A collection of modern poems [ESTC T84071] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 1131
- Publication Date:
- 1762
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T84071
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW111690961
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO BL
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | MODERN | POEMS. | CONTAINING | [2 columns] [column 1] THE LOVE OF FAME | THE UNIVERSAL PASSION. | A POEM ON THE LAST DAY. | AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. [/column 1] [column 2] AN HYMN TO ADVERSITY. | THE GRAVE A POEM. | THE HERMIT. | A NIGHT-PIECE ON DEATH. | THE SPLENDID SHILLING. [/column 2] | BY SEVERAL HANDS. | LONDON, | Printed for J. James, in NEW-BOND-STREET. | MDCCLXII.
- Epigraph:
- [i] To wake the Soul, by tender Strokes of Art; | To raise the Genius, and to mend the Heart; | To make Mankind in conscious Virtue bold, | Live o'er each Scene, and be what they behold, | For this - - - [/i] | POPE.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- Poems numbered individually on database record.
- Bibliographic details:
- Made up miscellany of pamphlets with title-page for each section. Satyrs I-VII (pp.[7]-81) A Poem on the Last Day To the Queen (Young) Verses to the Author (Wharton) To Dr Young (Bawcks) To A Lady (Tristram) The Last Day, Book I (pp.13-22) Book II (pp.23-35) Book III (pp.36-47) An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (pp.3-6) The Epitaph (p.7) Hymn to Adversity (pp.7-8) The Grave (pp.3-31) The Hermit (pp.3-12) A Night-Piece (pp.13-16) The Splendid Shilling (pp.3-7)
- Other matter:
- Preface. Dedicatory poems in A Poem on the Last Day: To the Queen (Young) Verses to the Author (Wharton) To Dr Young (Bawcks) To A Lady (Tristram)
- Title:
- The parnassium or beauties of English poetry [T125713]
- Publication Date:
- 1765
- ESTC No:
- T125713
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- J James
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- My verse is satire Dorset lend your ear
- Page No:
- pp.[7]-15
- Poem Title:
- Satyr I. To his GRACE the DUKE of DORSET
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My muse proceed and reach thy destined end
- Page No:
- pp.15-24
- Poem Title:
- Satyr II.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Long Dodington in debt I long have sought
- Page No:
- pp. 24-32
- Poem Title:
- Satyr III. To the Right Honourable Mr DODINGTON.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Round some fair tree the ambitious woodbine grows
- Page No:
- pp.32-40
- Poem Title:
- Satyr IV. To the Right Honourable Sir Spencer Compton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nor reigns ambition in bold man alone
- Page No:
- pp.40-56
- Poem Title:
- Satyr V. On Women.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I sought a patroness but sought in vain
- Page No:
- pp.57-74
- Poem Title:
- Satyr VI. On Women. Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Lady Elisabeth Germain.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On this last labour this me closing strain
- Page No:
- pp.74-81
- Poem Title:
- Satyr VII. To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And must it be as thou hast sung
- Page No:
- [2pp.]
- Poem Title:
- To Dr. Young. On His Last Day and Universal Passion.
- Attribution:
- J. BANCKS.
- Attributed To:
- John Bancks [Banks]
- First Line:
- Madam | Here sacred truths in lofty numbers told
- Page No:
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady with the Last Day.
- Attribution:
- T. Tristram
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tristram
- First Line:
- While others sing the fortune of the great
- Page No:
- pp.13-47
- Poem Title:
- The Last Day.
- Attribution:
- By Edward Young
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
- Page No:
- pp.3-7
- Poem Title:
- AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Daughter of Jove relentless power
- Page No:
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- HYMN to ADVERSITY
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Whilst some affect the sun and some the shade
- Page No:
- pp.3-31
- Poem Title:
- THE GRAVE. A POEM.
- Attribution:
- By ROBERT BLAIR.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Blair
- First Line:
- Far in a wild unknown to public view
- Page No:
- pp.3-12
- Poem Title:
- The Hermit.
- Attribution:
- written by Dr. Thomas Parnell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- By the blue taper's trembling light
- Page No:
- pp.13-16
- Poem Title:
- A NIGHT-PIECE on DEATH
- Attribution:
- written by Dr. Parnell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- Happy the man who void of cares and strife
- Page No:
- pp.3-7
- Poem Title:
- The Splendid Shilling
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Philips.
- Attributed To:
- John Philips
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