The Repository [P6328] [ecco]

DMI number:

835

Publication Date:

1752

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

P6328

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB129976871

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BL

Full Title:

THE | REPOSITORY. | CONTAINING | A Succinct and Clear View of the most | considerable TRANSACTIONS, OCCUR- | RENCES, and PUBLICATIONS, both at | Home and Abroad, | OF THE | PRESENT TIMES. | To which is added, | A [i]curious Collection[/i], both in Print and MS. | OF | Original Letters, Speeches, and other [i]Papers of | State[/i]; Characters and Histories of memorable | Persons and Places; in which the greatest Re- | gard will be paid to such as may give fresh | Lights into Ancient and Modern History, and to- | wards the Improvement of Literature in general. | LIKEWISE | Choice APOTHEGMS and WITTY SAYINGS, ap- | propriated to their true Speakers; besides ANEC-| DOTES, EPIGRAMS, ELEGIES, EPITAPHS, and | INSCRIPTIONS; several of them never before printed, | and all worthy of being rescued from Oblivion. On | which Work shall be inserted such short occasional | Pieces, which the Publisher may be favoured with, | in Prose and Verse, as are consistent with the Scope | of this Undertaking. | The whole being designed to comprehend a greater Variety of | Instructive and Diverting Intelligence, than any other Pe- | riodical Publication. | [epigraph] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for and sold by JAMES CROCKATT, in [i]Prujeian-Court[/i], | over-against [i]Surgeon's-Hall[/i], in the [i]Old-Bailey[/i]; as likewise | by the Booksellers in Town and Country, and by the Car- | riers of the News. M.DCC.LII.

Epigraph:

[i]'Tis not in Mortals to command Success; | We'll do more,[/i] SEMPRONIUS, [i]we'll deserve it.[/i] | ADDISON's Cato.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellaneous collection, Periodical miscellany, and Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Consists of 5 parts, each 40p. long. If the parts were originally sold with separate title pages/wrappers, these are not included in this collected edition. Pagination and signatures are continuous.

Comments:

Contents: contains much prose, largely on historical subjects, apparently taken from rare manuscripts.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Address 'To the Reader' signed 'The Publisher' pp.iii-iv;

Related People

Publisher:

James Crockatt

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Whereever you roam whatever ills you know

Page No:

pp.37-39

Poem Title:

A Poetical Epistle from Miss Blandy to Capt. Cranstoun, a little before her Execution.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If all in ancient legends wrote be true

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

An Old Epigram on St. George.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since thou wert so well skilled in Vulcan's art

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

Another on the same, from an old Collection in Manuscript.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I heard that Smug the smith for ale and spice

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

Epigram on Smug, the Drunken Black Smith.

Attribution:

By Sir John Harrington.

Attributed To:

Sir John Harington

First Line:

Here lies John Crucker a maker of bellows

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Old Crucker of Oxford

Attribution:

By Serjeant Hoskins in his Youth.

Attributed To:

Serjeant. Hoskins

First Line:

I am unable yonder beggar cries

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

The Lying Beggar.

Attribution:

By Dr. J. Donne, after Dean of St. Paul's.

Attributed To:

John Donne

First Line:

Reason's whole pleasure all the joys of sense

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

On the Vanity of desiring more than is necessary.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

When Rome of old in all her splendor shone

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

An anonymous Poet

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let observation with extensive view

Page No:

pp.74-76

Poem Title:

The Vanity of Human Wishes.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A merry prognostication

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

A Book intitled, Merry Prohnostication, Temp. Stephen VIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O cruel death to make three meals of one

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

Epitaph from a Tombstone in Oxfordshire, on a Person, who first lost one Leg, then the other, and lastly his Life, by a Gangrene.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To war this queen does with her daughters move

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

Inscription under the Picture of Queen Boadica.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Normans two Will Hen Stephen Saxons are reckoned

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

A Brief Chronicle of the Kings of England, from William the Conqueror to the Union of the Roses, according to their several Lines and Succession.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When More some years had chancellor been

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

An Epigram on Sir Thomas More.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The Queen was brought by water to Whitehall

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Queeen Elizabeth.

Attribution:

By Hugh Holland.

Attributed To:

Hugh Holland

First Line:

While Vere sought death armed with his sword and shield

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Sir Francis Vere, who died Anno 1608.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How wouldst thou shake at Britain's modish tribe

Page No:

pp.117-120

Poem Title:

The Vanity of Human-Wishes (Continued).

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On what foundation stands the warrior's pride

Page No:

pp.153-157

Poem Title:

The Vanity of Human-Wishes. (Continued and concluded.)

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Can this be he could Charles the good the great

Page No:

pp.158-160

Poem Title:

Thoughts, occasioned by the Sight of an Original Painting of King Charles I. taken at the Time of his Tryal. Inscribed to the Right Honourable George Clake, Esq; one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beauteous as the rising sun

Page No:

p.160

Poem Title:

A Rhebus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who so will be wise in purchasing

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

A Book of the Art and Manner how to Plant, Temp. Eliz.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou who dost all my worldly thoughts employ

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

Verses wrote by Mrs. Molesworth upon her Death-Bed to her Husband.

Attribution:

by Mrs. Molesworth

Attributed To:

Mrs. Molesworth