Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [Feb 1711]

DMI number:

311

Aliases

Delights for the ingenious

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Absolute (100%)

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Publication Date:

01/02/1711

Volume Number:

2 of 8

ESTC number:

P6193

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n/a

Shelfmark:

BOD Hope adds. 1190

Full Title:

DELIGHTS | [r]For the INGENIOUS:[/r] | OR, | A MONTHLY Entertainment | For the Curious of | [r]BOTH SEXES.[/r] | CONTAINING, | A Vast Variety of Pleasant [i]Enigma's[/i]; | Delightful [i]Arithmetical Questions[/i]; Curious | [i]Stories[/i]; Witty [i]Epigrams[/i]; Surprizing [i]Adven-|tures[/i]; and Amazing [i]Paradoxes.[/i] | [r]Together with[/r] | [i]Songs, Anagrams, Emblems, Dialogues, Elegies, | Epitaphs[/i]; and other [i]Useful[/i], and [i]Diverting[/i] | SUBJECTS, both in | [r]PROSE and VERSE.[/r] | [rule] | [g]To be Continued Monthly.[/g] | [rule] | [r]By the [i]Author[/i] of the LADIES-DIARY[/r] | [rule] | This SECOND for FEBRUARY 1711. | [rule] | [r]LONDON[/r] Printed by [i]J. Roberts[/i], and Sold | by [i]Joseph Collier[/i] at [i]Stationers-Hall[/i], (where that for | [i]January[/i] may be had.) | Price Three Pence.

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Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Periodical miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Price:

3d

Pagination:

[41]-80 pp.

Bibliographic details:

Pagination and signatures continue from preceding issue. Pp. [40]-48 (i.e. sheet D) are in red and black.

Comments:

Contents: Almanac pp. 43-45; Mathematical essays pp. 45-49; Essay on different kinds of verse (with illustrations interspersed) pp. 49-69; 'The Whimsical Fop, a Diverting Story' pp. 70-72; Enigmas pp. 72-75; arithmetical questions and answers pp. 75-79.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Admonition to the reader signed John Tipper, plus other notices to the reader p. 42. Back matter: Contents and Errata, p. 80.

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Editor:

John Tipper

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Address to the reader is signed by Tipper.

Printer:

James Roberts

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'Printed by J. Roberts, and Sold by Joseph Collier at Stationers-Hall.'

Sold by:

Joseph Collier

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'Printed by J. Roberts, and Sold by Joseph Collier at Stationers-Hall.'

Content/Publication

First Line:

Heroic claims a loftier strain

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p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

by the ingenious Author of the Art of Poetry

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Not attributed

First Line:

But now the trumpet terrible from far

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pp.50-51

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr Addison

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

A blissful field circled with groves of myrrh

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p.52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Why bigots of the ancients why

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p.53

Poem Title:

Emulation: An Ode against a servile Respect to the Ancients.

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First Line:

Sometimes she flies like an industrious bee

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p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

the forementioned Author [from the context it is unclear to whom this refers, but Dryden has been discussed on previous pages of the miscellany]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

If life should a well-ordered poem be

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p.54

Poem Title:

Liberty, a Pindarick Ode.

Attribution:

Mr Cowley

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Round your brows let roses shine

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pp.55-56

Poem Title:

An Anacreontick.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Underneath a myrtle shade

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p.55

Poem Title:

Anacreon, Ode IV. On Himself.

Attribution:

an Ingenious Gentleman

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Not attributed

First Line:

To show that matches are approved above

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pp.56-57

Poem Title:

An Epithalamium

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First Line:

Come fill us a bumper of red my brave boys

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p.57

Poem Title:

The Bacchanalian

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First Line:

No Lesbia no you ask in vain

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pp.57-58

Poem Title:

The Queen's Epicedium.

Attribution:

By Mr. Herbert

Attributed To:

Mr. Herbert

First Line:

Why envious age dost with a lingering stay

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pp.58-59

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Translated by Mr. H. Walker

Attributed To:

H Walker

First Line:

Lucilius was the man who bravely bold

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pp.59-60

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

the Author of the Art of Poetry

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Not attributed

First Line:

Ye spiteful powers if any there can be

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pp.60-61

Poem Title:

A Satyr.

Attribution:

By Mr. Oldham

Attributed To:

John Oldham

First Line:

Whilst Celia's kindness crowned her swain

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pp.61-62

Poem Title:

Dialogues. A Dialogue between Strephon and Celia. In Imitation of Horace. Ode 9. Lib. 3. Other comments: part of an essay on different kinds of poetry.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The shepherd Damon loved a maid

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pp.62-63

Poem Title:

A Pastoral. Damon and Dorinda.

Attribution:

By J. H. Esq

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Not attributed

First Line:

As Giron in the temple lately sat

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p.63

Poem Title:

On Giron.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I have no legs and yet I go and stand

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p.63

Poem Title:

Epigrams. On a Clock.

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First Line:

Priscilla always calls her husband dear

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p.63

Poem Title:

On Priscilla.

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First Line:

Twice every married man a blessing meets

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p.63

Poem Title:

On Marriage.

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First Line:

When Jove and Juno can't agree

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pp.63-64

Poem Title:

On Jove and Juno.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Can four weak lines comprize her virtues no

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p.64

Poem Title:

On a Virtuous Lady.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Here John the Cobbler lies whom rigid fate

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p.64

Poem Title:

Facetious Epitaphs. On a Cobler.

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First Line:

Here lies an honest horse that could not preach

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p.64

Poem Title:

On his dear deceased Horse.

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First Line:

Reader this tomb is put in trust

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p.64

Poem Title:

On Mr. Francis Quarles.

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First Line:

Three beauteous nymphs at once my heart surprize

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pp.65-66

Poem Title:

An Acrostick upon his Three Mistresses, Sarah, Agnes and Christian.

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First Line:

Under this stone there lies honest Peg

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p.65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Under this stone

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p.65

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

To charm out sin to you the power is given

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p.66

Poem Title:

An Anagram on the Lord Keeper Sir Thomas Coventry, with an Acrostick upon the Anagram. ...Thomas Coventry. Anagram. To charm out Sin.

Attribution:

By Mr. Haywood

Attributed To:

Thomas Heywood

First Line:

How well her name an army doth present

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p.66

Poem Title:

Mary. Anagram. Army.

Attribution:

By Mr. Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

In all this world I think none loves but I

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

A Lover bewailing the inward Passion of his Soul, is answer'd by ECHO. A Sonnet, in three Stanza's.

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First Line:

O who will show me those delights on high | I

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p.67

Poem Title:

Heaven, an Echo.

Attribution:

By Mr. George Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

I bless thee Lord because I grow

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

On Paradise.

Attribution:

Mr. Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

O

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p.68

Poem Title:

On the Sabbath. (The last Verse)

Attribution:

Mr. Herbert

Attributed To:

George Herbert

First Line:

If I had but your tube and a few of your glasses

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

The Answer to the Prize-Enigma.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I am no bird nor have I wings to fly

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

Enigma 1.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Prepared I wait th'assaults of prosp'rous gales

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pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Enigma 2.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Few creatures have so odd a fate as I

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pp.74-75

Poem Title:

Enigma 4.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In martial order in a row we stand

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

Enigma 3.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I who at first the bold attempt begun

Page No:

pp.75-76

Poem Title:

An Answer to the Prize Question, by a Gentleman in the County of Bucks, who sent me the First Answers I ever had in Verse, to the Enigma's in 1704.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman in the County of Bucks

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sir I wandering in your garden did believe

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p.76

Poem Title:

The same answer'd

Attribution:

by an Ingenious Gentleman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis true there are many who if they can prattle

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p.76

Poem Title:

An Answer to the Tinker's Question.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tho. Dodd

Attributed To:

Thomas Dodd

First Line:

Well bonny brave tinker to save thee from ruin

Page No:

pp.76-77

Poem Title:

The same answer'd

Attribution:

By Mrs. Barbara Sidwell

Attributed To:

Barbara Sidwell

First Line:

Dear Sir I beseech you to give me a lift

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pp.77-78

Poem Title:

Question 1.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Suppose a man whose name is A

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

Question 2.

Attribution:

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First Line:

There were three men to wit A B and C

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p.78

Poem Title:

Question 3.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A landed man two daughters had

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

Question 4.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

As I was musing all alone

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

A Paradox.

Attribution:

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