A new miscellany of original poems [T96800]
- DMI number:
- 121
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1701
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T96800
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW111669939
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding C 60
- Full Title:
- A NEW | [r]Miscellany[/r] | Of Original | [r]POEMS,[/r] | On Several Occasions. | Written by the | [two braced columns] [column one][r]E[/r] of [r]D[/r]. | Sir [r]Charles Sidley,[/r] | Sir [r]Fleetw.Shepheard,[/r] | Mr. [r]Wolesly,[/r][/column one] | [column two] Mr. [r]Granvill,[/r] | Mr. [r]Dryden,[/r] | Mr. [r]Stepney[/r] | Mr. [r]Rowe.[/r] [/column two] | [i]And several other Eminent Hands[/i]. | Never before Printed. | [rule] | [r][i]LONDON,[/i][/r] | Printed for [r][i]Peter Buck,[/i][/r] at the Sign of the [i]Temple[/i] | in [i]Fleet-street[/i]; and [r][i]George Strahan[/i][/r] at the [i]Golden | Ball,[/i] over against the [i]Royal-Exchange[/i] in [i]Corn-|hil[/i]. 1701.
- Epigraph:
- n/a
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- n/a
- Pagination:
- [16] 1-341 [1] pp.
- Bibliographic details:
- Title-page in red and black. (Bod Harding C 60 missing final advertisement leaf mentioned in ESTC. P. 164, 168 and 194 have a side note which has been partially lost through cropping. See ESTC for details of cancels and signatures. Pencil [proof?] corrections p. 272, 277. Mispagination: 98, 99 misnumbered 99, 98.
- Comments:
- Contents: Poem in Latin ('En iterum officiosa Camaena, en, qualia, habet, dat) pp. 23-28.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Dedicatory epistle (unsigned) (A2r-A5v); Contents (A6r-A8r); Errata (A8v)
- Title:
- A new collection of original poems on several occasions [T212114] [*IR*]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- T212114
- Volume:
- None
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Title:
- A new collection of poems on several occasions [N5855] [*IR*]
- Publication Date:
- 1701
- ESTC No:
- N5855
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Dedicatee:
- Benedict Leonard Calvert
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'To the Honourable Benedict, Leonard Calvert Esquire'
- Editor:
- Charles Gildon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dedication signed 'Charles Gildon'.
- Editor:
- Nicholas Rowe
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Richard H. Dammers, 'Rowe's A New Miscellany of Original Poems' Library s.5-XXVIII (1973) 327-8
- Publisher:
- George Strahan
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for Peter Buck, at the Sign of the Temple in Fleet-street; and George Strahan at the Golden Ball, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil.'
- Publisher:
- Peter Buck
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for Peter Buck, at the Sign of the Temple in Fleet-street; and George Strahan at the Golden Ball, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil.'
- First Line:
- Mourn all ye loves the fair Adonis dies
- Page No:
- pp.1-6
- Poem Title:
- The first edilium of Bion
- Attribution:
- English'd by the right honourable the Earl of W-----
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail gentle cask whose venerable head
- Page No:
- pp.7-10
- Poem Title:
- An imitation of the 21st ode of Horace L. 3. Ad Amphoram
- Attribution:
- By N. Rowe, esq
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- Once more the queen of love invades my breast
- Page No:
- pp.11-15
- Poem Title:
- To Venus. Ode I. l. 4
- Attribution:
- By the same hand [i.e. Rowe]
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- Thornhill whom doubly to my heart commend
- Page No:
- pp.16-18
- Poem Title:
- The 4th epist. of Hor. l. 1....inscrib'd to R. Thornhil, Esq.
- Attribution:
- Imitated by the same hand [i.e. Rowe]
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- While Sappho with harmonious airs
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sylvia how have thy kisses lost
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At dead of night imperial reason sleeps
- Page No:
- pp.21-23
- Poem Title:
- The nature of dreams
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stepney
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Now thou dear Will and every friend's withdrawn
- Page No:
- pp.29-33
- Poem Title:
- An epistle to Mr. W--- Fellow of Trin. Coll. Cantab.
- Attribution:
- By W. S
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since my own artless and unpracticed muse
- Page No:
- pp.33-34
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Ode 25. lib. 3. Inscribed to a friend
- Attribution:
- By W. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O whither am I hurried god of wine
- Page No:
- pp.34-36
- Poem Title:
- To Bacchus
- Attribution:
- Seems to be by the same author as the preceding poem
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear Charles if undeceived I may depend
- Page No:
- pp.36-42
- Poem Title:
- An epistle to Mr. Montague
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Power. Translated from the Latin by H. Lloyd, Esq
- Attributed To:
- H. LloydMr. Power
- First Line:
- Dear Phosphorus the muses best beloved
- Page No:
- pp.42-46
- Poem Title:
- An epistle to N. Rowe, Esq
- Attribution:
- By William Shippen, Esq; Translated from the Latin by H. Lloyd
- Attributed To:
- William ShippenH. Lloyd
- First Line:
- What art thou O thou new found pain
- Page No:
- pp.46-53
- Poem Title:
- Desire. A Pindaric.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Flavia to you with safety I commend
- Page No:
- pp.53-59
- Poem Title:
- Epistle to Flavia. On the sight of two Pindarick Ode's on the Spleen and Vanity. Written by a Lady her Friend.
- Attribution:
- By N. Rowe, Esq
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- What art thou spleen which every thing dost ape
- Page No:
- pp.60-70
- Poem Title:
- The spleen, a pindarick ode
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Damon whilst thus we nightly watches keep
- Page No:
- pp.70-81
- Poem Title:
- A pastoral between Menalcas and Damon. On the appearance of the angels to the shepherds, upon our saviour's birth day
- Attribution:
- By the same hand [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With such a pulse with such disordered veins
- Page No:
- pp.81-87
- Poem Title:
- An epistle from Alexander to Hephaesion, in his sickness
- Attribution:
- By the same hand [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh King of terrors whose unbounded sway
- Page No:
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- To death
- Attribution:
- By the same hand [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold the happy day again
- Page No:
- pp.88-90
- Poem Title:
- A song on the king's birth-day
- Attribution:
- By Sir Charles Sidley
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- First Line:
- Did any punishment attend
- Page No:
- pp.90-92
- Poem Title:
- A translation from Horace, Ode VIII. l. II
- Attribution:
- By Sir Charles Sidley
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- First Line:
- Did we but once Barine see
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- The same.
- Attribution:
- By Mr A---
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of D---
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Silvia methinks you are unfit
- Page No:
- pp.94-95
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. the Earl of D---]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No more will I my passion hide
- Page No:
- pp.95-96
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Wolsly
- Attributed To:
- Robert Wolseley
- First Line:
- Though fortune and love are deities still
- Page No:
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Spite of thy godhead powerful love
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Wharton
- Attributed To:
- Anne Wharton [nee Lee]
- First Line:
- Too conscious of her worth a noble maid
- Page No:
- pp.99-98 [i.e. 98-99]
- Poem Title:
- Epigram
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I long have wandered from the muses seat
- Page No:
- p.98[ i.e. 99]-114
- Poem Title:
- A pindarick ode. In honour of Almahide and the Muses.
- Attribution:
- By Henry St John, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Henry St John
- First Line:
- While soaring high above Orinda's heights
- Page No:
- pp.115-121
- Poem Title:
- To Mrs. Wharton. On a copy of verses she did me the honour to write in praise of the preface to Valentinian
- Attribution:
- By Mr Wolsley
- Attributed To:
- Robert Wolseley
- First Line:
- Since not your loss of trade nor work in France
- Page No:
- pp.121-124
- Poem Title:
- To an eminent painter
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since all must certainly to death resign
- Page No:
- pp.124-126
- Poem Title:
- The fear of death
- Attribution:
- By Sir R. Howard
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- I have too long endured her guilty scorn
- Page No:
- pp.127-133
- Poem Title:
- Upon an ungrateful and undeserving mistress, whom he could not help loving. Or the second part of Phillis. Being a paraphrastical translation of Ovid's tenth elegy. Lib. 3. Amorum
- Attribution:
- Done by Mr. Wolsele
- Attributed To:
- Robert Wolseley
- First Line:
- Since soon this hated world and I must part
- Page No:
- pp.134-141
- Poem Title:
- Cleon to Dorindas
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The god of day descending from above
- Page No:
- pp.141-159
- Poem Title:
- The progress of beauty
- Attribution:
- By the Honourable George Granville, Esq
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- First Line:
- Though built by gods consumed by hostile flame
- Page No:
- pp.159-160
- Poem Title:
- To my lord Lansdowne. On the bombarding the town of Granville in Normandy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If worthy friend I know thee right thou'lt never
- Page No:
- pp.161-171
- Poem Title:
- The 18th epistle of Horace, in his first book of epistles; English'd in imitation of Horace's style. The scene chang'd.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Blomer
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Blomer
- First Line:
- Now are our muses equally inclined
- Page No:
- pp.172-175
- Poem Title:
- To the honourable and reverend Dr. Montague, Late master of Trinity-College in Cambridge; upon his being made clerk of the closet to his majesty
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Blomer
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Blomer
- First Line:
- What art thou wondrous she whence shall I call
- Page No:
- pp.175-178
- Poem Title:
- The she critick
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Blomer
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Blomer
- First Line:
- How blindly men their happiness pursue
- Page No:
- pp.178-183
- Poem Title:
- Verses occasionally written upon St. Andrews day
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Blomer
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Blomer
- First Line:
- Thus long our learned arts have ruled the day
- Page No:
- pp.183-187
- Poem Title:
- Prologue, spoken to the ladies before the musick-act, at the public commencement at Cambridge, On Tuesday the 5th of July. 1698
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Blomer.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Blomer
- First Line:
- Dread critics we have nothing more to plead
- Page No:
- pp.187-190
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue
- Attribution:
- By the same hand [i.e. Blomer]
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Blomer
- First Line:
- My virgin muse began to sing of you
- Page No:
- pp.191-201
- Poem Title:
- Horace 1st epistle, book the 1st. To Maecenas
- Attribution:
- English'd by Mr. Blomer
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Blomer
- First Line:
- As when some merchant on the stormy main
- Page No:
- pp.202-211
- Poem Title:
- On the death of his highness the D. of Glocester
- Attribution:
- By Mr. George Gefferies of Trinity College in Cambridge
- Attributed To:
- George Jeffreys
- First Line:
- Happy the man who void of cares and strife
- Page No:
- pp.212-221
- Poem Title:
- In imitation of Milton
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Believe me Will that they who have least sense
- Page No:
- pp.222-228
- Poem Title:
- The IV. satyr of Boyleau, to Mr. W. R.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oppressed with want and sinking under pain
- Page No:
- pp.229-234
- Poem Title:
- On the dispensary
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah blame not me if no despair
- Page No:
- pp.235-236
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- By the Honourable W. Wh----n, Esq
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For many unsuccessful years
- Page No:
- pp.237-239
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a Lover
- Attribution:
- By Mr Yalden
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- Whence does this tumult in my brain proceed
- Page No:
- pp.240-247
- Poem Title:
- To Orinda absent
- Attribution:
- By W. P. Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In early days ere prologues did begin
- Page No:
- pp.248-251
- Poem Title:
- The strowlers prologue at Cambridge
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- So the fair goddess first approached the shore
- Page No:
- pp.252-253
- Poem Title:
- On a lady dress'd for a ball at court
- Attribution:
- By Sir H. H.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your lean petitioner sheweth humbly
- Page No:
- pp.254-255
- Poem Title:
- To her majestick mighty mistress. The ------ all in distress
- Attribution:
- By Sir Fleetwood Shepherd
- Attributed To:
- Sir Fleetwood Sheppard
- First Line:
- Corinna cost me many a prayer
- Page No:
- p.256
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy and free securely blessed
- Page No:
- pp.257-258
- Poem Title:
- The fair stranger
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- You tell me Celia you approve
- Page No:
- pp.258-260
- Poem Title:
- To Caelia, against honour.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thyrsis I wish as well as you
- Page No:
- pp.260-261
- Poem Title:
- The answer
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who laugh at virtue yet secure of fame
- Page No:
- pp.262-275
- Poem Title:
- Against avarice, a Satyr...To Phil. Harman, esq.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Never did our English senate know
- Page No:
- pp.276-280
- Poem Title:
- On the cessation of the tax on mault
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Say lovely Sylvia lewd and fair
- Page No:
- pp.281-282
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold the wanton fly that plays
- Page No:
- pp.283-284
- Poem Title:
- By Jo. Tredenham, Esq
- Attribution:
- From the Italian
- Attributed To:
- Jo. Tredenham
- First Line:
- As servile preachers who preferment wait
- Page No:
- pp.285-287
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Granville, on his comedy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All fly the unhappy and I all would fly
- Page No:
- pp.288-292
- Poem Title:
- The Retirement.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The precious hours of flying youth
- Page No:
- pp.293-294
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- However tis well that whilst mankind
- Page No:
- pp.295-298
- Poem Title:
- Heraclitus
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- As papist when his restiff saint
- Page No:
- pp.299-301
- Poem Title:
- A letter to Mr. Congreve
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I ask not lovely virgins why you weep
- Page No:
- pp.302-310
- Poem Title:
- A pastoral elegy on Mrs. M.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. O---
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As when some image of a charming face
- Page No:
- p.311-318
- Poem Title:
- Concerning unnatural flights in poetry
- Attribution:
- By the honourable George Granvil Esq;
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- First Line:
- When famed Apelles sought to frame
- Page No:
- pp.323-324
- Poem Title:
- Upon a picture of my lady Hide. Epigram
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Scarce could the general joy for Mohun appear
- Page No:
- pp.325-326
- Poem Title:
- On my Lady Hide having the small-pox, soon after the recovery of Mrs. Mohun
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Once more my muse awake thy trembling lyre
- Page No:
- pp.327-331
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. George Granville, on his poem call'd, The progress of beauty, and his other writings
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When my Aminta weeps tis sure
- Page No:
- pp.332-334
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When pleasure is fallen to the low delight
- Page No:
- pp.335-339
- Poem Title:
- Epistle to Mr. Congreve, occasion'd by his comedy call'd The way of the world
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Steele
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Steele
- First Line:
- Capacious goblet stored with all delight
- Page No:
- pp.340-341
- Poem Title:
- Verses on a punch-bowl
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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