The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [T79268]
- DMI number:
- 784
- Publication Date:
- 1749
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T79268
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW110494985
- Shelfmark:
- BL - 992.d.7 (BL 238.c.1: Wants the collective titlepage and the two leaves of dedication to Lord Chesterfield; the 'Supplement' wants the table of contents.)
- Full Title:
- (1) [first title page] THE | WORKS | OF THE | most celebrated | Minor POETS. | Namely, | WENTWORTH, Earl of ROSCOMMON; | CHARLES, Earl of DORSET; | CHARLES, Earl of HALIFAX; | Sir SAMUEL GARTH; | GEORGE STEPNEY, Esq; | WILLIAM WALSH, Esq; | THOMAS TICKELL, Esq. | Never before collected and publish'd together. | In TWO VOLUMES. | [double rule] | [i] LONDON: [/i] | Printed for F. COGAN, at the [i] Middle Temple | Gate. [/i] MDCCXLIX. (2) [second title page] THE | WORKS | OF THE | most celebrated | Minor POETS. | VOLUME THE FIRST. | Containing the WORKS of | WENTWORTH, Earl of ROSCOMMON; | CHARLES, Earl of DORSET; | CHARLES, Earl of HALIFAX; | Sir SAMUEL GARTH. | [ornament] | [i] LONDON: [/i] | Printed for F. COGAN, at the [i] Middle Temple | Gate. [/i] MDCCXLIX.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- [20], [1-3], 4-128, [125-128], 129-170, 169, 172-207, 298, 209-308 pp.
- Comments:
- PAGINATION: p.171 mispaginated 169; p.208 mispaginated 298. CONTENTS: Miscellany is split into sections with separate title pages: (1) 'The Works of the Earl of Roscommon', p.[1] (2) 'The Works of the Earl of Dorset.', p.[123] (3) 'The Works of the Earl of Hallifax', p.[141] (4) 'The Works of Sir Samuel Garth', p.[165]
- Other matter:
- Each volume has a separate titlepage. Volume 1 has a Dedication to Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield and a table of contents for all two volumes.
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 1] [N25943] [ECCO] (1751)
- Publication Date:
- 1751
- ESTC No:
- N25943
- Volume:
- 1 of 3
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 2] [T79268]
- Publication Date:
- 1749
- ESTC No:
- T79268
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- F Cogan
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Happy that author whose correct essay
- Page No:
- pp.3-14
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Translated Verse
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Be gone you slaves you idle vermin go
- Page No:
- pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- To the pale tyrant who to horrid graves
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- The Dream
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- From deepest dungeons of eternal night
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- The Ghost of the Old House of Commons, To The New One, appointed to meet at Oxford.
- 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 Dog.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Winter thy cruelty extend
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Shame of my life disturber of my tomb
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- Ross's Ghost.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Folly and vice are easy to describe
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue Spoken to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, at Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- You've seen tonight the glory of the east
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Alexander the Great, When acted at the theatre in Dublin.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- The mighty rivals whose destructive rage
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to Pompey, A Tragedy, Translated by Mrs. K. Philips, from the French of Monsieur Corneille, and acted at the theatre in Dublin.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- O azure vaults o crystal sky
- Page No:
- pp.25-28
- Poem Title:
- A Paraphrase on the CXLVIIIth Psalm.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- The day of wrath that dreadful day
- Page No:
- pp.28-30
- Poem Title:
- The Day of Judgment.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- Part of the Fifth Scene of the Second Act in Guarini's Pastor Fido, Translated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- I first of Romans stooped to rural strains
- Page No:
- pp.32-36
- Poem Title:
- Virgil's Sixth Eclogue, Silenus. Translated. With Remarks.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Virtue dear friend needs no defence
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- The Twenty Second Ode Of The First Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Virtue dear friend needs no defence
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- The Same imitated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- If in a picture Piso you should see
- Page No:
- pp.40-55
- Poem Title:
- Horace of the Art of Poetry.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Queen of riches happy peace
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy the man who gives a loose to joy
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come on you critics find one fault who dare
- Page No:
- pp.125-126
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Edward Howard, On his incomparable incomprehensible Poem, Called The British Princes.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Thou damned Antipodes to common sense
- Page No:
- pp.126-127
- Poem Title:
- To the same on his Plays.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Tarugo gave us wonder and delight
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- To Sir Thomas St. Serfe, on the printing his play, called Tarugo's Wiles. Acted 1668.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Entreaty shall not serve nor violence
- Page No:
- pp.[126]-[127]
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue On the Revival of Ben Johnson's Play, called, Every Man in his Humour.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Many have been the vain attempts of wit
- Page No:
- pp.128-[125]
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Moliere's Tartuffe, translated by Mr. Medburne, spoken by Tartuffe.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- To all you ladies now at land
- Page No:
- pp.128-130
- 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:
- Proud with the spoils of royal cully
- Page No:
- pp.131-132
- Poem Title:
- On the Same.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Tell me Dorinda why so gay
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James the Second. Written in 1680.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- At noon in a sunshiny day
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- 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:
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- 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.134-135
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- May the ambitious ever find
- Page No:
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- In grey haired Celia's withered arms
- Page No:
- p.137
- Poem Title:
- A Paraphrase on the French.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes
- Page No:
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Phillis the fairest of love's foes
- Page No:
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Sylvia methinks you are unfit
- Page No:
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Farewell great Charles monarch of blessed renown
- Page No:
- pp.143-147
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles II.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Whilst black designs that direful work of fate
- Page No:
- pp.147-150
- Poem Title:
- Ode On the marriage of the princess Anne and prince George of Denmark.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Not all the threats or favour of a crown
- Page No:
- pp.151-155
- Poem Title:
- The Man of Honour; Occasioned by a Postscript to Penn's Letter.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- What shall the King the nation's genius raise
- Page No:
- pp.155-161
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Charles earl of Dorset, occasioned by His Majesty's victory in Ireland.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Vandyke had colours softness fire and art
- Page No:
- pp.161-162
- Poem Title:
- Written at Althrop, in a blank leaf of Waller's poems, upon seeing Vandyke's picture of the old lady Sunderland.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Fairest and latest of the beauteous race
- Page No:
- p.162
- Poem Title:
- Lady Mary Churchill.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Of two fair Richmonds different ages boast
- Page No:
- pp.162-163
- Poem Title:
- Dutchess of Richmond.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Offspring of a tuneful sire
- Page No:
- p.162
- Poem Title:
- Duchess of Beaufort.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- The line of Vere so long renowned in arms
- Page No:
- p.162
- Poem Title:
- Verses written for the Toasting-Glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703. Dutchess of St. Albans.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Admired in Germany adored in France
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- Mademoiselle Spanheime.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Hallifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- All nature's charms in Sunderland appear
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- Lady Sunderland.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Halifax.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Montagu
- First Line:
- Speak goddess since tis thou that best canst tell
- Page No:
- pp.174-231
- Poem Title:
- The Dispensary.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- In moving lines these few epistles tell
- Page No:
- pp.232-233
- Poem Title:
- To the Lady Louisa Lenos: With Ovid's Epistles.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- My lord | Our poet's rules in easy numbers tell
- Page No:
- pp.233-234
- Poem Title:
- To Richard Earl of Burlington, with Ovid's Art of Love.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Carlisle's a name can every muse inspire
- Page No:
- p.234
- Poem Title:
- Lady Carlisle.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- At once the sun and Carlisle took their way
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- The Same.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Hyde though in agonies her graces keeps
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- On Lady Hyde in child-bed.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- The bravest hero and the brightest dame
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- Lady Essex.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Halifax.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- The god of wine grows jealous of his art
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- Lady Hyde.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- To Essex fill the sprightly wine
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- The Same.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- When Jove to Ida did the gods invite
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- Lady Wharton.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Whilst weeping Europe bends beneath her ills
- Page No:
- p.236
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Godolphin.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Cease rural conquests and set free your swains
- Page No:
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- To the Dutchess of B on her staying all the winter in the country.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Garth's name.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Pallas destructive to the Trojan line
- Page No:
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- On the King of Spain.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- To day a mighty hero comes to warm
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- Prologue designed for Tamberlane.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- What odd fantastic things we women do
- Page No:
- pp.239-240
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to the Tragedy of Cato.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Where music and more powerful beauties reign
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Musick-meeting in York-Buildings.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- What frenzy has of late possessed the brain
- Page No:
- pp.241-251
- Poem Title:
- Claremont Addressed to the Earl of Clare.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now Glaucus with a lover's haste bounds over
- Page No:
- pp.283-285
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV. The Transformation of Scylla.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Here bulged the pride of famed Ulysses' fleet
- Page No:
- p.285
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The Voyage of Aeneas continued.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- The galleys now by Pythecusa pass
- Page No:
- pp.285-286
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The Transformation of Cercopians into Apes.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now on his right he leaves Parthenope
- Page No:
- p.286
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...Aeneas descends to Hell.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- I am no deity replied the dame
- Page No:
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The story of the Sibyl.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Thus Achaemenides with thanks I name
- Page No:
- pp.287-288
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The adventures of Achaemenides.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Then Macareus there reigned a prince of fame
- Page No:
- pp.288-289
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The adventures of Macareus.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Before the spacious front a herd we find
- Page No:
- pp.289-290
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The enchantments of Circe.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Picus who once the Ausonian sceptre held
- Page No:
- pp.290-294
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The story of Picus and Canens.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Thus Macareus now with a pious aim
- Page No:
- pp.294-295
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...Aeneas arrives in Italy.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- After famed Ilium was by Argives won
- Page No:
- pp.295-296
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The Adventures of Diomedes.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Meanwhile the Latians all their power prepare
- Page No:
- pp.296-298
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The Trojan Ships transformed to sea-nymphs.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Thus Diomedes Venulus withdraws
- Page No:
- p.296
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The Transformation of Appulus.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now had Aeneas as ordained by fate
- Page No:
- pp.298-299
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The Deification of Aeneas.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Ascanius now the Latian sceptre sways
- Page No:
- p.299
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The Line of Latin Kings.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- A Hama-Dryad flourished in these days
- Page No:
- pp.300-302
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The Story of Vertumnus and Pomona.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Iphis of vulgar birth by chance had viewed
- Page No:
- pp.302-304
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The Story of Iphis and Anaxarete.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now Procas yielding to the fates his son
- Page No:
- pp.304-305
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The Latian line continued.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now warrior Mars his burnished helm puts on
- Page No:
- p.305
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The assumption of Romulus.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Ere long the goddess of the nuptial bed
- Page No:
- p.306
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XIV...The assumption of Hersilia.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Or as when Cippus in the current viewed
- Page No:
- pp.307-308
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book XV. The Story of Cippus.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
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