The Oxford sausage or select poetical pieces written by the most celebrated wits of the university of Oxford [N41891] [ecco]

DMI number:

935

Publication Date:

1780

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

N41891

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB130768267

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BL; Magd College Oxford

Full Title:

THE | OXFORD SAUSAGE: | OR, | SELECT POETICAL PIECES, | Written by the most CELEBRATED WITS | OF THE | UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. | A NEW EDITION. | Adorned with CUTS, Engraved in a NEW TASTE, | and Designed by the BEST MASTERS. | [epigraph] | OXFORD: | Printed for G. ROBINSON, in [i]Pater-noster-Row[/i], and | E. NEWBERY, the Corner of [i]St. Paul's Church-Yard, | London[/i]; W. JACKSON, in Oxford; and sold by the | Booksellers of [i]Oxford[/i] and [i]Cambridge[/i]. | [Price Two Shillings, sewed.]

Epigraph:

[i]---Tota, merum Sal.[/i] LUCR. iv. 1156.

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Genres:

Collection of comic verse and Collection of literary verse

Format:

Octavo

Price:

2 s

Bibliographic details:

Frontispiece. Woodcut illustrations throughout volume. Separate title page p. [189]: [ornamental rule] | VERSES | OF THE | OXFORD NEWSMEN. | FROM THE | Year 1754 to the Year 1772. | [ornamental rule]

Comments:

Date: No date on imprint. ESTC says: [1780?]; 'Other "new editions" dated 1772 and 1777 have F. Newbery in imprint; E. Newberry generally postdates him'

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Preface pp. v-x; contents pp. 11-16.

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Editor:

Thomas Warton

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

Elizabeth Newbery

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

G. Robinson

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

William Jackson

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Absolute (100%)

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Content/Publication

First Line:

All ye that love what's nice and rarish

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

Verses Occasioned by Ben Tyrrell's Mutton Pies. Advertisement.

Attribution:

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First Line:

How I congratulate fair Isis

Page No:

pp.19-21

Poem Title:

Ben Tyrrell's, Wednesday Night, December 6th, 1758.

Attribution:

Greek pseudonym

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sage woods though many a dark affair

Page No:

pp.21-22

Poem Title:

Epigram, occasioned by a supposed extraordinary Phaenomenon in Midwifery.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Let christmas boast her customary treat

Page No:

pp.22-23

Poem Title:

On Ben Tyrrell's Pies.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold once more facetious Ben

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

Mutton-Pies for the Assizes. March 1, 1760.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All hail ye curls that ranged in reverend row

Page No:

pp.25-26

Poem Title:

Ode to a Grizzle Wig.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman who had just left off his Bob.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Friend of the moss grown spire and crumbling arch

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

Epistle From Thomas Hearn, Antiquary, To the Author of The Companion to the Oxford Guide, &c.

Attribution:

Thomas Hearn

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When now mature in classic knowledge

Page No:

pp.29-35

Poem Title:

The Progress of Discontent. Written In The Year, 1746.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The curfew tolls the hour of closing gates

Page No:

pp.36-42

Poem Title:

An Evening Contemplation In a College. Being a Parody on Gray's Elegy in a Country Church-Yard.

Attribution:

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First Line:

At Blagrave's once upon a time

Page No:

pp.43-46

Poem Title:

The Phaeton, And The One Horse Chair.

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First Line:

Happy the man who void of cares and strife

Page No:

pp.48-54

Poem Title:

The Splendid Shilling.

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First Line:

Balm of my cares sweet solace of my toils

Page No:

pp.55-60

Poem Title:

A Panegyric of Oxford Ale.

Attribution:

By A Gentleman Of Oxford.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O goddess of the gloomy scene

Page No:

pp.61-64

Poem Title:

Ode to Horror. In the Allegoric, Descriptive, Alliterative, Epithetical, Fantastic, Hyperbolical, and Diabolical Style of our modern Ode-writers, and Monody-mongers.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Old battle array big with horror is fled

Page No:

pp.65-67

Poem Title:

I. A New Year's Ode. In Imitation of Colley Cibber.

Attribution:

By Hawkins Browne, Esq;

Attributed To:

Isaac Hawkins Browne

First Line:

Little tube of mighty power

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

II. Imitation of Mr. A. Phillips.

Attribution:

By Hawkins Browne, Esq;

Attributed To:

Isaac Hawkins Browne

First Line:

O thou matured by glad Hesperian suns

Page No:

pp.68-69

Poem Title:

III. Imitation of Mr. Thompson.

Attribution:

By Hawkins Browne, Esq;

Attributed To:

Isaac Hawkins Browne

First Line:

Critics avaunt tobacco is my theme

Page No:

pp.69-70

Poem Title:

IV. Imitation of Dr. Young.

Attribution:

By Hawkins Browne, Esq;

Attributed To:

Isaac Hawkins Browne

First Line:

Blessed leaf whose aromatic gales dispense

Page No:

pp.70-71

Poem Title:

V. Imitation of Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

By Hawkins Browne, Esq;

Attributed To:

Isaac Hawkins Browne

First Line:

Boy bring an ounce of freeman's best

Page No:

pp.71-72

Poem Title:

VI. Imitation of Dean Swift.

Attribution:

By Hawkins Browne, Esq;

Attributed To:

Isaac Hawkins Browne

First Line:

The man who not a farthing owes

Page No:

pp.73-75

Poem Title:

The Pleasure of being Out of Debt. Horace, Ode XXII. Book I. imitated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Imperial bird who wont to soar

Page No:

pp.76-78

Poem Title:

Ode To An Eagle. Confined in a College Court.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Should some famed hand in this fantastic age

Page No:

pp.79-82

Poem Title:

The Art Of Preaching. A Fragment. In Imitation of Horace's Art Of Poetry.

Attribution:

By the late Rev. Christopher Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

Griffin bustard turkey capon

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

The Celebrated Song Of The All-Souls Mallard.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

I sing not of roman or grecian mad games

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

Song, In Honour of the Celebration of the Boar's Head, At Queen's College, Oxford.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

One day in Christ church meadows walking

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Epigram on an Epigram

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis said dear sir no poets please the town

Page No:

pp.89-91

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. Robert Lowth, In Imitation of Horace, Book ii. Epist. 19.

Attribution:

By the late Mr Christopher Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

I rise about nine get to breakfast by ten

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

The Lownger.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What though the doctor boasts to fit

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

Epigram, written by an Exciseman, And addressed to a young Lady, who was courted at the same Time by an Apothecary.

Attribution:

written by an Exciseman

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Spence with a friend you pass the hours away

Page No:

pp.94-99

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. Spence, When Tutor to the Lord Middlesex. In Imitatoin of Horace, Book i. Epist. 18.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

Once more the vernal sun's ambrosial beams

Page No:

pp.100-101

Poem Title:

Morning. An Ode. The Author confined to College.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Long had fair Venus and her son

Page No:

pp.101-104

Poem Title:

On Miss Polly Foote's Unexpected Arrival at Oxford, And speedy Flight from thence, 1758.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Gaby possession had got of the hall

Page No:

pp.105-106

Poem Title:

The Cushion Plot. Discovered by Dr. Shaw.

Attribution:

By H. B. Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilom a row of saucy limes

Page No:

pp.106-108

Poem Title:

On Lopping New-College Lime Trees.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lucetta's charms our hearts surprise

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

Epigram. On An Oxford Toast. With fine Eyes, and a bad Voice.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst you my charming Anna reign

Page No:

pp.109-111

Poem Title:

A Ballad, To the Tune of - To you fair Ladies now at Land. Occasioned by a late Copy of Verses on Miss Brickenden's going to Newnham by Water; in which were the following Lines:

Attribution:

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First Line:

Mistaken nature here has joined

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

On a Beauty with Ill Qualities.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

I've thought the fair Clarissa cries

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

A Song of Similies.

Attribution:

By the Reverend Dr. Bacon.

Attributed To:

Phanuel Bacon

First Line:

I'll tell you a story a story that's true

Page No:

pp.114-118

Poem Title:

The Snipe. An Humourous Ballad ... Tune, - Abbot of Canterbury.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Bacon]

Attributed To:

Phanuel Bacon

First Line:

A landlord at Bath put upon me a queer hum

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

[Epigram in Martial. Literally Translated. ('Callidus imposuit nuper mihi Caupo Ravennae')] Translation.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When lovely Celia had resigned

Page No:

pp.119-124

Poem Title:

Table Talk. Written in the Year 1745.

Attribution:

By Mr. Kidgell of Hertford College.

Attributed To:

John Kidgell

First Line:

So when bright Abigail resigned her charms

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

The Same Parodied.

Attribution:

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First Line:

So when bright Venus yielded up her charms

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

Simile, From Phaedra and Hyppolitus.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Yes every hopeful son of rhyme

Page No:

pp.126-130

Poem Title:

Verses On The Expected Arrival of Queen Charlotte, In an Epistle to a Friend, 1761.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman of Oxford.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail mighty goddess whom of yore

Page No:

pp.131-138

Poem Title:

Ode to Criticism.

Attribution:

By Mr. Wodhull.

Attributed To:

Michael Wodhull

First Line:

A well known vase of sovereign use I sing

Page No:

pp.139-141

Poem Title:

An Imitation of Spenser.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Whilom there dwelt near Buckingham

Page No:

pp.142-144

Poem Title:

An Excellent Ballad. To the Tune of Chevy-Chace.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Sir I've long waited in my turn to have

Page No:

pp.145-150

Poem Title:

A Dialogue Between The Poet and his Servant. In Imitation of Horace, Sat. ix. Book ii.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

So sweet thy strain so thick thy shade

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

Epigram, On the Rev. Mr. Hanbury's Plantations and Music Meeting, at Church-Langton, in Leicestershire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now Christ Church left and fixed at Lincoln's Inn

Page No:

pp.151-157

Poem Title:

The Law-Student. To George Colman, A. M. of Ch. Ch. Oxford.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When midnight's sable veil overspread the plain

Page No:

pp.158-160

Poem Title:

The Mouse and Oyster.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath this stone lies shut up in the dark

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

[Translation of an antient Epitaph, In the Cloysters of Winchester College. Epitaph. ('Clausus Johannes jacet hic sub marmore Clarkus')] Translation.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To please the fair in courtly lays

Page No:

pp.161-164

Poem Title:

The New-Year's-Gift. Presented with a Pair of Silk Stockings. To Miss Bell Cooke, of Eton.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath the shadows of a glimmering oak

Page No:

pp.165-167

Poem Title:

Exaltation: Or, The Signature of Love. A Descriptive Pastoral. In the Modern Style.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet

Page No:

pp.167-171

Poem Title:

Extempore Letter From Captain Thomas, at Bernera, to Captain Price, at Fort Augustus.

Attribution:

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First Line:

His country's hope when now the blooming heir

Page No:

pp.172-181

Poem Title:

New-Market: A Satire.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Here deep in the dust

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

Epitaph To the pie-house Memory of Nell Batchelor, an Oxford Pye-Woman.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

I who with such success alas till

Page No:

pp.182-184

Poem Title:

The Castle Barber's Soliloquy. Written in the late War.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So you my friend at last are caught

Page No:

pp.185-186

Poem Title:

Imitation of Horace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Give ear and a comical story I'll tell

Page No:

pp.186-187

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Here lies Parker Hall and what is more rarish

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

Epitaph On Parker Hall, Born and Executed at Oxford.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Yes yes you may rail at the pope as you please

Page No:

p.188

Poem Title:

Epigram, Occasioned by Part of St. Mary's Church, in Oxford, being converted into a Law School.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hail to this joyful season of the year

Page No:

pp.191-192

Poem Title:

The Oxford Newsman's Verses, For the Year 1754.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The hallowed season and the joyful time

Page No:

pp.193-194

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1755.

Attribution:

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First Line:

As longing bridegrooms joined to heavenly fair

Page No:

pp.194-196

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1756.

Attribution:

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First Line:

We newsmen last week you'd have laughed had you seen us

Page No:

pp.196-198

Poem Title:

Verses, for the Year 1757.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Another halfpenny upon newspapers

Page No:

pp.198-199

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1758.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Let common newsmen common strains indite

Page No:

pp.199-201

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1753.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Think of the palms my masters dear

Page No:

pp.201-203

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1760.

Attribution:

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First Line:

While each true Briton drops a tear

Page No:

pp.203-204

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1761.

Attribution:

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First Line:

While Jackson tells in weekly prose

Page No:

pp.205-206

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1762.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The peace is made at last heigh ho

Page No:

pp.206-208

Poem Title:

Verses, for the Year 1763.

Attribution:

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First Line:

My masters all we men of news

Page No:

pp.208-209

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1764.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hard times indeed we men of news

Page No:

pp.209-210

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1765.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Where Captain Jolly's House of Lords

Page No:

pp.211-213

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1766.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Dismal the news which Jackson's yearly bard

Page No:

pp.213-215

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1767.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Still shall the newsman's annual rhymes

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1768.

Attribution:

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First Line:

We men of news in former days

Page No:

pp.217-218

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1769.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

As now petitions are in fashion

Page No:

pp.219-220

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1770.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Delicious news a war with spain

Page No:

pp.220-222

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1771.

Attribution:

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First Line:

While we full sadly labour through the winter

Page No:

pp.222-224

Poem Title:

Verses, For the Year 1772.

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