A collection of poems in two volumes. By several hands [vol 2] [N27941] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 781
- Publication Date:
- 1751
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- N27941
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW116533482
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - Bod
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | IN TWO VOLUMES. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [ornament] | DUBLIN: | Printed for P. WILSON, J. EXSHAW, J. ESDALL, | R. JAMES, S. PRICE, and M. WILLIAMSON. | M,DCC,LI.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin
- Genres:
- Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Bibliographic details:
- Half title: [i]DODSLEY[/i]'s | COLLECTION. | VOL. II. | The THIRD EDITION. Several sections have separate title pages.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Contents [2pp]; Advertisement [2pp]
- Title:
- A collection of poems in two volumes. By several hands [vol 1] [N27941] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1751
- ESTC No:
- N27941
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- J. Esdall
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- J. Exshaw
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- M. Williamson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Peter. Wilson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- R. James
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- S. Price
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Now had the son of Jove mature attained
- Page No:
- pp.1-11
- Poem Title:
- The Choice of Hercules. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah me is all our pleasure mixed with woe
- Page No:
- pp.11-16
- Poem Title:
- The Education of Achilles.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In days my lord when mother time
- Page No:
- pp.16-22
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from S. J. Esq; in the Country to the Right Hon. the Lord Lovelace in Town. Written in the Year 1735.
- Attribution:
- from S. J. Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Too plain dear youth these tell-tale eyes
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- Chloe to Strephon. A Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. S. J.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Just broke from school pert impudent and raw
- Page No:
- pp.24-28
- Poem Title:
- The Modern Fine Gentleman. Written in the Year 1746.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. S. J.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The art of converse how to soothe the soul
- Page No:
- pp.28-49
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Conversation.
- Attribution:
- By Benjamin Stillingfleet.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Stillingfleet
- First Line:
- Thou who shalt stop where Thames' translucent wave
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- On a Grotto near the Thames, at Twickenham. Compos'd of Marbles, Spars and Minerals.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- If truth can fix thy wavering heart
- Page No:
- pp.50-51
- Poem Title:
- Song. To Sylvia.
- Attribution:
- By David Garrick, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- David Garrick
- First Line:
- O thou whose artless free born genius charms
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- To the Author of the Farmer's Letters, which were written in Ireland in the Year of the Rebellion, by Henry Brooke, Esq; 1745.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Garrick]
- Attributed To:
- David Garrick
- First Line:
- Untouched by love unmoved by wit
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- Verses Written in Sylvia's Prior.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i. e. Garrick]
- Attributed To:
- David Garrick
- First Line:
- While here the poet paints the charms
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- Verses written in a Book call'd Fables for the Female Sex.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i. e. Garrick]
- Attributed To:
- David Garrick
- First Line:
- Arachne once as poets tell
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- Upon a Lady's Embroidery.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Garrick]
- Attributed To:
- David Garrick
- First Line:
- As doctor -- musing sate
- Page No:
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- Death and the Doctor. Occasion'd by a Physician's lampooning a Friend of the Author.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Garrick]
- Attributed To:
- David Garrick
- First Line:
- The goddess of wit and love
- Page No:
- p.55
- Poem Title:
- On the Right Side.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Garrick]
- Attributed To:
- David Garrick
- First Line:
- The court was met the prisoner brought
- Page No:
- pp.56-68
- Poem Title:
- The Trial of Selim the Persian, For divers High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Edward Moore.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Moore
- First Line:
- Though here my body lies interred
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- On the Left Side.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Garrick]
- Attributed To:
- David Garrick
- First Line:
- A myrtle flourished mongst the flowers
- Page No:
- pp.69-71
- Poem Title:
- The Marriage of the Myrtle and the Yew. A Fable. To Delia, about to marry beneath herself. 1744.
- Attribution:
- By --.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Bold was the irreligious hand
- Page No:
- pp.71-73
- Poem Title:
- On a Bay-Leaf, pluck'd from Virgil's Tomb, near Naples. 1736.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The minutes the hours the days and the years
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- To Chloe. Written on my Birth-Day, 1734.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stanhope has gained one branch of fame
- Page No:
- pp.74-75
- Poem Title:
- The Exception.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Yes all my lord usurp fair honour's name
- Page No:
- pp.76-88
- Poem Title:
- Honour. A Poem...Inscribed to the Rt. Hon. the Lord Visc. Lonsdale.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. Mr. Brown.
- Attributed To:
- John Brown
- First Line:
- Ye green haired nymphs whom Pan allows
- Page No:
- pp.89-91
- Poem Title:
- Ode to a Water Nymph.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Mason.
- Attributed To:
- William Mason
- First Line:
- Sorrowing I catch the reed and call the muse
- Page No:
- pp.92-102
- Poem Title:
- Musaeus: A Monody to the Memory of Mr. Pope, In Imitation of Milton's Lycidas.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mason]
- Attributed To:
- William Mason
- First Line:
- Fate gave the word the cruel arrow sped
- Page No:
- pp.103-123
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Satire, occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Pope.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. Mr. Browne.
- Attributed To:
- John Brown
- First Line:
- In measured time | So heaven has willed together with their snows
- Page No:
- pp.124-130
- Poem Title:
- A Character of Mr. Pope's Writings. Being An Episode from the Poem call'd Sickness, B. II.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. Mr. Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- William Thompson
- First Line:
- When dark oblivion in her sable cloak
- Page No:
- pp.130-131
- Poem Title:
- The Cave of Pope. A Prophecy.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Robert Dodsley.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Dodsley
- First Line:
- Thy sable bed no pompous heralds raise
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of The Rev. James Wilson, M. A. Curate of St. Peter's Dublin.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Brooke.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Brooke
- First Line:
- Shall boasted pomp the high imperial name
- Page No:
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- To The Memory of Colonel Henry Clements, Who was Killed at the Action near Tournay in May 1745.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i. e. Brooke]
- Attributed To:
- Henry Brooke
- First Line:
- The solitary bird of night
- Page No:
- pp. 134-138
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Wisdom.
- Attribution:
- By a Lady.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In plaintive sounds that turned to woe
- Page No:
- pp.138-139
- Poem Title:
- To the Gentleman, On his intended to cut down a Grove to enlarge his Prospect.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. a lady]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where early Phoebus sheds his milder beams
- Page No:
- pp.140-157
- Poem Title:
- Psyche: Or, The Great Metamorphosis. A Poem, written in Imitation of Spenser.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whilst you Athenia with assiduous toil
- Page No:
- pp.158-163
- Poem Title:
- The Female Right to Literature. In a Letter to a young Lady from Florence.
- Attribution:
- By ---
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great Homer's birth seven rival cities claim
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- On Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford upon Avon.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When fair Serena first I knew
- Page No:
- pp.164-165
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The potent lord that this bright villa planned
- Page No:
- p.165
- Poem Title:
- Chiswick.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thanks Chloe thy coquetting art
- Page No:
- pp.166-169
- Poem Title:
- The Indifferent. From the Italian of Metastasio.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When flourished with their state the Athenian name
- Page No:
- pp.169-183
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from Florence. To T. A. Esq; Tutor to the Earl of P------. Written in the Year 1740.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy the babe whose natal hour
- Page No:
- pp.183-187
- Poem Title:
- The Pleasure of Poetry. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Vansittart.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Vansittart
- First Line:
- Farewell that liberty our fathers gave
- Page No:
- pp.193-194
- Poem Title:
- Love-Elegies. On his falling in Love with Neaera. Elegy I.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair
- Page No:
- pp.195-196
- Poem Title:
- Unable to satisfy the covetous temper of Neaera, he intends to make a campaign, and try, if possible, to forget her. Elegy II.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Should Jove descend in floods of liquid ore
- Page No:
- pp.196-197
- Poem Title:
- He upbraids and threatens the avarice of Neaera, and resolves to quit her. Elegy III.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- While calm you sit beneath your secret shade
- Page No:
- pp.197-199
- Poem Title:
- To his Friend written under the Confinement of a long Indisposition. Elegy IV.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- With wine more wine deceive thy master's care
- Page No:
- pp.199-201
- Poem Title:
- The Lover is at first introduced speaking to his Servant, he afterwards addresses himself to his Mistress, and at last there is a supposed Interview between them. Elegy V.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Thousands would seek the lasting peace of death
- Page No:
- pp.201-203
- Poem Title:
- He adjures Delia to pity him by their friendship with Celia who was lately dead. Elegy VI.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Now Delia breathes in woods the fragrant air
- Page No:
- pp.203-204
- Poem Title:
- On Delia's being in the country where he supposes she stays to see the harvest. Elegy VII.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Ah what avails thy lover's pious care
- Page No:
- p.205
- Poem Title:
- He despairs that he shall ever possess Delia. Elegy VIII.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- He who could first two gentle hearts unbind
- Page No:
- pp.206-207
- Poem Title:
- He has lost Delia. Elegy IX.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- This day which saw my Delia's beauty rise
- Page No:
- p.208
- Poem Title:
- On Delia's Birth-day. Elegy X.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- The man who sharpened first the warlike steel
- Page No:
- pp.209-210
- Poem Title:
- Against lovers going to war, in which he philosophically prefers love and Delia to the more serious vanities of the world. Elegy XI.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- No second love shall ever my heart surprize
- Page No:
- pp.210-211
- Poem Title:
- To Delia. Elegy XII.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Let others boast their heaps of shining gold
- Page No:
- pp.211-215
- Poem Title:
- We imagines himself married to Delia, and that content with each other they are retired into the country. Elegy XIII.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- What scenes of bliss my raptured fancy framed
- Page No:
- pp.215-216
- Poem Title:
- To Delia. Elegy XIV.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Oh formed alike to serve us and to please
- Page No:
- pp.217-218
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. George Grenville. Elegy XV.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Thou for whose view these numbers are designed
- Page No:
- pp.219-236
- Poem Title:
- The Battle of the Sexes. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Amid the garden's fragrance laid
- Page No:
- pp.239-241
- Poem Title:
- Odes on Several Subjects. Ode I. Allusion to Horace.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akinside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- The radiant ruler of the year
- Page No:
- pp.241-244
- Poem Title:
- Ode II. On the Winter-Solstoce. M.D.CCXL.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akinside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- O fly tis dire suspicion's mien
- Page No:
- pp.245-247
- Poem Title:
- Ode III. Against Suspicion.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akinside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Indeed my Phaedria if to find
- Page No:
- pp.247-249
- Poem Title:
- Ode IV. To a Gentleman whose Mistress had married an Old Man.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akinside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- How thick the shades of evening close
- Page No:
- pp.250-255
- Poem Title:
- Ode V. Hymn to Chearfulness, The Author Sick.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akinside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Queen of my songs harmonious maid
- Page No:
- pp.256-257
- Poem Title:
- Ode VI. On the Absence of the Poetic Inclination.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akinside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- No foolish boy to virtuous fame
- Page No:
- pp.257-259
- Poem Title:
- Ode VII. To a Friend, on the Hazard of falling in Love.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akinside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Adieu to Leyden's lonely bound
- Page No:
- pp.260-263
- Poem Title:
- Ode VIII. On leaving Holland.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akinside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Thou silent power whose balmy sway
- Page No:
- pp.263-265
- Poem Title:
- Ode IX. To Sleep.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akinside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Once more I join the Thespian choir
- Page No:
- pp.265-269
- Poem Title:
- Ode X. On Lyric Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akinside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
- Page No:
- pp.270-274
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy written in a Country Church Yard.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nymph of the fount from whose auspicious urn
- Page No:
- pp.275-292
- Poem Title:
- An Hymn To The Nymph of Bristol Spring.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. W. Whitehead.
- Attributed To:
- William Whitehead
- First Line:
- Hence clamour loving joy be gone
- Page No:
- pp.293-295
- Poem Title:
- A Solemn Dirge, Sacred to the Memory of his Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales: As it was sung by Mr. Lowe, Miss Burchell, and others, at Vaux-Hall, London.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Smart. The Music compos'd by Mr. Worgan, M. B.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Smart
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