The Student or the Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany [vol II] [T147616] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 765
- Publication Date:
- 1751
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T147616
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW115312740
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - Bod
- Full Title:
- [engraved title-page] [i]THE[/i] | Student, | OR, THE | [i]Oxford and Cambridge[/i] | Monthly Miscellany. | [rule] | VOL. II. | [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. | MDCCLI.
- Epigraph:
- Epigraphs in Latin (from Claudian) and Greek (from Pindar).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford
- Genres:
- Collection of literary verse and Periodical miscellany
- Format:
- Octavo
- Bibliographic details:
- Engraved title page. Frontispiece. 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?
- 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:
- End matter: Index to the Prose [4pp.]; Index to the Poetry [4pp.]
- 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:
- First Line:
- Tis said dear sir no poets please the town
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Mr. Robert Lowth. In imitation of Horace, Book ii. Epist. 19.
- Attribution:
- By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
- First Line:
- Yes contumelious fair you scorn
- Page No:
- pp.26-28
- Poem Title:
- Ode. The Author apologizes to a Lady, for his being a little man.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Lun.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Lun
- First Line:
- My Florio wildest of his sex
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- The Decision
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Lun]
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Lun
- First Line:
- Dear John if you are not belied
- Page No:
- pp.29-33
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from Mr. Alsop to Dr. Keil, On his Marriage.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In soft Clarissa's form united shine
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- An Extempore Epigram. On Clarissa.
- Attribution:
- Granticola.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To god who in the souls of chiefs hath breathed
- Page No:
- pp.33-37
- Poem Title:
- The Song of Deborah paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- Clericus.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To thee my god though late at last I turn
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- A Hymn...About an hour before his death, when in great Pain.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Charles Hopkins.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- How vain are all the joys of man
- Page No:
- pp.38-39
- Poem Title:
- Verses from a Gentleman to a Lady, When both his Eyes were hurt by a Tennis-Ball.
- Attribution:
- a Gentleman
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh son the night before thy wedding day
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O son the night before thy wedding day
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Why art thou yet so fair shall I believe
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye hills that overlook the plains
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- To Miss *****, one of the Chichester Graces. Written in Good-Wood gardens, in September 1750.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Lun.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Lun
- First Line:
- Sir I've long waited in my turn to have
- Page No:
- pp.66-70
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue between the Poet and his Servant. In imitation of Horace, Sat. ix. Book ii.
- Attribution:
- By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
- First Line:
- Thou traitor who with the fair sex hast made war
- Page No:
- pp.70-72
- Poem Title:
- The Trial of Chaucer's Ghost. Sung at Vaux-Hall immediately after the Recantation; by Mr. Lowe, Miss Norris, and Miss Stephenson.
- Attribution:
- By the Author of the Recantation.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I had indeed three years ago
- Page No:
- pp.72-73
- Poem Title:
- A Letter to a Friend, On his sending to borrow a Gouty Shoe.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. S. P. of Guilford.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Can you be obstinately just
- Page No:
- pp.73-76
- Poem Title:
- An Ode on Publick Spirit. To the Honourable -- -- -- --
- Attribution:
- J. F.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Attend ye men of Athens to the words
- Page No:
- pp.76-78
- Poem Title:
- The Speech of Paul the Apostle to the Athenians. Acts, Chap. xvii. Ver. 22. Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some men there are with moderate wealth content
- Page No:
- pp.78-79
- Poem Title:
- The Carnation and Slug. On an old lady's telling Delia she look'd ill after a cold.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Believe me Chloe and attend
- Page No:
- pp.79-80
- Poem Title:
- To Chloe.
- Attribution:
- T. T.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Not to know at large of things remote
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- [no tile]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas when the omniscient creative power
- Page No:
- pp.111-113
- Poem Title:
- Ode To the Reverend and Learned Dr. Webster. Occasioned by his Dialogues on Anger and Forgiveness.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Smart.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Smart
- First Line:
- Why should we blush to pour the tender tear
- Page No:
- pp.113-115
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady on the loss of a Relation.
- Attribution:
- F. G. H.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Hercules by Omphale subdued
- Page No:
- pp.115-116
- Poem Title:
- Hercules Banter'd.
- Attribution:
- T. P.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lost to the pleasures of the day
- Page No:
- pp.116-117
- Poem Title:
- Chloe the Misanthrope.
- Attribution:
- P. P.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When vice with syren charms corrupts the age
- Page No:
- pp.117-118
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph On Mr. Thomas Read, son of the Rev. Mr. Read of Tenbury, in Worcestershire.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Toldervy.
- Attributed To:
- W. Toldervy
- First Line:
- Beneath this stone the world's just wonder lies
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph On Dr. Keil, the late famous Astronomer.
- Attribution:
- By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
- First Line:
- Poor blind and old see Belisarius led
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- A Reflection on seeing that excellent Picture of Belisarius drawn by Vandyke.
- Attribution:
- F.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One science only will one genius fit
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The man whose heart from vice is clear
- Page No:
- p.149
- Poem Title:
- The Pious Sailor. A sacred Ode.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Relax sweet girl your wearied mind
- Page No:
- pp.150-151
- Poem Title:
- The pretty Bar-Keeper of the Mitre. Written at College, 1741.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Lun.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Lun
- First Line:
- Happy the man who not from virtue swerves
- Page No:
- p.152
- Poem Title:
- The first Psalm of David paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- F.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While faction lifts her impious hand
- Page No:
- pp.152-153
- Poem Title:
- Ode Written in the Year ---
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That this our mortal coil the soul survives
- Page No:
- pp.154-155
- Poem Title:
- Chorus to the third Act of Seneca's Troas.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet
- Page No:
- pp.155-158
- Poem Title:
- Extempore Letter by Capt. Thomas at Bernera, to Capt. Price at Fort Augustus. Written a little before the peace was sign'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Could Horace poet critic wit
- Page No:
- pp.158-160
- Poem Title:
- The Oxonian's desire to return to College. In an Epistle to a friend.
- Attribution:
- Amicus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hush hush the god of love here sleeping lies
- Page No:
- p.160
- Poem Title:
- Love Asleep.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The Caletanian straits now passed you'll find
- Page No:
- pp.193-194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Devanus.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Old poets and wits in their amorous fits
- Page No:
- pp.194-196
- Poem Title:
- A Song. In praise of Miss W--st--l.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In ancient days as jovial Horace sings
- Page No:
- pp.196-197
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to a Play intended for the Stage.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah Damon dear shepherd adieu
- Page No:
- p.229
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral Elegy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lo the rich casket's attic dome
- Page No:
- pp.230-232
- Poem Title:
- On Ancient Medals. An Ode to the Rev. Mr. W***.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The maid that owns this humble stone
- Page No:
- p.230
- Poem Title:
- On a Grave-Stone in a Country Church-Yard.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My mother when she was with child of me
- Page No:
- p.232
- Poem Title:
- The Hermaphrodite. From the Latin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye tribes to god the votive trophy raise
- Page No:
- pp.233-236
- Poem Title:
- The Song of Deborah. Judges, Chap. V.
- Attribution:
- Devanus.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis true Vetulia once I held you fair
- Page No:
- pp.237-238
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle To Vetulia a Jilt.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Most of those rambling folk who fancy
- Page No:
- pp.270-272
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Ode 7. Book 1. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To a mouse says a miser my dear Mr Mouse
- Page No:
- p.270
- Poem Title:
- The Miser and the Mouse. An Epigram from the Greek.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Midnight.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ere yet my friend approach the evil day
- Page No:
- pp.273-275
- Poem Title:
- Rural Happiness. An Ode to R-- L--, Esq;
- Attribution:
- By a country Clergyman.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whatever subjects poets choose
- Page No:
- p.273
- Poem Title:
- On the prefixing the Names of The Muses to the Student.
- Attribution:
- 'the ingenious author of a poem call'd the Progress of Envy'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Blush Wilmot blush a female muse
- Page No:
- pp.275-276
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Walker's Poems, Particularly that on the Author.
- Attribution:
- By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
- First Line:
- From lofty Teman and the airy height
- Page No:
- pp.276-278
- Poem Title:
- Habakuk, Chap. iii. Paraphras'd. Beginning at the third verse.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I rise about nine get to breakfast by ten
- Page No:
- p.279
- Poem Title:
- The Lownger.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On grace free will and mysteries high
- Page No:
- p.309
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. On two fine Gentlemen disputing on Religion.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No more I seeo the pansy-paven vale
- Page No:
- p.310
- Poem Title:
- Despair an Elegy.
- Attribution:
- By a Gentleman of the University of Aberdeen.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O thou the third in that eternal trine
- Page No:
- pp.311-312
- Poem Title:
- Hymn to the Paraclete.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O goddess of the gloomy scene
- Page No:
- pp.313-315
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Horror. In the Allegoric, Descriptive, Alliterative, Epithetical, Fantastic, Hyperbolical, and Diabolical Style of our modern Ode-wrights, and Monody-mongers.
- Attribution:
- Chimaericus Oxoniensis.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye ancient patriarchs of the wood
- Page No:
- pp.316-317
- Poem Title:
- The Fair Recluse. An Ode
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Smart
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Smart
- First Line:
- Whither Bacchus wouldst thou bear me
- Page No:
- pp.317-318
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Ode 25. Book 3.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sol Daphne sees and seeing her admires
- Page No:
- p.318
- Poem Title:
- Epigram on the Power of Love.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Abraham Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Get along sir I hate you that's flat
- Page No:
- p.319
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The high hill power whose bowels are of gold
- Page No:
- p.329
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- ...four admirable lines in Sir William D'Avenant's Gondibert.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- Or wert thou that just maid who once before
- Page No:
- p.345
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milton in his Poem on the Death of a fair Infant, a Nephew of his...
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Yea truth and justice then
- Page No:
- p.346
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milton in his Ode on the Nativity of Christ...
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- So bright so dark upon an April day
- Page No:
- pp.353-354
- Poem Title:
- Epistle to Mr. Thomson, On the First Edition of his Seasons.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Somerville, Author of the Chace, &c.
- Attributed To:
- William Somervile
- First Line:
- Shall candid Prior in immortal lays
- Page No:
- p.354
- Poem Title:
- On seeing the Picture of Miss R-- G--n, Drawn by Mr. Verelst of Threadneedle-street.
- Attribution:
- C. S--t.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Smart
- First Line:
- O could I sing in such harmonious strains
- Page No:
- pp.355-356
- Poem Title:
- To Dr. Swift. Occasion'd by Gulliver's Travels.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Imperial bird who wont to soar
- Page No:
- pp.356-357
- Poem Title:
- Ode To an Eagle confined in a Colledge-Court.
- Attribution:
- Zosimus Zephyrinus.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Milton's forfeit life was in debate
- Page No:
- p.358
- Poem Title:
- Upon Bentley's Emendations of Milton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As in a theatre the eyes of men
- Page No:
- p.368
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- ..a beautiful simile of Shakespeare's...
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- If like the Orphean lyre my song could charms
- Page No:
- pp.393-394
- Poem Title:
- On the Sudden Death of a Clergyman.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Christopher Smart.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Smart
- First Line:
- Should some famed hand in this fantastic age
- Page No:
- pp.394-397
- Poem Title:
- On the Art of Preaching, a Fragment. In imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the late Mr. Christopher Pitt.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
- First Line:
- Give me ye gods a calm retreat
- Page No:
- pp.397-398
- Poem Title:
- The Wish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- After long strutting on and off the stage
- Page No:
- pp.399-400
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue Designed to be spoken by Mr. Tomlinson, For his Benefit at the Theatre Royal in Drury-lane, on Thursday, May 9, 1751.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye rocks of pill whose roughness seems to claim
- Page No:
- p.400
- Poem Title:
- On a Pane of Glass at Pill in Somersetshire. Lucretia.
- Attribution:
- Geo. Russel, A. B. St. Mary Hall, Oxford.
- Attributed To:
- George Russel
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