A collection...for the benefit of English schools [T167216] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 575
- Publication Date:
- 1737
- ESTC number:
- T167216
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB127251359
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - CUL / NLS
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | FROM THE | SPECTATOR, TATLER, GUARDIAN, [i]Mr.[/i] | POPE, [i]Mr.[/i] DRYDEN, [i]from Mr.[/i] ROL- | LIN'[i]s Method of Teaching and Study- | ing the[/i] BELLES LETTRES, [i]and his[/i] | UNIVERSAL HISTORY. | For the BENEFIT of | English Schools. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]EDINBURGH[/i], | Printed for JOHN WARDEN Teacher of [i]English[/i]. | MDCCXXXVII.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh
- Format:
- Octavo
- Comments:
- Query: ECCO record claims to have missing (or misnumbered?) pages: check pagination carefully. Also, part of pp. 295-6 is missing from the ECCO copy. 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: predominently a prose miscellany, but contains some verse.
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATTER: Advertisment (1pp).
- Editor:
- John Warden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Like a fair flower by the keen share oppressed
- Page No:
- p.300
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- 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:
- 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:
- pp.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 King Lear.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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