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The Oxford sausage or select poetical pieces written by the most celebrated wits of the university of Oxford [T76291] [ecco]

DMI number:
936
Publication Date:
1798
Volume Number:
1 of 1
ESTC number:
T76291
EEBO/ECCO link:
CW112457624
Shelfmark:
ECCO - Bod
Full Title:
THE | OXFORD SAUSAGE; | OR, | SELECT POETICAL PIECES, | WRITTEN BY THE MOST | CELEBRATED WITS | OF THE | UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. | [rule] | A NEW EDITION, | Adorned with CUTS, Engraved in a NEW TASTE, and Designed | by the BEST MASTERS. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | OXFORD: | Printed for [i]G. Robinson[/i], in Paternoster Row, | And [i]E. Newbury[/i], the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, London; | [i]W. Dawson[/i] and Co. in Oxford; | And sold by the Booksellors of Oxford and Cambridge. | [rule] | [Price Two Shillings and Six-pence sewed.]
Epigraph:
[i]Tuta, 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 6 d
Bibliographic details:
Frontispiece. Woodcut illustrations throughout the volume. Separate title page p. [189]: VERSES | OF THE | OXFORD NEWSMEN, | From the Year 1754 to the Year 1772.
Comments:
Date: ESTC says [1798?] 'The paper is watermarked: 1797.'
Other matter:
Prefatory matter: Preface pp. v-ix; Contents pp. 11-16.
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Editor:
Thomas Warton
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Publisher:
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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:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
How I congratulate fair Isis
Page No:
pp.19-21
Poem Title:
Ben Tyrrell's, Wednesday Night, December the 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:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
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.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Friend of the moss grown spire and crumbling arch
Page No:
pp.27-28
Poem Title:
Epistle From Thomas Hearne, Antiquary, To The Author Of The Companion to the Oxford Guide, &c.
Attribution:
Thomas Hearn.
Attributed To:
Thomas Hearne
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:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
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:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
At Blagrave's once upon a time
Page No:
pp.43-47
Poem Title:
The Phaeton, And The One Horse Chair.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Happy the man who void of cares and strife
Page No:
pp.48-54
Poem Title:
The Splendid Shilling.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Balm of my cares sweet solace of my toils
Page No:
pp.55-60
Poem Title:
A Panegyric On 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:
Attributed To:
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:
Attributed To:
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:
Attributed To:
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:
Attributed To:
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:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Spence with a friend you pass the hours away
Page No:
pp.94-99
Poem Title:
Epistle To Mr. Spence, When Tutor To Lord Middlesex. In Imitation 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.
Attribution:
By Herbert Beaver, Esq. C.C.C.
Attributed To:
Herbert Beaver
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:
Attributed To:
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 Copy of Verses on Miss Brickenden's going to Newnham by Water; in which were the following Lines:
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Mistaken nature here has joined
Page No:
p.111
Poem Title:
On A Beauty With Ill Qualities.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
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 Humorous 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:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
So when bright Venus yielded up her charms
Page No:
p.125
Poem Title:
Simile, From Phaedra and Hyppolitus.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
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 Spencer.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Whilom there dwelt near Buckingham
Page No:
pp.142-144
Poem Title:
An Excellent Ballad. To The Tune Of Chevy-Chace.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Sir I've long waited in my turn to have
Page No:
pp.145-150
Poem Title:
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 Musick Meeting, at Church-Landton, 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.158-1-60
Poem Title:
The Mouse And Oyster.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
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 ('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. Written just before signing the Peace of Aix La Chapelle.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
His country's hope when now the blooming heir
Page No:
pp.172-181
Poem Title:
New-Market: A Satire.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
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:
Attributed To:
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, 1760.
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:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
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:
Attributed To:
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:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
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:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The hallowed season and the joyful time
Page No:
pp.193-194
Poem Title:
Verses. for the Year 1755.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
As longing bridegrooms joined to heavenly fair
Page No:
pp.194-196
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1756.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
We newsmen last week you'd have laughed had you seen us
Page No:
pp.196-197
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1757.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Another halfpenny upon newspapers
Page No:
pp.198-199
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1758.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Let common newsmen common strains indite
Page No:
pp.199-201
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1759.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Think of the palms my masters dear
Page No:
pp.201-203
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1760.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
While each true Briton drops a tear
Page No:
pp.203-204
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1761.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
While Jackson tells in weekly prose
Page No:
pp.205-206
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1762.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The peace is made at last heigh ho
Page No:
pp.206-208
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1763.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
My masters all we men of news
Page No:
pp.208-209
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1764.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Hard times indeed we men of news
Page No:
pp.209-210
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1765.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Where Captain Jolly's House of Lords
Page No:
pp.211-213
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1766.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Dismal the news which Jackson's yearly bard
Page No:
pp.213-215
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1767.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Still shall the newsman's annual rhymes
Page No:
pp.215-216
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1768.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
We men of news in former days
Page No:
pp.217-218
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1769.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
As now petitions are in fashion
Page No:
pp.219-220
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1770.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Delicious news a war with spain
Page No:
pp.220-222
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1771.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
While we full sadly labour through the winter
Page No:
pp.222-224
Poem Title:
Verses, for the Year 1772.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed