A collection of miscellany poems, letters &c. [ESTC R15161]
- DMI number:
- 1714
- Publication Date:
- 1699
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- R15161
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:12099755
- Shelfmark:
- EEBO-BL
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | Miscellany Poems, | LETTERS, [i]&c.[/i] | [rule] | By Mr. [i]BROWN, &c.[/i] | [rule] | To which is added, A | CHARACTER | OF A | [i]LATITUDINARIAN.[/i] | [rule] | [i]LONDON,[/i] | Printed for [i]John Sparks,[/i] in [i]Newstreet,[/i] near | [i]Fleetstreet.[/i] 1699.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection including prose
- Format:
- Octavo
- Comments:
- Contents (1) 'Miscellany Poems' (pp. 1-128) (2) 'Miscellaneous Letters' (pp. 129-351) Some Latin verse
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: 1. 'The Bookseller to the Reader' pp. A8r-v. End Matter 1. Contents 'The Contents of the Miscellany Poems.' pp. 352-4. 2. Letter 'A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country, to his Friend in the City', pp. 1-14. pagination here starts anew. 3. Postscript pp. 14-13. page 15 mispaginated.
- References:
- NCBEL 341 (1699)
- Title:
- A collection of miscellany poems, letters &c. By Mr. Brown, &c. [R31629]
- Publication Date:
- 1700
- ESTC No:
- R31629
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- John Sparks
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- To charming Celia's arms I flew
- Page No:
- pp. 1-2
- Poem Title:
- The Contented Whore. An Imitation of Epig. 66. in Mart I. 32.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- What planet distracts thee what damnable star
- Page No:
- pp. 3-4
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a Vintner. Mart. Epig. 19-I. I.
- Attribution:
- Compiled under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- When Gammar Gurton first I knew
- Page No:
- p. 3
- Poem Title:
- Mart. Epig. 20. I. I.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Browne's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- In some vile hamlet let me live forgot
- Page No:
- p. 4-5
- Poem Title:
- Mart. Epig. 5. I. 2.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Nothing than Chloe ever I knew
- Page No:
- pp .6-8
- Poem Title:
- Mart. Epig. 61. l. 11.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Tell me O Lydia for by heavens I swear
- Page No:
- pp. 8-9
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Ode. 8. l. 1.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- What the bully of France and our friends on the Rhine
- Page No:
- pp. 9-11
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Ode 11. l. 2.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- To fight in your cups and abuse the good creature
- Page No:
- pp. 12-4
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Ode 27. l. 1.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Long did dark ignorance our isle overspread
- Page No:
- pp. 14-15
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Henry Purcel.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Long have my prayers slow heaven assailed
- Page No:
- pp. 16-19
- Poem Title:
- The Ode in Horace L.4. Paraphrased Audievere Lyce, &c.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Though you my Lyce in some northern flood
- Page No:
- pp. 19-23
- Poem Title:
- The x. Ode in Horace L. 3. Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Tis true while active blood my veins did fire
- Page No:
- pp. 23-5
- Poem Title:
- The xxvi. Ode in Hor. L. 3. Paraphras'd.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- At length thou antiquated whore
- Page No:
- pp. 25-6
- Poem Title:
- The xv. Ode in Horace Lib. 3 Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Whenever I meet you still you cry
- Page No:
- p. 27
- Poem Title:
- The Epigram in Martial L. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- And must our glorious laureate then depart
- Page No:
- 29.0
- Poem Title:
- An Impromptu to Shadwell's Memory, by Dr. B-----
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- This vain gay thing sets up for man
- Page No:
- p. 30
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram under the Picture of a Beau
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Like our great father Adam fain would I
- Page No:
- p. 32
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady that would not grant the last favours under cheaper terms than Matrimony.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean
- Page No:
- pp. 32-4
- Poem Title:
- Avis sur a Mariage.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- In ancient times as learned Aesop shows
- Page No:
- pp. 35-9
- Poem Title:
- The Fable of the Bat and the Birds. In Imitation of that of the Buzzard in the Hind and Panther. In the year 1689.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- You dull dissenters what vain folly blinds
- Page No:
- pp. 39-40
- Poem Title:
- Antenor's Speech in the Second Aeneid, applied to the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience. In the year 1687.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Though twas thy luck to cheat the fatal tree
- Page No:
- pp. 41-7
- Poem Title:
- A Satyr upon an Ignorant Quack that murder'd a Friends Child, and occasion'd the Mother upon the news of it to Miscarry.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- When with rank poison heaven equipt Pandora
- Page No:
- p. 48
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of it in English
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Thou cur half French half English breed
- Page No:
- pp. 49-50
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. D---- upon his most incomparable Ballads, call'd by him Lyric Odes.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- No longer your expected play conceal
- Page No:
- pp. 50-1
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Higden, upon the ill success of his Play.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Friend Harry some furious pretenders to thinking
- Page No:
- pp. 51-2
- Poem Title:
- To the same, upon his Play's being damn'd for having too much eating and drinking in it.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- When to Moloch of old by way of oblation
- Page No:
- pp. 52-3
- Poem Title:
- Upon persecuting it with Cat-calls.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- How quickly are love's pleasures gone
- Page No:
- pp. 53-4
- Poem Title:
- The extravagant Lover, out of French. 1684.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Brave Teucer as the poets tell us
- Page No:
- pp. 54-5
- Poem Title:
- A Translation of Teucer Salamina, Patremq; Cum fugeret, &c. Hor. Ode vii. lib. I.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Since the hills all around us do penance in snow
- Page No:
- pp. 56-8
- Poem Title:
- Ode ix. Lib. I. in Horace imitated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Waller in never dying verse
- Page No:
- pp. 59-61
- Poem Title:
- In Imitation of the 6th Ode in Horace, l. I. Scriberis vario fortis, & hostium--- In the year, 1685. after the defeat of the Rebels in the West.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- When Greece overwhelmed in the wide deluge lay
- Page No:
- pp. 61-3
- Poem Title:
- Prologue spoken before the University of Oxford, 1683.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Not with more grief the whiggish herd beheld
- Page No:
- pp. 63-5
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Well whatever sins by turns have swayed me
- Page No:
- pp. 66-7
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of a French Ode, in the ingenious Monsieur St. Evremont's Works. Tome 2.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Thou that not many months ago
- Page No:
- pp. 67-8
- Poem Title:
- To a Gentleman that cut off his hair, and set up for a Spark in his old Age. Out of Martial. Epig. 43. lib. 3.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- From dark oblivion and the silent grave
- Page No:
- pp. 68-9
- Poem Title:
- Part of the 2d Ode in Horace l. 4. Translated. Beginning at Dignum laude Virum.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Once bear and champion did engage
- Page No:
- pp. 70-3
- Poem Title:
- On the Treatment of the Modern Drama.
- Attribution:
- By Mr Kn--- of Magd. Coll.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet spouse you must presently troop and be gone
- Page No:
- pp. 73-5
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of Uxor fade foras. In Mart. l. ii. Ep. 105.
- Attribution:
- By Capt. Ht----
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ask me no longer dear Sir John
- Page No:
- pp. 75-6
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of the 14th Epode in Hor
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Why flies Belinda from my arms
- Page No:
- pp. 76-7
- Poem Title:
- A translation of Ode xxii. lib. i. Vitas Hinnuleo.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- So may the beauteous goddess of the main
- Page No:
- pp. 77-80
- Poem Title:
- A Translation of Ode iii. L. I. in Horace Sic te Diva potens, &c. Addres'd to his Honour'd Friend Mr. B-- going into Turkey.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- That cousins friends and strangers fly thee
- Page No:
- pp. 81-2
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of an Epigram 44. in Mart. lib. iii.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Phyllis has a gentle heart
- Page No:
- pp. 83-4
- Poem Title:
- Song
- Attribution:
- 'By Mr. G.---'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Had not good humour over the ill prevailed
- Page No:
- pp. 84-5
- Poem Title:
- On Dr. Lower, who was observed to be grown good-natured a little before his Death.
- Attribution:
- 'By another hand.'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fling this useless book away
- Page No:
- pp. 85-6
- Poem Title:
- Verses put into a Lady's Prayer book.
- Attribution:
- 'Supposed to be written by the late Earl of Rochester.'
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- The horn armed stag denied the horse
- Page No:
- pp. 86-7
- Poem Title:
- The Fable of the Horse and the Stag
- Attribution:
- 'By Mr. S----'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Each moment of the long-lived day
- Page No:
- pp. 87-8
- Poem Title:
- A Translation of Lesbia mi dicot simper male. Out of Catullus.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- More devils than one why does the sot deny
- Page No:
- p. 88
- Poem Title:
- On one Becker, a Parson of Amsterdam who in a Book entitled, The World Bewitch'd, pretends to prove there is but one Devil.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Isgrim with hunger pressed one day
- Page No:
- pp. 89-90
- Poem Title:
- The Fable of the Wolf and Porcupine. In answer to The Argument against a Standing Army.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Apollo once finding fair Daphne alone
- Page No:
- pp. 91-3
- Poem Title:
- The Fable of Apollo and Daphne.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Full of the godhead in his breast inshrined
- Page No:
- pp. 94-6
- Poem Title:
- Labienus's Speech in Lucans Pharsalia.
- Attribution:
- 'Translated by Mr. Dennis.'
- Attributed To:
- John Dennis
- First Line:
- Oh Jemmy you're a beau not I alone
- Page No:
- pp. 96-7
- Poem Title:
- The 63d Epigram in Martial, Lib. 3.
- Attribution:
- 'Translated by Mr. P---'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me Dorinda why so gay
- Page No:
- pp. 97-8
- Poem Title:
- To an old affected Court Lady.
- Attribution:
- 'By a person of Honour.'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Belinda's sparkling wit and eyes
- Page No:
- pp. 98-100
- Poem Title:
- To Belinda. Upon her Marrying one that was Blind and Lame.
- Attribution:
- 'By a person of Honour'.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis then decreed and now I find
- Page No:
- pp. 100-101
- Poem Title:
- To his Cruel Mistress. Out of French.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
- First Line:
- Nay now ambitious thoughts farewell
- Page No:
- pp. 101-3
- Poem Title:
- An Ode upon a Kiss. Out of French.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'll sing how God the world's almighty mind
- Page No:
- pp. 105-112
- Poem Title:
- A Translation.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Brown's name.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Brown
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