The Oxford sausage or select poetical pieces written by the most celebrated wits of the university of Oxford [T89763] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 932
- Publication Date:
- 1766
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T89763
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW112438564
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - BL
- Full Title:
- THE | OXFORD SAUSAGE | OR, | SELECT POETICAL PIECES, | Written by the most | CELEBRATED WITS | OF THE | UNIVERSITY of OXFORD. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [double rule] | DUBLIN: | Printed by S. WATSON, at [i]Virgil[/i]'s Head[/i] in [i]Dame-Street[/i]. | [short rule] | MD,CC,LXVI.
- Epigraph:
- [i]--Tota, merum Sal.[/i] Lucr. iv. 1156.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin
- Genres:
- Collection of comic verse and Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: preface pp. iii-viii; contents pp. 9-14
- Title:
- The Oxford sausage or select poetical pieces written by the most celebrated wits of the university of Oxford [T99833] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1764
- ESTC No:
- T99833
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Oxford sausage or select poetical pieces written by the most celebrated wits of the university of Oxford [N41891] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1780
- ESTC No:
- N41891
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Oxford sausage or select poetical pieces written by the most celebrated wits of the university of Oxford [T142942] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1777
- ESTC No:
- T142942
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Oxford sausage or select poetical pieces written by the most celebrated wits of the university of Oxford [T76291] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1798
- ESTC No:
- T76291
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Oxford sausage or select poetical pieces written by the most celebrated wits of the university of Oxford [T99424] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1772
- ESTC No:
- T99424
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Thomas Warton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printer:
- S. Watson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- All ye that love what's nice and rarish
- Page No:
- pp.13-14
- Poem Title:
- Verses Occasioned by Ben Tyrlell's Mutton Pies. Advrtisement.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How I congratulate fair Isis
- Page No:
- pp.15-17
- Poem Title:
- Ben Tyrrell's, Wednesday Night, December 6th, 1758.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let christmas boast her customary treat
- Page No:
- pp.17-18
- Poem Title:
- On Ben Tyrell's Pies.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sage woods though many a dark affair
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- Epigram, supposed to be occasioned by an extraordinary Phenomenon in Midwifery.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold once more facetious Ben
- Page No:
- pp.19-20
- 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.21-22
- 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.23-24
- Poem Title:
- Epistle, From Thomas Hearn, 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.25-30
- Poem Title:
- The Progress of Discontent. Written In The Year 1746.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When midnight's sable veil overspread the plain
- Page No:
- pp.30-32
- Poem Title:
- The Mouse and Oyster.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The curfew tolls the hour of closing gates
- Page No:
- pp.33-38
- 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.39-42
- 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.43-48
- Poem Title:
- The Splendid Shilling.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Balm of my cares sweet solace of my toils
- Page No:
- pp.49-54
- 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.55-58
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Horror. In the Allegoric, Descriptive, Epithetical, Alliterative, Fantastic, Hyperbolical, and Diabolical Style of our modern Ode-wrights and Monody-mongers.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Old battle array big with horror is fled
- Page No:
- pp.59-61
- Poem Title:
- I. A New Year's Ode, In Imitation of Colley Cibber, Esq;
- Attribution:
- By Hawkins Browne, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Isaac Hawkins Browne
- First Line:
- Little tube of mighty power
- Page No:
- pp.61-62
- 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.62-63
- 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.63-64
- 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.64-65
- 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.65-66
- 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.67-69
- 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.69-71
- 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.71-74
- 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.75-76
- 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.77-78
- 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:
- p.79
- 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.80-82
- 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.82-83
- Poem Title:
- The Lownger.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What though the doctor boasts to fit
- Page No:
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- Epigram, written by an Exciseman. And addresed 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.84-89
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Mr. Spence, When Tutor to the 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.89-90
- 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.91-94
- 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.95-96
- 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.96-98
- Poem Title:
- On Lopping New-College Lime Trees.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lucetta's charms our hearts surprise
- Page No:
- p.99
- 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.99-101
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mistaken nature here has joined
- Page No:
- pp.101-102
- 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.102-104
- Poem Title:
- A Song of Similies.
- Attribution:
- By the Reverend Dr. Bacon.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'll tell you a story a story that's true
- Page No:
- pp.105-109
- 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.109
- Poem Title:
- [Epigram in Martial, Literally Translated ('Callidus imposuit nuper mihi Caupo Ravenae')] Translation.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When lovely Celia had resigned
- Page No:
- pp.110-115
- 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.116
- Poem Title:
- The Same Parodied.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- So when bright Venus yielded up her charms
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- Simile, From Phaedra and Hyppolitus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Yes every hopeful son of rhyme
- Page No:
- pp.117-121
- 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.122-129
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Criticism.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Wodhull.
- Attributed To:
- Michael Wodhull
- First Line:
- On Thames's banks while you with happier care
- Page No:
- pp.129-144
- Poem Title:
- A Poetical Epistle To ***** *******, M. A. Student of Christ Church.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Wodhull]
- Attributed To:
- Michael Wodhull
- First Line:
- A well known vase of sovereign use I sing
- Page No:
- pp.145-147
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of Spenser.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whilom there dwelt near Buckingham
- Page No:
- pp.148-150
- 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.151-156
- 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.156
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. On the Rev. Mr. Hanbury's Plantation, 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.157-163
- Poem Title:
- The Law-Student. To George Colman, A. M. of Ch. Ch. Oxford.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath this stone lies shut up in the dark
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [Translation of an ancient 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.165-168
- 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.169-171
- 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.171-175
- Poem Title:
- Extempore Letter From Captain Thomas at Bernera, to Captain Price at Fort Augustus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- His country's hope when now the blooming heir
- Page No:
- pp.175-184
- Poem Title:
- New-Market. A Satire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here deep in the dust
- Page No:
- p.184
- 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.185-187
- 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.187-188
- Poem Title:
- Imitation of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Give ear and a comical story I'll tell
- Page No:
- pp.189-190
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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