The Works of Horace in English by Several Hands [Vol 2] [T52759] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 918
- Publication Date:
- 1759
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T52759
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW112619418
- Full Title:
- THE | WORKS | OF | [i]HORACE[/i] | In ENGLISH VERSE. | By SEVERAL HANDS. | ILLUSTRATED WITH | NOTES HISTORICAL and CRITICAL. | [Rule] | VOLUME the SECOND and LAST. | [Double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY, in [i]Pall-Mall.[/i] | [Short rule] | M.DCC.LIX.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of translations/imitations
- Format:
- Octavo
- Bibliographic details:
- Separate title pages for the individual sections. Odes, Book 5 is dedicated to John Lord Willoughby de Broke; Satires, Book 2 to Thomas Lord Bishop of Kildare; Epistles, Book 1 to Glocester Ridley; Epistles, Book 2 to Sneyd Davies; Epistles, Book 3 (i.e. Art of Poetry) to Isaac Pacatus Shard.
- Comments:
- BL ESTC and ECCO record date of publication as 1757 (M.DCC.LVII.); however, title page of second volume states 1759. Attributions: title page of 'The Fifth Book of the Odes of Horace. Commonly Called the Epodes' and 'The First Book of the Epistles of Horace' both identify 'John Duncombe, M. A.' as the author; unless authorship is otherwise stated, Duncombe is assumed to be the author of the poems in these sections.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Contents: pp. iii-v; Errata: [1p] End matter: "Various Readings and Corrections" [601-622]
- Title:
- The Works of Horace in English by Several Hands [Vol 1] [T52759] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1757
- ESTC No:
- T52759
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Author:
- Robert Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- William Duncombe
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Editor:
- John Duncombe
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- James Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- You in Liburnian barks my friend
- Page No:
- pp.1-3
- Poem Title:
- Ode I. To Maecenas.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Blessed as our sires of old is he
- Page No:
- pp.4-8
- Poem Title:
- Ode II. The Praises of a Country Life.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Thrice happy who free from ambition and pride
- Page No:
- pp.8-11
- Poem Title:
- The Same Ode Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By Another Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Should impious sons in future times
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- Ode III. To Maecenas
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- When wolves no longer lambs pursue
- Page No:
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- Ode IV. To Menas, Pompey's Freed-man.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- But by the gods in heaven whose sway
- Page No:
- pp.16-24
- Poem Title:
- Ode V. Canidia.
- Attribution:
- By William Duncombe, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- William Duncombe
- First Line:
- Why barkst thou at the harmless guest
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- Ode VI. To Cassius Severus.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Say ye vile race what frenzy draws
- Page No:
- pp.26-27
- Poem Title:
- Ode VII. To the Roman People.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- When in large draughts of hoarded wine
- Page No:
- pp.28-31
- Poem Title:
- Ode IX. To Maecenas.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- In an unlucky hour the ship
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- Ode X. On Maevius.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Ah Pettius I no more indite
- Page No:
- pp.34-36
- Poem Title:
- Ode XI. To Pettius.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- See gathering clouds obscure the sky
- Page No:
- pp.36-39
- Poem Title:
- Ode XIII. To a Friend.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- I grieve to hear you oft enquire
- Page No:
- pp.39-41
- Poem Title:
- Ode XIV. To Maecenas.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Twas night and Cynthia with her starry train
- Page No:
- pp.41-42
- Poem Title:
- Ode XV. To Neaera.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- A second age in wars we waste away
- Page No:
- pp.42-46
- Poem Title:
- Ode XVI. To the Roman People.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- At length thy powerful arts I own
- Page No:
- pp.47-49
- Poem Title:
- Ode XVII. To Canidia.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Why do thy prayers thus stun my ear
- Page No:
- pp.50-52
- Poem Title:
- Canidia's Answer.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section titlepage]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Phoebus and Cynthia over the chase
- Page No:
- pp.55-64
- Poem Title:
- The Secular Ode.
- Attribution:
- By William Duncombe, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- William Duncombe
- First Line:
- What is the reason none enjoy the state
- Page No:
- pp.71-81
- Poem Title:
- Satire I. Adapted to the Manners of the present Times...That all Men, especially the Covetous, are discontented with their Lot. Addressed to the Right Honourable The Earl of Corke and Orrery.
- Attribution:
- By I. P. Shard, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Isaac Pacatus Shard
- First Line:
- All songsters in this common fault agree
- Page No:
- pp.82-96
- Poem Title:
- Satire III. That we ought to be indulgent to the Imperfections of our Friends, and not look on small Faults as Crimes.
- Attribution:
- D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The comic poets of the Grecian stage
- Page No:
- pp.97-106
- Poem Title:
- Satire IV. He excuses the Liberty taken by Writers of Satire, and especially that which he takes himself.
- Attribution:
- J. D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas a long journey lay before us
- Page No:
- pp.107-123
- Poem Title:
- Satire V. A humorous Description of the Author's Journey from Rome to Brundusium.
- Attribution:
- By William Cowper, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- William Cowper
- First Line:
- What though no Lydian on Etruria's coasts
- Page No:
- pp.124-135
- Poem Title:
- Satire VI. To Maecenas. The Qualities of true Nobility. Inscribed to the Earl of Corke.
- Attribution:
- J. D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How Persius on Rupilius King
- Page No:
- pp.136-140
- Poem Title:
- Satire VII. An Account of a wrangling Quarrel between Persius and Rupilius King.
- Attribution:
- J. D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of old a fig-tree useless wood
- Page No:
- pp.141-146
- Poem Title:
- Satire VIII. Priapus's Complaint against the Witches, who infested the Hill of Esquiliae.
- Attribution:
- J. D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sauntering along the street one day
- Page No:
- pp.147-155
- Poem Title:
- Satire IX. Adapted to the present Times...The Description of an Impertinent.
- Attribution:
- By W. C. Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I said 'tis true Lucilius' lines were rough
- Page No:
- pp.156-165
- Poem Title:
- Satire X. Inscribed to John Hawkesworth, LL.D. He justifies the Opinion he had given of Lucilius, and lays down some excellent Rules for writing Satire.
- Attribution:
- J. D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There are who think my verses are too bold
- Page No:
- pp.169-177
- Poem Title:
- Satire I. Horace and Trebatius. He asks the Opinion of Trebatius, an eminent Lawyer, whether he ought to forbear writing Satire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What and how great the benefits that flow
- Page No:
- pp.178-190
- Poem Title:
- Satire II. Of Frugality.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If you so rarely write that through the year
- Page No:
- pp.191-228
- Poem Title:
- Satire III. Damasippus. Horace. In this Dialogue Damasippus explains at large, and illustrates by Examples the Doctrine of the Stoics, That every wicked Man is a Fool or Lunatic, as he himself had learned it in a Lecture from the Stoic Philosopher Stertinius.
- Attribution:
- D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Say Catius whence and whither
- Page No:
- pp.229-236
- Poem Title:
- Satire IV. A Dialogue between Horace and Catius, on the Art of Cookery.
- Attribution:
- J. D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Besides those things you have already told
- Page No:
- pp.237-251
- Poem Title:
- Satire V. Ulysses and Tiresias.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oft has this been my wish's utmost bound
- Page No:
- pp.252-265
- Poem Title:
- Satire VI...He compares the Cares and Troubles of a Town Life with the Ease and Pleasure of a Country one.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Fawkes.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Fawkes
- First Line:
- I long in silence have your orders heard
- Page No:
- pp.266-278
- Poem Title:
- Satire VII. A Dialogue between Horace and his Slave. That every Man is a Slave, who is under the Controul of his Passions.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sir I've long waited in my turn to have
- Page No:
- pp.278-284
- Poem Title:
- The same Satire Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Christopher Pitt.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
- First Line:
- How did you fare at wealthy Rufus' feast
- Page No:
- pp.285-293
- Poem Title:
- Satire VIII. Horace and Fundanius. A Description of the Feast of Rufus Nasidienus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas said you shared a jovial guest
- Page No:
- pp.294-306
- Poem Title:
- The Miser's Feast. Being the Same Satire Imitated...A Dialogue between one of the Guests and his Friend.
- Attribution:
- By Edward Greene Burnaby, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Edward Burnaby Greene
- First Line:
- Beloved Maecenas whom my earliest muse
- Page No:
- pp.309-321
- Poem Title:
- Epistle I. To Maecenas.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Whilst with applause at Rome you Lollius plead
- Page No:
- pp.322-331
- Poem Title:
- Epistle II. To Lollius.
- Attribution:
- By I. P. Shard, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Isaac Pacatus Shard
- First Line:
- While you my friend are ever doomed to town
- Page No:
- pp.332-338
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated...To a Tutor at Trinity College, Dublin.
- Attribution:
- By a Friend in Ireland.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me my Florus on what foreign coast
- Page No:
- pp.339-342
- Poem Title:
- Epistle III. To Julius Florus.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- You whom all places in their turns delight
- Page No:
- pp.342-344
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Nevile, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tibullus candid critic of my lays
- Page No:
- pp.345-347
- Poem Title:
- Epistle IV. To Albius Tibullus.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Dear sir to all my trifles you attend
- Page No:
- pp.348-350
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated...To John Pitt, Esq;
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Christopher Pitt.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
- First Line:
- Dear friend whom favouring providence allows
- Page No:
- pp.350-352
- Poem Title:
- To a Gentleman, whose Father had left the Bulk of his Estate to a younger Son. In Allusion to the Same Epistle.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Say.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Say
- First Line:
- If you can loll on antique beds and eat
- Page No:
- pp.353-355
- Poem Title:
- Epistle V. To Torquatus.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Since you dear Dan without a courtly Sneer
- Page No:
- pp.356-358
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By a Friend in Ireland.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nought to admire Numicius is the best
- Page No:
- pp.359-365
- Poem Title:
- Epistle VI. To Numicius. That a wise Man admires nothing but Virtue.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- With steady wing between extremes to soar
- Page No:
- pp.366-371
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By Another Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Five days I told you I from town should stay
- Page No:
- pp.372-380
- Poem Title:
- Epistle VII. To Maecenas.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Tis true my lord I gave my word
- Page No:
- pp.381-384
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope and Dr. Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan SwiftAlexander Pope
- First Line:
- On Nero's secretary muse attend
- Page No:
- pp.385-387
- Poem Title:
- Epistle VIII. To Celsus Albinovanus.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Haste muse to Spithead and if winds do not alter
- Page No:
- pp.388-389
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Septimius only strange as it may seem
- Page No:
- pp.390-391
- Poem Title:
- Epistle IX. To Claudius Tiberius Nero.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Dear Dick however it comes into his head
- Page No:
- pp.391-392
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated...To the Right Hon. Robert Harley, Esq;
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- I lover of the country to my friend
- Page No:
- pp.393-398
- Poem Title:
- Epistle X. To Fuscus Aristius.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Dellius of rural scenes a lover grown
- Page No:
- pp.399-402
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By Another Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me Bullatius did the sight
- Page No:
- pp.403-406
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XI. To Bullatius.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Still my dear Lord do fair Italia's shores
- Page No:
- pp.407-409
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated...To Charles Earl of Middlesex.
- Attribution:
- By George Lord Bishop of Derry. [Footnote: Now Lord Primate of Ireland]
- Attributed To:
- George Stone
- First Line:
- Since now Agrippa to your hands
- Page No:
- pp.410-415
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XII. To Iccius.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Between what you collect and what you set
- Page No:
- pp.415-417
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated...To a Politician.
- Attribution:
- By Another Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Vinius as you have heard me oft command
- Page No:
- pp.418-419
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XIII. To Vinius Asella.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Boy haste away with careful place
- Page No:
- pp.420-422
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By Edward Greene Burnaby, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Edward Burnaby Greene
- First Line:
- You that overlook my woods and little farm
- Page No:
- pp.423-427
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XIV. To his Country Steward.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Yes though my friends engaging arts employ
- Page No:
- pp.427-430
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Nevile.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With wonted truth dear Vala tell your friend
- Page No:
- pp.430-434
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XV. To Numonius Vala.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Should you dear Quintius ask me if in grounds
- Page No:
- pp.435-443
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XVI. To Quintius.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Though no advice you need by which to steer
- Page No:
- pp.444-452
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XVII. To Scaeva.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Self-taught though Brevil nicely can discern
- Page No:
- pp.452-456
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By Another Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You scorn my Lollius if I judge aright
- Page No:
- pp.457-467
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XVIII. To Lollius.
- Attribution:
- By I. P. Shard, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Isaac Pacatus Shard
- First Line:
- Spence with a friend you pass the hours away
- Page No:
- pp.468-473
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated...To Mr. Spence, When Tutor to the Earl of Middlesex.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Christopher Pitt.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
- First Line:
- To old Cratinus if you credit give
- Page No:
- pp.474-478
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XIX. To Maecenas.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Tis said dear sir no poets please the town
- Page No:
- pp.479-481
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated...To Mr. Lowth.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Christopher Pitt.
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
- First Line:
- Your thoughts my book with sorrow I discern
- Page No:
- pp.482-486
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XX.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- Charmed with the lettered lustre of the press
- Page No:
- pp.487-488
- Poem Title:
- The Same Epistle Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By John Duncombe, M. A. [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- John Duncombe
- First Line:
- A cavalier the men of ancient date
- Page No:
- pp.489-492
- Poem Title:
- The latter Part of Satire II. Book II. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While you affairs so many and so great
- Page No:
- pp.495-523
- Poem Title:
- Epistle I. To Augustus.
- Attribution:
- Translated by William Duncombe, Esq; [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Duncombe
- First Line:
- O Florus Friend of Nero good and brave
- Page No:
- pp.524-536
- Poem Title:
- Epistle II. To Julius Florus.
- Attribution:
- Translated by William Duncombe, Esq; [section title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Duncombe
- First Line:
- To a man's head suppose a painter joins
- Page No:
- pp.547-574
- Poem Title:
- The Art of Poetry. Addressed to L. Piso, and his Two Sons.
- Attribution:
- Translated by the Same Hand. [i.e. William Duncombe] Prose argument. Footnotes.
- Attributed To:
- William Duncombe
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