A select collection of modern poems from the best authors [T194009] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 916
- Publication Date:
- 1759
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T194009 [T178929?]
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB130884729
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - University of Essex; Library of Congress; Yale Sterling.
- Full Title:
- [g]A[/g] | [i]Select Collection | of | MODERN POEMS[/i] | from | THE best AUTHORS | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [manicule] [i]See the Contents on the otherside,[/i] | EDINBURGH sold by A. DONALDSON | [i]at[/i] Pope's Head [i]opposite the[/i] Exchange. | MDCCLVIIII.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh
- Genres:
- Collection of literary verse and Made-up miscellany
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Bibliographic details:
- Engraved title page. Made up miscellany. Sections have separate pagination and register, title pages and some separate prefatory matter: (1) LOVE-ELEGIES. | BY | MR. [i]HAMMOND.[/i] | Written in the year 1732. | WITH | A PREFACE by the Earl of | CHESTERFIELD. | [rule] | [i]Virginibus puerisque canto.[/i] | [rule] | EDINBURGH: | Printed by W. RUDDIMAN junior and | COMPANY. | [short rule] | M. DCC. LIX. Preface pp. iii-iv. (2) THE | PLEASURES | OF | IMAGINATION. | A | POEMS | IN THREE BOOKS. | By Dr. AKENSIDE. | [epigraph in Greek. EPICT. apud Arrian II. 23.] | EDINBURGH: | Printed for W. RUDDIMAN junior and COMPANY. | [short rule] | M,DCC,LVIII. The Design pp. [iii]-vi. (2a) p. 89: ODES | ON | Several SUBJECTS. Advertisement p. 90. (3) THE | ART | OF PRESERVING | HEALTH: | A | POEM | IN FOUR BOOKS. | By JOHN ARMSTRONG, M. D. | LONDON, | Printed in the YEAR MDCCLVI.
- Comments:
- Contents: Contains Hammond's Love Elegies; Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination and Odes on Several Occasions; Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health. Date: ESTC says MDCCLVIII = 1758 but title page reads MDCCLVIIII = 1759. QUERY: ECCO version of T194009 seems to be missing leaves after p. 58; poem printed on p. 58 appears to be incomplete.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Contents [3pp.]
- References:
- QUERY: is this actually the same as T178929? T178929 is listed on ESTC with a 1759 date; T194009, meanwhile, is listed on ESTC with a 1758 date but the relevant facsimile on ECCO (derived from the Library of Congress copy) actually has a 1759 date. In fact, the Library of Congress catalogue lists only a version of this work with a 1759 date, so the ESTC entry is probably wrong. In addition, in the catalogue of the Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex (also listed on T194009) gives only a version of this work with a 1759 date. The other versions of the work listed on ESTC as T194009 should be checked but it looks likely that there are two ESTC records relating to the same bibliographic entitity, a problem casued by a misreading of the roman numerals.
- Editor:
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Author of Preface of Hammond's Love-Elegies.
- Printer:
- Walter Ruddiman
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- Alexander Donaldson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Farewell that liberty our fathers gave
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- Love-Elegies. On his falling in love with Neaera. Elegy I.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair
- Page No:
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- Unable to satisfy the covetous temper of Neaera, he intends to make a campaign, and try, if possible, to forget her. Elegy II.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Should Jove descend in floods of liquid ore
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- He upbraids and threatens the avarice of Neaera, and resolves to quit her. Elegy III.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- While calm you sit beneath your secret shade
- Page No:
- pp.9-10
- Poem Title:
- To his friend, written under the confinement of a long indisposition. Elegy IV.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- With wine more wine deceive thy master's care
- Page No:
- pp.10-12
- Poem Title:
- The lover is at first introduced speaking to his servant; he afterwards addresses himself to his mistress, and at last there is a supposed interview between them.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Thousands would seek the lasting peace of death
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- He adjures Delia to pity him by their friendship with Celia, who was lately dead. Elegy VI.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Now Delia breathes in woods the fragrant air
- Page No:
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- On Delia's being in the country, wehre he supposes she stays to see the harvest. Elegy VII.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Ah what avails thy lover's pious care
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- He despairs that he shall ever possess Delia. Elegy VIII.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- He who could first two gentle hearts unbind
- Page No:
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- He has lost Delia. Elegy IX.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- This day which saw my Delia's beauty rise
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- On Delia's birth-day. Elegy X.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- The man who sharpened first the warlike steel
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- Against lovers going to war, in which he philosophically prefers love and Delia to the more serious vanities of the world. Elegy XI.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- No second love shall ever my heart surprize
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- To Delia. Elegy XII.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Let others boast their heaps of shining gold
- Page No:
- pp.21-24
- Poem Title:
- He imagines himself married to Delia, and that, content with each other, they are retired into the country. Elegy XIII.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- What scenes of bliss my raptured fancy framed
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- To Delia. Elegy XIV.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Oh formed alike to serve us and to please
- Page No:
- pp.25-27
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. George Greenville.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- O say thou dear possessor of my breast
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- To Miss D--w--d. Elegy XVI. In the manner of Ovid.
- Attribution:
- By. Mr. Hammond.
- Attributed To:
- James Hammond
- First Line:
- Too well these lines that fatal truth declare
- Page No:
- pp.28-30
- Poem Title:
- Answer to the foregoing Lines.
- Attribution:
- By the late Lord Hervey.
- Attributed To:
- John Hervey
- First Line:
- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
- Page No:
- pp.31-35
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Daughter of Jove relentless power
- Page No:
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- Hymn to Adversity.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Gray]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Since language never can describe my pain
- Page No:
- pp.37-42
- Poem Title:
- Epistles In the manner of Ovid. Monimia to Philocles.
- Attribution:
- By Lord Hervey.
- Attributed To:
- John Hervey
- First Line:
- Ere death these closing eyes for ever shade
- Page No:
- pp.43-46
- Poem Title:
- Flora to Pompey.
- Attribution:
- By Lord Hervey.
- Attributed To:
- John Hervey
- First Line:
- Of all I valued all I loved bereft
- Page No:
- pp.47-52
- Poem Title:
- Arisbe to Marius junior. From Fontenelle.
- Attribution:
- By Lord Hervey.
- Attributed To:
- John Hervey
- First Line:
- Think not I write my innocence to prove
- Page No:
- pp.53-56
- Poem Title:
- Roxana to Usbeck. From Les Lettres Persannes.
- Attribution:
- By Lord Hervey.
- Attributed To:
- John Hervey
- First Line:
- Before you sign poor Sophonisba's doom
- Page No:
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue design'd for Sophonisba, And to have been spoken by Mrs. Oldfield.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Hervey] (contents page)
- Attributed To:
- John Hervey
- First Line:
- Forbear my dear Stephen with a fruitless desire
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- An imitation of the eleventh Ode of the First Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What shall I say to fix thy wavering mind
- Page No:
- pp.58-??
- Poem Title:
- A Love Letter.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With what attractive charms this goodly frame
- Page No:
- pp.9-88
- Poem Title:
- The Pleasures of Imagination.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Amid the garden's fragrance laid
- Page No:
- pp.91-92
- Poem Title:
- Ode I. Allusion to Horace.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- The radiant ruler of the year
- Page No:
- pp.92-95
- Poem Title:
- Ode II. On the Winter-Solstice. M.D.CC.XL.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- O fly tis dire suspicion's mien
- Page No:
- pp.95-97
- Poem Title:
- Ode III. Against Suspicion.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Indeed my Phaedria if to find
- Page No:
- pp.97-99
- Poem Title:
- Ode IV. To a Gentleman whose Mistress had married an old Man.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- How thick the shades of evening close
- Page No:
- pp.99-104
- Poem Title:
- Ode V. Hymn to Chearfulness. The Author sick.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Queen of my songs harmonious maid
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- Ode IV. On the Absence of the Poetic Inclination.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- No foolish boy to virtuous fame
- Page No:
- pp.105-107
- Poem Title:
- Ode VII. To a Friend, on the hazard of falling in Love.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Adieu to Leyden's lonely bound
- Page No:
- pp.108-110
- Poem Title:
- Ode VIII. On leaving Holland.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Thou silent power whose balmy sway
- Page No:
- pp.110-112
- Poem Title:
- Ode IX. To Sleep.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Once more I join the Thespian choir
- Page No:
- pp.112-117
- Poem Title:
- Ode X. On Lyric Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Daughter of Paeon queen of every joy
- Page No:
- pp.1-59
- Poem Title:
- The Art of Preserving Health.
- Attribution:
- By John Armstrong, M. D.
- Attributed To:
- John Armstrong
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