The pleasures of coition ... with some other pieces [2nd ed] [N20196] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 471
- Publication Date:
- 1721
- ESTC number:
- N20196
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW112323126
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - Huntington Library
- Full Title:
- THE | PLEASURES | OF | COITION; | OR THE | Nightly Sports of VENUS: | A | POEM. | BEING | A Translation of the [i]Pervigilium Veneris[/i], | of the Celebrated BONEFONIUS. | With some other LOVE-PIECES. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | THE SECOND EDITION. | [rule] | To which is Prefix'd, | Some Account of the LIFE and WRITINGS | of [i]BONEFONIUS[/i]. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed for E. CURLL at the [i]Dial[/i] and [i]Bible[/i] over | against [i]Catherine-street[/i] in the [i]Strand[/i]. M.DCC.XXI.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Amor omnia Vincit[/i]
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Octavo
- Comments:
- PLATES: Frontispiece 'Venus & Adonis' PREFATORY MATTER: 'Some account of Bonefonius', pp.5-6. MISCELLANY GENRE: Collection of erotic verse
- Title:
- The pleasures of coition ... with some other pieces [N11942]
- Publication Date:
- 1721
- ESTC No:
- N11942
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Edmund Curll
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- O pleasing pleasing shades of night
- Page No:
- pp.7-22
- Poem Title:
- Pervigilium Veneris
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- First-born of Erebus and gloomy care
- Page No:
- pp.23-28
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Melancholy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cease to demand the cause why I
- Page No:
- pp.29-32
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Iris.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No music has such tempting charms
- Page No:
- pp.32-34
- Poem Title:
- The Sportsman
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To try a mighty painter's art
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- The Painter.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Old Feeble joined to a young wife
- Page No:
- pp.36-38
- Poem Title:
- The Sick Wife.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lesbia had plied me with her lips and smiles
- Page No:
- pp.38-39
- Poem Title:
- The Disappointment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twistilla whose demure and saintish face
- Page No:
- pp.39-40
- Poem Title:
- The Hypocrite.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wonder not that I am so nasty
- Page No:
- pp.41-43
- Poem Title:
- The Tea-Pot.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Waft me some soft and cooling breeze
- Page No:
- pp.44-46
- Poem Title:
- The Midsummer-Wish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And does my Eloisa then complain
- Page No:
- pp.47-50
- Poem Title:
- Fragment of an Epistle from Abelard to Eloisa
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Beckingham
- Attributed To:
- Charles Beckingham
- First Line:
- As the fair vestal to the fountain came
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- The Vestal. From Ovid de Fastis, Lib.iii Eleg.I.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Addison
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Is Viner dead and shall each muse become
- Page No:
- pp.53-56
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of Mr. Viner in Ireland.
- Attribution:
- by the late Mr. Archdeacon Parnelle
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
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