The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol II] [N35509]
- DMI number:
- 1184
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1756
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- N35509
- Shelfmark:
- McGILL YP.R58
- Full Title:
- POEMS, | By the EARLS of | ROSCOMON, | AND | DORSET, | The DUKES of | DEVONSHIRE, | BUCKINGHAM, &c. | [rule] | VOL. II. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the YEAR M,DCC,LVI.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse and Miscellany associated with group of poets
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [1]-168pp.
- Comments:
- Contents: Miscellany divided into sections: 1) Poems by the Earl of Roscomon, pp.14-25 2) Poems by the Earl of Dorset, pp.26-51 3) Miscellaneous Poems, pp.52-168: Containing section entitled 'The Cabinet of Love' on running titles, pp.140-156.
- References:
- Plates: Engravings opposite frontispiece; p.140; p.148.
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol I] [N35509]
- Publication Date:
- 1756
- ESTC No:
- N35509
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The wit of Greece the gravity of Rome
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- A Character of the Earl of Roscomon.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- To the pale tyrant who to horrid graves
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- The Vision
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Dear happy groves and you the dark retreat
- Page No:
- pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- The Scene of Care Salve Beate, in Pastor Fido, Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- From deepest dungeons of eternal night
- Page No:
- pp.16-18
- Poem Title:
- The Ghost of the Old House of Commons to the New One, appointed to meet at Oxford, 1681.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Shame of my life disturber of my tomb
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- The Speech of Tom Ross's Ghost to his Pupil the Duke of Monmouth.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Winter thy cruelty extend
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- Stanzas on a young Lady, who sung finely, but was afraid of a Cold.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Thou happy creature art secure
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of a Lady's Lap-Dog.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Virtue dear friend needs no defence
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ode 22.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- The day of wrath that dreadful day
- Page No:
- pp.21-23
- Poem Title:
- On the Last Judgment.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Tell me Dorinda why so gay
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James II. Written in the Year 1680.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Dolly's beauty and art
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- On Dolly Chamberlain, a Sempstress in the New-Exchange.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Proud with the spoils of royal cully
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- On the Same. [i.e. On the Countess of Dorchester]
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Cursed be those dull unpointed doggrel rhymes
- Page No:
- pp.28-40
- Poem Title:
- A Faithful Catalogue of our most eminent Ninnies.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Come on ye critics find one fault who dare
- Page No:
- pp.40-41
- Poem Title:
- To a Person of Honour, on his incomparable Incomprehensible Poems.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Tarugo gave us wonder and delight
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- To Sir Thomas St. Serfe, on his Play called Tarugo's Wiles; or, The Coffee-House. A Comedy, Acted at the Duke of York's Theatre, 1668.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Many have been the vain attempts of wit
- Page No:
- pp.43-44
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue, spoken by Tartuffe.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Entreaty shall not serve nor violence
- Page No:
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue on the Revival of Ben Johnson's Plays called, Every Man in his Humour.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- At noon on a sun shiny day
- Page No:
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- Knotting.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Ah Chloris tis time to disarm your bright eyes
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- A Song to Chloris, from the Blind Archer.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Methinks the poor town has been troubled too long
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- A Song on Black-Bess.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- To all you ladies now at land
- Page No:
- pp.49-51
- Poem Title:
- Song. Written at Sea, in the first Dutch War, 1665, the Night before an Engagement.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife
- Page No:
- pp.52-60
- Poem Title:
- Dryden's Satire to his Muse. Written by Lord Somers.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I did but look and love a while
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- The Inchantment.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Clasped in the arms of her I love
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- The Enjoyment.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Otway]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Whilom in Oxford an old chuff did dwell
- Page No:
- pp.62-82
- Poem Title:
- The Miller's Tale from Chaucer, Inscribed to N. Rowe, Esq.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Samuel Cobb, late of Trinity College, in Cambridge.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- In ancient times as story tells
- Page No:
- pp.83-87
- Poem Title:
- Baucis and Philemon, Imitated from the 8th Book of Ovid.
- Attribution:
- By Jonathan Swift, D. D.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Long our divided state
- Page No:
- pp.88-90
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of Queen Mary.
- Attribution:
- By the Duke of Devonshire, 1694.
- Attributed To:
- William Cavendish
- First Line:
- Cambray you set when heavenly love you write
- Page No:
- pp.91-94
- Poem Title:
- ...Allusion to the Archbishop of Cambray's Telemachus: Written in the Year 1707.
- Attribution:
- The Duke of Devonshire's
- Attributed To:
- William Cavendish
- First Line:
- What can the British senate give
- Page No:
- pp.97-106
- Poem Title:
- The Female Reign; an Ode.
- Attribution:
- S. Cobb
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- Of things in which mankind does most excel
- Page No:
- p.107-116
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry
- Attribution:
- By the Duke of Buckingham.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- When weeping majesty through clouds appears
- Page No:
- pp.117-120
- Poem Title:
- To the Queen, On the Death of his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark, 1708.
- Attribution:
- By Joseph Trapp, D. D.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Trapp
- First Line:
- When her Britannia wept Eliza's doom
- Page No:
- pp.121-123
- Poem Title:
- A Poem: On the Death of our late Most Gracious Sovereign Queen Anne, And the Accession of His Most Excellent Majesty, King George, 1714. Translated from the Latin of Bishop Smalridge.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Sewel.
- Attributed To:
- George Sewell
- First Line:
- Slow rising night had her black flag unfurled
- Page No:
- pp.124-126
- Poem Title:
- The Dream. Occasioned by the Death of Queen Anne.
- Attribution:
- By Aaron Hill, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Aaron Hill
- First Line:
- Twas one may morning when the clouds undrawn
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- The Wedding-Day.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Aaron Hill].
- Attributed To:
- Aaron Hill
- First Line:
- While in the mall my Celia shone
- Page No:
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- The Gnat.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Aaron Hill]
- Attributed To:
- Aaron Hill
- First Line:
- When fair Susannah in a cool retreat
- Page No:
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- The Same [i.e. Susannah and the Two Elders] attempted in a Modern Stile.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- Fair Susan did her wifehode well maintayne
- Page No:
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- Susannah and the Two Elders. An Imitation of Chaucer.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- The gods were pleased to choose the conquering side
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following Verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Roscomon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Heaven meanly with the conqueror did comply
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following Verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The modest stone what few vain marbles can
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on Mr. Fenton , 1730.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Justly to name the better cause were hard
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following Verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- The partial gods espoused the victor's side
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following Verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Campbell.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Campbell
- First Line:
- Give me great God said I a little farm
- Page No:
- pp.132-135
- Poem Title:
- The Prospect. Written in the Chioskat Pera, overlooking Constantinople, Dec. 20, 1717.
- Attribution:
- By Lady Mary Wortley Montague.
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- The gods and Cato did in this divide
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following Verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Stepney.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- The Gods espoused and crowned the victor's side
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following Verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Dr. Lochart.
- Attributed To:
- Dr. Lochart
- First Line:
- The man that's resolute and just
- Page No:
- pp.136-138
- Poem Title:
- Horace. Book III. Ode III. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By William Walsh, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- O born when heavens propitious deigned to smile
- Page No:
- pp.138-140
- Poem Title:
- Addressed to his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, instead of Augustus, to whom it is dedicated in the Original.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To Silvia's room I unsuspected stole
- Page No:
- pp.140-142
- Poem Title:
- The Cabinet of Love...The Discovery.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Such a sad tale prepare to hear
- Page No:
- pp.143-147
- Poem Title:
- Dildoides...Occasioned by burning a Hogshead of those Commodities at Stocks-Market, in the year 1672, pursuant to an Act of Parliament then made for the prohibition of French Goods.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Butler, Author of Hudibras.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- When nature once like Nile the -- overflows
- Page No:
- pp.148-157
- Poem Title:
- The Delights of Venus. Translated from Meursius.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Was ever mortal man like me
- Page No:
- pp.158-159
- Poem Title:
- Lord Rochester against his Whore-Pipe.
- Attribution:
- Lord Rochester.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- I love as well as others do
- Page No:
- p.159
- Poem Title:
- The Mock Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For standing -- we kind nature thank
- Page No:
- p.160
- Poem Title:
- An Interlude. Actus I. Scena I. The Scene a Bed-Chamber.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O all ye nymphs in lawless love's disport
- Page No:
- pp.161-164
- Poem Title:
- A Panegyric upon Cundums.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Parson these things in thy possessing
- Page No:
- p.165
- Poem Title:
- The Happy Life of a Country Parson.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize
- Page No:
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady singing to her Lute.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Waller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Silence coeval with eternity
- Page No:
- pp.167-168
- Poem Title:
- On Silence.
- Attribution:
- By Lord Rochester.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
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