The repository: a select collection of fugitive pieces of wit and humour in prose and verse [vol IV] [T144397] [ecco]

DMI number:

1043

Publication Date:

1783

Volume Number:

4 of 4

ESTC number:

T144397

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115421190

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

THE | REPOSITORY: | A SELECT COLLECTION | OF | FUGITIVE PIECES | OF | WIT AND HUMOUR, | IN | PROSE AND VERSE. | BY THE MOST EMINENT WRITERS. | VOL. IV. | [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:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Many items have separate title pages.

Comments:

Contents: prose items, pp. 129-170; 215-260. Several poems have footnotes containing poems and extracts of verse; only those which are free-standing or are 4 lines or longer have been indexed.

Other matter:

Back matter: Contents pp. 317-318.

Related Miscellanies

Title:

The repository: a select collection of fugitive pieces of wit and humour in prose and verse [vol 1] [T144397] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1777

ESTC No:

T144397

Volume:

1 of 4

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

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:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Title:

The repository: a select collection of fugitive pieces of wit and humour in prose and verse [vol III] [T144397] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1783

ESTC No:

T144397

Volume:

3 of 4

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

Isaac Reed

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

ODNB attests to Reed's editorship.

Publisher:

Charles Dilly

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Religion blushing veils her sacred fires

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou god of jest who over the ambrosial bowl

Page No:

pp.33-65

Poem Title:

The Hilliad.

Attribution:

By. C. Smart, A. M.

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

Hill puffs himself forbear to chide

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What Hill one day says he the next does deny

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Word valiant wight thou great he shrew

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

An author's writings oft reveal

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Renewed by ordure's sympathetic force

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Busy curious hungry Hill

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Henry Woodward

Attributed To:

Henry Woodward

First Line:

Three great wise men in the same era born

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Quinbus Flestrin.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On grace free will and mysteries high

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Art thou not angry learning's great protector

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

by the Right Honourable the Earl of *** addressed to the Right Honourable G--e D--n.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas night the voice of jollity was hushed

Page No:

pp.71-128

Poem Title:

Patriotism, A Mock-Heroic.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let Faulkener boast of rhymes and letters

Page No:

pp.175-213

Poem Title:

An Epistle To Gorges Edmond Howard, Esq;

Attribution:

By George Faulkener, Esq; and Alderman

Attributed To:

George Faulkner

First Line:

Fond swain I hear your wish is such

Page No:

pp.177-178

Poem Title:

To a certain nobleman, on being told he had wished for the picture of a celebrated beauty.

Attribution:

Howard

Attributed To:

Gorges Edmond Howard

First Line:

Of late love's queen all in despair

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

On the absence and return of The Three Favourite Sisters.

Attribution:

Howard.

Attributed To:

Gorges Edmond Howard

First Line:

Celestial maids descend and sing

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Howard

Attributed To:

Gorges Edmond Howard

First Line:

Beneath this marble stone weep mankind weep

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

a gentleman of your city [i.e. Dublin]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A goose in the oven no sir tis a slander

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

Another one.

Attribution:

Doctor Burrows.

Attributed To:

Doctor Burrows

First Line:

What sweet miss Meredith of Chester

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Doctor Burrows

Attributed To:

Doctor Burrows

First Line:

Fair Anna had no heart to give

Page No:

pp.200-201

Poem Title:

On a lady's forgetting her riding-hat.

Attribution:

Written by the Rev. Dr. Clarke, when Vice-Provost of Trinity-College.

Attributed To:

Rev. Dr. Clarke

First Line:

Soft relict whose enchanging charms

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

To the Widow ---, on her taking a vomit of Ipecacuanha.

Attribution:

Notes suggest this is written by Faulkner.

Attributed To:

George Faulkner

First Line:

Come every nymph and every swain

Page No:

pp.207-208

Poem Title:

Sacred to the memory of Doctor Charles Lucas.

Attribution:

Notes suggest Faulkner is the author

Attributed To:

George Faulkner

First Line:

From various perils of the land and main

Page No:

pp.263-275

Poem Title:

An Heroic Answer, From Richard Twiss, Esq; F. R. S.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Asa whanne a gronfer with ardurous glow

Page No:

pp.289-300

Poem Title:

Epistelle To Doctoure Mylles.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

John Gilpin was a citizen

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

The Entertaining and Facetious History of John Gilpin. To the Tune of - Chevy Chace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed