A supplement to the Athenian Oracle [T105985]

DMI number:

219

Publication Date:

1710

ESTC number:

T105985

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW3311608050

Shelfmark:

BOD 8* E 337 BS.

Epigraph:

n/a

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Price:

n/a

Comments:

FULL TITLE: A | SUPPLEMENT | TO THE | [g]Athenian Oracle:[/g] | BEING A | COLLECTION | Of the REMAINING | QUESTIONS | AND | ANSWERS | IN THE | Old [i]Athenian Mercuries.[/i] | Intermixt with many CASES in [i]Divinity, | History, Philosophy, Mathematicks, Love, Poetry,[/i] | never before [i]Publish'd.[/i] | To which is prefix'd | The History of the [i]Athenian Society[/i], | And an ESSAY upon LEARNING. | [rule] | By a [i]Member[/i] of the [g]Athenian[/g] SOCIETY. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for [g]Andrew Bell[/g], at the [i]Cross-Keys and Bible[/i] | in [i]Cornaill[/i], near [i]Stocks-Market,[/i] 1710. PAGINATION: [2], 1-487, [15] pp. (334, 335 unpaginated) BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: ESTC record mentions plate and dedication but this is not present in BOD 8* E 337 BS. END MATTER: Table of contents, pp. [489-501]; Books printed for Andrew Bell, pp. [501-502]. CONTENTS: mainly prose. Quotations shorter than two lines have not been included. MISCELLANY GENRE: this is predominantly a prose miscellany.

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ESTC No:

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Volume:

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Relationship:

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Comments:

Title:

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Publication Date:

1710

ESTC No:

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Volume:

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Relationship:

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Editor:

John Dunton

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Comments:

Publisher:

Andrew Bell

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

'Printed for Andrew Bell' T105985

Content/Publication

First Line:

All that we know of the blest above

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p.12

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Attribution:

Cowley

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Abraham Cowley

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Whoever would deposed truth advance

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p.15

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[no title]

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the incomparable Cowley

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Abraham Cowley

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Great sols discern not when the leap's too wide

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p.16

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Mr Dryden

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John Dryden

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There's a necessity in fate

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p.17

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Mr. Dryden

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John Dryden

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Seven cities strive for mighty Homer's birth

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p.19

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How strange a paradox is true

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p.29

Poem Title:

Ode to this Society

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Mr Swift

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Jonathan Swift

First Line:

What shall I do to be for ever known

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p.29

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[no title]

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Cowley

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Abraham Cowley

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Yes by each fountain river stream and grove

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p.49

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Whatever borrowed lines our works have shown

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p.50

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Behind the scenes sit mighty we

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pp.62-64

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In learning's precepts spend thy utmost breath

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p.79

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As when the deluge first began to fall

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pp.112-119

Poem Title:

Ode to the Athenian Society.

Attribution:

Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift

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I choose repent refuse and choose again

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pp.149-150

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Mr Rymer

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Thomas Rymer

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The dead shall rise the lame their feet shall find

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p.272

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With two small fishes and five loaves of bread

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p.273

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But if you hit the cause that hurts his brain

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p.278

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