A select collection of poems from the most approved authors [vol 1] [N21829] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 1381
- Publication Date:
- 1772
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 2
- ESTC number:
- N21829
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB128853755
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - BL
- Full Title:
- A SELECT | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS, | FROM | THE MOST APPROVED AUTHORS. | IN TWO VOLUMES. | [rule] | THE SECOND EDITION. | [rule] | VOL. I. | [double rule] | EDINBURGH: | Printed by A. DONALDSON, and sold at his Shop | Corner of Arundel-Street, Strand, London; and | at Edinburgh. | [short rule] | MDCCLXXII.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh
- Genres:
- Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Bibliographic details:
- Half title: [ornamental rule] | A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS. | IN TWO VOLUMES. | [ornamental rule]
- Comments:
- Query: is this a reissue or a new edition?
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Advertisement [1p.]; Contents pp. [vii]-ix.
- Title:
- A select collection of poems from the most approved authors [vol 2] [N21829] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1772
- ESTC No:
- N21829
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Printer:
- Alexander Donaldson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- If dumb too long the drooping muse hath stayed
- Page No:
- pp.1-5
- Poem Title:
- To The Right Honourable The Earl of Warwick, &c. On the Death of Mr. Addison.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Tickel.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Of Leinster famed for maidens fair
- Page No:
- pp.5-8
- Poem Title:
- Colin And Lucy.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Where Kensington high over the neighbouring lands
- Page No:
- pp.8-24
- Poem Title:
- Kensington Garden.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- This motley piece to you I send
- Page No:
- pp.24-49
- Poem Title:
- The Spleen. An Epistle to Mr. C- J-.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Matthew Green of the Custom-house.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- Gil's history appears to me
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram. On the Reverend Mr. Laurence Echard's, and Bishop Gilbert Burnet's Histories.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel
- Page No:
- pp.50-61
- Poem Title:
- London: A Poem. In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal.
- Attribution:
- By Samuel Johnson, A. M.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- First Line:
- When learning's triumph over her barbarous foes
- Page No:
- pp.62-64
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick, At the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane 1747.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Johnson]
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- First Line:
- Enough of Grongar and the shady dales
- Page No:
- pp.64-81
- Poem Title:
- The Ruins of Rome. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dyer.
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- Ah me full sorely is my heart forlorn
- Page No:
- pp.82-94
- Poem Title:
- The School-Mistress. A Poem, In Imitation of Spenser.
- Attribution:
- By William Shenstone, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- William Shenstone
- First Line:
- While lost to all his former mirth
- Page No:
- pp.94-96
- Poem Title:
- Ode, To A Lady. On the Death of Col. Charles Ross in the Action at Fontenoy. Written May 1745.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. W. Collins.
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- How sleep the brave who sunk to rest
- Page No:
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- Ode. Written in the same Year.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Collins]
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- Ode To Evening.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Collins]
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- The gushing streams impetuous flow
- Page No:
- p.99
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady's drinking the Bath Waters.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Chesterfield.
- Attributed To:
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
- First Line:
- Mistaken fair lay Sherlock by
- Page No:
- p.100
- Poem Title:
- Verses written in a Lady's Sherlock upon Death.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Chesterfield]
- Attributed To:
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
- First Line:
- Whenever Chloe I begin
- Page No:
- p.101
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Chesterfield]
- Attributed To:
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
- First Line:
- The heavy hours are almost past
- Page No:
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By Lord Lyttleton. Written in the Year 1733.
- Attributed To:
- George Lyttelton
- First Line:
- Parent of blooming flowers and gay desires
- Page No:
- pp.103-104
- Poem Title:
- Ode, in imitation of Pastor Fido. (O Primavera Gioventu del Anno.) Written abroad in 1729.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Lyttelton]
- Attributed To:
- George Lyttelton
- First Line:
- Ye sylvan scenes with artless beauty gay
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- An Irregular Ode, written at Wickham in 1746. To the same. [i.e. Lucy F]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All that of love can be expressed
- Page No:
- p.104
- Poem Title:
- To Miss Lucy F--. With Hammond's Elegies.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Lyttelton].
- Attributed To:
- George Lyttelton
- First Line:
- At length escaped from every human eye
- Page No:
- pp.106-116
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of the same Lady. A Monody. A. D. 1747.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Remote from liberty and truth
- Page No:
- pp.117-119
- Poem Title:
- An Ode. To William Pulteney, Esq.
- Attribution:
- By -- Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas when the friendly shade of night
- Page No:
- pp.119-121
- Poem Title:
- To Clarissa.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I loved thee beautiful and kind
- Page No:
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- Epigram I.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lie on while my revenge shall be
- Page No:
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- Epigram III.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My heart still hovering round about you
- Page No:
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- Epigram II.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The gentle pen with look demure
- Page No:
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- Epigram IV. On Mrs. Penelope.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O Charles in absence hear a friend complain
- Page No:
- pp.123-124
- Poem Title:
- To the Honourable ***.
- Attribution:
- By William Whitehead, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- William Whitehead
- First Line:
- Ah friend forbear nor fright the fields
- Page No:
- pp.125-127
- Poem Title:
- An Ode To a Gentleman, on pitching a Tent in his Garden.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Whitehead]
- Attributed To:
- William Whitehead
- First Line:
- Yes I'm in love I feel it now
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- The Je Ne Scai Quoi. A Song.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Whitehead]
- Attributed To:
- William Whitehead
- First Line:
- Ye distant spires ye antique towers
- Page No:
- pp.128-131
- Poem Title:
- An Ode, On a distant Prospect of Eton College.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Lo where the rosy bosomed hours
- Page No:
- pp.131-133
- Poem Title:
- Ode.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Gray]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Twas on a lofty vase's side
- Page No:
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat. Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. Gray]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Old battle array big with horror is fled
- Page No:
- pp.135-136
- Poem Title:
- Imitation I. Colley Cibber. A New Year's Ode.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Little tube of mighty power
- Page No:
- p.137
- Poem Title:
- Imitation II. Mr. Philips.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O thou matured by glad Hesperian suns
- Page No:
- pp.137-138
- Poem Title:
- Imitation III. Mr. Thomson.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Critics avaunt tobacco is my theme
- Page No:
- pp.138-139
- Poem Title:
- Imitation IV. Dr. Young.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Blessed leaf whose aromatic gales dispense
- Page No:
- pp.139-140
- Poem Title:
- Imitation V. Mr. Pope.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Boy bring an ounce of freeman's best
- Page No:
- pp.140-141
- Poem Title:
- Imitation VI. Dean Swift.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thanks dear coquet indulgent cheat
- Page No:
- pp.141-144
- Poem Title:
- The Triumph of Indifference.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ethereal race inhabitants of air
- Page No:
- pp.145-146
- Poem Title:
- An Ode On Aelus's Harp.
- Attribution:
- By the late James Thomson, Esq; Author of the Seasons.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Now had the son of Jove mature attained
- Page No:
- pp.146-157
- Poem Title:
- The Choice of Hercules. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye green-robed Dryads oft at dusky eve
- Page No:
- pp.157-165
- Poem Title:
- The Enthusiast: Or, The Lover of Nature.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Warton
- First Line:
- O parent of each lovely muse
- Page No:
- pp.165-169
- Poem Title:
- An Ode to Fancy.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Warton]
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Warton
- First Line:
- In days my lord when mother time
- Page No:
- pp.170-175
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from Soame Jennyns, Esq in the Country, to the Right Hon. the Lord Lovelace in Town. Written in the Year 1735.
- Attribution:
- Soame Jennyns, Esq
- Attributed To:
- Soame Jenyns
- First Line:
- In the smooth dance to move with graceful mien
- Page No:
- pp.176-193
- Poem Title:
- The Art of Dancing. Inscribed to the Rt. Hon. the Lady Fanny Fielding. Written in the year 1730.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Jenyns]
- Attributed To:
- Soame Jenyns
- First Line:
- Just broke from school pert impudent and raw
- Page No:
- pp.193-196
- Poem Title:
- The Modern Fine Gentleman. Written in the Year 1746.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Jenyns]
- Attributed To:
- Soame Jenyns
- First Line:
- Skilled in each art that can adorn the fair
- Page No:
- pp.197-200
- Poem Title:
- The Modern Fine Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As genius virtue reputation
- Page No:
- pp.200-202
- Poem Title:
- Genius, Virtue, and Reputation. A Fable. From Mons. De La Motte, Book v. Fable 6.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The solitary bird of night
- Page No:
- pp.202-205
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Wisdom.
- Attribution:
- By Miss Carter.
- Attributed To:
- Elizabeth Carter
- First Line:
- In plaintive sounds that tuned to woe
- Page No:
- pp.206-207
- Poem Title:
- To a Gentleman, On his intending to cut down a Grove to enlarge his Prospect.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Carter]
- Attributed To:
- Elizabeth Carter
- First Line:
- Ye green haired nymphs whom Pan allows
- Page No:
- pp.207-210
- Poem Title:
- Ode to a Water-Nymph.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Mason.
- Attributed To:
- William Mason
- First Line:
- Sorrowing I catch the reed and call the muse
- Page No:
- pp.210-219
- Poem Title:
- Musaeus: A Monody To The Memory of Mr. Pope. In Imitation of Milton's Lycidas.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Mason]
- Attributed To:
- William Mason
- First Line:
- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
- Page No:
- pp.220-224
- 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.225-226
- Poem Title:
- Hymn to Adversity.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. Gray]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Sir | While born to bring the muse's happier days
- Page No:
- pp.227-232
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle Addressed To Sir Thomas Hanmer, On his Edition of Shakespear's Works.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. William Collins.
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- To fair Fidele's grassy tomb
- Page No:
- pp.233-234
- Poem Title:
- A Song From Shakespear's Cymbeline. Sung by Guiderus and Arviragus over Fidele, supposed to be dead.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Collins]
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- Turn gentle hermit of the dale
- Page No:
- pp.234-240
- Poem Title:
- The Hermit. A Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Supposed to be written by Dr. Goldsmith.
- Attributed To:
- Oliver Goldsmith
- First Line:
- I came great bard to gaze upon thy shrine
- Page No:
- pp.240-244
- Poem Title:
- Virgil's Tomb. Naples, MDCCXLI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye ladies that live in the city or town
- Page No:
- pp.244-245
- Poem Title:
- The Link. A Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let observation with extensive view
- Page No:
- pp.246-257
- Poem Title:
- The Vanity of Human Wishes. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By Samuel Johnson, M. A.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- First Line:
- Led by the jocund train of vernal hours
- Page No:
- pp.258-262
- Poem Title:
- The Tears of Old May-Day.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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