A supplement to the works of the most celebrated minor poets [T79269] [ecco]

DMI number:

766

Publication Date:

1750

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T79269

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111094045

Shelfmark:

Bod Vet A4 f.445

Full Title:

A | SUPPLEMENT | TO THE | WORKS | OF THE | Most celebrated | MINOR POETS. | NAMELY, | [two columns] [col1] E. of Roscommon, | -- Dorset, | -- Hallifax, | -- Godolphin, | Lord Somers, | Dr. Sprat, Bishop of | Rochester, [/col1] | [col 2] Sir Samuel Garth, | George Stepney, Esq; | William Walsh, Esq; | Thomas Tickell, Esq; | and | Ambrose Phillips, Esq; [/col2] | To which are added, | Pieces omitted in the Works of | [two columns] [col1] Sir John Suckling, | Mr. Otway, | Matthew Prior, Esq; [/col1] | [col2] Dr. King, | and | Dean Swift. [/col2] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for F. COGAN, at the [i]Middle Temple Gate, | Fleet Street.[/i] M DCCL.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse and Collection of literary verse

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[14], 3-284, [2], [3]-96, [2], 3-96

Bibliographic details:

Split into three parts, each with separate title page and pagination. 1: A | SUPPLEMENT | TO THE | WORKS | OF THE | Minor Poets. | PART 1. (pp. 1-284) 2: A | SUPPLEMENT | TO THE | MINOR POETS [i]&c.[/i] | PART II. (pp. 1-95) 3: A | SUPPLEMENT | TO THE | WORKS | OF | Dr. [i]SWIFT.[/i] | PART III. (pp. 1-96)

Comments:

Contents: Section 1 contains Italian verse pp. 7-9; prose pp. 10-11, 110-97, 213-4, 231-8; Latin verse pp. 11-25, 42-5, 276-81; The Hind and the Panther Transversed pp. 47-82; Latin prose pp. 91-105; Latin inscription pp. 105-6. Section 3 contains prose pp. 3-24, 26-72, 91-6; Latin inscription p. 25.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Address 'To the Publick' [1p]; Cumulative list of contents covering vols I and II of 'The Minor Poets' [8pp.].

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Publisher:

F Cogan

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Those ills your ancestors have done

Page No:

pp.3-5

Poem Title:

The Sixth Ode of the Third Book of Horace. Of the Corruption of the Times.

Attribution:

The Earl of Roscommon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

The gods were pleased to choose the conquering side

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

Translation of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

The Earl of Roscommon

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Hail sacred solitude from this calm bay

Page No:

pp.6-7

Poem Title:

Ode upon Solitude.

Attribution:

The Earl of Roscommon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Cursed be those dull unpointed doggrel rhymes

Page No:

pp.26-39

Poem Title:

A Faithful Catalogue of our most Eminent Ninnies. Written in the year 1683.

Attribution:

The Earl of Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Dolly's beauty and art

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

On Dolly Chamberlain, a Sempstress in the New Exchange.

Attribution:

The Earl of Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Phillis for shame let us improve

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

The Earl of Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Courage dear Moll and drive away despair

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

On the Countess Dowager of ***.

Attribution:

The Earl of Hallifax.

Attributed To:

Charles Montagu

First Line:

Hail tuneful pair say by what wondrous charms

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

On Orpheus and Signora Francisca Margaritta.

Attribution:

The Earl of Hallifax.

Attributed To:

Charles Montagu

First Line:

Go mighty prince and those great nations see

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

To the Duke of Marlborough on his voluntary Banishment.

Attribution:

Sir Samuel Garth.

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

Near the vast bulk of that stupendous frame

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

On her Majesty's Statue in St. Paul's Church-yard.

Attribution:

Sir Samuel Garth.

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

Where where degenerate countrymen how high

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

On the new Conspiracy, 1716.

Attribution:

Sir Samuel Garth.

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

Who dares not plot in this goodnatured age

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

Prologue to the Cornish Squire, A Comedy.

Attribution:

Sir Samuel Garth.

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

Such was our builder's art that soon as named

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Prologue spoken at the Opening of the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market.

Attribution:

Sir Samuel Garth.

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

Could he whom my dissembled rigour grieves

Page No:

pp.88-89

Poem Title:

A Soliloquy out of Italian.

Attribution:

Sir Samuel Garth.

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

Can you count the silver lights

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

An imitation of a French author.

Attribution:

Sir Samuel Garth

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

When fame did over the spacious plains

Page No:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

To Mr Gay on his Poems.

Attribution:

Sir Samuel Garth.

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

Unwieldy pedant let thy awkward muse

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

To the merry Poetaster at Sadlers-Hall in Cheapside.

Attribution:

Sir Samuel Garth.

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

Near Covent Garden theatre where you know

Page No:

pp.108-110

Poem Title:

On the Author of a Dialogue concerning Women, pretended to be writ in Defence of the Sex.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Bless us said I what mighty hero's here

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Wit like tierce claret when it begins to pall

Page No:

pp.148-149

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

When conquering death shall ravish from their eyes

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Distracted with care

Page No:

pp.197-198

Poem Title:

The Despairing Lover.

Attribution:

William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Of all the torments all the cares

Page No:

pp.198-199

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Phillis we not grieve that nature

Page No:

p.199

Poem Title:

A Song to Phillis

Attribution:

William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Madam I cannot but congratulate

Page No:

pp.200-201

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a Lady who had resolv'd against Marriage.

Attribution:

William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

When slaves their liberty require

Page No:

p.200

Poem Title:

Phillis's Resolution

Attribution:

William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

The dismal regions which no sun beholds

Page No:

p.202

Poem Title:

Clelia to Urania. An Ode.

Attribution:

William Walsh, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Though Celia's born to be adored

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Strephon and Damon's flocks together fed

Page No:

pp.203-205

Poem Title:

Eclogue. Lycon.

Attribution:

William Walsh Esq;

Attributed To:

William Walsh

First Line:

Hail ancient book most venerable code

Page No:

pp.206-210

Poem Title:

A Poem in Praise of the Horn-Book. Written under a fit of the Gout.

Attribution:

Thomas Tickel, Esq;

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Tis true great name thou art secure

Page No:

pp.215-225

Poem Title:

To the happy Memory of the late Lord Protector.

Attribution:

Dr. Sprat Bishop of Rochester.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat

First Line:

Your book our old knight errants fame revives

Page No:

pp.226-227

Poem Title:

To a Person of Honour, (Mr. Edward Howard) upon his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem, intitled the British Princes.

Attribution:

Dr. Sprat Bishop of Rochester.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat

First Line:

Sweet stream that dost with equal pace

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

On his Mistress Drown'd.

Attribution:

Dr. Sprat Bishop of Rochester.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat

First Line:

Unhappy man by nature made to sway

Page No:

pp.239-261

Poem Title:

The Plague of Athens.

Attribution:

Dr Sprat Bishop of Rochester.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat

First Line:

Let all this meaner rout of books stand by

Page No:

pp.261-269

Poem Title:

Upon the Poems of the English Ovid, Anacreon, Pindar and Virgil, Abraham Cowley, in Imitation of his own Pindarick Odes.

Attribution:

Dr Sprat Bishop of Rochester.

Attributed To:

Thomas Sprat

First Line:

Mun rarely credit common fame

Page No:

pp.270-272

Poem Title:

To Mr. Edmund Smith

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

The gods and Cato did in this divide

Page No:

p.270

Poem Title:

Translation of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Whenever I wive young Strephon cried

Page No:

pp.272-273

Poem Title:

The Spell.

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

If Memnon's fate bewailed with constant dew

Page No:

pp.273-275

Poem Title:

Elegy upon the Death of Tibullus. From Ovid.

Attribution:

George Stepney Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Bright star by Venus fixed above

Page No:

p.276

Poem Title:

To the Evening-Star. English'd, from a Greek Idyllium.

Attribution:

George Stepney Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

As victors lose the trouble they sustain

Page No:

pp.281-282

Poem Title:

To the King.

Attribution:

George Stepney Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

The critics that pretend to sense

Page No:

pp.282-284

Poem Title:

The Audience

Attribution:

George Stepney, Esq;

Attributed To:

George Stepney

First Line:

Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife

Page No:

pp.3-11

Poem Title:

Dryden's Satire to his Muse.

Attribution:

Written by the Lord Somers.

Attributed To:

John Somers

First Line:

Since the united cunning of the stage

Page No:

pp.12-17

Poem Title:

A Satyr on the Modern Translators.

Attribution:

by Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Sir | all my endeavours all my hopes depend

Page No:

pp.17-23

Poem Title:

A Satyr upon the Poets, being a Translation out of the seventh Satyr of Juvenal.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Fair Susan did her wifehode well maintayne

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

Susannah and the Two Elders. An Imitation of Chaucer.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Thou who the pangs of my embittered rage

Page No:

pp.24-25

Poem Title:

The Earl of Godolphin to Dr. Garth, upon the loss of Miss Dingle; In return to the Doctor's consolatory Verses to him, upon the loss of his Rod.

Attribution:

Dr. Garth

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

Of all the delicates which Britons try

Page No:

pp.26-28

Poem Title:

Apple-Pye. A Poem, in Imitation of Virgil's Georgics.

Attribution:

By Dr. William King.

Attributed To:

William King

First Line:

See sir see here's the grand approach

Page No:

pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Upon the Duke of Marlborough's House at Woodstock.

Attribution:

By Dr. William King.

Attributed To:

William King

First Line:

Go doleful sheet to every street

Page No:

pp.29-34

Poem Title:

A Letter sent by Sir John Suckling from France, deploring his sad Estate and Flight. With a Discovery of the Plot and Conspiracy, intended by him and his Adherents against England.

Attribution:

by Sir John Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Though Britain's hardy troops demand your care

Page No:

pp.35-39

Poem Title:

An Epistle to the Honourable James Craggs, Esq; Secretary at War, at Hampton-Court.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips, Esq;

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Behold Britannia waves her flag on high

Page No:

pp.39-41

Poem Title:

To his Excellency the Lord Carteret, &c. departing from Dublin.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips Esq;

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Bloom of beauty early flower

Page No:

pp.41-43

Poem Title:

To the Honourable Miss Carteret.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips, Esq;

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

If we O Dorset quit the city throng

Page No:

pp.45-48

Poem Title:

The First Pastoral. Lobbin.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips, Esq;

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Thy cloudy looks why melting thus in tears

Page No:

pp.48-52

Poem Title:

The Second Pastoral. Thenot. Colinet.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips, Esq;

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

When Virgil thought no shame the dorick reed

Page No:

pp.52-55

Poem Title:

The Third Pastoral.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips, Esq;

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

This place may seem for shepherds leisure made

Page No:

pp.56-59

Poem Title:

The Fourth Pastoral. Mico. Argol.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips, Esq;

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

In rural strains we first our music try

Page No:

pp.60-63

Poem Title:

The Fifth Pastoral.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips Esq;

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

How still the sea behold how calm the sky

Page No:

pp.63-67

Poem Title:

The Sixth Pastoral. Geron. Hobbinol. Lanquet.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips Esq;

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Patron of verse O Halifax attend

Page No:

pp.68-70

Poem Title:

An Epistle to the Right Hon. Charles Lord Halifax, one of the Lords Justices appointed by his Majesty.

Attribution:

By Ambrose Philips, Esq;

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

To a high hill where never yet stood tree

Page No:

pp.71-93

Poem Title:

The Poet's Complaint of his Muse; or, a Satyr against Libels...Ode.

Attribution:

By Thomas Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Clasped in the arms of her I love

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

The Enjoyment.

Attribution:

By Thomas Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

I did but look and love a while

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

The Inchantment.

Attribution:

By Thomas Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

How shall I now the nine invoke

Page No:

pp.73-78

Poem Title:

The Broken Mug. A Tale.

Attribution:

Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

As a thorn bush or oaken bough

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

On Paddy's Character of the Intelligencer.

Attribution:

Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Pallas a goddess chaste and wise

Page No:

pp.79-81

Poem Title:

The Storm.

Attribution:

Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

I reach all things near me and far off to boot

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

A Riddle...Inscribed to the Lady Carteret.

Attribution:

By Dr. Delaney.

Attributed To:

Patrick Delany

First Line:

With half an eye

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

The Same Answer'd

Attribution:

by Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

It was my lord the dextrous shift

Page No:

pp.84-86

Poem Title:

A Petition to his Grace the Duke of Grafton.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Smed I read thy brilliant lines

Page No:

p.87-88

Poem Title:

His Grace's Answer

Attribution:

By Dean Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

An orator dismal of Nottinghamshire

Page No:

pp.89-90

Poem Title:

An Excellent New Song, being the intended Speech of a famous Orator against Peace.

Attribution:

Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift