The Student or the Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany [vol I] [T147616] [ecco]

DMI number:

764

Publication Date:

1750

ESTC number:

T147616

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115312326

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod.

Full Title:

[engraved title-page] [i]THE[/i] | Student, | OR, THE | [i]Oxford and Cambridge[/i] | Monthly Miscellany. | [rule] | VOL. I. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | Oxford: | [i]Printed for J. Newbery in St Paul's Church Yard, London; | J. Barrett in Oxford: and J. Morrill in Cambridge. | MDCCL.

Epigraph:

[i] -- volet haec sub luce videri, | Judicis argutum quae non formidat acumen.[/i] HOR.

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Genres:

Periodical miscellany and Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

QUERY: is this a reprinting of a periodical miscellany, or does it comprise of the individually printed parts collected and presented as a complete whole? QUERY: mispagination? jumps from 104 to 65, then from 72 to 113, but catchwords appear to follow. Plates: Titlepage is engraved. Frontispiece. Separate title page for January 1750: THE | STUDENT, | OR THE | OXFORD | MONTHLY MISCELLANY. | [rule] | NUMBER I. JANUARY 31. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | OXFORD: | Printed for J. NEWBERY in St. [i]Paul[/i]'s Church-Yard, | LONDON; and J. BARRETT in OXFORD. | [short rule] | MDCCL.

Comments:

Contents: contains prose and Latin verse. Some prose items contain verse quotations: only those quotations of 4 lines or longer have been recorded.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Address to the Reader pp. iii-iv. End matter: Index to the prose [4pp]; Index to the poetry [4pp].

Related People

Editor:

Christopher Smart

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

ESTC identifies Smart as editor.

Publisher:

J. Morrill

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

John Barrett

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

John Newbery

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

It is hewn | With strokes of axes and repeated steel

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Doctor Trapp.

Attributed To:

Joseph Trapp

First Line:

Let the pale miser view with eager eyes

Page No:

pp.25-28

Poem Title:

Elegies. In imitation of Tibullus. Elegy the First. The Comforts of a retired Life.

Attribution:

B. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye breezes mild and gentle gales

Page No:

pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Chorus at the end of the second Act of the Hecuba of Euripides.

Attribution:

B. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My dear companion and my faithful friend

Page No:

pp.29-31

Poem Title:

An Address to an Elbow-Chair lately new cloathed.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hence ye irreligious hence

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Ode to Piety. In the person of a young Clergyman.

Attribution:

S. A.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of battles won and kings in chains

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

Horace Book II. Ode XII. Imitated and address'd to lord *****

Attribution:

B.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The clouds grew big the thunder rolled on high

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

A Reflection on the Year 1720. By one of the south-sea directors.

Attribution:

W. C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From the grand tour through Paris Florence Rome

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

The Modern Traveller.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Authors the world and their dull brains have traced

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

On seeing the Ladies at Crux-Euston Walk in the Woods by the Grotto.

Attribution:

Extempore by Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Here shunning idleness at once and praise

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

Inscription on a Grotto, the work of nine Ladies.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

For I | Never yet did thunder with my vocal heel

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

God of my health whose bounteous care

Page No:

pp.63-64

Poem Title:

An Hymn to the Creator.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Readers too long with specious tales deceived

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Student.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though strength of genius by experience taught

Page No:

pp.65-70

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole On his first coming into Power.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Till now my soul this earthly load

Page No:

pp.70-72

Poem Title:

Reflections in Sickness.

Attribution:

Zeno.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A lion worn with length of years

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

The Court of the Lion. From La Fontaine.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I've wondered which when poets sing

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

The Disinterested Lover.

Attribution:

T. N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As mortals languish when the rays of light

Page No:

pp.74-75

Poem Title:

On a Young Lady taken ill at an Assembly.

Attribution:

D. D.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See madam see your shivering lover lies

Page No:

pp.75-76

Poem Title:

The Lover's midnight Serenade.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of trumpets drums guns and the bold bloody battle

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

The first Ode of Anacreon.

Attribution:

M.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

One day in Chelsea meadows walking

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

On an Epigram.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At concerts lo an expletive I stand

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Still rose the morn security had lulled

Page No:

pp.95-97

Poem Title:

Seasonable Reflections on the two late Earthquakes.

Attribution:

by the ingenious Mr. Browne.

Attributed To:

Moses Browne

First Line:

Balm of my cares sweet solace of my toils

Page No:

pp.65-68 [i.e. 105-108]

Poem Title:

A Panegyrick on Ale.

Attribution:

T. W. X. Y. Z.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whence come these dreams this busy idle train

Page No:

pp.69-70 [i.e. 109-110]

Poem Title:

On Dreams. From a Fragment of Petronius Arbiter.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A lady fair to country seat confined

Page No:

pp.70-71 [i.e. 110-111]

Poem Title:

The Lady and Caterpillar. Imitated from the French.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The rude inclement binding blast

Page No:

pp.71[i.e. 111] -113

Poem Title:

Return of the Spring. Horace Book I. Ode 4. translated.

Attribution:

T. N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All powerful fancy dear delusive maid

Page No:

pp.113-114

Poem Title:

To Fancy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The man who not a farthing owes

Page No:

pp.114-116

Poem Title:

The Pleasure of being Out of Debt. Horace. Ode XXII. Book I. imitated.

Attribution:

[poem signed with cypher]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While Oxford bards with teeming fancy fraught

Page No:

pp.116-118

Poem Title:

On Miss L--.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Love spite of honour's dictates gave thee breath

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

Epitaph. On a bastard-child murder'd by its mother.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See with what virtue wit is fraught

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

On an Epigram.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In them tis graceful to dissolve at woe

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thomson's Autumn.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

The man that hath no music in himself

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespeare.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Not wealth a monarch can create

Page No:

pp.151-152

Poem Title:

Past of the second Chorus in the Thyestes of Seneca.

Attribution:

T. N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou once loved abode of an heavenly fair

Page No:

pp.153-154

Poem Title:

An Address to an House in F--e Street.

Attribution:

T. N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As banished from the industrious hive

Page No:

pp.154-155

Poem Title:

The Drone and the Spider. A Fable. In imitation of Mr. Gay.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Distressed o god yet passive how the scales

Page No:

pp.156-157

Poem Title:

A soliloquy on Recovery from Sickness.

Attribution:

Zeno.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What essenced youth of beds of roses laid

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

Horace, Book I. Ode 5. Paraphrased.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Euphemia played what lively raptures stole

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

On a Young Lady playing and singing.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Had I your high command obeyed

Page No:

pp.187-188

Poem Title:

To Clara, the eldest of the three sisters.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The moon was full so was my heart

Page No:

pp.188-190

Poem Title:

Lunar Influence. A Poem, written by Moon-Light.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In times of yore an honest country mouse

Page No:

pp.190-192

Poem Title:

The City Mouse and Country Mouse. A Fable. From Hor. lib. ii. sat. 6. ver. 79. ad ult.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well hast thou wrote Granticola I ween

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

Sonnet. On the Power of Musick. To Granticola. See number iv. page 129.

Attribution:

A.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh gout the plague of rich and great

Page No:

pp.193-194

Poem Title:

A Receipt for the Gout. In a Letter to a Nobleman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Few of our sex you say sincerely love

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

To Miss B-- P--.

Attribution:

O.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While various schemes the female world employ

Page No:

pp.195-197

Poem Title:

An Epistle from a Lady To a Gentleman abroad.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold how quiet there old Gripus lies

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

A Funeral Reflection.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A well known vase of sovereign use I sing

Page No:

pp.198-199

Poem Title:

An Imitation of Spenser.

Attribution:

[poem signed with cypher]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Those native smiles that winning air

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

On Miss Tr--ll--pe.

Attribution:

C.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For Glycera's radiant face I burn

Page No:

p.220

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

G. W.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Can we succeed by wishing tis a jest

Page No:

pp.225-227

Poem Title:

The Absurdity of Wishing.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail eldest of the monthly train

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

Ode on the fifth of December, Being the birth-day of a very beautiful Young Lady.

Attribution:

By Mr. Christopher Smart.

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

Imperious love whose secret fire

Page No:

pp.227-228

Poem Title:

A Love Elegy. The Poet bids farewell to his Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Licinius if you would obtain

Page No:

pp.228-229

Poem Title:

Horace, Book II. Ode X.

Attribution:

T. N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold the man whom humble merit raised

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

To be placed under the Picture of the Right Honourable William Grant, Esq; his Majesty's Advocate for Scotland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Old Chaucer once to this re-echoing grove

Page No:

pp.230-232

Poem Title:

A Panegyrick on the Ladies. Being Chaucer's Recantation for The blind eat many a fly. As it is sung at the Spring Gardens Vaux Hall, with great applause.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What dimly glimmering distant light

Page No:

pp.232-234

Poem Title:

A Soliloquy...Gazing at Kitty's chamber window.

Attribution:

by Thyrsis

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Once more the vernal sun's all cheering beams

Page No:

pp.234-235

Poem Title:

Morning. An Ode. The Author confin'd to College.

Attribution:

J. J.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When now mature in classic knowledge

Page No:

pp.235-238

Poem Title:

The Progress of Discontent.

Attribution:

T. W. X. Y. Z.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst witlings poetasters fops combine

Page No:

pp.238-240

Poem Title:

Of writing on celebrated Toasts. An Epistle to Mr. Warton.

Attribution:

J. S.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear sir to all my trifles you attend

Page No:

pp.265-266

Poem Title:

An Epistle to J. Pitt, Esq; In imitation of Horace. Epist. iv. Book I.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

When Pallas saw the piece her pupils wrought

Page No:

pp.266-267

Poem Title:

Verses on a Flower'd Carpet, Work'd by the Young Ladies at Kingston.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Pitt]

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

Sick of the town at once I flew

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

M. S.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Examine nature's work around

Page No:

pp.269-271

Poem Title:

The World. A Fiddle and a Dance.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

God is my hope in him distressed

Page No:

p.272

Poem Title:

Psalm XI. Translated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By a prattling stream on a midsummer's eve

Page No:

p.273

Poem Title:

Sweet William. A Ballad

Attribution:

by Mr. Smart.

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

Brisk Chaunticleer his mattins had begun

Page No:

pp.274-275

Poem Title:

A Morning-Piece: Or, An Hymn for the Hay-Makers.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Smart]

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

The barks how famed by labouring oars

Page No:

pp.276-277

Poem Title:

The Arms of Achilles. From a Chorus in the Electra of Euripides.

Attribution:

L. M. N. O. P. Q.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Declare if heavenly wisdom bless thy tongue

Page No:

pp.278-279

Poem Title:

Job, Chapter XXXIX.

Attribution:

[poem signed with cypher]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The merchant by his toil bought wealth grown great

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unmanly courage unbeseeming skill

Page No:

p.300

Poem Title:

Hunting. An improper Diversion for the Fair Sex.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

The big round tears run down his dappled neck

Page No:

pp.302-303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Oh may their eyes no miserable sight

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sun is now too radiant to behold

Page No:

pp.305-307

Poem Title:

A Noon-Piece: Or the Mowers at Dinner.

Attribution:

By Mr. Smart.

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

The man whom sacred truth and justice sway

Page No:

pp.307-309

Poem Title:

Horace, Book III. Ode 3.

Attribution:

T. N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of all my experience how vast the amount

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

The Distress'd Damsel. A Ballad.

Attribution:

By Miss Nelly Pentweazle, a young lady of fifteen.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whoever with frontless phyz is blessed

Page No:

pp.311-312

Poem Title:

The Happiness of a good Assurance. Horace, Book I. Ode 22. Imitated and moderniz'd.

Attribution:

Sophista.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Health from the bard who loves the rural sport

Page No:

pp.313-315

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. Spence, In Imitation of Horace. Epis. X. Book I.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

If you can leave for books the crowded court

Page No:

pp.315-316

Poem Title:

The Invitation. An Epistle to a Friend at Court.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Pitt]

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

With meek humility and fear

Page No:

pp.317-318

Poem Title:

Psalm XXIX. Paraphras'd.

Attribution:

T. E. P.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All men like watches various periods share

Page No:

p.318

Poem Title:

On a Watch.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Spence with a friend you pass the hours away

Page No:

pp.345-348

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. Spence, When Tutor to Lord Middlesex. In imitation of Horace, Book I. Epist. 18.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

Tis done I tower to that degree

Page No:

pp.348-349

Poem Title:

On taking a Batchelor's Degree. In allusion to Horace, Book iii. Ode 30.

Attribution:

B. A.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too bold the man whom thirst of gain

Page No:

pp.350-352

Poem Title:

Chorus In the Second Act of the Medea of Seneca.

Attribution:

A.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe's the subject artist worthy Greece

Page No:

p.352

Poem Title:

Sonnet from the Italian.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas when bright Cynthia with her silver car

Page No:

pp.353-354

Poem Title:

A Night-Piece. Or Modern Philosophy.

Attribution:

By Mr. Smart.

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

With magic virtues fraught of sovereign use

Page No:

pp.354-356

Poem Title:

The sympathetic Loadstones. From Strada's Prolusions, Book ii. Prol. 6.

Attribution:

[Pseudonym in Greek]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye lovers of the muse oh thou whose breast

Page No:

p.356

Poem Title:

Epitaph On Ambrose Phillips, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mr. Rolt.

Attributed To:

Richard Rolt

First Line:

Frigidio's muse from ardour free

Page No:

p.357

Poem Title:

Epigram extempore on a Cold Poet.

Attribution:

By Ebenezer Pentweazle, of Truro in the Country of Cornwall, Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In Paphos and Idalium poets sing

Page No:

pp.357-358

Poem Title:

On an Orange-Tree In the Window of Flavia's Bed-chamber.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The object and the pleasure of mine eye

Page No:

p.374

Poem Title:

A passage in Shakespeare corrected.

Attribution:

Shakespeare

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

From this tall promontory's brow

Page No:

pp.385-387

Poem Title:

Ode to John Pitt, Esq; Advising him to build a Banqueting-House on a Hill that overlooks the Sea.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

Over curious models as you rove

Page No:

pp.387-389

Poem Title:

By the same, to the same, on the same.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Pitt]

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

See see my friend the fleeting years

Page No:

pp.389-390

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XIV. Book ii. imitated. To M. W. Esq;

Attribution:

C. J.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I stole from sweet Gumming two kisses in play

Page No:

p.390

Poem Title:

The Latin Epigram in our last translated.

Attribution:

T. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O Venus queen of smiles and joy

Page No:

pp.390-391

Poem Title:

Imitation of the sixty-second Ode of Anacreon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let mercenary souls with endless pain

Page No:

pp.391-392

Poem Title:

Te Tua, Me Delectent Mea. In imitation of the seventh Ode of Horace, Book 1.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go soul the body's guest

Page No:

pp.393-396

Poem Title:

Verses

Attribution:

by Sir Walter Raleigh, Knt.

Attributed To:

Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]

First Line:

Sincerest critic of my prose or rhyme

Page No:

pp.396-398

Poem Title:

An Epistle to the Lord Cobham. In allusion to Horace, Book i. Epist. 4.

Attribution:

By Mr. Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Could all that passes in my breast be seen

Page No:

pp.398-399

Poem Title:

Spoken to Queen Caroline in her Bed-Chamber

Attribution:

By Mr. Freind, Son to the late Dr. John Freind.

Attributed To:

John Freind

First Line:

Sylvia the most contented of her kind

Page No:

pp.399-400

Poem Title:

The Widow's Resolution. A Cantata.

Attribution:

By Mr. Lun.

Attributed To:

Mr. Lun