A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 7] [T93622] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 1302
- Publication Date:
- 1781
- Volume Number:
- 7 of 8
- ESTC number:
- T93622
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW115282335
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - EFL
- Full Title:
- A SELECT | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS: | WITH | NOTES, | BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL | [rule] | THE SEVENTH VOLUME. | [rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED BY AND FOR J. NICHOLS, | RED LION PASSAGE, FLEET-STREET. | MDCCLXXXI.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Bibliographic details:
- Frontispiece. Half-title: J. NICHOLS'S | SELECT COLLECTION | OF POEMS. | VOLUME VII.
- Comments:
- Contents: Latin verse pp. 70-73, 75-85, 89-97, 103-115, 125-127, 189, 315.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: prose introduction p. 1. Back matter: Advertisement to the table of contents p. 376; contents pp. 377-384.
- 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 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 8] [T93622] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1782
- ESTC No:
- T93622
- Volume:
- 8 of 8
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Author:
- John Nichols
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Those wonderful wise men nicknamed antiquaries
- Page No:
- pp.2-6
- Poem Title:
- A Satire Description Of Holland.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Nevell.
- Attributed To:
- Henry Neville
- First Line:
- Ze inglische hursone sumtyme will avant
- Page No:
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- A Satire On The Origin Of The English Nation In The Ancient Scottish Dialect.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Jove and Apollo was gangand be the way
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- How The First Heland Man Was Made.
- Attribution:
- By An Ancient Lowland Bard.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How providence and yet a scottish crew
- Page No:
- pp.10-16
- Poem Title:
- The Rebel Scot.
- Attribution:
- By John Cleiveland, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- I wondered not when I was told
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- Epigram
- Attribution:
- By Another Writer.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis well he's gone o had he never been
- Page No:
- pp.17-19
- Poem Title:
- An Answer To The Storm.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- What's a protector he's a stately thing
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- The Definition Of A Protector.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cleiveland.
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Here lies wise and valiant dust
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph On The Earl Of Strafford
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Christmas give me my beads the word implies
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- Christmas Day: Or, The Shuttle Of An Inspired Weaver Bolted Against The Order Of The Church For Its Solemnity
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Hang out a flag and gather pence a piece
- Page No:
- pp.21-22
- Poem Title:
- On Sir Thomas Martin, Who Subscribed A Warrant, Thus: "[illeg] The Knights And Gentlemen Of The Committee," When There Was No Other Knight But Himself.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- England's a perfect world hath indies too
- Page No:
- pp.23-28
- Poem Title:
- Newcastle Coal-Pits.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Fair stranger winged maid where dost thou rest
- Page No:
- pp.28-31
- Poem Title:
- Content.
- Attribution:
- By The Same. [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- The world's a gilded trifle and the state
- Page No:
- pp.32-35
- Poem Title:
- A Survey Of The World
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Ladies that gild the glittering noon
- Page No:
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- The General Eclipse.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Here lies the ruined cabinet
- Page No:
- pp.36-37
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph On A Deceased Friend.
- Attribution:
- By The Same. [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- In faith tis true I am in love
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- Black Eyes.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- The sluggish morn as yet undressed
- Page No:
- pp.38-40
- Poem Title:
- Upon Phillis Walking In A Morning Before Sun-Rising.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Three regent goddesses they fell at odds
- Page No:
- pp.40-42
- Poem Title:
- Mount Ida, Or Beauties Contest.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Nature's confectioner the bee
- Page No:
- pp.42-45
- Poem Title:
- Fuscara, Or The Bee Errant.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Poor envious soul what couldst thou see
- Page No:
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- Upon A Fly That Flew Into A Lady's Eye, And There Lay Buried In A Tear.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Come hither Apollo's bouncing girl
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- Square-Cap.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cleveland]
- Attributed To:
- John Cleveland
- First Line:
- Pray let me alone what do you think can I
- Page No:
- pp.49-58
- Poem Title:
- A Satire.
- Attribution:
- By John Hall,.
- Attributed To:
- John Hall
- First Line:
- Distill not poison in mine ears
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By The Same. [i.e. Hall]
- Attributed To:
- John Hall
- First Line:
- Stars in their rising little show
- Page No:
- p.59
- Poem Title:
- To Thomas Stanley, Esq.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hall]
- Attributed To:
- John Hall
- First Line:
- Still herald of the morn whose ray
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- The Morning Star.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hall]
- Attributed To:
- John Hall
- First Line:
- The ermine rather chose to die
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- The Ermine.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hall]
- Attributed To:
- John Hall
- First Line:
- Cloak if I so may call thee though thou art
- Page No:
- pp.61-64
- Poem Title:
- A Poetical Parley With A Threadbare Cloak.
- Attribution:
- By Thomas Jordan.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Jordan
- First Line:
- A cavalier did in a highway theft
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- 3.
- Attribution:
- By T. Jordan.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Jordan
- First Line:
- Our god and soldier we alike adore
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- 1.
- Attribution:
- By T. Jordan.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Jordan
- First Line:
- Rant is they say indicted for a wit
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- 2.
- Attribution:
- By T. Jordan.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Jordan
- First Line:
- Read here the pangs of unsuccessful love
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- To Three Amiable Sisters, With Hammond's Love Elegies.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Kynaston. Never Before Printed.
- Attributed To:
- John Kynaston
- First Line:
- The poets fabling tribe aver
- Page No:
- pp.66-67
- Poem Title:
- To A Young Lady, On Her Presenting The Author With A Lock Of Her Hair.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Kynaston]
- Attributed To:
- John Kynaston
- First Line:
- Ye serious few who tread this sacred ground
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph On A Friend.
- Attribution:
- By The Editor. [i.e. Nichols]
- Attributed To:
- John Nichols
- First Line:
- Great Matanase in quest of this rich ore
- Page No:
- pp.68-70
- Poem Title:
- To The Ingenious And Learned Doctor Matanasius, On His Most Elaborate Commentary On The Excellent Master-Piece Of An Unknown Author.
- Attribution:
- By Lord Bolingbroke.
- Attributed To:
- Henry St John
- First Line:
- Whilst the rude north Charles his slow wrath doth call
- Page No:
- pp.73-75
- Poem Title:
- 3. Upon The Happie Birth Of The Duke,
- Attribution:
- A. Cowley, A. B. T[rin]. C[oll].
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Arise ye ghosts of ancient heroes fled
- Page No:
- pp.86-88
- Poem Title:
- On The Death Of George Duke Of Albemarle.
- Attribution:
- By Nathaniel Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- When Ariosto in the fields of light
- Page No:
- pp.98-101
- Poem Title:
- On The Birth Of The Prince Of Wales.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Samuel Wesley.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Wesley
- First Line:
- The heavens at last the mighty work have done
- Page No:
- pp.101-102
- Poem Title:
- To The Queen Consort Of James II.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Higgons.
- Attributed To:
- Bevil Higgons
- First Line:
- When weeping majesty through clouds appears
- Page No:
- pp.116-121
- Poem Title:
- On The Death Of His Highness George Prince Of Denmark. Addressed To The Queen.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Trapp.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Trapp
- First Line:
- Successful Cyrus fortune's darling son
- Page No:
- pp.122-124
- Poem Title:
- On The Inauguration Of King William And Queen Mary.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Robert Freind.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Freind
- First Line:
- The flower of Phoebus on a summer's morn
- Page No:
- p.128
- Poem Title:
- Rondelay.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Be just dear maid an equal passion prove
- Page No:
- pp.129-130
- Poem Title:
- Ovid, Book I. Elegy III. To His Mistress.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Charles Hopkins.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- In all the dismal rage of war
- Page No:
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Charles Hopkins.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- While others with the taste of bliss
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Hopkins]
- Attributed To:
- Charles Hopkins
- First Line:
- Thus sweetly once the lovesick Orpheus sung
- Page No:
- pp.131-132
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Charles Hopkins, On Reading His Translations.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Charles Gildon.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Gildon
- First Line:
- Sure there's a fate in excellence too strong
- Page No:
- pp.133-138
- Poem Title:
- To Lord Carteret, Principal Secretary Of State.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. George Sewell. 1721.
- Attributed To:
- George Sewell
- First Line:
- Ye sacred seats ye venerable urns
- Page No:
- pp.139-140
- Poem Title:
- A Speech To Westminster Abbey....Occasioned By The Death Of Mr. Addison.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Sewell.
- Attributed To:
- George Sewell
- First Line:
- On what strange muses country are we thrown
- Page No:
- pp.141-142
- Poem Title:
- To E. P. R. Esq. On His Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poems, After The Manner Of The Earl Of Dorset.
- Attribution:
- Dr. Sewell.
- Attributed To:
- George Sewell
- First Line:
- Shakespeare who gave our English stage its birth
- Page No:
- pp.143-144
- Poem Title:
- Prologue...To The Second Part Of King Henry IV.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Sewell.
- Attributed To:
- George Sewell
- First Line:
- Why Damon with the forward day
- Page No:
- pp.144-145
- Poem Title:
- Verses...Written At Hampstead.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Sewell.
- Attributed To:
- George Sewell
- First Line:
- Swayed by the vulgar tide forgive the wrong
- Page No:
- pp.145-146
- Poem Title:
- To Major Pack, On Reading His Poems. 1718.
- Attribution:
- Dr. Sewell.
- Attributed To:
- George Sewell
- First Line:
- Wrapped in the pleasures of a country seat
- Page No:
- pp.146-149
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle From London, To Richardson Pack, Esq. At St. Edmond's-Bury. Written At The Decline Of The South-Sea. 1722.
- Attribution:
- I have some notion that this poem is by Dr. Sewell.
- Attributed To:
- George Sewell
- First Line:
- How shall the muse attempt to teach
- Page No:
- pp.150-156
- Poem Title:
- Ode To Mr. Handel, On His Playing On The Organ, 1722.
- Attribution:
- By Daniel Prat, M.A.
- Attributed To:
- Daniel Pratt
- First Line:
- Well dear Mr Wright I must send you a line
- Page No:
- pp.156-161
- Poem Title:
- To Henry Wright, Of Mobberley, Esq. On Buying The Picture Of F. Malebranche,
- Attribution:
- By John Byrom, M. A. F. R. S. Not Printed In His Works.
- Attributed To:
- John Byrom
- First Line:
- Stay Phoebus blooming god of light
- Page No:
- pp.161-169
- Poem Title:
- To Peregrine Marquis Of Carmarthen, On His Marriage With The Lady Anne Seymour. 1719.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Thomas Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- With every honour graced thy youth appears
- Page No:
- pp.170-175
- Poem Title:
- To Charles Duke Of Richmond, On His Being Installed Knight Of The Garter, With Sir R. Walpole, June 16, 1726.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- While Princes give thy art applause
- Page No:
- pp.175-180
- Poem Title:
- Ode To Mr. Ellis, Occasioned By A Beautiful Painting Of The Hon. George Walpole, Only Son To Lord Walpole, 1741.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- While fame no more his bosom fires
- Page No:
- pp.181-185
- Poem Title:
- Verses Left In A Grotto In Richmond Garden.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb, 1744.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- When Britain's sovereign first beheld
- Page No:
- pp.185-186
- Poem Title:
- I. To The Duke of Cumberland, On The Wound He Received At Dettingen.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- Proud Bourbon honoured with thy fears
- Page No:
- p.186
- Poem Title:
- 2. To The Same.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- Though just and wise and great before
- Page No:
- pp.186-187
- Poem Title:
- 3. To The King.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- His god like son when Philip fought
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- 4. To The Same.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- When heedless of their chief's command
- Page No:
- pp.187-188
- Poem Title:
- 5. To The French King.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- While France her treacherous sword employs
- Page No:
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- 6. On The French Barbarities In Germany. To The Emperor.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- Wouldst thou be lost and wretched quite
- Page No:
- pp.188-189
- Poem Title:
- 7. To The Same.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- The fates of Bourbon laurels yield
- Page No:
- p.189
- Poem Title:
- 8. To The French King.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- Amidst thy triumphs on the deep
- Page No:
- pp.190-196
- Poem Title:
- The Oracle, An Ode. 1747. Inscribed To The Honourable Sir Edward Hawke, Knight Of The Bath
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newcomb.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
- First Line:
- To thee dear youth in sacred wedlock tied
- Page No:
- pp.196-203
- Poem Title:
- A Letter From A Lady, To Her Husband Abroad, 1729.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Adam from paradise exiled
- Page No:
- p.203
- Poem Title:
- Song, From The Flower-Piece.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Must then my heart familiar long with grief
- Page No:
- pp.204-209
- Poem Title:
- A Poem, Sacred To The Memory Of Edmund Sheffield, Duke Of Buckinghamshire, Duke And Marquis Of Normanby, Earl Of Mulgrave, And Baron Of Butterwick...To Her Grace Katherine, Dutchess Of Buckinhamshire, Occasioned By The Death Of The Duke Her Son.
- Attribution:
- By John Boyle, Earl of Orrery.
- Attributed To:
- John Boyle
- First Line:
- O thou whose virtues Albion's sons can trace
- Page No:
- pp.210-213
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book I. Ode I. Imitated, And Inscribed To Philip Earl of Chesterfield.
- Attribution:
- By John Earl Of Orrery.
- Attributed To:
- John Boyle
- First Line:
- When to that dear but inauspicious bower
- Page No:
- pp.214-215
- Poem Title:
- Pyrrha...In Imitation Of Horace, Book I. Ode V.
- Attribution:
- By John Earl Of Orrery.
- Attributed To:
- John Boyle
- First Line:
- How swift alas the rolling years
- Page No:
- pp.216-217
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book II. Ode XIV. Imitated
- Attribution:
- By John Earl Of Orrery.
- Attributed To:
- John Boyle
- First Line:
- In arms renowned for arts of peace adored
- Page No:
- pp.217-218
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Alfred...Spoken By Mr. Garrick.
- Attribution:
- By John Earl Of Orrery.
- Attributed To:
- John Boyle
- First Line:
- While ancient dames and heroes in us live
- Page No:
- pp.218-222
- Poem Title:
- A Hasty Prologue To All For Love, Acted At Blenheim-House In The Summer 1718...and Spoken By Lady Bateman.
- Attribution:
- Written By Bishop Hoadly
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Hoadly
- First Line:
- A month hath rolled its lazy hours away
- Page No:
- pp.223-226
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation From The Spectator.
- Attribution:
- By Robert Lloyd, M. A. Not Printed In His Works.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Lloyd
- First Line:
- Says Gooch to old Wilcox come take the other bout
- Page No:
- p.226
- Poem Title:
- On The Masters Of Clare Hall And Caius (Or Keys) College.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Young libertines no more molest
- Page No:
- pp.227-228
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book I. Ode XIV. Translated...To Lydia.
- Attribution:
- By The Rev. William Gostling, M. A.
- Attributed To:
- William Gostling
- First Line:
- By High more late from great Apelles sprung
- Page No:
- pp.228-229
- Poem Title:
- On Seeing The Picture Of Miss Highmore At Mr. Highmore's.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. (Afterwards Dr.) Dodd. Not Printed In His Works.
- Attributed To:
- William Dodd
- First Line:
- Its elegant cathedral we survey
- Page No:
- pp.230-232
- Poem Title:
- Extracts From A Ms. Poem...Being A Kind Of Journal In Verse, Written In 1774, When He Went To Take Possession Of His Brecon Prebend
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Dodd.
- Attributed To:
- William Dodd
- First Line:
- Thou swelling sea what now can be thy boast
- Page No:
- p.233
- Poem Title:
- Epigram On Two Ladies, Who Were Drowned Walking On The Sea-Shore.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye muses what a nosegay of fine words
- Page No:
- p.233
- Poem Title:
- Epigram...Occasioned By Reading A Merely Descriptive Poem, Called Barham-Downs.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Dodd.
- Attributed To:
- William Dodd
- First Line:
- Miss Molly a famed toast was fair and young
- Page No:
- pp.234-237
- Poem Title:
- The Medicine, A Tale - For The Ladies.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. W. Harrison.
- Attributed To:
- William Harrison
- First Line:
- I tuned the lute and straight begun
- Page No:
- pp.238-241
- Poem Title:
- To King William The Third, In Imitation Of Horace, B. IV. Ode XV.
- Attribution:
- By Samuel Cobb, M. A.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- The muse who taught the Theban swan
- Page No:
- pp.238-252
- Poem Title:
- Pindaric Ode.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- The man whom once the smiling muse
- Page No:
- pp.253-254
- Poem Title:
- To Stephen Harvey, Esq...In Imitation Of Horace, B. I. Ode III.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- Come Cytherea from thy Paphian bower
- Page No:
- pp.255-258
- Poem Title:
- Love And Musick, An Ode, For The Entertainment Of The Musical Club In Cambridge, 1700.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- Glory my soul and blessing give
- Page No:
- pp.258-261
- Poem Title:
- Psalm CIII. Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- As a poor wretch by tempests tossed
- Page No:
- pp.261-263
- Poem Title:
- Psalm CXXX Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- Ye blessed inhabitants who dwell
- Page No:
- pp.263-266
- Poem Title:
- Psalm CXLVIII. Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- While fair Selinda to our eyes
- Page No:
- p.266
- Poem Title:
- To A Young Lady, On Her Recovery. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. S. Boyse.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Boyse
- First Line:
- What various styles to different strains belong
- Page No:
- pp.267-297
- Poem Title:
- A Prospect Of Poetry. Addressed To The Earl Of Orrery.
- Attribution:
- By James Da Lacourt, B. A.
- Attributed To:
- James. De La Court
- First Line:
- From sunless worlds where Phoebus seldom smiles
- Page No:
- pp.298-301
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Thomson, On His Seasons.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. DaLacourt.
- Attributed To:
- James. De La Court
- First Line:
- In this repose the secrets of your mind
- Page No:
- p.301
- Poem Title:
- Verses...In His Sister's Table-Book.
- Attribution:
- By A Gentleman.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- These various strains where every talent charms
- Page No:
- pp.302-306
- Poem Title:
- To A Young Lady, With Fenton's Miscellanies.
- Attribution:
- By Walter Harte, M. A.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Harte
- First Line:
- To move the springs of nature as we please
- Page No:
- pp.306-308
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Harte.
- Attributed To:
- Walter Harte
- First Line:
- Whilst you my friend on Poplar's shore receive
- Page No:
- pp.310-311
- Poem Title:
- Epistle To Mr. Whaley, At Poplar.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At fate's approach see Oroonoko moan
- Page No:
- p.311
- Poem Title:
- On A Young Lady's Weeping At Oroonoko. From Whaley's First Collection.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Blush not dear sir your flame to own
- Page No:
- pp.312-313
- Poem Title:
- To A Gentleman, In Love With A Negro Woman. In Imitation Of Horace, Book II. Ode IV.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. (Afterwards Dr.) Sneyd Davies.
- Attributed To:
- Sneyd Davies
- First Line:
- Gods who would tempt the stormy main
- Page No:
- pp.313-314
- Poem Title:
- Verses Written In The Same Summer-House, As Belonging To Captain Nelly.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sure this is more than classic ground I tread
- Page No:
- p.313
- Poem Title:
- Verses Written In The Summer-House Where Sir Richard Steele Wrote His Conscious Lovers.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Am I or am I not imprudent
- Page No:
- p.316
- Poem Title:
- To A Friend, With The First Number Of "The Student".
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Last night the happy lot was mine
- Page No:
- p.317
- Poem Title:
- To A Young Lady, On Drawing Her For A Valentine,
- Attribution:
- By The Same [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Yes I remember and with pride repeat
- Page No:
- pp.317-318
- Poem Title:
- Stanzas, To The Same Lady.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nor soft complaint nor heaving sigh
- Page No:
- pp.318-320
- Poem Title:
- To The Same
- Attribution:
- By The Same [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How happy is the bard
- Page No:
- pp.320-322
- Poem Title:
- The Happy Bard
- Attribution:
- By A. B.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Harcourt so pleasing are thy lays
- Page No:
- pp.322-324
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Harcourt, On His "Judgment Of Venus." From Hammond's Collection.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down
- Page No:
- p.323
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Harcourt. Occasioned By His Verses To Lady C. Hyde.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In youth my dear you often say
- Page No:
- pp.325-326
- Poem Title:
- Youth, Addressed To A Lady.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. T.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How blessed the man who lives retired
- Page No:
- pp.326-327
- Poem Title:
- The Juvenile Wish.
- Attribution:
- By The Editor. [i.e. Nichols]
- Attributed To:
- John Nichols
- First Line:
- Surely a more than usual gloom overspreads
- Page No:
- pp.327-328
- Poem Title:
- A Midnight Soliloquy.
- Attribution:
- By The Editor. [i.e. Nichols]
- Attributed To:
- John Nichols
- First Line:
- Yes great supreme attentively we view
- Page No:
- pp.328-330
- Poem Title:
- A Soliloquy...Occasioned By A Remarkable Eclipse Of The Sun.
- Attribution:
- By The Editor. [i.e. Nichols]
- Attributed To:
- John Nichols
- First Line:
- Hark my fair one the summons of love
- Page No:
- pp.330-331
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral Ballad.
- Attribution:
- By The Editor. [i.e. Nichols]
- Attributed To:
- John Nichols
- First Line:
- Tell me Polly tell me truth
- Page No:
- pp.331-333
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book I. Ode V. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By The Editor. [i.e. Nichols]
- Attributed To:
- John Nichols
- First Line:
- Though Celia each delightful grace
- Page No:
- pp.333-334
- Poem Title:
- The Goldfinch And Raven. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- By The Editor. [i.e. Nichols]
- Attributed To:
- John Nichols
- First Line:
- Come sprightly Sukey come and see
- Page No:
- p.335
- Poem Title:
- The Invitation.
- Attribution:
- By The Editor. [i.e. Nichols]
- Attributed To:
- John Nichols
- First Line:
- Since Aesop's days who first inspired
- Page No:
- pp.336-338
- Poem Title:
- The Laurel And Tulip. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- By The Editor. [i.e. Nichols]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where force has failed the alluring smile
- Page No:
- pp.338-340
- Poem Title:
- A Fable Modernised
- Attribution:
- By The Editor. [i.e. Nichols]
- Attributed To:
- John Nichols
- First Line:
- Welcome friendly gleam of night
- Page No:
- p.340
- Poem Title:
- Anacreontic
- Attribution:
- By The Editor. [i.e. Nichols]
- Attributed To:
- John Nichols
- First Line:
- Oh banks of Loire ye fields beloved in vain
- Page No:
- p.341
- Poem Title:
- I. A Farewell To Tours.
- Attribution:
- By W. J.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What joy her hospitable father's guest
- Page No:
- pp.341-342
- Poem Title:
- II. On The Death Of Miss E. A.
- Attribution:
- By W. J.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Pour on my soul sweet hope thy lovely light
- Page No:
- p.342
- Poem Title:
- III.
- Attribution:
- By W. J.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet sleep who lovest wealth's weary sons forgot
- Page No:
- p.343
- Poem Title:
- IV. To Sleep.
- Attribution:
- By W. J.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet sonneteer whose unaffected lay
- Page No:
- pp.343-344
- Poem Title:
- On Reading The Third Sonnet, And Taking The Liberty To Transcribe It For My Own Use, Being Under The Same Anxious Solicitude For An Amiable Friend Now Resident In Jamaica.
- Attribution:
- S. H.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye sons of Bacchus come and join
- Page No:
- p.344
- Poem Title:
- Extempore...On The Honourable Sir Henry Bellendine, Gentleman Usher Of The Black Rod.
- Attribution:
- By Charles Duke of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred
- Page No:
- pp.345-349
- Poem Title:
- Colin's Mistakes. In Imitation Of Spenser's Style.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Samuel Croxall.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Croxall
- First Line:
- Myrtle unsheathed his shining blade
- Page No:
- p.350
- Poem Title:
- The Fright.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Old and abandoned by each venal friend
- Page No:
- pp.350-351
- Poem Title:
- Stanzas...Suggested By A View Of The Seat And Ruins At Kingsgate, In Kent, 1766.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gray...Not Printed In His Works.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Lo where this silent marble weeps
- Page No:
- pp.351-352
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph, At Beckenham, On Mrs. Clarke.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Leave Garrick the rich landscape proudly gay
- Page No:
- p.352
- Poem Title:
- Verses To David Garrick, Esq. At Mount Edgcumbe.
- Attribution:
- By The Late Earl Of Chatham.
- Attributed To:
- William Pitt
- First Line:
- When Peleus' son untaught to yield
- Page No:
- p.353
- Poem Title:
- Mr. Garrick's Answer.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Garrick
- Attributed To:
- David Garrick
- First Line:
- With joy we see this circle of the fair
- Page No:
- pp.354-356
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To The Ladies.
- Attribution:
- By Arthur Maynwaring, Esq. Not Printed In His Works.
- Attributed To:
- Arthur Maynwaring
- First Line:
- While martial troops with more than martial rage
- Page No:
- pp.356-357
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Camilla.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Maynwaring]
- Attributed To:
- Arthur Maynwaring
- First Line:
- Since Cob gives the feast
- Page No:
- pp.357-359
- Poem Title:
- Hoppy And Toppy
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Maynwaring]
- Attributed To:
- Arthur Maynwaring
- First Line:
- Amidst the joy that flows from every tongue
- Page No:
- pp.360-361
- Poem Title:
- To Lord Viscount Villiers.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. William Worts.
- Attributed To:
- William Worts
- First Line:
- An intendant what is he
- Page No:
- p.360
- Poem Title:
- Translation, From La Fontaine
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Maynwaring.
- Attributed To:
- Arthur Maynwaring
- First Line:
- So much dear Pope thy English Iliad charms
- Page No:
- p.361
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, On His Homer. From A Collection Called The Grove.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Delightful favourite of the tuneful nine
- Page No:
- pp.362-363
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, On His Translation Of Homer. From The Grove.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When first thy muse in tuneful rural strains
- Page No:
- pp.363-365
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, On His Translation Of Homer, From Lintot's Miscellanies.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail moral bard to whose instructive lay
- Page No:
- pp.365-366
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, On his Essay On Man...From Whaley's Second Collection.
- Attribution:
- By P. L.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The poem which originally great
- Page No:
- p.366
- Poem Title:
- On Dr. Young's Translation Of Part Of Job.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Cobden.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Cobden
- First Line:
- This end our infant stage declares
- Page No:
- p.367
- Poem Title:
- In A Parish Register.
- Attribution:
- By The Same [i.e. Cobden]
- Attributed To:
- Edward Cobden
- First Line:
- Forgive me sir if I approve
- Page No:
- p.368
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pitt, On His Having A Bay Leaf Sent Him From Virgil Tomb.
- Attribution:
- Dr. Cobden
- Attributed To:
- Edward Cobden
- First Line:
- Long had my mind unknowing how to soar
- Page No:
- pp.369-375
- Poem Title:
- To The Countess Of Bristol.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. De La Riviere Manley.
- Attributed To:
- Delarivier Manley
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