A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [T93622] [ecco]

DMI number:

1279

Publication Date:

1780

Volume Number:

1 of 8

ESTC number:

T93622

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115281335

Shelfmark:

ECCO EFL

Full Title:

A SELECT | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | WITH | NOTES, | BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL. | [rule] | THE FIRST VOLUME. | [rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED BY AND FOR J. NICHOLS, | RED LION PASSAGE, FLEET-STREET. | MDCCLXXX.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Frontispiece. Half title: J. NICHOL'S | SELECT COLLECTION | OF POEMS. | VOLUME I. Directions to the Binder at the foot of p. xiv.

Comments:

Contents: French verse pp. 123.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Dedication to Thomas Percy signed J. Nichols pp. v-vi; Advertisement pp. vii-x; Index to biographical notes pp. xi-xiv. Back matter: Contents pp. 285-288.

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Dedicatee:

Thomas Percy

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Editor:

John Nichols

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

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Content/Publication

First Line:

Loved by and loving the best youth of Rome

Page No:

pp.1-5

Poem Title:

Elegy, By The Wife Of Alexias, Complaining Of His Absence, He Having Left Her On His Wedding Night Unenjoyed, Out Of Zeal To Visit The Christian Churches. From The Latin Of Francis Remond.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While Phaon to the flaming Aetna flies

Page No:

pp.6-10

Poem Title:

Sappho To Phaon.

Attribution:

By The Hon. Sir Carr Scrope, Bart.

Attributed To:

Sir Carr Scrope

First Line:

Close by a stream whose flowery bank might give

Page No:

pp.10-15

Poem Title:

The Parting of Sireno and Diana.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Scrope]

Attributed To:

Sir Carr Scrope

First Line:

Like dancers on the ropes poor poets fare

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Man Of Mode.

Attribution:

By The Same. 1676. [i.e. Scrope]

Attributed To:

Sir Carr Scrope

First Line:

As Amoret and Phillis sat

Page No:

pp.16-17

Poem Title:

Song In The Man Of Mode...From The French Of Madame De La Suze.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Scrope]

Attributed To:

Sir Carr Scrope

First Line:

How hard the fate is of the scribbling drudge

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Rival Queens.

Attribution:

By The Same. 1677. [i.e. Scrope]

Attributed To:

Sir Carr Scrope

First Line:

Conquered with soft and pleasing charms

Page No:

pp.19-21

Poem Title:

Horace, Book I. Ode IV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The philters Thestylis and charms prepare

Page No:

pp.21-29

Poem Title:

Pharmaceutria; Or, The Enchantress. Translated From Theocritus.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Bowles, of King's College, Cambridge.

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Then this unwieldy factious town

Page No:

pp.29-31

Poem Title:

Horace, Book II. Ode XV. Imitated.

Attribution:

By Mr. Knightly Chetwood.

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

I Damon and Alpheus loves recite

Page No:

pp.31-34

Poem Title:

The Eighth Eclogue Of Virgil.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Chetwood]

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

What art thou O thou new found pain

Page No:

pp.37-41

Poem Title:

Upon Desire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At dead of night when rapt in sleep

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though I can add but little to his name

Page No:

pp.42-46

Poem Title:

On Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

By Sir Thomas Higgons.

Attributed To:

Sir Thomas Higgons

First Line:

Come then at last while anxious nations weep

Page No:

pp.46-50

Poem Title:

To The Duke, On His Return. 1682. 1682.

Attribution:

By Nathanael Lee.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

See there the taper's dim and doleful light

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

On The Snuff Of A Candle; Made In Sickness.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Wharton.

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

How hardly I concealed my tears

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Wharton]

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

How doth the mournful widowed city bow

Page No:

pp.53-56

Poem Title:

The Lamentations of Jeremiah.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Wharton]

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

As Ariana young and fair

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

Song To A Lady, Who Discovered A New Star In Cassiopeia.

Attribution:

By Mr. Charles Dryden.

Attributed To:

Charles Dryden

First Line:

Theseus O Theseus hark but yet in vain

Page No:

pp.58-63

Poem Title:

Ariadne's Complaint. Upon A Rock In The Island Of Naxos On Being Deserted By Theseus.

Attribution:

By William Cartwright.

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Father of poets though thine own great day

Page No:

pp.63-69

Poem Title:

In Memory Of The Most Worthy Ben Jonson.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Cartwright]

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

Would you know how we meet over our jolly full bowls

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

A New Catch.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hector though warned by an approaching cry

Page No:

pp.70-74

Poem Title:

The Parting of Hector and Andromache.

Attribution:

By Dr. Chetwood.

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

What strains at sacred Pisa's spring

Page No:

pp.75-82

Poem Title:

Ode, In Imitation Of Pindar, On The Death Of Thomas Earl Of Ossory.

Attribution:

By The Same. [i.e. Chetwood]

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

Religious discord fury of this isle

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

On The Death Of James Duke Of Ormond.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Chetwood]

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

This Atlas gone what hero does remain

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

To The Present Duke.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How to thy sacred memory shall I bring

Page No:

pp.85-89

Poem Title:

On The Death Of Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Aphara Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Envy and faction rule the grumbling age

Page No:

pp.89-92

Poem Title:

A Prologue.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Ah where protecting providence ah where

Page No:

pp.92-95

Poem Title:

On The Death Of King Charles II.

Attribution:

By Mr. William Bowles.

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Are you grown lazy or does some disease

Page No:

pp.96-98

Poem Title:

The Reapers, Theocritus, Idyll. X.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Bowles]

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Cupid the sliest rogue alive

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

The Honey-Stealer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There on the extremest beach and farthest sand

Page No:

pp.100-104

Poem Title:

The Complaint Of Ariadne. From Catullus.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Bowles.

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Proud Eunica when I advanced to kiss

Page No:

pp.104-106

Poem Title:

Eunica, Or The Neatherd. Theocritus, Idyll. XX.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Bowles]

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Oh how does my dear Aeschines oh how

Page No:

pp.107-19

Poem Title:

Cynisca's Love. Theocritus, Idyll. XIV.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Bowles]

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Now first with bolder sails I tempt the main

Page No:

pp.110-115

Poem Title:

Proteus: From Sannazarius, Ecl. IV...To Ferdinand Of Arragon, Duke of Calabria.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Bowles]

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

The gods are not more blessed than he

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

Sappho's Ode, From Longinus.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Bowles]

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Tis well he's gone O had he never been

Page No:

pp.116-119

Poem Title:

On The Protector's Death

Attribution:

By Mr. Godolphin.

Attributed To:

Sir William Godolphin

First Line:

Waller is dead and lofty number's lost

Page No:

pp.120-123

Poem Title:

On Mr Waller

Attribution:

By Mr. Thomas Rymer.

Attributed To:

Thomas Rymer

First Line:

Not flesh and flood can Riley's pride confine

Page No:

pp.124-125

Poem Title:

To Mr. Riley...On Drawing Mr. Waller's Picture.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Rymer]

Attributed To:

Thomas Rymer

First Line:

Vain gallants look on Waller and despair

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

[Verses By M. St. Evremont. 1684. ('Waller, qui ne sent rien des maux de la vieillesse')] In English.

Attribution:

By Mr. Rymer

Attributed To:

Thomas Rymer

First Line:

The muses darling pride of all the plains

Page No:

pp.125-127

Poem Title:

The Deserted Swain.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah had thy body lasted as thy name

Page No:

pp.128-130

Poem Title:

On The Death Of Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

By Mr. Bevil Higgons.

Attributed To:

Bevil Higgons

First Line:

O solitude my sweetest choice

Page No:

pp.130-138

Poem Title:

On Solitude.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The free born English generous and wise

Page No:

pp.138-139

Poem Title:

A character Of The English.

Attribution:

By Robert Wolsey, Esq.

Attributed To:

Robert Wolseley

First Line:

Not sleep beneath the shade in flowery fields

Page No:

pp.139-140

Poem Title:

To The Memory OF Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

By Sir John Cotton, Bart.

Attributed To:

Sir John Cotton

First Line:

So dark the night was that old Charon

Page No:

pp.141-147

Poem Title:

News From Hell.

Attribution:

By Captain Radcliff.

Attributed To:

Alexander Radcliffe

First Line:

Since earth and water more dilated air

Page No:

pp.147-154

Poem Title:

Nature's Changes, Lucret. Book V.

Attribution:

By The Hon. Sir Robert Howard.

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

In Windsor Forest before war destroyed

Page No:

pp.156-165

Poem Title:

The Duel Of The Stags.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Howard]

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

Proud and foolish noisy stream

Page No:

pp.165-167

Poem Title:

To Count Montecuccoli; Against Pride Upon Sudden Advancement...From The Italian Of Fulvio Testi.

Attribution:

By An Unknown Writer.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Suffenus whom you know the witty

Page No:

pp.167-168

Poem Title:

Catullus, Epig. XIX.

Attribution:

By The Same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While here for the fair Amaryllis I die

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

From The Greek Of Menage.

Attribution:

By The Same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go for I'm impatient grown

Page No:

pp.169-170

Poem Title:

Invitation Into The Country.

Attribution:

By The Same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The wary gods lock up in cells of night

Page No:

pp.170-172

Poem Title:

Horace, Book II. Ode XXIII.

Attribution:

Paraphrased by Dr. Walter Pope.

Attributed To:

Walter Pope

First Line:

If I live to grow old as I find I go down

Page No:

pp.173-174

Poem Title:

The Old Man's Wish.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Walter Pope]

Attributed To:

Walter Pope

First Line:

On the bank of a river close under the shade

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You I love by all that's true

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fain would I Chloris ere I die

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nor com'st thou yet my slothful love nor yet

Page No:

pp.176-179

Poem Title:

Hero's Complaint to Leander.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What art thou love whence are those charms

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis true in these well polished lines

Page No:

pp.180-181

Poem Title:

Written In A Book.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou hast inspired me with thy soul and I

Page No:

pp.181-183

Poem Title:

To His Friend The Author, Upon His Divine Epigrams

Attribution:

J. Dryden, Of Trinity College

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Our play's a parallel the holy league

Page No:

pp.183-184

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Duke Of Guise.

Attribution:

By The Same. 1683. [i.e. Dryden]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Much time and trouble this poor play has cost

Page No:

pp.185-186

Poem Title:

Epilogue.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Dryden]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Two houses joined two poets to a play

Page No:

pp.186-188

Poem Title:

Another Epilogue...Intended To Have Been Spoken To The Play, Before It Was Forbidden Last Summer.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Dryden]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Songs of sonnets and rustical roundelays

Page No:

pp.188-191

Poem Title:

Hunting The Hare.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cease anxious world your fruitless pain

Page No:

pp.192-193

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

By Sir George Etherege.

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

In some kind dream upon her slumber steal

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Tell me no more you love in vain

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Ye happy swains whose hearts are free

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Madam with so much wonder we are struck

Page No:

pp.195-197

Poem Title:

To The Marchioness Of Newcastle, On Her Incomparable Poems.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Tell me gentle Strephon why

Page No:

pp.197-198

Poem Title:

The Forsaken Mistress.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Sweetest bud of beauty may

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

To A Very Young Lady.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Ah Celia that I were but sure

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

The Divided Heart.

Attribution:

By The Same. [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

While others toil our country to supply

Page No:

pp.200-201

Poem Title:

On The Translations Of Mr. J. N. Out Of The French And Italian.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Hopeless I languish out my days

Page No:

pp.201-202

Poem Title:

Voiture's Urania.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

To Sylvia.

Attribution:

By The Same. [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

If I my Celia could persuade

Page No:

p.203

Poem Title:

To A Lady, Who Fled The Sight Of Him

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

It is not Celia in our power

Page No:

pp.203-204

Poem Title:

To A Lady, Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Etherege]

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

If generous gratitude could ever excuse

Page No:

pp.204-208

Poem Title:

To The Memory Of Mr. Dryden.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What is it to us who guides the state

Page No:

pp.209-211

Poem Title:

Horace, Book II. Ode XI. Imitated.

Attribution:

By John Howe, Esq.

Attributed To:

John How

First Line:

How can they taste of joys or grief

Page No:

pp.211-212

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. How]

Attributed To:

John How

First Line:

In Chloris all soft charms agree

Page No:

pp.212-213

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

By The Same. [i.e. How]

Attributed To:

John How

First Line:

Ah friend the posting years how fast they fly

Page No:

pp.213-214

Poem Title:

Horace, Book II. Ode XIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lyce the gods have heard my prayer

Page No:

pp.214-215

Poem Title:

Horace, Book IV. Ode XIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Winter's dissolved behold a world's new face

Page No:

pp.216-217

Poem Title:

Horace, Book IV. Ode VII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We must all live and we would all live well

Page No:

pp.217-218

Poem Title:

Horace, Book II. Ode X.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear friend for surely I may call him so

Page No:

pp.219-227

Poem Title:

Horace, Book 1. Ep. XVIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Be calm my Delius and serene

Page No:

pp.227-229

Poem Title:

Horace, Book II. Ode III.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See how Damon's age appears

Page No:

pp.229-230

Poem Title:

THe Grove.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now scorching Sirius burnt the thirsty moors

Page No:

pp.230-236

Poem Title:

Part Of Virgil's Fourth Georgick.

Attribution:

By Mr. Creech.

Attributed To:

Thomas Creech

First Line:

Hylas the clear day boasts a glorious sun

Page No:

pp.236-248

Poem Title:

Eclogue...On The Death Of Ben Jonson.

Attribution:

By Lord Falkland

Attributed To:

Lucius Cary

First Line:

Fortune as blind as he whom she doth lead

Page No:

pp.238-239

Poem Title:

Description Of Fortune

Attribution:

By Michael Drayton, Esq.

Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

If Romulus did promise in the fight

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

To The Memory Of Ben Jonson

Attribution:

By Lord Buckhurst.

Attributed To:

Richard Sackville

First Line:

I see that wreath which doth the wearer arm

Page No:

pp.249-252

Poem Title:

On Ben Jonson.

Attribution:

By Mr. Henry King.

Attributed To:

Henry King

First Line:

As when the vestal hearth went out no fire

Page No:

pp.252-257

Poem Title:

To The Memory Of Ben Jonson.

Attribution:

By Jasper Mayne.

Attributed To:

Jasper Mayne

First Line:

On a hill that graced the plain

Page No:

pp.259-262

Poem Title:

Thyrsis's Praise To His Mistress.

Attribution:

By Mr. William Browne.

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

I must admire thee but to praise were vain

Page No:

pp.263-265

Poem Title:

To Michael Drayton, Esq.

Attribution:

By Mr. John Selden.

Attributed To:

John Selden

First Line:

So much a stranger my severer muse

Page No:

p.266

Poem Title:

To Mr. William Browne.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Selden]

Attributed To:

John Selden

First Line:

So fell the sacred Sibyl when of old

Page No:

pp.267-271

Poem Title:

On The Death Of Mr. Selden.

Attribution:

By Dr. Bathurst, 1654.

Attributed To:

Ralph Bathurst

First Line:

The work that I was born to do is done

Page No:

pp.271-275

Poem Title:

Verses...Annexed To His Batrachomyomachia.

Attribution:

By George Chapman.

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

O beauty how attractive is thy power

Page No:

p.275

Poem Title:

To Beauty.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Chapman]

Attributed To:

George Chapman

First Line:

O ignorant poor man what dost thou bear

Page No:

pp.276-279

Poem Title:

Conclusion Of Nosce Teipsum.

Attribution:

By Sir John Davies.

Attributed To:

Sir John Davies

First Line:

Thou vermin slander bred in abject minds

Page No:

pp.279-281

Poem Title:

Detraction Execrated.

Attribution:

By Sir John Suckling.

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Ask me no more where Jove bestows

Page No:

pp.282-283

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

By Thomas Carew, Esq.

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Ask me why I send you here

Page No:

p.284

Poem Title:

The Primrose.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Carew]

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew