The works of celebrated authors of whose writings there are but small remains [vol II] [T145013] [ecco]

DMI number:

768

Publication Date:

1750

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T145013

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113693777

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod.

Full Title:

THE | WORKS | OF | CELEBRATED AUTHORS, | Of whose WRITINGS there are but | small Remains. | VOLUME [i]the[/i] SECOND | Containing the WORKS of | GEORGE STEPNEY, [i]Esq;[/i] | WILLIAM WALSH, [i]Esq;[/i] | THOMAS TICKELL, [i]Esq;[/i] | AND | POEMS [i]by Bishop[/i] SPRAT. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for J. and R. TONSON and S. DRAPER | in the [i]Strand[/i]. | [short rule] | MDCCL.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse and Collection of literary verse

Format:

Duodecimo

Bibliographic details:

Sections have separate title pages. [p. ?] THE | WORKS | OF | GEORGE STEPNEY, [i]Esq;[/i] [p.?] THE | WORKS | OF | WILLIAM WALSH, [i]Esq;[/i] [p.?] LETTERS | AND | POEMS, | AMOROUS [i]and[/i] GALLANT. [p. ?] A | DIALOGUE | Concerning | WOMEN, | [i]Being a Defence of the[/i] SEX: | WRITTEN TO | [i]EUGENIA.[/i] [p. ?] THE | WORKS | OF | THOMAS TICKELL, [i]Esq;[/i] [p. ?] A | POEM, | To His EXCELLENCY the | LORD [i]PRIVY-SEAL,[/i] | ON THE | PROSPECT [i]of[/i] PEACE. | [rule] | [epigraph]. [p.?] THE | FIRST BOOK | OF | [i]HOMER[/i]'s ILIAD. [p. ?] POEMS | BY | [i]Dr.[/i] SPRAT, [i]Bishop of[/i] ROCHESTER. [p. ?] THE | PLAGUE [i]of[/i] ATHENS, | Which happen'd in the | [i]Second Year[/i] of the [i]Peloponnesian[/i] War. | First describ'd in [i]Greek[/i] by THUCYDIDES; | Then in [i]Latin[/i] by LUCRETIUS.

Comments:

Contents of Stepney's works, p.1; Contents of Walsh's works pp. 245-6; Contents of Tickell's works pp. 356-7; Contents of Sprat's poems p. 416. Contents: Latin verse, pp. 54-8; prose with some verse quotations pp. 60-94, 96-103.

Other matter:

End matter: Errata p. 416.

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The works of celebrated authors of whose writings there are but small remains [vol I] [T145013] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1750

ESTC No:

T145013

Volume:

1 of 2

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Publisher:

J. Tonson

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Publisher:

R. Tonson

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Absolute (100%)

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Somerset Draper

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Content/Publication

First Line:

Of Marlborough's captains and Eugenio's friends

Page No:

p.338

Poem Title:

On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

As victors lose the trouble they sustain

Page No:

pp.3-4

Poem Title:

To King James II. Upon His Accension to the Thone. The Author then of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Yes fickle Cambridge Perkins found this true

Page No:

pp.4-5

Poem Title:

On the University of Cambridge's burning the Duke of Monmouth's Picture, 1685. who was formerly their Chancellor. -- In Answer to this Question, -- Sed quid | Turba Remi? sequitur fortunamm ut semper, & odit | Damnatos. --

Attribution:

George Stepney Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Sir | Since you oft invite me to renew

Page No:

pp.5-11

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Charles Montague, Esq; on his Majesty's Voyage to Holland.

Attribution:

George Stepney Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

The youth whose fortune the vast globe obeyed

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

On the late horrid Conspiracy.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

He's gone and was it then by your decree

Page No:

pp.12-14

Poem Title:

To the Earl of Carlisle, upon the Death of his Son before Luxemburgh.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Once more my muse we must an altar raise

Page No:

pp.14-18

Poem Title:

A Poem dedicated to the Blessed Memory of her late Gracious Majesty Queen Mary.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

At Anna's call the Austrian eagle flies

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

The Austrian Eagle.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

At dead of night imperial reason sleeps

Page No:

pp.18-19

Poem Title:

The Nature of Dreams.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

When money and my blood ran high

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

Verses imitated from the French of Monsieur Maynard, to Cardinal Richelieu.

Attribution:

George Stepney Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Mun rarely credit common fame

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

To Mr. Edmund Smith.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Whenever I wive young Strephon cried

Page No:

p.21-23 [i.e. 22]

Poem Title:

The Spell.

Attribution:

George Stepney Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

What's the advantage or the real good

Page No:

pp.22 [i.e. 23]-37

Poem Title:

Juvenal. The Eighth Satire.

Attribution:

George Stepney Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Dear Molly why so oft in tears

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

Horace. Book III. Ode VII. Imitated.

Attribution:

George Stepney Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Verses immortal as my bays I sing

Page No:

pp.48-50

Poem Title:

Horace. Book IV. Ode IX.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

If Memnon's fate bewailed with constant dew

Page No:

pp.51-53

Poem Title:

Elegy upon the Death of Tibullus. From Ovid.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Bright star by Venus fixed above

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

To the Evening-Star. English'd, from a Greek Idyllium.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

a just coherence made

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

My Lord Mulgrave.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

If streaming blood my fatal letter stain

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Near Covent Garden theatre where you know

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

On the Author of A Dialogue concerning Women, pretended to be writ in Defence of the Sex.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Bless us said I what mighty hero's here

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Go little book and to the world impart

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

To his Book.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Let the dull merchant curse his angry fate

Page No:

pp.104-105

Poem Title:

Elegy. The unrewarded Lover.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

With what strange raptures would my soul be blessed

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

Epigram. Written in a Lady's Table-Book.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

While those bright eyes subdue wherever you will

Page No:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

Elegy. The Power of Verse. To his Mistress.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Who could more happy who more blest could live

Page No:

pp.107-109

Poem Title:

Jealousy.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

What tortures can there be in hell

Page No:

pp.109-110

Poem Title:

Cure of Jealousy.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

What has this bugbear death that's worth our care

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

Sonnet. Death.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Celia your tricks will now no longer pass

Page No:

pp.111-112

Poem Title:

Elegy. To his false Mistress.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

What fury does disturb my rest

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

Upon the same Occasion.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Celia too late you would repent

Page No:

pp.113-114

Poem Title:

Upon a Favour offer'd.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

When I see the bright nymph who my heart does enthral

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

The Antidote.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Be gone ye sighs be gone ye tears

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

The Reconcilement.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Value thy self fond youth no more

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

Dialogue betwen a Lover and his Friend. (Irregular Verses.)

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Go said old Lyce senseless lover go

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

Epigram. Lyce.

Attribution:

William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

In what sad pomp the mournful charmer lies

Page No:

pp.116-117

Poem Title:

Epigram. To his false Mistress.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

How much are they deceived who vainly strive

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

Epigram. Love and Jealousy.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Thou saidst that I alone thy heart could move

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

Epigram. To his false Mistress.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

I know Celinda I have born too long

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

Elegy, upon quitting his Mistress.

Attribution:

William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Is there a pious pleasure that proceeds

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

Elegy. The Petition. (In Imitation of Catullus.)

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Yes all the world must sure agree

Page No:

pp.119-120

Poem Title:

To his Mistress, against Marriage.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Chloe new married looks on men no more

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

Epigram. Chloe.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Cornus proclaims aloud his wife's a whore

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

Epigram. Cornus.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Thraso picks quarrels when he's drunk at night

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

Epigram. Thraso.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Ah Celia where are now the charms

Page No:

pp.121-122

Poem Title:

To Celia, upon some Alterations in her Face.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Rich Gripe does all his thoughts and cunning bend

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

Epigram. Gripe and Shifter.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

All hail ye fields where constant peace attends

Page No:

pp.122-123

Poem Title:

The Retirement.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Distracted with care

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

The Despairing Lover.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Of all the torments all the cares

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Phillis we not grieve that nature

Page No:

pp.125-126

Poem Title:

A Song to Phillis.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

When slaves their liberty require

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

Phillis's Resolution.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Madam I cannot but congratulate

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a Lady who had resolved against Marriage.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

The dismal regions which no sun beholds

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

Clelia to Urania. An Ode.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Though Celia's born to be adored

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Sicilian muse my humble voice inspire

Page No:

pp.130-132

Poem Title:

Pastoral Eclogues. Eclogue 1.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Thyrsis the gayest one of all the swains

Page No:

pp.132-134

Poem Title:

Eclogue II. Galatea.

Attribution:

William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day

Page No:

pp.134-136

Poem Title:

Eclogue III. Damon. (Taken from the Eighth Eclogue of Virgil.)

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Strephon and Damon's flocks together fed

Page No:

pp.136-139

Poem Title:

Eclogue IV. Lycon.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Ye gentle swains who pass your days and nights

Page No:

pp.139-142

Poem Title:

Eclogue V. Delia, Lamenting the Death of Mrs. Tempest, who died upon the Day of the great Storm.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

The man that's resolute and just

Page No:

pp.143-145

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode III. Book III. Imitated, 1705.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Sicilian muse begin a loftier flight

Page No:

pp.146-149

Poem Title:

The Golden Age Restored, 1703. An Imitation of the Fourth Eclogue of Virgil: Supposed to have been taken from a Sibylline-Prophecy.

Attribution:

William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Wit like tierce claret when it begins to pall

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

When conquering death shall ravish from their eyes

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In courts licentious and a shameless stage

Page No:

pp.249-250

Poem Title:

To the Supposed Author of the Spectator.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Contending kings and fields of death too long

Page No:

pp.253-254

Poem Title:

To the Lord Privy-Seal.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

The haughty Gaul in ten campaigns overthrown

Page No:

pp.255-267

Poem Title:

A Poem on the Prospect of Peace.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

The opera first Italian masters taught

Page No:

pp.268-269

Poem Title:

To Mr. Addison on his Opera of Rosamond.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Too long has love engrossed Britannia's stage

Page No:

pp.269-271

Poem Title:

To the same on his Tragedy of Cato.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

When Brunswick first appeared each honest heart

Page No:

pp.271-275

Poem Title:

The Royal Progress.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

As Mar his round one morning took

Page No:

pp.275-277

Poem Title:

An Imitation of the Prophecy of Nereus, From Horace. Book I. Ode XV.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

What kings henceforth shall reign what states be free

Page No:

pp.284-286

Poem Title:

Prologue to the University of Oxford.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Can this be he could Charles the good the great

Page No:

pp.286-288

Poem Title:

Thoughts occasioned by the Sight of an original Picture of King Charles I. taken at the Time of his Trial. Inscrib'd to George Clarke, Esq;

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Horses and hounds their care their various race

Page No:

pp.288-292

Poem Title:

A Fragment of a Poem on Hunting.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

I am cried Apollo when Daphne he wooed

Page No:

p.292

Poem Title:

To Apollo making Love. From Monsieur Fontenelle.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Much had I heard of fair Francelia's name

Page No:

p.293

Poem Title:

The fatal Curiosity.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

In utmost ocean lies a lovely isle

Page No:

pp.294-295

Poem Title:

A Description of the Phoenix: From Claudian.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Lavish of wit and bold appear the lines

Page No:

p.294

Poem Title:

To a Lady; with a Description of the Phoenix.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

The fragrant painting of our flowery fields

Page No:

pp.299-300

Poem Title:

To a Lady; with a Present of Flowers.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

The greatest swain that treads the Arcadian grove

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

Verses to Mrs. Lowther on her Marriage. From Menage.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

As Damon Chloe's painted form surveyed

Page No:

pp.300-301

Poem Title:

On a Lady's Picture: To Gilfred Lawson, Esq;

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Their ancient friends as now they nearer drew

Page No:

pp.301-304

Poem Title:

Part of the Fourth Book of Lucan.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Achilles fatal wrath whence discord rose

Page No:

pp.305-330

Poem Title:

The First Book of the Iliad.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

If dumb too long the drooping muse hath stayed

Page No:

pp.331-334

Poem Title:

To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Of Leinster famed for maidens fair

Page No:

pp.334-336

Poem Title:

Colin and Lucy. A Ballad.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

To Whitton's shades and Hounslow's airy plain

Page No:

pp.336-337

Poem Title:

To Sir Godfrey Kneller at his Country Seat.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Thou dome where Edward first enrolled

Page No:

pp.339-341

Poem Title:

An Ode inscribed to the Earl of Sunderland at Windsor.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Where Kensington high over the neighbouring lands

Page No:

pp.341-355

Poem Title:

Kensington Garden.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickell, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Tis true great name thou art secure

Page No:

pp.363-373

Poem Title:

To the happy Memory of the Lord Protector.

Attribution:

Dr. Sprat, Bishop of Rochester.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat

First Line:

Your book our old knight errants fame revives

Page No:

p.374

Poem Title:

To a Person of Honour, (Mr. Edward Howard) upon his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem, intitled the British Princes.

Attribution:

Dr. Sprat Bishop of Rochester.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat

First Line:

Sweet stream that dost with equal pace

Page No:

p.375

Poem Title:

On his Mistress Drown'd.

Attribution:

Dr. Sprat Bishop of Rochester.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat

First Line:

Unhappy man by nature made to sway

Page No:

pp.377-407

Poem Title:

The Plague of Athens.

Attribution:

Dr. Sprat, Bishop of Rochester.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat

First Line:

Let all this meaner rout of books stand by

Page No:

pp.408-415

Poem Title:

Upon the Poems of the English Ovid, Anacreon, Pindar and Virgil, Abraham Cowley, in Imitation of his own Pindarick Odes.

Attribution:

Dr. Sprat Bishop of Rochester.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat