Court poems. In two parts. [T5775] [ecco]

DMI number:

730

Publication Date:

1726

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T5775

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW110609345

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod. Copy note: The Berg Collection (NYPL) Copy 2 of 'Court Poems' (inscribed 'William Rees Mogg, 1963') differs from the ECCO/Bod version in terms of ornaments (see pp. 13 and 17 and elsewhere), though not in terms of texts of poems and ordering.

Full Title:

[i]COURT[/i] | POEMS. | IN | TWO PARTS. | [rule] | [i]By Mr.[/i] POPE, [i]&c.[/i] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for E. CURLL in the [i]Strand[/i]. 1726. | ([i]Price[/i] 1 [i]s[/i].)

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Made-up miscellany and Miscellany associated with group of poets

Format:

Duodecimo

Price:

1 s

Bibliographic details:

Made up miscellany.

Comments:

Query: check which other miscellanies are going into this one. Query: check this against Case description 295 (c). Contents: 'Court poems' pp. 1-24 'Court poems. Part II' pp. 1-34.

Other matter:

Advertisement By the Bookseller [2pp], speculating that the author of the poems is either 'a Lady of Quality' (i.e. Montagu), 'Mr. Gay', or 'the Laudable Translator of Homer' (i.e. Pope).

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Publisher:

Edmund Curll

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

The basset table spread the tallier come

Page No:

pp.1-9

Poem Title:

The Basset-Table, an Eclogue.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Roxana from the court returning late

Page No:

pp.10-12

Poem Title:

Roxana, Or The Drawing-Room.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now twenty springs has clothed the park with green

Page No:

pp.13-16

Poem Title:

The Toilet.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With scornful mien and various toss of air

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

The Looking-Glass.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some Colinaeus praise some Bleau

Page No:

pp.18-19

Poem Title:

To Mr. Lintot.

Attribution:

Written, (as he says) by Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The maid is blessed that will not hear

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

A Version of the First Psalm. For the Use of a Young Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How much egregious Moore are we

Page No:

pp.22-24

Poem Title:

To the Ingenious Mr. Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm Powder.

Attribution:

Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

O son of Tydeus cease be wise and see

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Pope took this hint from Homer.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Tell me Belinda why your constant care

Page No:

p.1

Poem Title:

The Ramble. Between Belinda a Demy-Prude, and Cloe a Court-Coquett.

Attribution:

The best Lines in it are taken from Fontaine, and a fam'd Female Wit, (the Lady W--y M--gue,) assisted in the Translation.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

Chloe a country vicar's daughter

Page No:

pp.5-12

Poem Title:

The Parson's Daughter. A Tale. For the Use of pretty Girls with small Fortunes.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From hence let females learn to shun

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

Moral.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To one fair lady out of court

Page No:

pp.14-17

Poem Title:

The Court Ballad. To the Tune of, To all you Ladies now at Land, &c.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

In the lines that you sent are the muses and graces

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

Epigrams, Occasion'd by an Invitation to Court. ... I.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

They may talk of the goddesses in Ida vales

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

Epigrams, Occasion'd by an Invitation to Court. ... II.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Adam had fallen twice if for an apple

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

Epigrams, Occasion'd by an Invitation to Court. ... IV.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

On Sunday at six in the street that's called Gerrard

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

Epigrams, Occasion'd by an Invitation to Court. ... V.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

They say A--'s a wit for what

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

Epigrams, Occasion'd by an Invitation to Court. ...VI.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

You B--ll--ne G--ff--n and little La P--ll

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

Epigrams, Occasion'd by an Invitation to Court. ... III.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Of late was a meeting a meeting most merry

Page No:

pp.20-24

Poem Title:

The Westminster Ballad. Or, The Earl of Oxford's Tryal. To the Tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.

Attribution:

By Mr. Joseph Gay.

Attributed To:

Joseph Gay

First Line:

What is prudery tis a beldam

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

Mr. Pope's Answer to the Following Question of Mrs. Howe.

Attribution:

Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Think not by rigorous judgment seized

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

Epitaph, at Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In beauty or wit

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

To Lady Mary Wortley Montague.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If Dennis writes and rails in furious pet

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

Verses Occasioned by Mr. Tickell's Translation of the First Illiad of Homer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When soft expressions covert malice hide

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Answer to the Foregoing Verses. Presented to the Countess of Warwick.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let other charmers boast of air

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

Verses occasion'd by a young Lady's Fall, as She was running down Richmond-Hill in Company, 1725.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Miss Molly owns it was our lot

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

Encore Miss Molly.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Molly the fair

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

Encore Miss Molly.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed