The polite companion: containing essays illustrated with passages from the poets, orators [T202654] [Vol.1]

DMI number:

980

Publication Date:

1749

Volume Number:

2 of 1

ESTC number:

T202654

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB3329705837

Shelfmark:

BOD 2699 f.36

Full Title:

THE | POLITE COMPANION : | CONTAINING | ESSAYS | ON | VARIOUS SUBJECTS ; | Illustrated with | PASSAGES | FROM THE | Most excellent POETS, ORATORS, PHILO- | SOPHERS, and HISTORIANS. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | VOL. I. | [rule] | BIRMINGHAM: | Printed by THO. ARIS. | M.DCC.XLIX.

Epigraph:

Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci, | Lectorem delectando, pariterque monendo. HOR.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham

Format:

Duodecimo

Comments:

CONTENTS: Title-page; Introduction [6p.]; Prose essays containing verse: Essay I. Of Friendship. [pp.1-54]; Essay II. Of Love. [pp.55-109]; Essay II. Of Taste [p.110-281]; The Choice of Hercules [pp.232-293]; Prose 'Letter Sent from Italy' [pp.294-303]; Prose essay on 'A Lady's Character' including verse [p.306-314]; Essay IV. Of Eloquence [p.315-352]

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATTER: 'The Introduction' [6] END MATTER: None

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Title:

The polite companion: containing essays illustrated with passages from the poets, orators [T202654] [Vol.2]

Publication Date:

1749

ESTC No:

T202654

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Printer:

Thomas Aris

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Much less must that have any place

Page No:

vi

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

L. Roscom.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

The valiant Nisus took his lot to wait

Page No:

pp.9-21

Poem Title:

The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus.

Attribution:

Mr Pitt's Translation.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

Friendship like love is but a name

Page No:

pp.28-30

Poem Title:

The Hare and many Friends.

Attribution:

Mr. Gay [p.28]

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Thersites only clamoured in the throng

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope's Homer.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Thus like the range of fire the combat burns

Page No:

pp.41-54

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr Pope#s beautiful version.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Love that's the world's preservative

Page No:

p.[55]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hudibras [i.e., Samuel Butler]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go bid the needle his dear north foresake

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Cowley [p.56]

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Go lovely rose

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Waller. [p.57]

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

What higher in her society thou finds

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton [p.59]

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

When Celia first I saw so heavenly fair

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Congreve [p.80]

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

He ended or I heard no more for now

Page No:

pp.82-86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton's Par. Lost. B. 8. v. 452.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

So spake our sire and by his countenance seemed

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton B. 8. V. 39. [p.87]

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Aurora now had left her saffron bed

Page No:

pp.96-99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden's Transl. [p.99]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Cursed be the memory nay doubly cursed

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Otway. [p.103]

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

For to be plain tis not my person

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hudibras [i.e., Samuel Butler] [p.104]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hymen thou source of chaste delights

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Addison. [p.84]

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Hail wedded love mysterious law true source

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton [p.104]

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

With thee conversing I forget all time

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Para. Lost B. 4. V. 639 [i.e., Milton]

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

All dangers past at length the lovely bride

Page No:

pp.107-109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden's Virg. Georg. B. V. 696.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Learning and Rome alike in empire grew

Page No:

p.[110]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope. [p.110]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

What is this taste ye learned say who can

Page No:

pp.111-112

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'From a manuscript' [p.111]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who most admires the steeple's spiry height

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'From a manuscript' [p.121]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some faults though small intolerable grow

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

What farther need of words our right to scan

Page No:

pp.142-151

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden's Translation. [p.142]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Blessed sons of affluence meet for virtues friends

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

From a Manuscript [p.159]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Then thick as locusts blackening all the ground

Page No:

pp.172-174

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope [p.172]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

But Annius crafty seer with ebon wand

Page No:

pp.175-177

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope's Dunciad, B. 4. v.339. [p.175]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Good taste however exalted or depressed

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Manuscript [p.181]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But I whom griping penury surrounds

Page No:

pp.200-201

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Philips' Spen. Shil. [p.201]

Attributed To:

John Philips

First Line:

Why dost thou heap up wealth which thou must quit

Page No:

pp.203-204

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cowley. [p.204]

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Know this my lord nobility of blood

Page No:

pp.225-227

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden's Wife of Bath, from Chaucer. [p.227]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Let fools their high extraction boast

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Oldham. [p.225]

Attributed To:

John Oldham

First Line:

Twas not the spawn of such as these

Page No:

pp.246-247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Lord Roscom. from Hor.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

What though no gaudy titles grace my birth

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Rowe's Jane Shore. [p.247]

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Full in earth's centre twixt air earth and sea

Page No:

pp.270-271

Poem Title:

Here follows Ovid's house of Fame.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A vale there was refreshed by trickling streams

Page No:

p.[282]-293

Poem Title:

The Choice of Hercules.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Jove called his coursers and his chariot took

Page No:

pp.286-287

Poem Title:

Hom. Iliad L. 8.

Attribution:

Pope's Trans. [p.287]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Oh she was heavenly fair in face and mind

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Tis not a set of features or complexion

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Addison's Cato. [p.306]

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Such were the features of her heavenly face

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden. [p.307]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

By liberal arts would you acquire renown

Page No:

pp.342-343

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thus far Petronius. [p.343] [translation unattributed]

Attributed To:

Petronius Arbiter