A collection of poems. [T121161] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 1309
- Publication Date:
- 1777
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T121161
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW112590167
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - nearest hard copy is in British Library.
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS. | CONTAINING | AN ESSAY ON MAN. | THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. | ELOISA TO ABELARD. | MESSIAH: A SACRED | ECLOGUE. | AN ODE ON SOLITUDE. | AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. | THE LAST DAY. | AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN | A COUNTRY CHURCH- | YARD. | HYMN TO ADVERSITY. | THE GRAVE. | THE HERMIT. | A NIGHT-PIECE ON | DEATH. | THE SPLENDID SHILLING | THE DESERTED VILLAGE. | THE TRAVELLER. | A PASTORAL BALLAD, | AND THREE SONGS. | BY | POPE, CONGREVE, YOUNG, GRAY, | BLAIR, PARNELL, PHILIPS, GOLD- | SMITH, AND SHENSTONE. | WITH CUTS. | [rule] | THE FOURTH EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. | [double rule] | DUBLIN: | PRINTED BY A. STUART, FOR T. ARMITAGE, | (No. 4,) COLLEGE GREEN. | [rule] | M,DCC,LXXVII.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Bibliographic details:
- pp. 59-72 absent in ECCO copy.
- Other matter:
- End matter: contents [2 unnumbered pages]
- First Line:
- Awake my St John leave all meaner things
- Page No:
- pp.3-18
- Poem Title:
- Epistle I.
- Attribution:
- Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Know then thyself presume not god to scan
- Page No:
- pp.20-29
- Poem Title:
- Epistle II.
- Attribution:
- Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Here then we rest the universal cause
- Page No:
- pp.31-41
- Poem Title:
- Epistle III.
- Attribution:
- Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- O happiness our being's end and aim
- Page No:
- pp.43-55
- Poem Title:
- Epistle IV.
- Attribution:
- Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Father of all in every age
- Page No:
- pp.56-58
- Poem Title:
- The Universal Prayer. By Mr. Pope.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade
- Page No:
- pp.73-75
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy, To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. By Mr. Pope.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye nymphs of Solyma begin the song
- Page No:
- pp.79-82
- Poem Title:
- Messiah, A Sacred Eclogue, In Imitation of Virgil's Pollio. By Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Happy the man whose wish and care
- Page No:
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- Ode on Solitude. By Alexander Pope, Esq. Written at about Twelve Years old.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
- Page No:
- pp.85-112
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism. By Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pope, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Twas at the time when new returning light
- Page No:
- pp.115-120
- Poem Title:
- The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas, A Pastoral, Lamenting the Death of the late Lord Marquis of Blandford. Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Lord Godolphin, Lord High-Treasurer of England. By William Congreve.
- Attribution:
- By William Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Why are those hours which heaven in pity lent
- Page No:
- pp.121-123
- Poem Title:
- To Cynthia, Weeping and not Speaking. Elegy. By William Congreve.
- Attribution:
- By William Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Thou watchful taper by whose silent light
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- To a Candle. An Elegy. By Congreve.
- Attribution:
- By Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- While others sing the fortune of the great
- Page No:
- pp.125-164
- Poem Title:
- The Last Day. A Poem, In Three Books, By Edward Young, L. L. D.
- Attribution:
- By Edward Young, L. L. D.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
- Page No:
- pp.165-171
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy, written in a Country Church-yard. With an Hymn to Adversity. By Mr. Gray.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Daughter of Jove relentless power
- Page No:
- pp.172-173
- Poem Title:
- Hymn to Adversity.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Whilst some affect the sun and some the shade
- Page No:
- pp.175-201
- Poem Title:
- The Grave, A Poem. By Robert Blair.
- Attribution:
- By Robert Blair.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Blair
- First Line:
- Far in a wild unknown to public view
- Page No:
- pp.203-212
- Poem Title:
- The Hermit. Together with a Night-Piece on Death. By Dr. Thomas Parnell, Archdeacon of Clogher.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Thomas Parnell, Archdeacon of Clogher.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- By the blue taper's trembling light
- Page No:
- pp.213-215
- Poem Title:
- A Night-Piece on Death.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Thomas Parnell, Archdeacon of Clogher.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- Happy the man who void of cares and strife
- Page No:
- pp.217-223
- Poem Title:
- The Splendid Shilling: An Imitation of Milton. By Mr. Philips.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Philips.
- Attributed To:
- John Philips
- First Line:
- Sweet Auburn loveliest village of the plain
- Page No:
- pp.225-240
- Poem Title:
- The Deserted Village. A Poem. By Dr. Goldsmith.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Goldsmith.
- Attributed To:
- Oliver Goldsmith
- First Line:
- Remote unfriended melancholy slow
- Page No:
- pp.241-256
- Poem Title:
- The Traveller; Or, a Prospect of Society. A Poem. By Dr. Goldsmith.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Goldsmith.
- Attributed To:
- Oliver Goldsmith
- First Line:
- Indeed my Phaedria if to find
- Page No:
- pp.257-259
- Poem Title:
- Ode I. To a Friend, Unsuccessful in Love. By Mark Akenside, M. D.
- Attribution:
- By Mark Akenside, M. D.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Yes you condemn the perjured maid
- Page No:
- p.260
- Poem Title:
- Ode II. Affected Indifference. To the Same. By Mark Akenside, M. D.
- Attribution:
- By Mark Akenside, M. D.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- How thick the shades of evening close
- Page No:
- pp.261-266
- Poem Title:
- Ode III. Hymn to Cheerfulness. By Mark Akenside, M. D.
- Attribution:
- Ode III. Hymn to Cheerfulness. By mark Akenside, M. D.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Turn gentle hermit of the dale
- Page No:
- pp.267-272
- Poem Title:
- A Ballad. By Dr. Goldsmith.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Goldsmith.
- Attributed To:
- Oliver Goldsmith
- First Line:
- Ye shepherds so cheerful and gay
- Page No:
- pp.273-281
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral Ballad, In Four Parts. Arbusta humilesque myricae. Virg. Written in 1743, By Mr. Shenstone.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Shenstone.
- Attributed To:
- William Shenstone
- First Line:
- How pleased within my native bowers
- Page No:
- p.282
- Poem Title:
- Songs, By Mr. Shenstone. Song I. The Landskip.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Shenstone.
- Attributed To:
- William Shenstone
- First Line:
- On every tree in every plain
- Page No:
- pp.283-284
- Poem Title:
- Song III.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Shenstone.
- Attributed To:
- William Shenstone
- First Line:
- Ye gentle nymphs and generous dames
- Page No:
- p.283
- Poem Title:
- Song II.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Shenstone.
- Attributed To:
- William Shenstone
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