A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 2] [T93622] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 1288
- Publication Date:
- 1780
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 8
- ESTC number:
- T93622
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW114728399
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - EFL
- Full Title:
- A SELECT | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS: | WITH | NOTES, | BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL. | [rule] | THE SECOND 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. NICHOLS'S | SELECT COLLECTION | OF POEMS. | VOLUME II.
- Comments:
- Contents: Latin verse pp. 90-93, 153-154, 156-160.
- Other matter:
- Back matter: Contents pp. 333-336
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 3] [T93622] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1780
- ESTC No:
- T93622
- Volume:
- 3 of 8
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 4] [T93622] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1780
- ESTC No:
- T93622
- Volume:
- 4 of 8
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 5] [T93622] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1782
- ESTC No:
- T93622
- Volume:
- 5 of 8
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 6] [T93622] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1780
- ESTC No:
- T93622
- Volume:
- 6 of 8
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 7] [T93622] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1781
- ESTC No:
- T93622
- Volume:
- 7 of 8
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 8] [T93622] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1782
- ESTC No:
- T93622
- Volume:
- 8 of 8
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Editor:
- John Nichols
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- In peaceful shades which aged oaks diffuse
- Page No:
- pp.1-6
- Poem Title:
- The Eclogues of Virgil. Eclogue I.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. John Caryll.
- Attributed To:
- John Caryll
- First Line:
- A hopeless flame did Corydon destroy
- Page No:
- pp.7-11
- Poem Title:
- Eclogue II.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Nahum Tate.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- First Line:
- Young Corydon hard fate an humble swain
- Page No:
- pp.11-14
- Poem Title:
- The Same Eclogue.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Thomas Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Tell me Dametas tell whose sheep these are
- Page No:
- pp.14-20
- Poem Title:
- Eclogue III. Or, Palaemon.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Creech]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- While Daphnis sat beneath a whispering shade
- Page No:
- pp.21-25
- Poem Title:
- Meliboeus, Eclogue VII.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. William Adams.
- Attributed To:
- William Adams
- First Line:
- Sad Damon's and Alphesiboeus muse
- Page No:
- pp.25-29
- Poem Title:
- Pharmaceutria. Eclogue VIII.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Stafford
- First Line:
- Sicilian nymph assist my mournful strains
- Page No:
- pp.29-32
- Poem Title:
- Gallus, Eclogue X.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Stafford]
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- First Line:
- One labour more O Arethusa yield
- Page No:
- pp.33-39
- Poem Title:
- Virgil's Last Eclogue, Translated, Or Rather Imitated, At The Desire Of Lady Giffard, 1666.
- Attribution:
- By Sir William Temple, Bart.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- O happy swains if their own good they knew
- Page No:
- pp.39-43
- Poem Title:
- Virgil's O Fortunatos, &c. Translated, Or Rather Imitated, Upon The Desire Of My Lady Temple.
- Attribution:
- By The Same; Not In His Works [i.e. Temple]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- How is it Maecenas that no man abides
- Page No:
- pp.44-49
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book I. Sat. I. Being A Translation, Or Rather Imitation, Of His Way Of Writing, Upon The Desire Of My Lady Temple, And My Lady Giffard.
- Attribution:
- By The Same; Not In His Works. [i.e. Temple]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- Why all these looks so solemn and so sad
- Page No:
- pp.50-53
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Philipps's Death. At The Desire Of My Lady Temple.
- Attribution:
- By The Same; Not In His Works [i.e. Temple]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- Of all the questions which the curious raise
- Page No:
- pp.54-57
- Poem Title:
- On My Lady Giffard's Loory.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Temple]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- The shepherd Aristaeus grieving sees
- Page No:
- pp.58-75
- Poem Title:
- Aristaeus. From Virgil's Georgicks, Book IV.
- Attribution:
- By The Same; Not In His Works. [i.e. Temple]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- The snows are melted all away
- Page No:
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book IV. Ode VII.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Temple]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- When thou commendest the lovely eyes
- Page No:
- pp.77-78
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book I. Ode XIII.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Temple]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- Welcome the fairest and the happiest earth
- Page No:
- pp.78-81
- Poem Title:
- Upon The Approach Of The Shore At Harwich. In January 1668; Begun Under The Mast, At The Desire Of My Lady Giffard.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Temple]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- Maecenas offspring of Tyrrhenian kings
- Page No:
- pp.82-86
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book III. Ode XXIX.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Temple]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- Nor house nor lands nor heaps of plate or gold
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book I. Part of Ep. II.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Temple]
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- To worship thee o mighty Mars upon
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- Tibullus, Lib. IV. El. II.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Temple]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why should a foolish marriage vow
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- Song, From Marriage A-La-Mode,
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden; Not Printed Among His Poems.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ah how sweet it is to love
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- Song, From Tyrannic Love.
- Attribution:
- By The Same; Not Among His Poems. [i.e. Dryden]
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I was at first a piece of fig tree wood
- Page No:
- pp.93-95
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book I. Sat. VIII.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- First Line:
- On death and wounds Camilla looks with joy
- Page No:
- pp.96-103
- Poem Title:
- The Death Of Camilla. From Virgil, Aeneid XI.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Stafford]
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- First Line:
- What ail'st thou oh thou trembling thing
- Page No:
- pp.103-105
- Poem Title:
- To My Heart.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What should I ask my friend which best would be
- Page No:
- pp.105-106
- Poem Title:
- Cato's Answer To Labienus, From The Ninth Book Of Lucan.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Wolseley.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Wolseley
- First Line:
- Once more a father and a son fall out
- Page No:
- pp.107-108
- Poem Title:
- On The Prince's Going To England, With An Army To Restore The Government, 1688.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Wolseley]
- Attributed To:
- Robert Wolseley
- First Line:
- Freedom is a real treasure
- Page No:
- p.108
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Wolseley]
- Attributed To:
- Robert Wolseley
- First Line:
- When wits from sighing turn to railing
- Page No:
- p.108
- Poem Title:
- Answered
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Wharton.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Wharton
- First Line:
- To that prodigious height of vice we're grown
- Page No:
- pp.109-112
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue To Satyr.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let equipage and dress despair
- Page No:
- pp.113-114
- Poem Title:
- Song Of Basset.
- Attribution:
- By Sir George Etherege.
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Etherege
- First Line:
- Since love and verse as well as wine
- Page No:
- pp.114-117
- Poem Title:
- To The Earl Of Middleton.
- Attribution:
- By The Same; From Ratisbon. [i.e. Etherege]
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Etherege
- First Line:
- From hunting whores and haunting play
- Page No:
- pp.118-119
- Poem Title:
- To The Earl Of Middleton.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Etherege]
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Etherege
- First Line:
- Make me a bowl a mighty bowl
- Page No:
- pp.119-122
- Poem Title:
- The Cup, From Anacreon.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. John Oldham.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- Begin the song your instruments advance
- Page No:
- pp.122-123
- Poem Title:
- Ode On St. Cecilia's Day.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Oldham]
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- On the remains of an old blasted oak
- Page No:
- pp.124-127
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral On The Death Of Mr. Oldham.
- Attribution:
- By An Unknown Writer.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Would you be quite cured of love
- Page No:
- pp.127-131
- Poem Title:
- Remedy Of Love.
- Attribution:
- By John Evelyn, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- John Evelyn
- First Line:
- Fair virtue should I follow thee
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- Poem Title:
- On Virtue, To Mr S. G.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Evelyn]
- Attributed To:
- John Evelyn
- First Line:
- Envy how darest thou say that I in vain
- Page No:
- pp.134-136
- Poem Title:
- To Envy. Ovid, Amor. Book I. Eleg. XV.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Evelyn]
- Attributed To:
- John Evelyn
- First Line:
- All other ages since our age excels
- Page No:
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- Martial, Book VIII. Epig. LVI.
- Attribution:
- By The Same. [i.e. Evelyn]
- Attributed To:
- John Evelyn
- First Line:
- Lydia I conjure you say
- Page No:
- pp.137-138
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book I. Ode VIII.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Evelyn]
- Attributed To:
- John Evelyn
- First Line:
- By Hebrus bank as Orpheus sate
- Page No:
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- The Punishment.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Evelyn]
- Attributed To:
- John Evelyn
- First Line:
- The princes sate whom martial throngs enclose
- Page No:
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- Part of Ajax's Speech. Ovid, Metam. Book XIII.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Evelyn]
- Attributed To:
- John Evelyn
- First Line:
- Neptune saw Venice on the Adria stand
- Page No:
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- Out of Sannazarius.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Evelyn]
- Attributed To:
- John Evelyn
- First Line:
- Well mayst thou envious mask be proud
- Page No:
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- Written On A Lady's Mask.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Evelyn]
- Attributed To:
- John Evelyn
- First Line:
- Here let his reverend dust in silence sleep
- Page No:
- pp.141-143
- Poem Title:
- Elegy On John Crofts, D. D.
- Attribution:
- By Matthew Stevenson
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Stevenson
- First Line:
- Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain
- Page No:
- pp.143-145
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue
- Attribution:
- By Major Aston.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Ashton
- First Line:
- Condemned to Pontus tired with endless toil
- Page No:
- pp.145-148
- Poem Title:
- Ovid, De Trist. Book I. El. XI. Complaining Of Three Years Banishment.
- Attribution:
- By An Unknown Writer.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Bind ye my brows with mourning cypariss
- Page No:
- pp.148-153
- Poem Title:
- Elegy On Dr. Whitaker.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Joseph Hall.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Hall
- First Line:
- Of all heaven's judgments that was sure the worst
- Page No:
- pp.154-156
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. H. Dickinson's Translation Of Pere Simon's Critical History.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Near to those domes the indulgent powers assign
- Page No:
- pp.161-168
- Poem Title:
- [Horti Arlingtoniani. Ad Cl. Dom. Henricum Comitem Arlingtoniae ('Magnificos propter saltus, & avita Jacobi')] Translated.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Sam. Boyse.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Boyse
- First Line:
- Little songster who dost bring
- Page No:
- pp.168-175
- Poem Title:
- To The Nightingale Coming In The Spring; To Invite Chloe From The Tumults Of The Town To The Innocent Retreat In The Country.
- Attribution:
- Written By A Person Of Quality, 1680.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Go tell Amynta gentle swain
- Page No:
- pp.175-176
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As soon as mild Augustus could assuage
- Page No:
- pp.176-179
- Poem Title:
- On The King's House, Building At Winchester.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Weep all ye virgins weep over this sad hearse
- Page No:
- pp.180-182
- Poem Title:
- On The Death Of Melantha.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Above that bridge which lofty turrets crown
- Page No:
- pp.183-200
- Poem Title:
- The Court-Prospect.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Charles Hopkins
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- As nature does in newborn infants frame
- Page No:
- pp.201-202
- Poem Title:
- To Charles Earl of Dorset.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- To you dear youth in these unpolished strains
- Page No:
- pp.202-204
- Poem Title:
- To Walter Moyle, Esq.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- As when a prophet feels the god retired
- Page No:
- pp.204-208
- Poem Title:
- To Anthony Hammond, Esq.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- In vain my friend so often I remove
- Page No:
- pp.208-209
- Poem Title:
- To C. C. Esq.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- As when the queen of love engaged in war
- Page No:
- pp.209-210
- Poem Title:
- To Mrs. Mohun, On Her Recovery.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- Must all my life in fruitless love be spent
- Page No:
- pp.210-211
- Poem Title:
- To A Lady
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- I thought in silence to suppress my pain
- Page No:
- pp.212-214
- Poem Title:
- To The Same Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The fires that fell in ages past from heaven
- Page No:
- pp.214-216
- Poem Title:
- To Doctor Gibbons.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- Let other poets other patrons choose
- Page No:
- pp.216-218
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Congreve.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- My labouring muse grown tired of being hurled
- Page No:
- pp.218-220
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Yalden In Oxon...From Londonderry, August 3, 1699.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- After the pangs of fierce desire
- Page No:
- p.220
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- By The Same. [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- As Neptune the Venetian towers surveys
- Page No:
- p.221
- Poem Title:
- Sanzarius On Venice.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- Such Cato was of such exalted kind
- Page No:
- p.221
- Poem Title:
- Cato's Character, From The Second Book Of Lucan.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- Ye woods and wilds serene and blest retreats
- Page No:
- pp.222-263
- Poem Title:
- The History Of Love. In A Letter To A Lady.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- Stay wretched swain lie here and here lament
- Page No:
- pp.264-269
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral Elegy On The Death Of Delia.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- No beauteous nymph could youthful Phoebus move
- Page No:
- pp.269-276
- Poem Title:
- Phoebus And Daphne. From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book I.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- Greatness does always our desires oppose
- Page No:
- Pp.276-278
- Poem Title:
- Jupiter And Europa; From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book II.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- The vocal nymph this lovely hunstman viewed
- Page No:
- pp.278-285
- Poem Title:
- Narcissus And Echo, From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book III.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- A tower with sounding walls erected stands
- Page No:
- pp.286-289
- Poem Title:
- Scylla's Passion For Minos. From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book VIII.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- How are you changed of late my love how grown
- Page No:
- pp.290-308
- Poem Title:
- Ceyx And Halcyone; From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book XI.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- Let others add to their increasing store
- Page No:
- pp.308-314
- Poem Title:
- Tibullus, Book I. El. I.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- I see the chains ordained me to receive
- Page No:
- pp.314-317
- Poem Title:
- Tibullus, Book II. El. IV.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- No other maid my settled faith shall move
- Page No:
- pp.317-319
- Poem Title:
- Tibullus, Book IV. Eleg. XIII. To His Mistress.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- As famished men whom pleasing dreams delude
- Page No:
- pp.319-320
- Poem Title:
- A Farewell To Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- To thee my god though late at last I turn
- Page No:
- p.321
- Poem Title:
- A Hymn...About An Hour Before His Death, When In Great Pain.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- To you dear youth now banished from the swains
- Page No:
- pp.322-325
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle To A Friend
- Attribution:
- By Mr. John Hopkins.
- Attributed To:
- John Hopkins
- First Line:
- Let some with servile mean devices bow
- Page No:
- pp.325-327
- Poem Title:
- To The Lord Cutts
- Attribution:
- By The Same, 1698 [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- Only tell her that I love
- Page No:
- pp.327-328
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- By Lord Cutts.
- Attributed To:
- John Cutts
- First Line:
- Deep waters silent roll so grief like mine
- Page No:
- pp.329-330
- Poem Title:
- Elegy On The Earl of Rochester.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Wharton.
- Attributed To:
- Anne Wharton [nee Lee]
- First Line:
- Since all must certainly to death resign
- Page No:
- pp.330-331
- Poem Title:
- Against The Fear Of Death.
- Attribution:
- By Sir Robert Howard.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- In grey haired Celia's withered arms
- Page No:
- p.332
- Poem Title:
- A Paraphrase From The French.
- Attribution:
- This poem has been ascribed to Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
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