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

DMI number:

981

Publication Date:

1749

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T202654

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB3331064149

Shelfmark:

BOD 2699 f.37

Full Title:

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

Epigraph:

Quicquid agunt homines nostri farrago libelli -- | --- Invenies dissecti membra poetae. HOR.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham

Genres:

Collection including prose

Format:

Duodecimo

Comments:

CONTENTS: Title-page; 'Eliza: a Novel' [pp.3- 25]; prose essays containing verse: 'Of the Vicissitude of Things' [pp.26-91], 'Of Fortitude' [pp.92-113], 'Of Retirement' [p.114-144], 'Of the Manner of Instruction among the Antients' [pp.145-198], 'Of Commerce' [p.199-217], 'Of Poetry' [pp.218-320], 'Moral Characters' [pp.321-349]; Index [11] Latin verse on p.137.

Other matter:

Prefatory Matter: None End Matter: Index to the two volumes [11p.]

Related Miscellanies

Title:

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

Publication Date:

1749

ESTC No:

T202654

Volume:

2 of 1

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Printer:

Thomas Aris

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

All change but nothing finally decays

Page No:

pp.28-39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

[no title]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

And yet the wholesome herb neglected dies

Page No:

pp.28-30

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thompson's Spring. [p.30]

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

There lived as authors tell in days of yore

Page No:

pp.40-65

Poem Title:

The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun's Priest.

Attribution:

Mr. Dryden [p.39]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Think on the slippery state of human things

Page No:

pp.76-77

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden. [p.77]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

So revolves the scene

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'Ruins of Rome' [i.e., John Dyer], p.78.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Suffice it now the Esquilian mount to reach

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'from the same poem' [i.e., Dyer's 'Ruins of Rome'] p.78.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When first the frame of this vast ball was made

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Congreve. [p.79]

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Ah no tis all in vain believe me tis

Page No:

pp.93-94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Horace [p.93]

Attributed To:

Horace

First Line:

What has this bugbear death to frighten man

Page No:

pp.94-105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O happy if he knew his happy state

Page No:

p.[114]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'the prince of poets', [p.114]] Dryden's translation [p.118]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Me may the muses whose vowed priest I am

Page No:

pp.115-117

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thus translated by Dr. Trapp. [p.115]

Attributed To:

Joseph Trapp

First Line:

Hence vain deluding joys

Page No:

pp.118-123

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton [p.118]

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Others lext luxury and pomp allure

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

And thou great father of the British floods

Page No:

pp.124-136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope [p.124]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Let me be grateful but let far from me

Page No:

pp.126-129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr Philips [p.126]

Attributed To:

John Philips

First Line:

Thus thus and this deserved great Virgil's praise

Page No:

pp.130-132

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cowley [p.130]

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Hail old patrician trees so great and good

Page No:

pp.132-134

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cowley. [p.132]

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

If ever ambition did my fancy cheat

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cowley. [p.136]

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel

Page No:

pp.137-144

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Johnson [p.137]

Attributed To:

Samuel Johnson

First Line:

I had hope

Page No:

pp.199-200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton [p.199]

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Hail sacred peace hail long expected days

Page No:

pp.201-203

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

in Windsor Forest, Pope. [p.201]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The unaltered will

Page No:

pp.205-208

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heavens what a goodly prospect spreads around

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thompson's Season. [p.215]

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Number and rhyme and that harmonious sound

Page No:

p.240

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Duke of Buckingham. [p.240]

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Still green with bays each ancient alter stands

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope. [p.241]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Me from the womb the midwife muse did take

Page No:

pp.241-242

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cowley. [p.241]

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Inhuman Sacharissa not to love

Page No:

pp.243-244

Poem Title:

Written on Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Verse comes from heaven like inward light

Page No:

pp.246

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Prior. [p.245]

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Zephyr with Aurora playing

Page No:

p.247

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton [p.248]

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Behold slow settling over the lurid grove

Page No:

pp.248-253

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thompson's Seasons. [p.248]

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Thus raged the goddess and with fury fraught

Page No:

pp.254-257

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Dryden's Translation.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Now from the sight of land our galleys move

Page No:

pp.257-258

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Dryden's Translation. [p.254]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Thus spake the Aeolian fair whose sorrows move

Page No:

pp.258-263

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A gloomy tempest rising from the main

Page No:

pp.263-264

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

'written by a boy of thirteen years of age, then at a grammar school in the North', p.263.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But when the swinging signs your ears offend

Page No:

pp.264-268

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Gay, in his Trivia

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Near the Cimmerians lies a cavern deep

Page No:

pp.268-270

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath the gloomy covert of an yew

Page No:

pp.271-272

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Mean time at distance from the scene of blood

Page No:

pp.272-274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

II. XVIII. Pope's Trans. [p.272]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Then to the tent his hasty court he sped

Page No:

pp.274-278

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr Pitt's Version. [.274]

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

But he who found not whom his soul desired

Page No:

pp.278-283

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope's Homer B. VI.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The lovely young Lavinia once had friends

Page No:

pp.284-288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Thompson's incomparable Seasons [p.284]

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Mean time the monarch of the watery main

Page No:

pp.288-290

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Health to Achilles happy are thy guests

Page No:

pp.291-294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope's Homer, B. IX. [p.291]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Hence let us go why waste we time in vain

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where would thy fond thy vain enquiry go

Page No:

pp.295-297

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Like mortal man great Jove grown fond of change

Page No:

pp.298-302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

from Mr. Gay's trivia [p.298]

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Here as old bards have sung Diana strayed

Page No:

pp.302-304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope's Poem on Windsor Forest. [p.302]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

As thus with glorious air and proud disdain

Page No:

pp.304-305

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope's Translation.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Mezentius sees him through the squadron ride

Page No:

pp.305-306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virg. Dryden Transl.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

As when some peasant in a bushy brake

Page No:

p.306

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In brazen arms that cast a gleamy ray

Page No:

pp.306-307

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope. [p.307]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

And as when heavy sleep has closed the sight

Page No:

pp.307-308

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virg. Aen. XII. [p.307]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Freed from his keepers thus with broken reins

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virg. B. XI. [p.307]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As men in slumbers seem with speedy pace

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope's Homer XXII. [p.307]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Surprised with fear he fled along the field

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Virg. Dryd. L. XII.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now to the ascent of that steep savage hill

Page No:

pp.309-310

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton, B. IV.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

So spake the eternal father and fulfilled

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton [p.308]

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Then to secure the camp and naval powers

Page No:

p.319

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope trans. [p.319]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Of these the false Achitophel was first

Page No:

pp.328-329

Poem Title:

Character of Achitophel (Lord Shaftsbury, Lord Chancellor in the time of K. Charles the Second.)

Attribution:

Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

A man so various that he seemed to be

Page No:

pp.329-330

Poem Title:

Zimri, (D. of Buckingham.)

Attribution:

ibid. [i.e., Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Doeg though without knowing how or why

Page No:

pp.330-332

Poem Title:

Doeg, (Settle)

Attribution:

ibid. [i.e., Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

No stop your noses readers all and some

Page No:

pp.332-333

Poem Title:

Og, (Shadwell)

Attribution:

Ibid., [i.e., Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel]

Attributed To:

John Dryden