A collection...for the benefit of English schools [T128313]

DMI number:

576

Publication Date:

1761

ESTC number:

T128313

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW124756323

Shelfmark:

BL 12270.b.9

Full Title:

A | [red]COLLECTION[/red] | FROM THE | SPECTATOR, TATLER, GUARDIAN, [i]Mr[/i] POPE, | [i]Mr[/i] DRYDEN, [i]from Mr[/i] ROLLIN'[i]s Method of | Teaching and Studying the[/i] BELLES LETTRES, | [i]and his[/i] UNIVERSAL HISTORY. | For the BENEFIT of | [red]English Schools.[/red] | [rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE: | Printed for [red]JOHN WARDEN[/red] Teacher of [i]English.[/i] | [short rule] | MDCCLXI.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[2], 1-318. (p.227 mispaginated '127')

Bibliographic details:

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: Title page in red and black.

Comments:

CONTENTS: Predominently contains essays taken from the Spectator, Tatler, etc. Some of these contain verse extracts: only those extracts in English, and which are 4 lines or longer, have been recorded here. MISCELLANY GENRE: educational collection, predominently containing prose.

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Editor:

John Warden

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Choose for thy command

Page No:

p.4

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.9-10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hudibras [in prose].

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Others apart sat on a hill retired

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

The spacious firmament on high

Page No:

pp.108-109

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When rising from the bed of death

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To close the pomp Aethon the steed of state

Page No:

p.294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Along their face

Page No:

p.294

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Hector this heard returned without delay

Page No:

pp.295-296

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Black choler filled his breast that boiled with ire

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

He spoke and awful bends his sable brows

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Yet while my Hector still survives I see

Page No:

p.296

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The illustrious prince of Troy

Page No:

pp.296-297

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Far as a shepherd from some point on high

Page No:

p.297

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

As when some peasant in a bushy brake

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Then as a hungry lion who beholds

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Him approaching near

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Him Menelaus loved of Mars espies

Page No:

p.298

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The wanton courser thus with reins unbound

Page No:

pp.298-299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

And as when heavy sleep has closed the sight

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Freed from his keepers thus with broken reins

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

As men in slumbers seem with speedy pace

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

As full blown poppies overcharged with rain

Page No:

p.300

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

As the bold bird her helpless young attends

Page No:

p.300

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.300-301

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Sad tidings son of Peleus thou must hear

Page No:

p.301

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah think thou favoured of the powers divine

Page No:

pp.301-302

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Aurora now fair daughter of the dawn

Page No:

pp.302-303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

I joy to mingle where the battle bleeds

Page No:

pp.303-304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Man is born to bear

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

I know thy force to mine superior far

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Now be thy rage thy fatal rage resigned

Page No:

pp.304-305

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Strife and debate thy restless soul employ

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Awake my Laelius leave all meaner things

Page No:

p.305-313

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.313-317

Poem Title:

A Panegyrick 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.317-318

Poem Title:

Cato solus, sitting in a thoughtful Posture: In his Hand Plato's Book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn Sword on the Table by him.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come on sir | Here's the place stand still how fearful

Page No:

p.318

Poem Title:

A Speech of Edgar's in King Lear.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed