A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 3] [T93622] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 1291
- Publication Date:
- 1780
- Volume Number:
- 3 of 8
- ESTC number:
- T93622
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW115281637
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - EFL
- Full Title:
- A SELECT | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS: | WITH | NOTES, | BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL. | [rule] | THE THIRD VOLUME. | [rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED BY AND FOR J. NICHOLS, | RED LION PASSAGE, FLEET-STREET. | MDCCLXXX.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Octavo
- Bibliographic details:
- Frontispiece. Half title: J. NICHOLS'S | SELECT COLLECTION | OF POEMS. | VOLUME III.
- Other matter:
- Back matter: Contents pp. 317-320.
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [T93622] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1780
- ESTC No:
- T93622
- Volume:
- 1 of 8
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 2] [T93622] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1780
- ESTC No:
- T93622
- Volume:
- 2 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:
- A lady lived in former days
- Page No:
- pp.3-13
- Poem Title:
- The Eagle And The Robin.
- Attribution:
- By Dr, King, Of The Commons. Not Printed In His Works.
- Attributed To:
- William King
- First Line:
- One that had in her infant state
- Page No:
- pp.13-18
- Poem Title:
- Robin Red Breast, With The Beasts, An Old Cat's Prophecy; Taken out of an old copy of Verses supposed to be writ by John Lidgate a Monk of Bury.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. King. Not Printed In His Works.
- Attributed To:
- William King
- First Line:
- The tea was sipped Ocella gone
- Page No:
- pp.19-74
- Poem Title:
- Bibliotheca: A Poem. Occasioned By The Sight Of A Modern Library. With Some Very Useful Episodes And Digressions.
- Attribution:
- Probably By The Same [i.e. King] Note: This is ascribed to Dr. King upon conjecture only.
- Attributed To:
- William King
- First Line:
- To Windsor canon his well chosen friend
- Page No:
- pp.74-77
- Poem Title:
- Epistle To Mr. Goddard
- Attribution:
- Written By Dr. King, In The Character Of "The Review."
- Attributed To:
- William King
- First Line:
- From far Barbadoes on the western main
- Page No:
- p.77
- Poem Title:
- Receipt To Make A Sack-Posset.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. King]
- Attributed To:
- William King
- First Line:
- Of oats decorticated take two pound
- Page No:
- p.77
- Poem Title:
- Receipt To Make An Oatmeal Pudding.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. King.
- Attributed To:
- William King
- First Line:
- Of all the delicates which Britons try
- Page No:
- pp.78-81
- Poem Title:
- Apple-Pye.
- Attribution:
- Probably By The Same [i.e. King] Footnote: This poem hath been claimed as Mr. Welsted's
- Attributed To:
- Leonard WelstedWilliam King
- First Line:
- His angle rod made of a sturdy oak
- Page No:
- p.78
- Poem Title:
- Upon A Giant's Angling.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. King.
- Attributed To:
- William King
- First Line:
- Cambray whilst of seraphic love you write
- Page No:
- pp.81-87
- Poem Title:
- The Charms Of Liberty: In Allusion To The Archbishop Of Cambray's Telemachus.
- Attribution:
- By W. Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, 1707.
- Attributed To:
- William Cavendish
- First Line:
- Welcome thou glorious spring of light and heat
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- To The Returning Sun.
- Attribution:
- By J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John How
- First Line:
- Had she but lived in Cleopatra's age
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- On The Dutchess Of Portsmouth.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If righteous souls in their blessed mansions know
- Page No:
- pp.89-92
- Poem Title:
- The Dream...Occasioned By The Death Of Lady Seymour.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. J. Talbot.
- Attributed To:
- James Talbot
- First Line:
- Such were the last the sweetest notes that hung
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- Elegy...Occasioned By Reading And Transcribing Mr. Waller's "Poem of Divine Love" After His Death.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Talbot.
- Attributed To:
- James Talbot
- First Line:
- Hence vain attempter of the good and great
- Page No:
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- Against Sloth: When The King Was At Oxford.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Arise great monarch see the joyful day
- Page No:
- pp.94-96
- Poem Title:
- Ode Sung Before King Charles II On New-Year's DAy.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Jacob Allestry.
- Attributed To:
- Jacob Allestry
- First Line:
- What art thou love whence are those charms
- Page No:
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- what Art Thou, Love?
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Allestry.
- Attributed To:
- Jacob Allestry
- First Line:
- Great sir | When last your royal brother blessed this place
- Page No:
- pp.97-99
- Poem Title:
- Verses And Pastorals. Spoken In The Theatre At Oxford, By Lord Savile and Mr. Cholmondeley.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Allestry had the chief hand...in making the Verses and Pastorals
- Attributed To:
- Jacob Allestry
- First Line:
- Thyrsis whom the gods inspire
- Page No:
- pp.100-104
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Allestry had the chief hand...in making the Verses and Pastorals
- Attributed To:
- Jacob Allestry
- First Line:
- With envy critics you'll this poem read
- Page No:
- p.105
- Poem Title:
- To A Person Of Honour, On His Incomparable Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Matthew Clifford.
- Attributed To:
- Mat. Clifford
- First Line:
- As when a bully draws his sword
- Page No:
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- On The Same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wonder not sir that praises yet never due
- Page No:
- p.106
- Poem Title:
- On The Same
- Attribution:
- By The Lord Vaughan.
- Attributed To:
- John Vaughan
- First Line:
- Tis not in this as in the former age
- Page No:
- pp.107-108
- Poem Title:
- Prologue, Spoken At The Opening Of The Duke's New Play-House In Dorset-Garden.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As he lay in the plain his arm under his head
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whilst Europe is alarmed with wars
- Page No:
- pp.109-110
- Poem Title:
- The Prisoner In The Tower. To The Lady M. C.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See these two little brooks that slowly creep
- Page No:
- pp.110-111
- Poem Title:
- Love But One.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Flavia's eyes like fires suppressed
- Page No:
- pp.111-112
- Poem Title:
- Song On A Lady Indisposed.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Bevil Higgons.
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- Fortune exerts her utmost power for you
- Page No:
- p.113
- Poem Title:
- To A Lady, Who, Raffling For The King Of France's Picture, Flung The Highest Chances On The Dice.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Higgons]
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- The Cyprian queen drawn by Apelles' hand
- Page No:
- p.113
- Poem Title:
- To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Drawing Lady Hyde's Picture.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Higgons.
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- The charming Sandwich would from cities fly
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- On Lady Sandwich's Being Stayed In Town By The Immoderate Rain.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Higgons.
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- Thy wit in vain the feeble critic gnaws
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Higgons]
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- Thy well known malice fretful envy cease
- Page No:
- pp.115-117
- Poem Title:
- Of The Immortality Of The Muses...Inscribed To Mr. Dryden.
- Attribution:
- By Henry Cromwell, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Cromwell
- First Line:
- In flowery fields in cool retreats
- Page No:
- pp.117-118
- Poem Title:
- Ode To Sylvia. In Imitation of Prior.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Begin my muse the dire adventure tell
- Page No:
- pp.118-144
- Poem Title:
- The Apparition...Occasioned By The Publication Of Tindal's Rights Of The Christian Church.
- Attribution:
- By Abel Evans, D. D.
- Attributed To:
- Abel Evans
- First Line:
- Thank heaven at last our wars are over
- Page No:
- pp.145-160
- Poem Title:
- Vertumnus, An Epistle; To Mr. Jacob Bobart, 1713.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Evans.
- Attributed To:
- Abel Evans
- First Line:
- See sir here's the grand approach
- Page No:
- p.161
- Poem Title:
- On Blenheim House.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Evans
- Attributed To:
- Abel Evans
- First Line:
- Under this stone reader survey
- Page No:
- p.161
- Poem Title:
- On Sir J. Vanbrugh; An Epigrammatical Epitaph
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Evans]
- Attributed To:
- Abel Evans
- First Line:
- Had Marlborough's troops in Gaul no better fought
- Page No:
- p.162
- Poem Title:
- On The Same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Others their wit on paper oft have shown
- Page No:
- p.162
- Poem Title:
- On A Learned Device On Blenheim Great Gate 'A Huge Lion Tearing A Cock In Pieces.'
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Evans.
- Attributed To:
- Abel Evans
- First Line:
- Ten thousand tailors with their length of line
- Page No:
- p.162
- Poem Title:
- On Dr. Tadlow.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Evans]
- Attributed To:
- Abel Evans
- First Line:
- Indulgent nature to each kind bestows
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- Dr. Conyers To Dr. Evans Bursar, On Cutting Down Some Fine College Trees.
- Attribution:
- Dr. Conyers
- Attributed To:
- Dr. Conyers
- First Line:
- Indulgent nature to each kind bestows
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Tadlow
- Attributed To:
- Charles Tadlow
- First Line:
- My masters and friends and good people draw near
- Page No:
- pp.163-174
- Poem Title:
- On The Monument At London.
- Attribution:
- By Captain Radcliffe.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Radcliffe
- First Line:
- When black with shades this mourning vault appears
- Page No:
- pp.166-167
- Poem Title:
- To The Memory Of A Fair Young Lady
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Yalden, 1697.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- All things were hush as when the drawers tread
- Page No:
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- Dryden's Desciption of Night Burlesqued.
- Attribution:
- By Capt. Radcliffe.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Radcliffe
- First Line:
- For many unsuccessful years
- Page No:
- pp.168-164[i.e. 169]
- Poem Title:
- Advice To A Lover.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Yalden]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- Here lovely Myra you behold
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- To Myra; Written In Her Cleopatra.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Yalden.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Yalden
- First Line:
- As when by labouring stars new kingdoms rise
- Page No:
- pp.164 [i.e. 169]-172
- Poem Title:
- To The Earl Of Roscommon, On His Essay On Translated Verse,
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Chetwood
- Attributed To:
- Knightly Chetwood
- First Line:
- Let fond geographers now seek no more
- Page No:
- pp.173-175
- Poem Title:
- On The Marriage Of The Lady Mary With The Prince Of Orange.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Chetwood.
- Attributed To:
- Knightly Chetwood
- First Line:
- Welcome thou friendly earnest of fourscore
- Page No:
- pp.175-176
- Poem Title:
- On The First Fit Of The Gout.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis no hard matter to divine
- Page No:
- pp.177-178
- Poem Title:
- To Dr. Chetwood, When He Had The Gout.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Waldren.
- Attributed To:
- Dr. Waldren
- First Line:
- Most profound | Since at a tavern I can't meet you
- Page No:
- pp.179-180
- Poem Title:
- Epistle From Dr. Waldren To Dr. Chetwood, On His Refusing To Take The Oaths.
- Attribution:
- Dr. Waldren
- Attributed To:
- Dr. Waldren
- First Line:
- Fie Celia tis silly to sigh thus in vain
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- To Celia.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Waldren.
- Attributed To:
- Dr. Waldren
- First Line:
- Tell me some kind spirit tell
- Page No:
- pp.181-184
- Poem Title:
- An Essay Upon Death.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Waldren.
- Attributed To:
- Dr. Waldren
- First Line:
- Bestrid an ant a pigmy great and tall
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- Epigram On A Pigmy's Death.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Sprat; Not In His Works.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Sprat
- First Line:
- Let Hymen on this happy day
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- Song, Made For A Wedding.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Waldren.
- Attributed To:
- Dr. Waldren
- First Line:
- From the dark Stygian lake I come
- Page No:
- pp.186-187
- Poem Title:
- Marvel's Ghost.
- Attribution:
- By Captain John Ayloffe.
- Attributed To:
- John Ayloffe
- First Line:
- He that first said it knew the worth of wit
- Page No:
- pp.188-189
- Poem Title:
- On The Cambridge Commencement.
- Attribution:
- By Captain Ayloffe.
- Attributed To:
- John Ayloffe
- First Line:
- The lovely owner of this book
- Page No:
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- Written In A Lady's Waller.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oft the reverend dotards cry
- Page No:
- pp.191-192
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You say you love repeat again
- Page No:
- p.191
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh how pleasant is it how sweet
- Page No:
- pp.192-193
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come fill it up and fill it high
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Pallas destructive to the Trojan line
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- Pallas.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- First let thy altars smoke with sacred fire
- Page No:
- pp.194-199
- Poem Title:
- Part Of Virgil's First Georgicks...Dedicated To Mr. Dryden.
- Attribution:
- Translated By Henry Sacheverell.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Sacheverell
- First Line:
- Tell me not I my time misspend
- Page No:
- pp.199-200
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By Sir John Eaton.
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Eaton
- First Line:
- Too late alas I must confess
- Page No:
- p.200
- Poem Title:
- Sir John Eaton Imitated
- Attribution:
- By John Earl Of Rochester.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Come honest sexton take thy spade
- Page No:
- p.201
- Poem Title:
- The Passing-Bell
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now heaven preserve our realm
- Page No:
- pp.202-205
- Poem Title:
- Ballad On A New Opera. 1658.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thou 'rt more inconstant than the wind or sea
- Page No:
- pp.205-207
- Poem Title:
- The Hypocrite...On the Lord Shatesbury. 1678.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Caryll.
- Attributed To:
- John Caryll
- First Line:
- These forward roses spread an infant bloom
- Page No:
- pp.207-208
- Poem Title:
- On Seeing A Bank Of Primroses, In January, Covered With Snow.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Thomas Foxton.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Foxton
- First Line:
- This house and inhabitants both well agree
- Page No:
- p.208
- Poem Title:
- On The Castle Of Dublin
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Parnell. 1715.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- Is Viner dead and shall each muse become
- Page No:
- pp.209-212
- Poem Title:
- On The Death Of Mr. Viner.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Parnell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- The greatest gifts that nature does bestow
- Page No:
- p.212
- Poem Title:
- Epigram.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Parnell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- To stifle passion is no easy thing
- Page No:
- p.213
- Poem Title:
- Love In Disguise.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Parnell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- Oft have I seen a piece of art
- Page No:
- p.214
- Poem Title:
- Chloris Appearing In A Looking-Glass.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Parnell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- Art thou alive it cannot be
- Page No:
- pp.215-216
- Poem Title:
- On A Lady With Foul Breath.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Parnell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- Beauty rests not in one fixed place
- Page No:
- p.216
- Poem Title:
- On The Number Three.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Parnell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- I hate the vulgar with untuneful mind
- Page No:
- pp.217-236
- Poem Title:
- Essay On The Different Styles Of Poetry. To Henry Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Parnell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- Let that majestic pen that writes
- Page No:
- pp.237-261
- Poem Title:
- The Counter-Scuffle, 1670.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of knights and squires of low degree
- Page No:
- pp.262-278
- Poem Title:
- The Counter-Rat.
- Attribution:
- Written By R. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I sing of angels not the heavenly choir
- Page No:
- pp.279-312
- Poem Title:
- The Church-Scuffle
- Attribution:
- By John Crowne.
- Attributed To:
- John Crowne
- First Line:
- The tender boy in our cold country's chilled
- Page No:
- p.312
- Poem Title:
- Lines...In The Blank Leaf Of "The Royal Mischief," A Tragedy, By Mrs. Manley.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Higgons.
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- When haughty monarchs their proud State expose
- Page No:
- pp.313-314
- Poem Title:
- Verses To The Queen And Prince, On Their Visiting Oxford, 1702. I. To The Queen, At Christ-Church. Spoken by Mr. Harcourt.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And you auspicious prince our other Care
- Page No:
- pp.314-315
- Poem Title:
- II. To The Prince, At Christ-Church. Spoken By Mr. Cowslade.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With love though rude we crowd this hallowed place
- Page No:
- p.315
- Poem Title:
- III. To The Queen, At Supper. By Mr. Finch.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Madam once more the obsequious muse
- Page No:
- p.316
- Poem Title:
- IV. To The Queen, Going To Bed. Spoken By Mr. Pulteney.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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