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
- 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:
- Printer:
- Thomas Aris
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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
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