The Oxford sausage or select poetical pieces written by the most celebrated wits of the university of Oxford [T99833] [ecco]

DMI number:

930

Publication Date:

1764

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T99833

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111520644

Shelfmark:

Ecco - bod

Full Title:

THE | OXFORD SAUSAGE: | OR, | SELECT POETICAL PIECES, | Written by the most | CELEBRATED WITS | OF THE | UNIVERSITY of OXFORD. | Adorned with CUTS, Engraved in a NEW TASTE, | and Designed by the BEST MASTERS. | [epigraph] | LONDON, | Printed for J. FLETCHER and CO. at the [i]Oxford | Theatre[/i], in St. [i]Paul's Church-Yard[/i]; and sold by | the Booksellers of [i]Oxford[/i] and [i]Cambridge.[/i] | [short rule] | M.DCC.LXIV. | [Price Two Shillings, sewed.]

Epigraph:

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

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of comic verse and Collection of literary verse

Format:

Octavo

Price:

2 s

Bibliographic details:

Woodcut illustrations throughout the volume at the head of poems.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Preface pp. iii-viii; Contents pp. 9-14.

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Editor:

Thomas Warton

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

See Warton's ODNB entry.

Publisher:

James I Fletcher

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

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 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 Phenomenon 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:

p.25

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 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.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 Alegoric, Descriptive, Alliterative, Epithetical, 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.65-67

Poem Title:

I. A New Year's Ode, In Imitatyion of Colley Cibber, Esq;

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. Thomson.

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 the 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:

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 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 Discovered by Dr. Shaw.

Attribution:

By H. B. Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilom a row of saucy limes

Page No:

pp.106-107

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 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:

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 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:

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:

On Thames's banks while you with happier care

Page No:

pp.139-154

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.155-157

Poem Title:

An Imitation of Spenser.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilom there dwelt near Buckingham

Page No:

pp.158-160

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.161-166

Poem Title:

A Dialogue Between The Poet and his Servant. In Imitatoin of Gorace, 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.166

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.167-173

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.174-176

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.176

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.177-180

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.181-183

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.183-187

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.188-197

Poem Title:

New-Market. A Satire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here deep in the dust

Page No:

p.197

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.198-200

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.201-202

Poem Title:

Imitation of Horace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Give ear and a comical story I'll tell

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed