The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 2] [N25943] [ECCO] (1751)
- DMI number:
- 792
- Publication Date:
- 1751
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 3
- ESTC number:
- N25943
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB132925679
- Shelfmark:
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- Full Title:
- THE | WORKS | OF THE | most celebrated | Minor POETS. | Containing the WORKS of | GEORGE STEPNEY, Esq; | WILLIAM WALSH, Esq; | THOMAS TICKLE, Esq; | Never before collected and publish'd together. | [ornament] | [rule] | VOLUME II. [rule] | [rule] | THE SECOND EDITION. | [rule] |[i] LONDON: [/i] | Printed for F. COGAN, at the [i] Middle Temple | Gate. [/i] MDCCLI.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
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- Bibliographic details:
- ESTC: Lists as imprint 'London : printed for Jacob Loyseau'
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- QUERY: check this carefully against hard-copies - imprint as listed in ESTC is different to that in the ECCO copy - it looks like ECCO might have used the wrong version of the book.
- 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:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 3] [N25943] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1751
- ESTC No:
- N25943
- Volume:
- 3 of 3
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- F Cogan
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Jacob Loyseau
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- As victors lose the trouble they sustain
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- To King James II. Upon His Accession to the Throne.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Stepney's name.
- 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 fortunam, ut semper, & odit Damnatos.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Stepney's name.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Sir | Since you oft invite me to renew
- Page No:
- pp.6-12
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Charles Montague, Esq; on his Majesty's Voyage to Holland.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Stepney's name.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- The youth whose fortune the vast globe obeyed
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- On the late horrid Conspiracy.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Stepney's name.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- He's gone and was it then by your decree
- Page No:
- pp.13-16
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Carlisle, upon the Death of his Son before Luxemburgh.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Stepney's name.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Once more my muse we must an altar raise
- Page No:
- pp.16-19
- Poem Title:
- A Poem dedicated to the Blessed Memory of her late Gracious Majesty Queen Mary.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Stepney's name.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- At Anna's call the Austrian eagle flies
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- The Austrian Eagle.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Stepney's name.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- At dead of night imperial reason sleeps
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- The Nature of Dreams.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Stepney's name.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- When money and my blood ran high
- Page No:
- pp.21-22
- Poem Title:
- Verses imitated from the French of Monsieur Maynard, to Cardinal Richelieu.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Stepney's name.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Dear Molly why so oft in tears
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- Horace. Book III. Ode VII. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Stepney's name.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Verses immortal as my bays I sing
- Page No:
- pp.51-53
- Poem Title:
- Horace. Book IV. Ode IX.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Stepney's name.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- If streaming blood my fatal letter stain
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Go little book and to the world impart
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- To his book.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Let the dull merchant curse his angry fate
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- Elegy. The unrewarded lover.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- With what strange raptures would my soul be blessed
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. Written in a lady's table book.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- While those bright eyes subdue wherever you will
- Page No:
- pp.93-94
- Poem Title:
- Elegy. The power of verse. To his mistress.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Who could more happy who more blest could live
- Page No:
- pp.94-97
- Poem Title:
- Jealousy.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- What tortures can there be in hell
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- Cure of jealousy.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Celia your tricks will now no longer pass
- Page No:
- pp.98-100
- Poem Title:
- Elegy. To his mistress.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- What has this bugbear death that's worth our care
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet. Death.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- What fury does disturb my rest
- Page No:
- p.100
- Poem Title:
- Upon the same occasion
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Celia too late you would repent
- Page No:
- pp.101-102
- Poem Title:
- Upon a favour offer'd.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- When I see the bright nymph who my heart does enthral
- Page No:
- p.101
- Poem Title:
- The antidote.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Be gone ye sighs be gone ye tears
- Page No:
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- The reconcilement.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Value thy self fond youth no more
- Page No:
- pp.103-104
- Poem Title:
- Dialogue between a lover and his friend. Irregular verses.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Go said old Lyce senseless lover go
- Page No:
- p.104
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. Lyce.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- In what sad pomp the mournful charmer lies
- Page No:
- p.105
- Poem Title:
- The fair mourner.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Thou saidst that I alone thy heart could move
- Page No:
- p.105
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. To his false mistress.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- How much are they deceived who vainly strive
- Page No:
- p.106
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. Love and jealousy.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Is there a pious pleasure that proceeds
- Page No:
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- Elegy. The Petition. In imitation of Catullus.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- I know Celinda I have born too long
- Page No:
- pp.107-108
- Poem Title:
- Elegy. Upon quitting his mistress.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Yes all the world must sure agree
- Page No:
- p.108
- Poem Title:
- To his mistress. Against marriage.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Chloe new married looks on men no more
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. Chloe.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Cornus proclaims aloud his wife's a whore
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. Cornus.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Thraso picks quarrels when he's drunk at night
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. Thraso.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Ah Celia where are now the charms
- Page No:
- pp.110-111
- Poem Title:
- To Caelia, upon some alterations in her face.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Rich Gripe does all his thoughts and cunning bend
- Page No:
- p.110
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. Gripe and Shifter.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- All hail ye fields where constant peace attends
- Page No:
- pp.111-113
- Poem Title:
- The retirement.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Sicilian muse my humble voice inspire
- Page No:
- pp.113-115
- Poem Title:
- Pastoral Eclogues. Eclogue I.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Thyrsis the gayest one of all the swains
- Page No:
- pp.115-117
- Poem Title:
- Eclogue II. Galatea.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day
- Page No:
- pp.118-120
- Poem Title:
- Eclogue III. Damon. (Taken from the eighth Eclogue of Virgil).
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Ye gentle swains who pass your days and nights
- Page No:
- pp.120-123
- Poem Title:
- Delia. A pastoral Eclogue; lamenting the death of Mrs. Tempest, who died upon the day of the late storm.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- The man that's resolute and just
- Page No:
- pp.124-126
- Poem Title:
- Horace. Book III. Ode III.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name. Imitated.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- Sicilian muse begin a loftier flight
- Page No:
- pp.127-130
- Poem Title:
- The golden age restored. A poem in imitation of the fourth pastoral of Virgil; suppos'd to have been taken from a Sybilline prophecy. Paulo majora canamus.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Walsh's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Walsh
- First Line:
- In courts licentious and a shameless stage
- Page No:
- pp.155-156
- Poem Title:
- To the supposed Author of the Spectator.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Contending kings and fields of death too long
- Page No:
- pp.157-158
- Poem Title:
- A Poem to his Excellency the Lord Privy Seal, on the Prospect of Peace.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- The haughty Gaul in ten campaigns overthrown
- Page No:
- pp.158-172
- Poem Title:
- A Poem on the Prospect of Peace.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- The opera first Italian masters taught
- Page No:
- pp.173-174
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Addison on his Opera of Rosamond. Ne forte pudori Sit Tibi Musa Lyrae solers, & Cantor Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Too long has love engrossed Britannia's stage
- Page No:
- pp.175-176
- Poem Title:
- To the same on his Tragedy of Cato.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- When Brunswick first appeared each honest heart
- Page No:
- pp.176-181
- Poem Title:
- The Royal Progress.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- As Mar his round one morning took
- Page No:
- pp.181-184
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of the Prophecy of Nereus. Horace. Book I. Ode XV.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- To thee dear rover and thy vanquished friends
- Page No:
- pp.184-190
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from a Lady in England to a Gentleman at Avignon.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Fair daughter once of Windsor's woods
- Page No:
- pp.191-192
- Poem Title:
- An Ode; occasion'd by his Excellency the Earl of Stanhope's Voyage to France.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- What kings henceforth shall reign what states be free
- Page No:
- pp.192-193
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the University of Oxford.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Can this be he could Charles the good the great
- Page No:
- pp.194-196
- Poem Title:
- Thoughts occasioned by the sight of an original picture of King Charles I taken at the time of his trial. Inscribed to George Clarke, Esq;
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Horses and hounds their care their various race
- Page No:
- pp.196-201
- Poem Title:
- A Fragment of a Poem on Hunting.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- I am cried Apollo when Daphne he wooed
- Page No:
- pp.201-202
- Poem Title:
- To Apollo making Love. From Monsieur Fontenelle.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Much had I heard of fair Francelia's name
- Page No:
- p.202
- Poem Title:
- The fatal Curiosity.
- Attribution:
- Collected under the name of Tickell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Lavish of wit and bold appear the lines
- Page No:
- p.203
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady; with a Description of the Phoenix.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- The greatest swain that treads the Arcadian grove
- Page No:
- p.208
- Poem Title:
- Verses to Mrs. Lowther on her Marriage. From Menage.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- The fragrant painting of our flowery fields
- Page No:
- p.209
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady; with a Present of Flowers.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- As Damon Chloe's painted form surveyed
- Page No:
- p.210
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady's Picture: To Gilfred Lawton, Esq;
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Their ancient friends as now they nearer drew
- Page No:
- pp.211-214
- Poem Title:
- Part of the fourth Book of Lucan.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Achilles fatal wrath whence discord rose
- Page No:
- pp.214-236
- Poem Title:
- The first Book of Homer's Iliad.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- If dumb too long the drooping muse hath stayed
- Page No:
- pp.237-240
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Of Leinster famed for maidens fair
- Page No:
- pp.240-242
- Poem Title:
- Colin and Lucy. A Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- To Whitton's shades and Hounslow's airy plain
- Page No:
- pp.242-244
- Poem Title:
- To Sir Godfrey Kneller at his Country Seat.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Of Marlborough's captains and Eugenio's friends
- Page No:
- pp.244-245
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Thou dome where Edward first enrolled
- Page No:
- pp.245-247
- Poem Title:
- An Ode inscribed to the Earl of Sunderland at Windsor.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's day.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Where Kensington high over the neighbouring lands
- Page No:
- pp.247-262
- Poem Title:
- Kensington Garden. Campos, ubi Troja fuit Virg.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Tickell's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
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