The repository: a select collection of fugitive pieces of wit and humour in prose and verse [vol II] [T202072]
- DMI number:
- 1046
- Publication Date:
- 1783
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T202072
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB128919806
- Shelfmark:
- NLS [Ai].6/1.3
- Full Title:
- THE | REPOSITORY: | A SELECT COLLECTION | OF | FUGITIVE PIECES | OF | WIT AND HUMOUR, | IN | PROSE AND VERSE. | BY THE MOST EMINENT WRITERS. | THE SECOND EDITION. | VOL. II. | [short rule] | LONDON: | Printed for CHARLES DILLY. | MDCCLXXXIII.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of comic verse, Collection of literary verse, and Collection including prose
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [1]-252 pp.
- Bibliographic details:
- Half title: THE | REPOSITORY. | VOLUME THE SECOND. Many items have separate title pages.
- Comments:
- Contents: prose pp. 1-26 'A DISSERTATION UPON LAUGHTER; | AND, | AN ESSAY ON HUMOUR. | Both first printed in 1741.' pp. [91]-144 'THE | ADVANTAGES OF POLITICKS | TO THIS NATION: | Humbly inscribed to | EVERY POLITICIAN THAT CAN READ. | [epigraph] | First printed in 1729.' pp. [161]-244 '[i]ORIGINES DIVISIANAE:[i] | OR | THE ANTIQUITIES | OF | THE DEVIZES. | In some Familiar Letters to a Friend: | Written in the Years 1750 and 1751. | By Dr. DAVIES. | [epigraph] | First printed in 1754.' pp. [245]-251 'A CURIOUS SPECIMEN | OF | ALLITERATION. | First printed in The Student, 1750.'
- Other matter:
- End matter: contents p. 252.
- Title:
- The repository: a select collection of fugitive pieces of wit and humour in prose and verse [vol II] [T144397] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1777
- ESTC No:
- T144397
- Volume:
- 2 of 4
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The repository: a select collection of fugitive pieces of wit and humour in prose and verse [vol 1] [T202072]
- Publication Date:
- 1783
- ESTC No:
- T202072
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Isaac Reed
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Reed's editorship attested to in ODNB.
- Publisher:
- Charles Dilly
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- With that low cunning which in fools supplies
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Churchill.
- Attributed To:
- John Churchill
- First Line:
- Who is the scribbler x y z
- Page No:
- pp.35-49
- Poem Title:
- The Fribbleriad.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
- Page No:
- pp.53-58
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy, Written in a Country Church-Yard.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- St Paul's proclaims the solemn midnight hour
- Page No:
- pp.59-64
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy, Written in Covent-Garden.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Retirement's hour proclaims the tolling bell
- Page No:
- pp.65-70
- Poem Title:
- The Nunnery: An Elegy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The curfew tolls the hour of closing gates
- Page No:
- pp.71-76
- Poem Title:
- An Evening Contemplation In A College.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The courts are shut departed every judge
- Page No:
- pp.77-82
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy, Written in Westminster-Hall during the long Vacation.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The shrill bell rings the knell of curtain rise
- Page No:
- pp.83-88
- Poem Title:
- Elegy, On the Death of The Guardian Outwitted.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here rests his head upon the lap of earth
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph On A Certain Poet.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With various art the tortured curls to place
- Page No:
- pp.149-159
- Poem Title:
- The Art of Dressing the Hair.
- Attribution:
- By E. P.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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