A collection of the best english poetry by several hands [vol II] [T71]

DMI number:

462

Publication Date:

1717

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T71

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116754171

Shelfmark:

BL c.124.b.7

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | Of the Best | [i]English Poetry[/i], | BY | Several HANDS. | [rule] | VOL. II. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed, and Sold by [i]T. Warner[/i], at the [i]Black Boy[/i] in [i]Pater-Noster-Row[/i], 1717.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Made-up miscellany and Subscription Miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Made up miscellany; other copies may have different contents.

Comments:

PAGINATION: [2], [i]-xv, [1], 17-30, [2], [1]-16, [1]-16, [1]-16, [1]-16, [1]-16, [1]-16, [1]-16, [1]-23, [1], [1]-24, 1-8, [1]-15, [1], [1]-15, [1], [1]-16, [1]-16, [1]-16, [1]-24, [1]-40, [1]-12, [1]-32, [1]-39, [1], [1]-14, [2], [1]-16, [1]-16, [1]-16, [1]-15, [1], [1]-24, [1]-24, [1]-16, [1]-8. Contents: (1) Milton's Sublimity Asserted: In A Poem (1709) ESTC T39372 (verse) (2) Bleinheim, A Poem (1709) ESTC N15214 (verse) (3) A Letter from Italy To the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Halifax (1709) ESTC N19779; DMI miscellany ID 214 (verse) (4) The History of Insipids, A Lampoon (1709) ESTC T161851 (verse) (5) Faction Display'd. A Poem (1709) ESTC T35132 (verse) (6) The Kit-Cats, A Poem (1709) ESTC T29488 (verse) (7) St James's Park. A Satyr. (1709) ESTC T48528 (verse) (8) Wine A Poem (1709) ESTC T13952 (verse) (9) An Ode on the Incarnation (1709) ESTC T41962 (verse) (10) A Poem in Defence of the Church of England (1709) ESTC T42516 (verse) (11) [untitled pamphlet] A Poem On the Taking St. Mary's (verse) (12) The Temple of Fame. A Poem (1709) ESTC T49930 (verse) (13) The Circus or, British Olympics (1709) ESTC T30773 (verse) (14) The Wife, A Poem (1709) ESTC T52492 (DMI miscellany ID 213) (verse) (15) The Charms of Liberty: A Poem (1709) ESTC T30527 (DMI miscellany ID 209) (verse) (16) An Essay on Poetry (1709) ESTC T33333 (verse) (17) Canary-Birds Naturaliz'd In Utopia. (n.d.) ESTC T19866 (verse) (18) The Art of Poetry, Written in French by The Sieur de Boileau (1710) ESTC T22463 (verse) (19) The Forgiving Husband, and Adulteress Wife (n.d.) ESTC T40028 (verse) (20) Cato Major of Old Age. A Poem (1710) ESTC T28920 (verse) (21) Bosworth-Field: A Poem (1710) ESTC T29559 (DMI miscellany ID 215) (verse) (22) The Commoner, A Poem (1710) ESTC T145 (verse) (23) The Husband, A Poem. Expressed in A Compleat Man (1710) ESTC T36871 (verse) (24) Baucis and Philemon: A Poem On the Ever-lamented Loss of the Two Yew-Trees (1710) ESTC T21428 (verse) (25) The Swan Tripe Club: A Satyr, on the High-Flyers (1710) ESTC T48997 (verse) (26) Poems on the Death of Her late Majesty Queen Mary (1710) ESTC T42663 (DMI miscellany ID 309) (verse) (27) Religio Laici: Or, A Layman's Faith (1710) ESTC T78014 (verse) (28) Pastorals, By Mr. Philips (1710) ESTC N19941 (verse) (29) The Campaign: A Poem (1710) ESTC N26628 (verse) (30) The Upstart: A Satyr (1710) ESTC T50620 (verse)

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Title:

A collection of the best english poetry by several hands [vol I] [T71]

Publication Date:

1717

ESTC No:

T71

Volume:

1 of 2

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Author:

Henry Hills

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Many of the separate pamphlets are printed / sold by Henry Hills.

Sold by:

T. Warner

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed, and Sold by T. Warner, at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-Row.'

Content/Publication

First Line:

Long has the world impatient with desire

Page No:

pp.17-30

Poem Title:

Milton's Sublimity Asserted: In A Poem Occasion'd by a late Celebrated Piece, Intituled, Cyder, a Poem, &c.

Attribution:

By Philo-Milton

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From low and abject themes the groveling muse

Page No:

pp.3-16

Poem Title:

Bleinheim, A Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While you my lord the rural shades admire

Page No:

pp.3-8

Poem Title:

A Letter From Italy, To the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Halifax.

Attribution:

By Mr. Joseph Addison. 1701.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Behold Alexis see the gloomy shade

Page No:

pp.9-15

Poem Title:

The Mourning Muse of Alexis, A Pastoral.

Attribution:

By Mr. Congreve. 1695

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Distracted with care

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

The Despairing Lover.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chaste pious prudent C------ the second

Page No:

pp.3-8

Poem Title:

The History of the Insipids, A Lampoon, &c.

Attribution:

By the Lord Roch----r.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Tired with the noisome follies of the age

Page No:

pp.9-14

Poem Title:

Rochester's Farewell. 1680.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From the dark Stygian lake I come

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

Marvil's Ghost.

Attribution:

By Mr. Jo. Ayloff

Attributed To:

John Ayloffe

First Line:

Say goddess muse for thy all searching eyes

Page No:

pp.4-16

Poem Title:

Faction Display'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I sing the assembly's rise increase and fame

Page No:

pp.3-13

Poem Title:

The Kit-Cats, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou flatterer of all the fair

Page No:

pp.14-15

Poem Title:

The Picture: In Imitation of Anacreon's Bathillus.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable the Marquis of Normanby

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

From wars and plagues come no such harms

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

To a Coquet Beauty.

Attribution:

'By the same Author' [i.e. Buckingham]

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

In days of yore when virtue was in vogue

Page No:

pp.3-16

Poem Title:

St James's Park, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of happiness terrestrial and the source

Page No:

pp.3-11

Poem Title:

Wine A Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye Britons give ear

Page No:

pp.12-16

Poem Title:

Old England's New Triumph: Or, The Battel of Audenard. A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wake all thy fire celestial muse

Page No:

pp.3-14

Poem Title:

An Ode On The Incarnation.

Attribution:

By T. R.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Weary of life with restless thoughts oppressed

Page No:

pp.15-23

Poem Title:

The True State of Mortality.

Attribution:

By T. R.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If we into our selves or round us look

Page No:

pp.3-24

Poem Title:

A Poem In Defence of the Church of England.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Lewis strove as all agree

Page No:

pp.1-8

Poem Title:

A Poem On the Taking St. Mary's.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Till now of late we thought the loud report

Page No:

pp.3-15

Poem Title:

The Temple of Fame, Inscrib'd to Mr. Congreve.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From vulgar eyes on plains exalted high

Page No:

pp.5-15

Poem Title:

The Circus: Or, British Olympicks, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hadst thou like other sirs and knights of worth

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

An Elegy upon the Death of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knight, Poyson'd in the Tower.

Attribution:

P. B. medii Temp.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis dangerous to be good well may we praise

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

An Elegy in Praise of Sir Thomas Overbury, and his Poem.

Attribution:

P. B. medii Temp.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When I behold this wife of thine so fair

Page No:

pp.4-5

Poem Title:

Of Sir Thomas Overbury's Wife and Marriage.

Attribution:

E. G.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beauty affords contentment to the eye

Page No:

pp.5-6

Poem Title:

On the Wife.

Attribution:

D. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou woeful widow once happy wife

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

To the Book.

Attribution:

F. H.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Exposed to all thou wilt less worthy seem

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

To the Wife.

Attribution:

G. R.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This perfect creature to the eastern use

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

On the Wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Well hast thou said that women should be such

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

On the Wife.

Attribution:

X. Z.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If I were to choose a woman

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

Of the Choice of a Wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Upon a marble framed by the cunningest hand

Page No:

pp.8-9

Poem Title:

A Statue erected in Memory of Sir Thomas Overbury's Wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Each woman is a brief of womankind

Page No:

pp.9-16

Poem Title:

A Wife.

Attribution:

By Sir Thomas Overbury

Attributed To:

Sir Thomas Overbury

First Line:

The span of my days measured here I rest

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

The Author's Epitaph.

Attribution:

Written by Himself [i.e. Overbury]

Attributed To:

Sir Thomas Overbury

First Line:

Cambray whilst of seraphic love you write

Page No:

pp.3-7

Poem Title:

The Charms of Liberty: A Poem, In Allusion to the Archbishop of Cambray's Telemachus.

Attribution:

'By the late Duke of D---.' i.e. William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire (d. 1707)

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe you write to me for coin

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

An Epigram of Flaminius, to his Drinking Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whoever has money may securely sail

Page No:

pp.8-9

Poem Title:

On the Power of Gold...Beginning, Quisquis habet nummos, &c.

Attribution:

By Mr. Burnaby

Attributed To:

William Burnaby

First Line:

Coming a tender girl from school

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

Epigram ['Impubis nupsi valido, nunc firmior annis'] Translated thus.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tho. Brown

Attributed To:

Thomas Brown

First Line:

A wife who as our own by law we hold

Page No:

pp.9-10

Poem Title:

On a Wife...beginning Uxor, legitimus debet quasi Census amari &c.

Attribution:

By the Author of the London Spy

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He that for money weds preposterous shapes

Page No:

pp.10-11

Poem Title:

Concerning our Choice in Marriage...beginning, Morbus & Vultu Mulier quaeratur habenda, &c.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. author of the London Spy]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sure Cerberus a lawyer first must be

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

That the Dog of Hell was a Lawyer...beginning, Cerberus, forensis erat Causidicus, &c.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Author of the London Spy]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You're mightily deceived I swear

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

On a happy Life's consisting in Virtue. A Fragment; beginning, Non est falieris &c.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tho. Brown

Attributed To:

Thomas Brown

First Line:

Commit your ship to sea and wind

Page No:

pp.13-14

Poem Title:

A Fragment. Upon the Levity of Woman. Beginning, Crede Ratem Ventis, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unhappy mortals on how fine a thread

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

On the Misery of Mankind; beginning, Heu Heu, nos Miseros, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What fury did these sudden broils engage

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

Tryphaena's Speech for Peace, on board the Ship of Lycas; beginning, Quis furor exclamat, Pacem convertit, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Haste generous youth a foreign world explore

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

The Oracle. A Fragment, Paraphrased and adapted to the Modern Times; beginning, Linque tuas sedes Juvenis, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unhappy Tantalus amidst the flood

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

An Epigram on Tantalus; beginning, Nec bibit inter aquas, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why do the strict-lived Catos of the age

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

In defence of Satyr; beginning, Quid me constricta spectatis fronte, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of things in which mankind does most excel

Page No:

pp.3-16

Poem Title:

An Essay on Poetry.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable the Earl of Murlgrave

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

In our unhappy days of yore

Page No:

pp.4-24

Poem Title:

Canary-Birds Naturaliz'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Rash author tis a vain presumptuous crime

Page No:

pp.3-40

Poem Title:

The Art of Poetry.

Attribution:

Made English, By Sir William Soames. Since Revis'd by John Dryden, Esq;

Attributed To:

John Dryden

Sir William Soame

First Line:

My dear Lavinia once the only joy

Page No:

pp.3-11

Poem Title:

The forgiving Husband, and the penitent Adulteress.

Attribution:

By the Author of the London-Spy

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How happy is that godlike man

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

Moral Reflexions on the foregoing Dialogue.

Attribution:

By the Author of the London-Spy

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though all the actions of your life are crowned

Page No:

pp.5-32

Poem Title:

Of Old-Age.

Attribution:

By the Honourable Sir John Denham, Knight of the Bath

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

To tell the world what it hath lost in thee

Page No:

pp.5-6

Poem Title:

An Elegy to the Living Memory of his Deceased Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight, Baronet.

Attribution:

Thomas Nevill

Attributed To:

Thomas Nevill

First Line:

I write not elegies nor tune my verse

Page No:

pp.6-8

Poem Title:

An Elegy dedicated to the Memory of his much Honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight and Baronet.

Attribution:

Thomas Hawkins

Attributed To:

Sir Thomas Hawkins

First Line:

We do not usher forth thy verse with these

Page No:

pp.8-9

Poem Title:

To the Worthy Muse of his Noble Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Knight, Baronet.

Attribution:

Thomas Hawkins

Attributed To:

Sir Thomas Hawkins

First Line:

Ye heavenly sisters by whose sacred skill

Page No:

pp.9-10

Poem Title:

A Congratulation to the Muses, for the immortalizing of his dear Father, by the Sacred Vertue of Poetry.

Attribution:

John Beaumont

Attributed To:

Beaumont||John||Jr

First Line:

You who prepare to read grave Beaumont's verse

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

Upon the following Poem of my dear Father, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet, deceased.

Attribution:

Francis Beaumont

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

First Line:

When lines are drawn greater than nature art

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

Upon the Poem of his dearest Brother, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.

Attribution:

George Fortescue

Attributed To:

George Fortescue

First Line:

This book will live it hath a genius this

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

On the Honour'd Poem of his Honoured Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.

Attribution:

Ben. Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

This Posthumus from the brave parents name

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

To the dear Remembrance of his Noble Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.

Attribution:

Mi. Drayton

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

I knew thee not I speak it to my shame

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

Upon the Honoured Poem of his Unknown Friend, Sir John Beaumont, Baronet.

Attribution:

Ja. Cl.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The winter's storm of civil war I sing

Page No:

pp.17-39

Poem Title:

Bosworth-Field: A Poem.

Attribution:

By Sir John Beaumont

Attributed To:

Sir John Beaumont

First Line:

When Titan with his splendid rays had blessed

Page No:

pp.5-14

Poem Title:

The Commoner, A Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Life was inspired the first life was divine

Page No:

pp.3-15

Poem Title:

The Husband, A Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Soul thy aspiring part which doth converse

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

The Author's Catastrophe.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In ancient times as story tells

Page No:

pp.3-7

Poem Title:

The Metamorphosis of Baucis and Philemon, Burlesqu'd; from the 8th Book of Ovid.

Attribution:

By the Author of the Tale of a Tub

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Humbly sheweth | That I went to warm my self in Lady Betty's chamber because I was cold

Page No:

pp.8-11

Poem Title:

To Their Excellencies, &c. The Humble Petition of Frances Harris, | Who must starve, and die a Maid, if it miscarries.

Attribution:

By the Author of The Tale of a Tub

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Miss Molly a famed toast was fair and young

Page No:

pp.12-14

Poem Title:

An Admirable Recipe.

Attribution:

By the Author of The Tale of a Tub

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Hail sacred solitude from this calm bay

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

An Ode upon Solitude.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

How this fantastic world is changed of late

Page No:

pp.3-16

Poem Title:

The Swan Tripe-Club: A Satyr, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Desolate Albion mourn thy cruel fate

Page No:

pp.3-8

Poem Title:

A Pindarick Poem, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She's dead alas beyond recovery dead

Page No:

pp.9-15

Poem Title:

A Pindarick Ode, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Be gone you slaves you idle vermin go

Page No:

pp.2-3

Poem Title:

To Mr. Dryden, On His Religio Laici.

Attribution:

Roscomon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars

Page No:

pp.12-24

Poem Title:

Religio Laici.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

If we O Dorset quit the city throng

Page No:

pp.3-5

Poem Title:

The First Pastoral. Lobbin.

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Thy cloudy looks why melting thus in tears

Page No:

p.6-10

Poem Title:

The Second Pastoral. Thenot. Colinet.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Virgil thought no shame the dorick reed

Page No:

pp.10-13

Poem Title:

The Third Pastoral.

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

This place may seem for shepherds leisure made

Page No:

pp.13-16

Poem Title:

The Fourth Pastoral. Mico. Argol.

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

In rural strains we first our music try

Page No:

pp.17-20

Poem Title:

The Fifth Pastoral.

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

How still the sea behold how calm the sky

Page No:

pp.20-24

Poem Title:

The Sixth Pastoral. Geron. Hobbinol. Lanquet.

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

While crowds of princes your deserts proclaim

Page No:

pp.3-16

Poem Title:

The Campaign. A Poem, &c.

Attribution:

By Mr. Addison

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Northward a county lies in which does stand

Page No:

pp.3-8

Poem Title:

The Upstart: A Satyr.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed