A companion in a post-chaise [T77033] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1406

Publication Date:

1773

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T77033

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW124656462

Shelfmark:

ECCO BOD

Full Title:

A | COMPANION | IN A | POST-CHAISE; | OR, AN | AMUSEMENT | FOR A | LEISURE HOUR at HOME: | CONTAINING | A CAREFUL SELECTION | FROM THE | Most approved and entertaining PIECES, | IN | VERSE AND PROSE, | That have appeared for many Years past. | [double rule] | SALISBURY: | Printed and sold by SEALY and HODSON, on the New Canal; sold also by S. | CROWDER, in Pater-Noster-Row, LONDON; FLETCHER and HODSON, at | CAMBRIDGE; and J. WILKES, at WINCHESTER. M.DCC.LXXIII. | PRICE THREE SHILLINGS.

Place of Publication:

Salisbury

Format:

Octavo

Price:

Three shillings

Comments:

Prose pp. 1-6, 18-23, 33, 34-41, 48-58, 71-82, 88-94, 95-104, 107-122, 123-129, 129-139, 145-151, 151-169, 180-183, 184-186, 187-190, 207-208, 208-212, 212-223, 225-232, 250-259.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Contents pp.[iii]-iv.

Content/Publication

First Line:

Were you to travel Britain thorough

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pp.7-11

Poem Title:

Sauce for a Boiled Shoulder of Mutton. A Tale.

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Turn gentle hermit of the dale

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pp.12-18

Poem Title:

Edwin and Angelina. A Ballad.

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By Dr. Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

When young life's journey I began

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pp.23-27

Poem Title:

A Love Elegy

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Consigned to dust beneath this stone

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p.28

Poem Title:

The Epitaph

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On the banks of that crystalline stream

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pp.29-33

Poem Title:

Allen and Ella. A Fragment.

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The various classes of mankind

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pp.41-48

Poem Title:

The City Mouse, and Country Mouse. A Fable. Written from the Country to a Friend in Town.

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First Line:

Hence vain deluding joys

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pp.59-65

Poem Title:

Il Penseroso.

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Hence loathed melancholy

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pp.65-71

Poem Title:

L'Allegro

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We galloped on to Harborough

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pp.82-85

Poem Title:

The Method of Choosing a Mayor at Leicester (Described in a Journey to York)

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First Line:

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man

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pp.85-87

Poem Title:

The Beggar

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One day the little god of love

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pp.105-106

Poem Title:

Cupid Bound: an Allegorical Tale.

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One of the contradicting sex

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pp.139-141

Poem Title:

The Female Wrangler

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Yes tis resolved Monimia we will retreat

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pp.142-145

Poem Title:

Solitude: an Elegy. To a young Lady who proposed Retirement.

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First Line:

As duteous to the place of prayer

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pp.169-173

Poem Title:

Fable I. The Sunflower and the Ivy.

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by Dr. Langhorne.

Attributed To:

John Langhorne

First Line:

Shepherd if near thy artless breast

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pp.174-176

Poem Title:

Fable II. The Violet and the Pansy.

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By Dr. Langhorne.

Attributed To:

John Langhorne

First Line:

In this dim cave a druid sleeps

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pp.177-179

Poem Title:

Fable III. The Miseltoe and the Passion-Flower.

Attribution:

By Dr. Langhorne.

Attributed To:

John Langhorne

First Line:

The sphere of mild domestic life

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pp.190-195

Poem Title:

The Pelican and the Spider. A Fable for the Ladies.

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First Line:

Ere yet hypocrisy and art

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pp.195-199

Poem Title:

The Two Lamps. A Fable.

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First Line:

Let courtly bards in polished phrase endite

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pp.199-204

Poem Title:

The Parish Clerk.

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Now from the bed where Morpheus gentle god

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pp.204-206

Poem Title:

A Summer's Morning

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Capricious power to whom all nature yields

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pp.224-225

Poem Title:

An Ode to Love

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First Line:

As late I wandered over the flowery plain

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pp.232-248

Poem Title:

Zephyrus and Flora. A Vision.

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Light of my solitude I see

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pp.248-250

Poem Title:

An Irregular Ode on a Candle

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