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.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Publication Date:
- 1707
- ESTC No:
- T93435
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Athenianism: or the new projects of Mr. John Dunton [T145151]
- Publication Date:
- 1710
- ESTC No:
- T145151
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Editor:
- John Dunton
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Andrew Bell
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for Andrew Bell' T105985
- First Line:
- All that we know of the blest above
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Whoever would deposed truth advance
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- the incomparable Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Great sols discern not when the leap's too wide
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- There's a necessity in fate
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Seven cities strive for mighty Homer's birth
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How strange a paradox is true
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- Ode to this Society
- Attribution:
- Mr Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- What shall I do to be for ever known
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Yes by each fountain river stream and grove
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whatever borrowed lines our works have shown
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behind the scenes sit mighty we
- Page No:
- pp.62-64
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In learning's precepts spend thy utmost breath
- Page No:
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As when the deluge first began to fall
- Page No:
- pp.112-119
- Poem Title:
- Ode to the Athenian Society.
- Attribution:
- Jonathan Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- I choose repent refuse and choose again
- Page No:
- pp.149-150
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr Rymer
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Rymer
- First Line:
- The dead shall rise the lame their feet shall find
- Page No:
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With two small fishes and five loaves of bread
- Page No:
- p.273
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- But if you hit the cause that hurts his brain
- Page No:
- p.278
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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