The poetical miscellany, consisting of great variety of odes, epistles, pastorals, tales, fables, epigrams &c. [vol 1] [T85564]
- DMI number:
- 866
- Publication Date:
- 1754
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T85564
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW110083204
- Shelfmark:
- BL 11606.dc.6
- Full Title:
- THE | Poetical Miscellany, | Consisting of great Variety of | [two columns] [col. 1]ODES, | EPISTLES, | PASTORALS,[/col1] [col2]TALES, | FABLES, | EPIGRAMS, &c,[/col2] | Many of which are Originals. | To which are added, | Some select Essays and Letters | in PROSE. | Never printed before. | [rule] | [i]By the[/i] AUTHOR [i]of the[/i] PROGRESS | [i]of[/i] PHYSICK. | [rule] | In TWO VOLUMES. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed and sold by R. WHITWORTH, at the [i]Feathers[/i], | in the [i]Poultry[/i]; J. WARCUS, at the [i]Indian-Queen[/i], | facing the [i]Mansion-House[/i]; W. HEARD, at the [i]Philo- | biblian Library, Piccadilly[/i]; and R. RICHARDS, the | Corner of [i]Barnard's Inn, Holborn[/i], 1754.
- Epigraph:
- Variety [i]we still pursue; | In[/i] Pleasure [i]seek for something[/i] New. | SWIFT. | [i]All that the[/i] Fair [i]approve is[/i] sweet, | [i]And all is [/i] Sense [i]that[/i] They [i]repeat.[/i]. | PRIOR.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- [2], iii-xvi, [1]-416
- Bibliographic details:
- Reissue with cancel title page of The Norfolk Poetical Miscellany (1744) T85536
- Comments:
- Contents: Latin verse pp. 49-51; 74-80; 82; 83; 136-142; 231-2.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Epistle dedicatory 'To the Honourable the Lady Caroline -----' signed 'Timothy Scribble' pp. iii-viii; Preface pp. ix-xvi. End matter: Contents pp. 411-416.
- Title:
- The Norfolk poetical miscellany [Vol I] [ESTC T85536]
- Publication Date:
- 1744
- ESTC No:
- T85536
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Title:
- The poetical miscellany, consisting of great variety of odes, epistles, pastorals, tales, fables, epigrams &c. [vol 2] [T85564] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1754
- ESTC No:
- T85564
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Ashley Cowper
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- ESTC identifies Cowper as the editor.
- Sold by:
- J. Warcus
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- R. Richards
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- R. Whitworth
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- W Heard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Farewell vain world and thou it vainest part
- Page No:
- pp.1-3
- Poem Title:
- A Fit of the Spleen. In Imitation of Shakespear.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cease cease aspiring soul cease to extend
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- On Eternity.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear feathered Cupid pratling thing
- Page No:
- pp.6-7
- Poem Title:
- Chloe's Parrot.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As yesterday intent on love
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- From Anacreon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tomorrow I shall see the fair
- Page No:
- pp.9-10
- Poem Title:
- An Ode.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Zelinda's shape exact in every part
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady with a fine Shape, but homely Face.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cnidian goddess Paphian queen
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- Hymn to Venus. In Imitation of Horace, Lib. I. Ode 30.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The health my gentle love thou gavest to me
- Page No:
- pp.12-15
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from W. S. Esq; at Welchpool in Montgomeryshire to his Lady. Anno 1728.
- Attribution:
- W. S. Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Spring vexed to see by one night's frost
- Page No:
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- Spring and Phoebus. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Selinda's dearer than my self
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- Buchanan's Ode to Camilla Morellia. Imitated, and inscrib'd to Lady S -
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When nature's works with studious eye
- Page No:
- pp.19-21
- Poem Title:
- To the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whoever thou art whose daring muse
- Page No:
- pp.21-23
- Poem Title:
- To the Author of a Poem on Miss H-- since Countess of P--e.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If evil sprites when they forsake
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- Occasion'd by a Copy of Verses being left upon the Author's Table.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While I my friend indulge the rural scene
- Page No:
- pp.25-28
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to C. D. Esq; Under S--t--y of St--e.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fly hence far hence distracting pain
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- On Miss R--r having the Tooth-ach.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nor high church nor low church nor Tory nor Whig
- Page No:
- pp.29-30
- Poem Title:
- The Character of an Honest Man.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O say dear Laelius can that person please
- Page No:
- pp.31-33
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Laelius.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though it may seem in times to come
- Page No:
- pp.33-36
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady masked. In Imitation of Cowley - Anno 1684. - Humbly inscrib'd to Clarissa.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why should Dorinda proudly ask to know
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- Occasion'd by the Author's being ask'd if he ever was in Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Venus one day bid all her loves
- Page No:
- pp.38-39
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady playing upon the Lute.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A tender sheep to shun a storm
- Page No:
- pp.39-40
- Poem Title:
- The Client's Warning-Piece.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In dark oblivion buried be his name
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- On the Wretch who defac'd the King's Statue in Grosvenor-Square.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poor Bardus you say scarce a livelihood gets
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram. On a very bad Writer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whilst here the tardy moving hours I spend
- Page No:
- pp.42-45
- Poem Title:
- Philemon to Fidelio. An Invitation into the Country.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Isgrim and Belin on a day
- Page No:
- pp.46-48
- Poem Title:
- Isgrim and Belin, or the Wolf and the Lamb. Phae, Fab. I.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The weak and ignorant by nature led
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of the Author's Brother.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- True wit is like the brilliant stone
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- On Wit.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh greatly blessed who can as fate requires
- Page No:
- pp.54-56
- Poem Title:
- The Choice. An Epistle from a young Gentleman to his Friend.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Pardon oh shade divine the officious verse
- Page No:
- pp.57-59
- Poem Title:
- A Poem. Occasioned by the Death of the Right Honourable the Countess of G-th--m.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dreaming Sophists learned fools
- Page No:
- pp.60-62
- Poem Title:
- An Ode. Occasion'd by the Death of the Author's Daughter ---- a Child about Four Years of Age.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Say Br-n for sure thy honest mind
- Page No:
- pp.63-64
- Poem Title:
- Occasion'd by Dr. B---n's attending the aforesaid Child during its Illness.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Should it ever be your lot to be blessed with a son
- Page No:
- pp.65-68
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to make a Pretty-Fellow.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Both day and night O God my sighs
- Page No:
- pp.69-72
- Poem Title:
- Psalm LXXXVIII. Paraphras'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas spotless fair like that within thy breast
- Page No:
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- To Miss B-- on the Author''s receiving a Box of Sugar Plumbs, amongst which there was One in the Shape of a Heart.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Christina hail O virgin great in war
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- The Above attempted in a free Translation for the Sake of the Beaux, as well as the Ladies, by their humble Servant the Editor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From Po's famed banks over hills of Rhaetic snow
- Page No:
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- Thus Translated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus Adam looked when from the garden driven
- Page No:
- p.84
- Poem Title:
- On being expell'd a Lady's Company. Spoken Extempore.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See Proteus every shape and form put on
- Page No:
- pp.85-86
- Poem Title:
- Proteus. An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Unhappy Strephon dead and cold
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- The Lover's Legacy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Prithee dry up thy tears thou unreasonable creature
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- Consolatory Advice to a young Lady in Tears for the Absence of her Sweet-heart.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Imperial Caesar's sacred head
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- The Parallel.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Her wit and beauty for a court was made
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- An Inscription for a Busto of Lady S---ff---k, set up in a Wood at Stowe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Under this stone reader survey
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on Sir J. V--h.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold O stranger new from foreign lands
- Page No:
- p.90
- Poem Title:
- On the Bustos of Sir Isaac Newton, Mr. Locke, &c. set up by her late Majesty Queen Caroline in the Hermitage at Richmond. Anno 1732.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While - listens to the poet's lays
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram. On a certain ----- who for some time mistook an Ironical Encomium for a Panegyric.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Jove born Bacchus joyous god
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- A Hymn to Bacchus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain within this awful pile
- Page No:
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- Upon seeing Miss D. at a Ball in the Town-Hall at Wrexham.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Not I let others sing the fates
- Page No:
- pp.94-96
- Poem Title:
- To Chloe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cynthia what means this distant air
- Page No:
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- To Cynthia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nimble courser of the air
- Page No:
- pp.98-99
- Poem Title:
- The Swallow. From Anacreon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As Cupid still on mischief bent
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- Cupid Disarm'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- She's gone - ye guardian angels bless the fair
- Page No:
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- On Clarissa's Departure for London.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See Chloe see in this machine
- Page No:
- p.103
- Poem Title:
- To Chloe playing with the Author at Shuttlecock.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Feathered songsters of the air
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- On Clarissa's Birth-Day.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How could vile sycophants contrive
- Page No:
- p.105
- Poem Title:
- On Ventoso's applying to Himself these Lines.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Once on a time when cats and dogs
- Page No:
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- Fire, Water and Fame. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- It chanced upon a summer's night
- Page No:
- pp.108-112
- Poem Title:
- The Moon and the Glow-Worm. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No scene tonight your fixed attention draws
- Page No:
- pp.113-115
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue to the Opera of Rosamond, as it was perform'd in a Private Family in Bedfordshire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Once more fair Rosamond starts up before ye
- Page No:
- pp.115-117
- Poem Title:
- The Epilogue.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Securely may thou mangle others sense
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram. Occasion'd by an Author's criticising and altering a Poem written by a young Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As some cracked chemist of projecting brain
- Page No:
- pp.119-121
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue To the Free-Mason's Play. Anno 1731.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mistaken man 'tis all a cheat
- Page No:
- pp.122-123
- Poem Title:
- Happiness.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Attendants apart
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- Repentance.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of gentlest manners ever formed to please
- Page No:
- pp.126-127
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph. On Miss C-ll-n.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here innocence and beauty lies whose breath
- Page No:
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- Another. Upon a Child.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A weasel once who long had been
- Page No:
- pp.128-130
- Poem Title:
- The Farmer and the Wesel. Phaed. Lib. I. Fab. 22.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While ripening slow the future purpose lay
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- On giving the Name of Georgia to a Part of Carolina.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Vain Greece consult no more or haughty Rome
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- Poem Title:
- Verses left on King William's Grave in Westminster Abbey.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O how could I venture to love one like thee
- Page No:
- p.133-135
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where two tall oaks combine their friendly shade
- Page No:
- pp.143-146
- Poem Title:
- Lunilla's Complaint for the Loss of her Parrot.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow
- Page No:
- pp.147-160
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue between the Poet and his Friend.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Asses milk half a pint take at seven or before
- Page No:
- pp.161-163
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a Young Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In some kind dream upon her steal
- Page No:
- pp.164-165
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As those who frequently resort
- Page No:
- pp.166-170
- Poem Title:
- A Poetical Epistle To Daniel Wr-y, Esq;
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What do scholars and bards and philosophers wise
- Page No:
- pp.171-172
- Poem Title:
- On the Du--ess of R-ch-nd
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Be calm dear captain and serene
- Page No:
- pp.173-174
- Poem Title:
- The Third Ode of the Second Book of Horace Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though to no peer you are allied
- Page No:
- pp.175-182
- Poem Title:
- The First Ode of Horace Paraphras'd. To Mr. M-n.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whilst you Athenia with unwearied toil
- Page No:
- pp.183-192
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle To a very young Lady from Italy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I dreamt that buried in my native clay
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- The Dream.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The old egyptians hid their wit
- Page No:
- pp.194-195
- Poem Title:
- Occasion'd by Mr. Nash's Picture being hung up in the Great Ball Room at Bath, with the Busto's of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope, on each Side.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The waving oaks of Newnham's pendant wood
- Page No:
- p.196
- Poem Title:
- Part of a Copy of Verses on Mrs. A. B-'s going from Oxford to Newnham by Water.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While you my charming Nancy reign
- Page No:
- pp.197-201
- Poem Title:
- A Ballad. Occasion'd by the foregoing Verses. To the Tune of, To you fair Ladies, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Weep not o peerless wife in vain
- Page No:
- pp.202-206
- Poem Title:
- The Seventh Ode of the Third Book of Horace Paraphras'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A lion once worn out with cares
- Page No:
- pp.207-208
- Poem Title:
- A Lyon worn out with Age. Trans. from Phaedrus. Fab. 21. li. 1. Humbly Address'd to the Right Hon. the Earl of Or-d.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poor puss run down by country squire
- Page No:
- pp.209-211
- Poem Title:
- The Hare and the Grey-Hound.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Rash Limner if thou darest to trace
- Page No:
- pp.212-213
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a Painter, drawing Clarissa's Picture.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When her beams that late warmed me Clarissa withdrew
- Page No:
- pp.214-215
- Poem Title:
- To Clarissa. Occasion'd by her leaving the Author to go to London.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Clarissa piqued at Celia's scorn
- Page No:
- pp.216-217
- Poem Title:
- Tit for Tat, Or The Triumph of Beauty.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Go to her hands and in the softest dress
- Page No:
- pp.218-219
- Poem Title:
- To Clarissa.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See how yon happy creature mounts and sings
- Page No:
- p.220
- Poem Title:
- The Lark. A Soliloquy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain too cruel Delia you implore
- Page No:
- p.221
- Poem Title:
- Written in Delia's Prayer-Book.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What strange impetuous storms of state
- Page No:
- pp.222-224
- Poem Title:
- Verses on the King's Return. 1720. The South-Sea Year.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We of Cracow the chancellor and the vice can
- Page No:
- pp.225-226
- Poem Title:
- A Letter of Thanks from the University of Cracow to their Sovereign.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Well heavens be praised the mighty secret's out
- Page No:
- pp.227-230
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue. To a Play before the Free-Masons. Design'd to have been spoken by Mrs. -
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Not more elate some low bred clown
- Page No:
- pp.233-234
- Poem Title:
- An Extempore Rhapsody. Occasion'd by some Compliments paid to the Author on a Poem he had publish'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Take such a youth as will your fancy please
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- A Recipe sent to a young Lady at Bath.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your advice Mr Doctor my fancy to please
- Page No:
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Under this wickered turf and stone
- Page No:
- pp.237-239
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph On Mr. Will. Jephison, Gardiner to the late King.
- Attribution:
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- If there be
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- p.240
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- A Song.
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- When Venus by Anchises wooed
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- p.241
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- Another.
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- The famed essays on man in this agree
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- p.242
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- On the Essays of Man.
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- Though first in earliest annals shine
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- pp.243-245
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- An Extempore Soliloquy, Occasion'd by seeing a Family Vault belonging to his Grace the D--- of -
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- You ask a story not more strange than true
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- pp.246-250
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- A Riddle...Versified.
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- By Dr. S--t.
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- Jonathan Swift
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- Stateliest of the tabby race
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- pp.251-255
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- A Lilliputian Elegy On a fav'rite Cat - suppos'd to have been poisoned.
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- In Pope's melodious verse the graces smile
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- pp.256-257
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- The Judgment of Apollo. On the Controversy between Mr. Pope and Mr. Theobald 1729.
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- With doubtful strife humanity and art
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- p.258
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- On Dr. Wilmot, M. D.
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- I did but look and love a while
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- pp.259-260
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- A Song.
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- No muses I implore their aid to bring
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- pp.261-266
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- Nothing. Inscrib'd to Mr. J. B--s.
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- Say sister sylvan scene so loved so late
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- pp.267-272
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- On the Death of the late Queen Caroline. A Poetical Dialogue between Windsor and Richmond.
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- Be gone I know the vain deceit
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- pp.273-274
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- A Soliloquy. Anno 1730.
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- Say dearest friend how roll thy hours away
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- pp.276-285
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- To the Reverend Dr. Ayscough, at Oxford. Writ from Paris. Anno 1728.
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- O thou whose friendship is my joy and pride
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- pp.286-291
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- To Mr. Pointz, Ambassador at the Contress of Soissons. Anno 1728. Written at Paris.
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- A wolf on surreptitious mutton
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- pp.292-294
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- The Wolf and the Crane. Phaed. Lib. I. Fab.8.
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- A sparrow pert and loud and vain
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- pp.295-297
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- The Sparrow and the Hare. Phaed. Lib. I. Fab. 9.
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- It chanced some persecuted hares
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- pp.298-300
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- The Hares weary of Life. Fab. 2. a M. Gudio.
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- In ages past when men did prize
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- pp.301-308
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- The Faction. A Tale. Anno 1740. Humbly address'd to the Right Honourable the Earl of O-d.
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- Is there or do the schoolmen dream
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- pp.309-321
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- An Ode to Mankind. Addressed To the Prince of Wales. 1741.
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- Come hither bold Britons and I will disclose
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- pp.331-342
- Poem Title:
- High Boys up go We!
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- Tim Scribble
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- O yes hear all ye beaux and wits
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- pp.343-345
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- The Hue and Cry. 1720.
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- Say daring insect did ambition's fire
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- pp.346-347
- Poem Title:
- The Flea of Taste.
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- When generous Dido in disguise caressed
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- pp.348-349
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- To a Lady, With a Drawing of Cupid, done by the Author, 1696.
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- Mr. Hughes.
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- John Hughes
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- Marcus old friend accept from me
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- pp.350-353
- Poem Title:
- A Recipe for an Asthma.
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- Ye virgin powers defend my heart
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- pp.354-355
- Poem Title:
- The Invocation.
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- By a Lady.
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- To you whom learning's seats delight
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- pp.356-362
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- An Epistle From a young Gentleman in the Country to his Friend at Oxford. Dec. 20, 1727.
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- Philips whose touch harmonious could remove
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- p.363
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- An Epitaph. On Claudy Philips, Musician.
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- Accept my lord the tribute which I bring
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- pp.364-374
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- An Epistle, Humbly inscribed to his Gr--ce the D--ke of Ch-nd--s. 1732.
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- Let Pope no more what Chandos builds deride
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- p.375
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram. On a Poem intitled -- False Taste.
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- Dear madam the thing you inquire about
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- pp.376-377
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- An Answer to a young Lady who inquir'd what Another had miscarried of.
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- When on each word the fate of Albion hung
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- p.378
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- Upon Lady S. C----- singing to her Lute.
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- In life if woes do more than joys abound
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- p.380
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- A Quaere. Sent to the Editor by an unknown Hand.
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- If what you seek be rightly understood
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- pp.381-382
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- Answer.
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- By the Editor.
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- Two rival sisters in alternate strains
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- p.383
- Poem Title:
- On Sappho and Delia, Two Poetical Sisters.
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- Ah me full sorely is my heart forlorn
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- pp.384-404
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- The School-Mistress, A Poem, &c. Written at College, 1736. In Imitation of Spenser.
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- Between the smooth descent of yonder hills
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- pp.405-410
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- The Country Parson. In Imitation of Spencer.
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