The new miscellany, consisting of poems and translations from Ovid and Horace; with a song [T99410]
- DMI number:
- 669
- Publication Date:
- 1720
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T99410
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB126545312
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding C 2198
- Full Title:
- THE NEW | MISCELLANY : | Consisting of | Poems [i]and[/i] Translations | FROM | [i]OVID[/i] and [i]HORACE[/i]; | WITH A | SONG, | Most humbly Inscrib'd to an | OLD WOMAN. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for T. BICKERTON, at the [i]Crown[/i], in | [i]Pater-Noster-Row[/i]. 1720. | (Pr. 6[i]d[/i].)
- Epigraph:
- [i]Scribere Jussit Amor.[/i]
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Miscellaneous collection, Collection includes verse in other languages, Collection of songs, and Collection of translations/imitations
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- 6d.
- Pagination:
- [2pp.]; [3]-36
- Bibliographic details:
- Not Case 315.
- Comments:
- CONTENTS: Contains songs and verse translations. Latin verse (followed by English translation), pp.32-33; French verse (followed by English translation), p.34.
- Author:
- William Bray
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- ESTC notes 'The translator is probably William Bray.'
- Publisher:
- Thomas Bickerton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- When Sylvia sings transporting pleasures rise
- Page No:
- pp.[3]-4
- Poem Title:
- On Sylvia, Singing
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let us pay my dear Sylvia the tribute we owe
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear Ned let us taste the true pleasures of wine
- Page No:
- pp.6-7
- Poem Title:
- Burlesqued
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Old lady for shame
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- From Horace, Inscrib'd to an Old Woman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As on a flowery bank I lay
- Page No:
- pp.9-10
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear friend on noisy storms of state
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- Horace Ep. 13th.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Daphne first taught the fair Latona's son
- Page No:
- pp.13-21
- Poem Title:
- Phoebus and Daphne, From Ovid Metam. Book I. Beginning with this Line, Primus Amor Phoebi Daphne Peneia &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The freshest rose neglected dies
- Page No:
- pp.22-23
- Poem Title:
- To Sylvia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye heavenly Sylphs who guard the fair
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- On Sylvia's Sickness.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Prithee Sylvia why so coy
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- Song to Sylvia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One house just judgement I've decreed to fall
- Page No:
- pp.26-31
- Poem Title:
- Deucalion's Deluge. From Ovid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Prithee little Chloe stay
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- [Horace L. I. O.23. ('Vitas Hinnuleo me Similis, Chloe')] Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As in my shady grotto once I lay
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- [('L' autre jour Isabelle')] In English.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thou little wag must I be made thy sport
- Page No:
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- To Cupid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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