A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T124630]

DMI number:

113

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A collection of poems viz the temple of death

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Publication Date:

1702

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T124630

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BOD Harding C 8

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS: | VIZ. | [i]The TEMPLE OF DEATH[/i] | By the Marquis of [i]NORMANBY[/i]. | [i]An EPISTLE to the EARL of[/i] DORSET | By [i]Charles Montague,[/i] Lord [i]HALIFAX.[/i] | [i]The DUEL of the STAGS:[/i] | By Sir [i]ROBERT HOWARD.[/i] | WITH | Several Original POEMS, | [g]Never before Printed[/g], | BY | [two braced columns] [column one] The E. of [i]Roscommon[/i] | The E. of [i]Rochester[/i], | The E. of [i]Orrery[/i]. | Sir [i]Charles Sedley[/i]. [/column one] [column two] Sir [i]George Etherege[/i] | Mr. [i]Granville[/i]. | Mr [i]Stepney[/i], | Mr. [i]Dryden[/i] &c. | [rule] | [g]The Second Edition[/g]. | [rule] | [i]London:[/i] Printed for [i]Ralph Smith[/i], at the [i]Bible[/i] | under the [i]Royal Exchange[/i], in [i]Cornhill[/i], 1702.

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Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Octavo

Price:

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Pagination:

[8], 1-453, [3] pp.

Bibliographic details:

Mispagination: Misnumbering of 90, 295 and 339 as 60, 259 and 239. Misprints noted in pencil on leaf preceding title page.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Contents pages A2r-A4v. Back matter: 'Books Printed for Ralph Smith, at the Bible, under the Royal Exchange' (3pp.)

References:

Case 151 (f) Hugh MacDonald, 'Some Poetical Miscellanies 1672-1716' Essays and Studies 26 (1940) 106-112. Jennifer Batt, 'A Collection of Poems and Charles Tooke' Notes and Queries (2011) 58 (3): 394-399.

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Title:

A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T116471]

Publication Date:

1701

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T116471

Volume:

1 of 1

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Title:

A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T116963]

Publication Date:

1716

ESTC No:

T116963

Volume:

1 of 1

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Publisher:

Ralph Smith

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for Ralph Smith, at the Bible under the Royal Exchange, in Cornhill.'

Content/Publication

First Line:

Accept this gift Lucinda and approve

Page No:

pp.1-3

Poem Title:

To a Young Lady, with the First Edition of these Miscellanies.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of things in which mankind does most excel

Page No:

pp.4-25

Poem Title:

An Essay on Poetry.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable the Marquis of Normanby

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

In those cold climates where the sun appears

Page No:

pp.26-42

Poem Title:

The Temple of Death. ... A Translation out of French.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable the Marquis of Normanby

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

O azure vaults o crystal sky

Page No:

pp.43-48

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on the CXLVIII Psalm.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Virtue dear friend needs no defence

Page No:

pp.49-51

Poem Title:

To Orinda. An Imitation of Horace.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat

Page No:

pp.52-54

Poem Title:

The Grove.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Roscommon]

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

In Windsor Forest before war destroyed

Page No:

pp.55-72

Poem Title:

The Duel of the Stags.

Attribution:

Written by the Honourable Sir Robert Howard

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

You tell me Celia you approve

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

To Celia.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Thyrsis I wish as well as you

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

Answer.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Princes make laws by which their subjects live

Page No:

pp.76-77

Poem Title:

To Celia.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Chloris I justly am betrayed

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

To Chloris.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Madam though meaner beauties might

Page No:

pp.80-81

Poem Title:

To a Lady, who told him he could not Love.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Chloris you live adored by all

Page No:

pp.82-84

Poem Title:

To Chloris

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Thou flatterer of all the fair

Page No:

pp.85-88

Poem Title:

The Picture. In Imitation of Anacreon's Bathillus.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable the Marquis of Normanby

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

From wars and plagues come no such harms

Page No:

pp.89-91

Poem Title:

To a Coquet Beauty.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Normanby]

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

From all uneasy passions free

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Normanby]

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Hector though warned by an approaching cry

Page No:

pp.93-100

Poem Title:

The Parting of Hector with his Princess Andromache, and only Son Astyanax, when he went upon his last Expedition, in which he was Slain by Achilles. Done out of the Greek of Homer, Iliad 6.

Attribution:

By Knightly Chetwood

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

To vex and torture thy unmeaning brain

Page No:

pp.101-103

Poem Title:

On a Poet Who Writ in the Praise of Satyr.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Rochester

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Once more love's mighty charms are broke

Page No:

pp.104-105

Poem Title:

A Farewel to Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though Phillis your prevailing charms

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By a Person of Honour

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Entreaty shall not serve nor violence

Page No:

pp.107-110

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Every Man in his Humour.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Person of Honour]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What strains at sacred Pisa's spring

Page No:

pp.111-124

Poem Title:

An Ode, In Imitation of Pindar, on the Death of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory.

Attribution:

By Knightly Chetwood

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

Religious discord fury of this isle

Page No:

pp.125-128

Poem Title:

Upon the Death of his Grace the late Duke of Ormond, Anno 1687.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Chetwood]

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

This Atlas gone what hero does remain

Page No:

pp.128-130

Poem Title:

To His Grace the present Duke.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What strange surprise to meet such words as these

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

The Earl of Rochester's Answer, to a Paper of Verses, sent him by L. B. Felton, and taken out of the Translation of Ovid's Epistles, 1680.

Attribution:

The Earl of Rochester's answer...

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Sweetest bud of beauty may

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

To a Very Young Lady.

Attribution:

By Sir George Etherege

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Tell me gentle Strephon why

Page No:

pp.134-136

Poem Title:

The Forsaken Mistress. ... Dialogue.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Ah Celia that I were but sure

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

The Divided Heart.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

While others toil our country to supply

Page No:

pp.139-141

Poem Title:

To Mr. J. N. on his Translations out of French and Italian.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Hopeless I languish out my days

Page No:

pp.142-143

Poem Title:

Voiture's Urania.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

Sylvia.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

As in those nations where they yet adore

Page No:

pp.146-147

Poem Title:

To Celia.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Ah pardon madam if I ever thought

Page No:

pp.148-149

Poem Title:

The Submission.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Fear not my dear a flame can never die

Page No:

pp.150-151

Poem Title:

Constancy.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Thanks fair Urania to your scorn

Page No:

pp.152-155

Poem Title:

The Indifference.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Strephon O Strephon once the jolliest lad

Page No:

pp.156-159

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Dialogue.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

If I my Celia could persuade

Page No:

pp.160-161

Poem Title:

To a Lady, who fled the sight of him.

Attribution:

By Sir George Etherege

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

It is not Celia in our power

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

To a Lady, asking him how long he would Love her.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

An early plant which such a blossom bears

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

To Mr. G. Granville, on his Verses to the King.

Attribution:

By Mr Edmund Waller

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

When into Lybia the young Grecian came

Page No:

pp.164-165

Poem Title:

To Mr Waller.

Attribution:

By Mr. G. Granville

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

The syrens once deluded vainly charmed

Page No:

pp.166-167

Poem Title:

On Myra's Singing.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Granville]

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Tune tune thy lyre begin my muse

Page No:

pp.168-170

Poem Title:

In Praise of Myra.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Granville]

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Prepared to rail resolved to part

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Granville]

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

While Phillis is drinking love and wine in alliance

Page No:

pp.172-173

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Granville]

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

So smooth and so serene but now

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Granville]

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Why Granville is thy life confined

Page No:

pp.175-177

Poem Title:

Verses Sent from an Unknown Hand, To Mr. G. Granville, In the Country.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whoever thou art who temptst in such a strain

Page No:

pp.178-183

Poem Title:

Occasion'd by the foregoing Verses.

Attribution:

By Mr. G. Granville

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

The god of day descending from above

Page No:

pp.184-203

Poem Title:

The Progress of Beauty.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Granville]

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Could heaps of wealth prolong our fate

Page No:

pp.204-206

Poem Title:

In Imitation of the 23d Ode of Anacreon. On Gold, to a Miser.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wouldst thou my dearest Lesbia know

Page No:

pp.207-208

Poem Title:

To Lesbia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Rise youths the evening's come and her bright star

Page No:

pp.209-215

Poem Title:

An Epithalamium from Catullus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On Ida's lofty top the Thunderer sate

Page No:

pp.216-224

Poem Title:

Part of the 14th Book of Homer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What shall the King the nation's genius raise

Page No:

pp.225-240

Poem Title:

An Epistle To The Earl of Dorset.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable Charles Montague, Baron Halifax

Attributed To:

Charles Montagu

First Line:

Sir | Since you oft invite me to renew

Page No:

pp.241-255

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Charles Mountague Esq;

Attribution:

By Mr. George Stepney

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Too long great man thy muse has tried in vain

Page No:

pp.257-267

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Monsieur Boileau.

Attribution:

By Edmund Arwaker

Attributed To:

Edmund Arwaker

First Line:

Long our divided state

Page No:

pp.268-274

Poem Title:

An Ode In Memory of Her Majesty Queen Mary.

Attribution:

By a Person of Quality

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The youth whose fortune the vast globe obeyed

Page No:

pp.275-276

Poem Title:

On the Late Horrid Conspiracy.

Attribution:

By Mr. Stepney

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

As when in hostile times two neighbouring states

Page No:

pp.277-279

Poem Title:

Prologue to Oroonoko.

Attribution:

By an Unknown Hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You see we try all shapes and shifts and arts

Page No:

pp.280-282

Poem Title:

Epilogue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Congreve

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Tell me no more you love in vain

Page No:

pp.283-284

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By Sir George Etherege

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Madam | With so much wonder are we struck

Page No:

pp.285-288

Poem Title:

To Her Excellence, the Marchioness of Newcastle, After the Reading of Her Incomparable Poems.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Many have been the vain attempts of wit

Page No:

pp.289-291

Poem Title:

Epilogue to Tartuff, Spoken by Himself.

Attribution:

By a Person of Honour

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

After a pretty amorous discourse

Page No:

pp.292-295

Poem Title:

The Imperfect Enjoyment

Attribution:

By Sir George Etherege

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Tis not in this as in the former age

Page No:

pp.259[i.e. 296]-298

Poem Title:

A Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the Duke's New Play-House.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i. e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Fair Amarillis on the stage whilst you

Page No:

pp.299-300

Poem Title:

Falling in Love with a Stranger at a Play.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Love when 'tis true needs not the aid

Page No:

pp.301-302

Poem Title:

Indifference Excused.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

As there is music uninformed by art

Page No:

pp.303-309

Poem Title:

To my Honoured Friend Sir Robert Howard, On his Excellent Poems.

Attribution:

By Mr. John Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Auspicious poet wert thou not my friend

Page No:

pp.310-312

Poem Title:

To Mr. Granville, On his Excellent Tragedy, call'd Heroick Love.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

How wretched is the fate of those that write

Page No:

pp.313-315

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Pilgrim.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Perhaps the parson stretched a point too far

Page No:

pp.316-318

Poem Title:

Epilogue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

If generous gratitude could ever excuse

Page No:

pp.319-327

Poem Title:

To the Memory of Mr. Dryden.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What is it to us who guides the state

Page No:

pp.328-330

Poem Title:

An Ode. In Imitation of --Quid Bellicosus Cantabor, &c. Hor. Od. II. Lib 2.

Attribution:

By Mr. John How

Attributed To:

John How

First Line:

Fair Octavia you are much to blame

Page No:

pp.331-332

Poem Title:

The Platonick.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Phillis this mighty zeal assuage

Page No:

pp.333-334

Poem Title:

To a Devout Young Woman.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

When Aurelia first became

Page No:

pp.335-336

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Home shepherds to your cottages retire

Page No:

pp.337-341

Poem Title:

On the Lamented Death of the Late Countess of Dorset.

Attribution:

By N. Tate, Servant to His Majesty

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Chloris I cannot say your eyes

Page No:

pp.342-343

Poem Title:

To Chloris

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Aurelia art thou mad

Page No:

pp.344-345

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Love still has something of the sea

Page No:

pp.346-348

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Amintas I am come alone

Page No:

pp.349-353

Poem Title:

A Dialogue Between Amintas and Celia.

Attribution:

By the same Author [i.e. Sedley]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

How doth the mournful widowed city bow

Page No:

pp.354-361

Poem Title:

The Lamentations of Jeremiah.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Wharton.

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

All things submit themselves to your command

Page No:

pp.362-365

Poem Title:

To Celia.

Attribution:

By an Unknown Hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As he lay in the plain his arm under his head

Page No:

pp.366-367

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By a Person of Honour

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How hardly I concealed my tears

Page No:

pp.368-369

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Wharton

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

Our wit till Cowley did its lustre raise

Page No:

pp.370-375

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Abraham Cowley, and his Burial in Westminster Abbey.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Orrery

Attributed To:

Roger Boyle

First Line:

Farewell great Charles monarch of blessed renown

Page No:

pp.376-386

Poem Title:

On the Death of King Charles II. Writ at that Time.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable Charles Montague, Baron Halifax

Attributed To:

Charles Montagu

First Line:

As once the lion honey gave

Page No:

pp.387-390

Poem Title:

On the Marriage of the Lady Mary with the Prince of Orange.

Attribution:

By Edmond Waller, in the Year 1677

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

Inhuman Sacharissa not to love

Page No:

p.391

Poem Title:

On Reading Mr. Waller's Poems.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See here how bright the first-born virgin shone

Page No:

p.392

Poem Title:

To a Lady: With Milton's Paradise Lost.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Happy the man who void of cares and strife

Page No:

pp.393-400

Poem Title:

In Imitation of Milton.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What put off with one denial

Page No:

pp.401-402

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Bright Cythia's power divinely great

Page No:

pp.403-404

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. Cheek

Attributed To:

Thomas Cheek

First Line:

What has this life to make it worth our care

Page No:

pp.405-408

Poem Title:

The Advice. Address'd to a Friend.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What art thou spleen which every thing dost ape

Page No:

pp.409-418

Poem Title:

The Spleen: A Pindarique Ode.

Attribution:

By a Lady

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since we can die but once and after death

Page No:

pp.419-432

Poem Title:

A Prospect of Death: A Pindarique Essay.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our bard resolved to quit this wicked town

Page No:

pp.433-436

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Fate of Capua.

Attribution:

By the Honourable Charles Boyle Esq

Attributed To:

Charles Boyle

First Line:

Poets fine titles for themselves may find

Page No:

pp.437-439

Poem Title:

Epilogue.

Attribution:

By Collonel Codrington

Attributed To:

Christopher Codrington

First Line:

Once at a ball young Cupid spied

Page No:

pp.440-441

Poem Title:

An Anacreontique from the Greek of Menage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When through the streets the Paphian goddess run

Page No:

p.442

Poem Title:

From the Greek of Menage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Can you forgive me gentle fair

Page No:

pp.443-444

Poem Title:

To Amestris: With the Ambitious Step-Mother.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hans Carvel impotent and old

Page No:

pp.445-453

Poem Title:

De La Fontain's Hans Carvel Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed