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

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Editor:

Thomas Warton

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Printer:

S. Watson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

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:

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First Line:

How I congratulate fair Isis

Page No:

pp.15-17

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

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First Line:

Let christmas boast her customary treat

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

On Ben Tyrell's Pies.

Attribution:

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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:

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First Line:

Behold once more facetious Ben

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

Mutton Pies for the Assizes. March 1, 1760.

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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.

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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.

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First Line:

When midnight's sable veil overspread the plain

Page No:

pp.30-32

Poem Title:

The Mouse and Oyster.

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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.

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First Line:

At Blagrave's once upon a time

Page No:

pp.39-42

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.43-48

Poem Title:

The Splendid Shilling.

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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.

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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.

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First Line:

One day in Christ church meadows walking

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

Epigram on an Epigram.

Attribution:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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First Line:

Mistaken nature here has joined

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

On a Beauty with Ill Qualities.

Attribution:

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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:

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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:

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First Line:

So when bright Venus yielded up her charms

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

Simile, From Phaedra and Hyppolitus.

Attribution:

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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:

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First Line:

Whilom there dwelt near Buckingham

Page No:

pp.148-150

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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First Line:

His country's hope when now the blooming heir

Page No:

pp.175-184

Poem Title:

New-Market. A Satire.

Attribution:

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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:

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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:

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Not attributed

First Line:

So you my friend at last are caught

Page No:

pp.187-188

Poem Title:

Imitation of Horace.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Give ear and a comical story I'll tell

Page No:

pp.189-190

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

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