the Reverend Mr. Sterne, Author of Tristram Shandy, &c.

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First Line:

Hail beauteous pair whom friendship binds

Page No:

pp.142-143

Poem Title:

On the Friendship of two young Ladies, 1730.

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First Line:

That tongue which set the table on a roar

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Mr. Quin.

Attribution:

By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

The man who feels the dear disease

Page No:

pp.143-144

Poem Title:

A Man in Love.

Attribution:

By Lady Mary Wortley Montague.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

Dark was the sky with many a cloud

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

An Inscription. Written upon one of the Tubs in Ham Walks, September MDCCLX.

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First Line:

Resolved as of her poet to sing

Page No:

pp.146-147

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By a Noble Lord.

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First Line:

The chiming bells from every steeple

Page No:

pp.148-153

Poem Title:

John, the English Footman. A Tale.

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First Line:

When I take an attentive survey of mankind

Page No:

pp.153-155

Poem Title:

The Laughing Philosopher.

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First Line:

In former days I've heard it said

Page No:

pp.156-157

Poem Title:

Tempora Mutantur.

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First Line:

A witch that from her ebon chair

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

The Witch: A Fable.

Attribution:

J. Cunningham.

Attributed To:

John Cunningham

First Line:

Serene the morn the season fine

Page No:

pp.159-160

Poem Title:

The Review. Written in the Year 1719; and never before printed.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What though oppression with her desperate tools

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

Lines to Mr. Wilkes

Attribution:

By Robert Lloyd of Westminster, written just before his Death; and not printed in his Works.

Attributed To:

Robert Lloyd

First Line:

In times like these when party rage

Page No:

pp.161-166

Poem Title:

An Ode upon the present Period of Time.

Attribution:

By the Author of the Ode to Lord C--m.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Says Townley to Fletcher what causes this rout

Page No:

pp.166-168

Poem Title:

A Conversation between the two Head upon Temple Bar; on Occasion of the Merchants Address, March 1769.

Attribution:

Temple-Bar

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First Line:

Oh Englishmen Englishmen can't you be quiet

Page No:

pp.169-171

Poem Title:

A Dialogue at St. James's Gate on the same Occasion; between a Noble Lord and the Mob.

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