A select collection of original love letters, to which are sub-join'd poems by eminent ladies [T82903]

DMI number:

1516

Publication Date:

1755

ESTC number:

T82903

EEBO/ECCO link:

N/A

Shelfmark:

BL 10920.cc.20

Full Title:

A SELECT | COLLECTION | Of the ORIGINAL | LOVE LETTERS | OF SEVERAL | [i]EMINENT PERSONS[/i], | OF | Distinguish'd RANK and STATION, | NOW LIVING. | Printed from GENUINE MANUSCRIPTS. | To which are subjoin'd, | POEMS by Eminent Ladies; | PARTICULARLY, | [2 cols.] [col. 1]Mrs. BARBER, | Mrs. BEHN, | Miss CARTER, | Lady CHUDLEIGH, | Mrs. COCKBURN, | Mrs. GRIERSON, | Mrs. JONES, | Mrs. KILLIGREW, | Mrs. LEAPOR,[/col. 1] [col. 2]Mrs. MADAN, | Mrs. MASTERS, | Lasy M. W. MONTAGUE, | Mrs. MONK, | Dutchess of NEWCASTLE, | Mrs. C. PHILIPS, | Mrs. PILKINGTON, | Mrs. ROWE, | Lady WINCHELSEA.[/col. 2] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i]London:[/i] Printed for the PROPRIETORS, 1755. | [[i]Price[/i] Two Shillings, [i]sew'd[/i].]

Epigraph:

[i]We allow'd you Beauty, and we did submit | To all the Tyrannies of it. | Ah, cruel Sex! will you depose us too in Wit? | COWLEY.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Price:

2 s.

Pagination:

[7], [1]-152.

Bibliographic details:

FORMAT: Octavo in fours.

Comments:

CONTENTS: Prose letters pp.[1]-69.

Other matter:

PREFATORY: Preface signed G. Gaylove (3pp.); Contents (3pp.)

Content/Publication

First Line:

Love the most generous passion of the mind

Page No:

[n. p.]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

...a very great Penitent and Poet of our nation, no less Remarkable for his Gallantry than his Writings

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First Line:

Tis true I have loved already three or four

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[n. p.]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Cowley's Expedient

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Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Love when he shoots abroad his darts

Page No:

pp.70-71

Poem Title:

Love's Power.

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First Line:

Ye heedless fair who trifle life away

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p.70

Poem Title:

Advice to the Ladies at Bath.

Attribution:

Written by a Lady.

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First Line:

All trembling in my arms Aminta lay

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p.71

Poem Title:

The Dream.

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First Line:

Must we eternal martyrdom pursue

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pp.71-72

Poem Title:

Love's Resentment.

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First Line:

Fond love thy pretty flatteries cease

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pp.72-73

Poem Title:

To Love.

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First Line:

Wife and servant are the same

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pp.73-74

Poem Title:

To the Ladies.

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First Line:

Seest thou yonder craggy rock

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pp.74-75

Poem Title:

The Complaint of a Lover.

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First Line:

As you are young if you'll be also wise

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p.75

Poem Title:

Extemporary Counsel To a Young Gallant in a Frolick.

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First Line:

My guardian bear me on thy downy wing

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pp.75-76

Poem Title:

A Summer's Wish.

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First Line:

Hail Phillis brighter than a morning sky

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pp.76-78

Poem Title:

The Month of August. Sylvanus, a Courtier. Phillis, a Country Maid.

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First Line:

Strephon the sprightly and the gay

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pp.78-83

Poem Title:

The Mistaken Lover.

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First Line:

Madam | I hope you'll think it's true

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pp.83-84

Poem Title:

Strephon to Celia. A modern Love-Letter.

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First Line:

When lonely night composed the drowsy mind

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pp.84-86

Poem Title:

The Temple of Love, A Dream.

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First Line:

Whilst thirst of praise and vain desire of fame

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

The Lady's Resolve. Written extempore on a Widow.

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First Line:

Whilst pretty fellows think a woman's fame

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

The Gentleman's Answer.

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First Line:

Why will Delia thus retire

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Receipt for the Vapours. Written to Lady J--n.

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First Line:

This poring over your grand cyrus

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p.88

Poem Title:

On a Romantick Lady.

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First Line:

Thou who dost all my worldly thoughts employ

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pp.88-89

Poem Title:

Verses Wrote by a Lady on her death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband in London.

Attribution:

Wrote by a Lady

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First Line:

Content the false world's best disguise

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p.89-91

Poem Title:

Content. To my dearest Lucasia.

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First Line:

Over this marble drop a tear

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on a Gallant Lady.

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First Line:

The things that make a virgin please

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p.91

Poem Title:

The Virgin

Attribution:

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First Line:

Behold the spring in fresh attire

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

To Strephon. Written from a Lady to her Lover.

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First Line:

Reputation love and death

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

Love, Death, and Reputation.

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First Line:

She fans the youthful lover's flame

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pp.94-97

Poem Title:

The Princess of Hope.

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First Line:

Ah gaze not on those eyes forbear

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

Song. The Vain Advice.

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First Line:

And though I do not speak alas

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

The silent Confession.

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First Line:

Twas when the sun had his swift progress made

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pp.98-101

Poem Title:

The Cruel Parent. A Dream.

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First Line:

When youth and charms have taken their wanton flight

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p.101

Poem Title:

Advice to Sophronia.

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First Line:

Lucinda you in vain dissuade

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

To Lucinda.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Take back that heart you with such caution give

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pp.102-104

Poem Title:

To Lysander, on some Verses he writ, and asking more for his Heart than it was worth.

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First Line:

Alexis since you'll have it so

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pp.104-105

Poem Title:

To Alexis, on his saying, I lov'd a man that talked much.

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First Line:

At length by so much importunity pressed

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pp.105-106

Poem Title:

The Lover. A Ballad. To Mr. D--.

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First Line:

Soft kisses may be innocent

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

The Caution.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Read lovely nymph and tremble not to read

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pp.107-109

Poem Title:

Epistle From Arthur Grey, the Footman, After his Condemnation for attempting a Rape.

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First Line:

What could luxurious woman wish for more

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pp.109-110

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Mary, Queen of Scots. Designed to be spoken by Mrs. Oldfield.

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First Line:

A band of cupids the other day

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p.111

Poem Title:

A Tale.

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First Line:

Give me a wit whose fancy's not confined

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pp.111-112

Poem Title:

Wit.

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First Line:

How sacred and how innocent

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pp.113-114

Poem Title:

A Country-Life.

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First Line:

In a fair island in the southern main

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pp.114-120

Poem Title:

The Statures: or, the Trial of Constancy. A Tale, for the Ladies.

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First Line:

Asteria why will you consume

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

The Seventh Ode Of The Third Book of Horace paraphrased.

Attribution:

Written by a Lady in the Absence of her Husband.

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First Line:

Sincerity what are thy views

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p.121

Poem Title:

Sincerity. A Poem. Occasion'd by a Friend's resenting some Advice I gave.

Attribution:

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First Line:

This mourning mother can with ease explore

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pp.121-122

Poem Title:

Occasioned by seeing some Verses written by Mrs. Grierson, upon the Death of her Son.

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First Line:

Him whom you see so awful and severe

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pp.122-123

Poem Title:

Respect.

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First Line:

Thither all the amorous youth repair

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pp.123-124

Poem Title:

Little Cares, or Little Arts to please.

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First Line:

Her mourning languid eyes are rarely shown

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p.124

Poem Title:

Absence.

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First Line:

Midst this gay court a famous temple stands

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pp.125-127

Poem Title:

Love's Temple.

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First Line:

Tis all eternal spring around

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pp.127-133

Poem Title:

The Prospect and Bower of Bliss.

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First Line:

Dorinda once the fairest of the train

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pp.133-136

Poem Title:

Dorinda at her Glass.

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First Line:

Imprimis my departed shade I trust

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

Mira's Will.

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First Line:

In vain dear madam yes in vain you strive

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pp.138-139

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a Lady.

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First Line:

Nothing dear madam nothing is more true

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pp.139-142

Poem Title:

Essay on Happiness.

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First Line:

To you who never the willing verse refuse

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pp.142-145

Poem Title:

An Essay on Hope.

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First Line:

As Sylvia in her garden strayed

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

Sylvia and the Bee.

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First Line:

Let not that day in circling moments run

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pp.146-148

Poem Title:

Job's Curse, and his Appeal.

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First Line:

O God since all thy ways are just

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pp.148-149

Poem Title:

Expostulation. Written in Distress.

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First Line:

No fair Dancinda no you strive in vain

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pp.149-151

Poem Title:

The Tete a Tete. Dancinda.

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First Line:

In plaintive sounds that tuned to woe

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pp.151-152

Poem Title:

To a Gentleman, On his intending to cut down a Grove to enlarge his Prospect.

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