A new tea-table miscellany [T180767] [second ed]
- DMI number:
- 813
- Publication Date:
- 1750
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T180767
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- n/a
- Shelfmark:
- Bod Harding C 2208
- Full Title:
- A NEW | TEA-TABLE | MISCELLANY: | OR, BAGATELLES | For the Amusement of | The FAIR SEX. | To which are added, | A Collection of Conundrums, | with their Solutions. | [rule] | [i]The[/i] SECOND EDITION. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for [i]E. Duncomb[/i], in [i]Butcherhall-| Lane, Newgate-Street.[/i] | [short rule] | M.DCC.L.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Miscellaneous collection
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [2], [i]-vi, [i]-xii, [8], [13]-186 pp.
- Comments:
- Contents: A Collection of Conundrums, with their Solutions pp. 135-86.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: address 'to the Fair Sex' signed 'the Editor' pp.[i]-vi; Preface pp. [i]-xii; Contents [7pp.]
- References:
- MS says 'much augmented', but Bod Harding C 2208 appears to be a reissue of the first edition.
- Title:
- A new tea-table miscellany [T177626]
- Publication Date:
- 1750
- ESTC No:
- T177626
- Volume:
- None
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- E. Duncomb
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Apollo silenced long ago
- Page No:
- pp.13-18
- Poem Title:
- The Tea-Table Oracle: or. Modern Fortune-Teller.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis not Chloe's piercing eye
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- Cloe's Power. In Cowley's stile.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For want of something else to do
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- An Excuse for Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair Chloe will not sure this gem despise
- Page No:
- pp.21-22
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram. Wrote on a window, with a diamond.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Does Strephon wish his heart was glass
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- Answer'd.
- Attribution:
- By Cloe.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lydia once was pretty
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For once fair Chloe though I fear
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- To Cloe, refusing to hear me.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Power wisdom and beauty stark naked were seen
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Paris the apple to Venus declared
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Paris the apple to Venus declared
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Clarissa's decked with every pleasing grace
- Page No:
- pp.28-31
- Poem Title:
- The Beauties of the Mind.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Paris the apple to Venus declared
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah grant me fair one all I crave
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See see my dear Damon behold with surprize
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- Dialogue. Celia and Damon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come come my dear Chloe and make no delay
- Page No:
- pp.34-35
- Poem Title:
- The Confident Lover.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye warblers while Strephon I moan
- Page No:
- pp.36-37
- Poem Title:
- Phillis's Complaint.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The leer the fondle and the smile
- Page No:
- pp.37-41
- Poem Title:
- A Lover's Resolution.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain the bright sun of my love
- Page No:
- pp.42-43
- Poem Title:
- Resolution and Repentance.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When charming Chloe speaks
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- Cloe. A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- False hair false teeth and one false eye
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thraso requests his friend to find
- Page No:
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Clo asked me one day to tell her a lie
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Aeneas to Venus with ardour thus prayed
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Arachne's snares catch none but flies
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If a maid's sense in penetration lies
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If beauty be fancy
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The gay coquet though innocent
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Yes fancy is the only test
- Page No:
- pp.50-52
- Poem Title:
- On Fancy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My distemper is gone
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Chloe your friend Pythagoras tis said
- Page No:
- pp.53-58
- Poem Title:
- On Wit and Sense.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Blessed is the man who may but Chloe see
- Page No:
- pp.58-59
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram. From the Greek.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Prostrate at Chloe's feet one day
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- Cloe's Modesty.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You Chloe all mankind must own
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain dear friend you bid me rove
- Page No:
- pp.61-62
- Poem Title:
- To a Friend, who disuaded him from Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Chloe what tongue can speak thy praise
- Page No:
- pp.62-65
- Poem Title:
- To Cloe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your shoe is a neat one dear friend I declare it
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Full five times wrapped around her knee
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- Cloe's Garter.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That love is a child by all is confessed
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Would gods descend as ancient poets feign
- Page No:
- pp.67-71
- Poem Title:
- Cloe's Wish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Streph and Chlo part you knave
- Page No:
- pp.72-75
- Poem Title:
- Reasons for Parting.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The fair the wise the witty and the young
- Page No:
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lucia was charming young and gay
- Page No:
- pp.76-80
- Poem Title:
- The Husband.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Cross.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Cross
- First Line:
- Behold the fond Damon's despair
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- Foolish Coyness.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair Chloe gay smiling one day
- Page No:
- pp.83-85
- Poem Title:
- The Sympathy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A reason why we love
- Page No:
- p.85
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As fair Aminta walked in yonder grove
- Page No:
- pp.86-89
- Poem Title:
- Cantata.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You say I'm false and fickle no
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What a prude o' th' sudden prythee girl why so coy
- Page No:
- p.90
- Poem Title:
- To Cloe, in a grave humour.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Me Chloe you so totally subdue
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- Cloe's Faults.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What sense and wit are
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Chloe tis past dispute that you
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- Advice against Pride. To Cloe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You Strephon had a sumptuous treat
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A farmer who traversed his ground in the morning
- Page No:
- pp.93-94
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Chloe's a jilt which ah too soon I know
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Strephon first saw Chloe's charms
- Page No:
- pp.95-98
- Poem Title:
- The Progress of Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'll die a maid I vow says modest Jane
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And can you unkindly reprove
- Page No:
- pp.99-100
- Poem Title:
- Song. Sung by Mrs. Mozeen, in The Merchant of Venice, in the character of Jessica.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In love affairs believe me friend the fault
- Page No:
- p.100
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Complaining to fortune on whom I relied
- Page No:
- pp.101-105
- Poem Title:
- The House on the Hill. A Ballad. Tune of, There liv'd long ago, &c.
- Attribution:
- This ballad was wrote by a gentleman, on a house he had upon Wandsworth-Hill, in Surry.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let wanton bards a nymph implore
- Page No:
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- On a Farmer's Daughter.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though gardens in blossom afford you delight
- Page No:
- pp.107-108
- Poem Title:
- The Gardener's Complaint to his Friend.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To hallow my birthday and roar out my praise
- Page No:
- pp.109-111
- Poem Title:
- Ode on the Author's Birth-Day.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Gallants tonight our prompter we produce
- Page No:
- pp.112-115
- Poem Title:
- The Universal Prompter. An Epilogue. Spoken by Mrs. Woffington, at the theatre royal in Drury - Lane, at Mr. Cross's benefit.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To you ye master spirits of the pit
- Page No:
- pp.115-118
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue. Spoken by Mrs. Woffington.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A long lost orphan we present tonight
- Page No:
- pp.118-121
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. Spoken at the rivival of Double Falshood, at the theatre royal in Covent-Garden.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lion for thee
- Page No:
- pp.121-123
- Poem Title:
- On the marriage of Mr. John Lion and Mrs. Martha Lamb.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Believe me friend platonic love
- Page No:
- pp.123-126
- Poem Title:
- Platonic Love. A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Is life a jest then life's a fart
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- To Cloe, On reading these lines of Gay's tomb: Life is a jest, and all things show it; | I thought so once, but now I know it.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While heavy cares affect my tortured breast
- Page No:
- p.128
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram. To Cloe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Rejoice all ye Britons your loyal strains raise
- Page No:
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- Duet. Sung by Mr. Lowe and Mrs. Clive, at the theatre royal in Drury-Lane.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That no true wisdom ever can lie
- Page No:
- pp.130-132
- Poem Title:
- Cloe's Foot.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love is a kind of a non-entity
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- A modern philosophical definition of Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Chloe is never naked seen
- Page No:
- p.133
- Poem Title:
- On Cloe's Picture.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When first to ravish you the prisoner tried
- Page No:
- p.133
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Chloe's true name says Frank declare
- Page No:
- p.134
- Poem Title:
- Cloe's True Name.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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