A collection of select pieces from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, Dryden and Pope, for schools [T128606] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 1409
- Publication Date:
- 1765
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T128606
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW125453591
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | SELECT PIECES | FROM | THE SPECTATORS, TATLER, GUARDIAN, | the Works of DRYDEN and POPE, and | from ROLLIN'S Method of teaching and | studying the BELLES LETTRES, and his | UNIVERSAL HISTORY. | For the USE of | ENGLISH SCHOOLS. | By JOHN WARDEN, Teacher of English. | EDINBURGH: | Printed for ALEXANDER DONALDSON, | and Sold at his shops in [i]London[/i] and [i]Edinburgh[/i]. | M D C C L X V.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh
- Genres:
- Collection including prose
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [2], 3-300.
- Bibliographic details:
- First edition.
- Comments:
- CONTENTS: Title-page; prose essays containing verse [pp.3-277]; Verse translations of Homer and Virgil [pp.278-288]; Miscellaneous verse [pp.288-300].
- Publisher:
- Alexander Donaldson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Choose for thy command
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Dryden hints at this obsolete kind of wit in one of the following verses in his Mac Flecno
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- He raged and kept as heavy a coil as
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Others apart sat on a hill retired
- Page No:
- p.77
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The spacious firmament on high
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When rising from the bed of death
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Along their face
- Page No:
- p.278
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To close the pomp Aethon the steed of state
- Page No:
- p.278
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Black choler filled his breast that boiled with ire
- Page No:
- p.278.
- Poem Title:
- [none]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- He spoke and awful bends his sable brows
- Page No:
- p.278-279
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Hector this heard returned without delay
- Page No:
- p.279-280
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Yet while my Hector still survives I see
- Page No:
- p.280
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The illustrious prince of Troy
- Page No:
- p.280
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Then as a hungry lion who beholds
- Page No:
- p.281
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Far as a shepherd from some point on high
- Page No:
- p.281
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Him approaching near
- Page No:
- p.281
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Him Menelaus loved of Mars espies
- Page No:
- p.281
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The wanton courser thus with reins unbound
- Page No:
- p.282
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And as when heavy sleep has closed the sight
- Page No:
- pp.282-283
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As when some peasant in a bushy brake
- Page No:
- p.282
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Freed from his keepers thus with broken reins
- Page No:
- p.282
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As men in slumbers seem with speedy pace
- Page No:
- p.282
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Like a fair flower by the keen share oppressed
- Page No:
- p.283
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- As full blown poppies overcharged with rain
- Page No:
- p.283
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- As the bold bird her helpless young attends
- Page No:
- p.283
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Hence let us go why waste we time in vain
- Page No:
- pp.283-284
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Sad tidings son of Peleus thou must hear
- Page No:
- p.284
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah think thou favoured of the powers divine
- Page No:
- pp.284-285
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Aurora now fair daughter of the dawn
- Page No:
- pp.285-286
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- I joy to mingle where the battle bleeds
- Page No:
- p.286
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Man is born to bear
- Page No:
- p.286
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Strife and debate thy restless soul employ
- Page No:
- pp.286-287
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Now be thy rage thy fatal rage resigned
- Page No:
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Awake my Laelius leave all meaner things
- Page No:
- pp.288-295
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Man,
- Attribution:
- by Mr Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- O happy if he knew his happy state
- Page No:
- pp.295-298
- Poem Title:
- A Panegyric on a Country-life,
- Attribution:
- by Mr Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- It must be so Plato thou reasonst well
- Page No:
- pp.299-300
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come on sir | Here's the place stand still how fearful
- Page No:
- p.300
- Poem Title:
- A Speech of Edgar's in King Lear.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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