The Poetical Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset; the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckinhamshire [Vol II] [T94654]

DMI number:

225

Aliases

Works of Rochester, Roscommon, etc.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1739

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T94654

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113414884

Shelfmark:

BOD Vet. A4 f.164

Full Title:

POEMS | BY THE EARLS OF | [i]ROSCOMON[/i] | AND | [i]DORSET;[/i] | THE DUKES OF | DEVONSHIRE | AND | BUCKINGHAMSHIRE; | AND OTHER | [i]Eminent Hands.[/i] | [rule] | VOLUME II. | [rule] | [ornament] | [i]LONDON[/i]: | PRINTED in the YEAR MDCCXXXIX.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse and Miscellany associated with group of poets

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

pp. [2] [iii]-xv, [1] 1-24, [1]-200. (not including plates) (135 mispaginated as 235)

Bibliographic details:

QUERY: In some versions of this - E.g. ECCO copy - is the Cabinet of Love section placed at the end, rather than at the beginning? In BOD Vet. A4 f.164 'The Cabinet of Love' follows the volume's prefatory material and precedes Roscommon's poems. Pagination begins again following 'The Cabinet of Love.' Plates: Engraving facing p. 1. of 'The Cabinet of Love.'

Comments:

Contents: Miscellany is split into sections: (1) Cabinet of Love pp. 1-24 (2) Poems by the Earl of Roscomon pp. 1-17 (3) Poems by the Earl of Dorset pp. 20-56 (4) Miscellaneous Poems pp. 57-200.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Memoirs of Roscommon (addressed to Pope) pp. [iii]-xiii; list of new books p. [xvi]; Dryden's character of Dorset's poems pp. 18-19.

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Content/Publication

First Line:

The wit of Greece the gravity of Rome

Page No:

p.xiv-xv

Poem Title:

Mr. Dryden's Character of the Earl of Roscomon.

Attribution:

Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Such was Roscommon not more learned than good

Page No:

p.xv

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

A. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

To Silvia's room I unsuspected stole

Page No:

pp.1-3

Poem Title:

The Discovery.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Such a sad tale prepare to hear

Page No:

pp.3-7

Poem Title:

Dildoides.

Attribution:

By Mr. Butler, Author of Hudibras.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

When nature once like Nile the -- overflows

Page No:

pp.7-16

Poem Title:

The Delights of Venus. From Meursius.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In a famous street near Whetstone's Park

Page No:

pp.17-19

Poem Title:

Lady Sandwich's Cabinet. A Ballad. To the Tune of An Old Man with a Bed full of Bones -

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Worthy Sir | Though weaned from all those scandalous delights

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

A Letter To A Friend.

Attribution:

By the Lord Rochester.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

No longer blame those on the banks of Nile

Page No:

pp.22-23

Poem Title:

Three Riddles. I.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A negro I but sprung from Northern climes

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

II.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My mother's a man my father a cow

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

III.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear happy groves and you the dark retreat

Page No:

pp.3-4

Poem Title:

The Scene of Care Selve Beate, in Pastor Fido, Paraphrased.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

From deepest dungeons of eternal night

Page No:

pp.5-7

Poem Title:

The Ghost of the Old House of Commons, to the New one appointed to meet at Oxford, 1681.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

To the pale tyrant who to horrid graves

Page No:

pp.1-2

Poem Title:

The Vision.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Shame of my life disturber of my tomb

Page No:

pp.8-9

Poem Title:

The Speech of Tom Ross's Ghost, To his Pupil, The Duke of Monmouth.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Thou happy creature are secure

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

On the Death of A Lady's Lap-Dog.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Virtue dear friend needs no defence

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

An Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ode 22.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Winter thy cruelty extend

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

Stanzas on a Young Lady who Sung finely; but, was afraid of a Cold.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

The day of wrath that dreadful day

Page No:

pp.14-17

Poem Title:

On The Last Judgment.

Attribution:

Collected under Roscommon's name

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Dolly's beauty and art

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

On Dolly Chamberlain, A Sempstress in the New Exchange.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Proud with the spoils of royal cully

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

On the Same.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Tell me Dorinda why so gay

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Seeond [sic]: Written in the Year 1680.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Cursed be those dull unpointed doggrel rhymes

Page No:

pp.23-38

Poem Title:

A Faithful Catalogue Of our most Eminent Ninnies.

Attribution:

Written by the Earl of Dorset in the Year 1683.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Come on ye critics find one fault who dare

Page No:

pp.39-40

Poem Title:

To a Person of Honour, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible, Poems.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Tarugo gave us wonder and delight

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

To Sir Thomas St. Serfe; on his Play called Tarugo's Wiles: Or, the Coffee-House. A Comedy. Acted at the Duke of York's Theatre, 1668.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Many have been the vain attempts of wit

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

Epilogue Spoken By Tartuffe.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Entreaty shall not serve nor violence

Page No:

pp.45-47

Poem Title:

Epilogue on the Revival of Ben Johnson's Play called, Every Man in his Humour.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

At noon in a sunshiny day

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

Knotting.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Ah Chloris tis time to disarm your bright eyes

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

A Song to Chloris, From The Blind Archer.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

A Song, On Black Bess.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

To all you ladies now at land

Page No:

pp.53-56

Poem Title:

Song. Written at Sea, in the first Dutch-War, 1665, the Night before an Engagement.

Attribution:

Collected under Dorset's name

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife

Page No:

pp.57-67

Poem Title:

Dryden's Satire to his Muse.

Attribution:

Written by the Lord Somers

Attributed To:

John Somers

First Line:

I did but look and love a while

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

The Inchantment.

Attribution:

By Mr. Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Clasped in the arms of her I love

Page No:

pp.69-70

Poem Title:

The Enjoyment.

Attribution:

'By the same' i.e. Otway

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Whilom in Oxford an old chuff did dwell

Page No:

pp.71-98

Poem Title:

The Miller's Tale. From Chaucer. Inscribed to N. Rowe, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mr. Samuel Cobb, Late of Trinity College in Cambridge.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

In ancient times as story tells

Page No:

pp.99-106

Poem Title:

Baucis And Philemon, Imitated from the 8th Book of Ovid.

Attribution:

By Jonathan Swift, D. D.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Long our divided state

Page No:

pp.107-110

Poem Title:

On The Death Of Queen Mary.

Attribution:

By the Duke of Devonshire, 1694.

Attributed To:

William Cavendish

First Line:

Cambray you set when heavenly love you write

Page No:

pp.111-116

Poem Title:

...Allusion To the Archbishop of Cambray's Telemachus. Written in the Year 1707.

Attribution:

The Duke of Devonshire's

Attributed To:

William Cavendish

First Line:

What can the British senate give

Page No:

pp.121-134

Poem Title:

The Female Reign; An Ode.

Attribution:

S. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

When weeping majesty through clouds appears

Page No:

pp.235 [i.e. 135]-140

Poem Title:

To the Queen, on the Death of his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark, 1708.

Attribution:

By Joseph Trapp, D. D.

Attributed To:

Joseph Trapp

First Line:

When her Britannia wept Eliza's doom

Page No:

pp.141-144

Poem Title:

On the Death of Queen Anne; and the Accession of King George, 1714. From the Latin of Bp. Smalridge.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Slow rising night had her black flag unfurled

Page No:

pp.145-148

Poem Title:

The Dream. Occasioned by the Death of Q. Anne.

Attribution:

By Aaron Hill, Esq;

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

Twas one may morning when the clouds undrawn

Page No:

pp.149-151

Poem Title:

The Wedding-Day.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Hill]

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

While in the mall my Celia shone

Page No:

pp.152-153

Poem Title:

The Gnat.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Hill]

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

When fair Susannah in a cool retreat

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

Susannah And The Two Elders.

Attribution:

By Mr. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

Give me great God said I a little farm

Page No:

pp.155-158

Poem Title:

The Prospect. Written in the Chiosk at Pera, overlooking Constantinople, Dec. 26, 1717.

Attribution:

By Lady Mary Wortley Montague.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

O born when heavens propitious deigned to smile

Page No:

pp.159-161

Poem Title:

Horace. Book IV. Ode V. Imitated. Addressed to his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, instead of Augustus, to whom it is dedicated in the Original.

Attribution:

By W. Pittis, M. A.

Attributed To:

William Pittis

First Line:

Of things in which mankind does most excel

Page No:

pp.162-174

Poem Title:

An Essay on Poetry.

Attribution:

By John Duke of Buckinghamshire.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Happy that author whose correct essay

Page No:

pp.175-188

Poem Title:

An Essay On Translated Verse.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscomon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

In those cold climates where the sun appears

Page No:

pp.189-198

Poem Title:

The Temple Of Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For standing -- we kind nature thank

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

An Interlude. The Scene, A Bed-Chamber. Enter Tarsander and Swivanthe.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I love as well as others do

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

The Mock Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed