Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [Jan 1711]

DMI number:

308

Aliases

Delights for the ingenious

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1711

Volume Number:

1 of 8

ESTC number:

P6193

EEBO/ECCO link:

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]This FIRST for JANUARY 1711.[/r] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [r]LONDON:[/r] Printed by [i]J. Roberts[/i], and Sold | by [i]Joseph Collier[/i] at [i]Stationers-Hall.[/i] | Price Three-Pence.

Epigraph:

[i]He certainly doth hit the[/i] White, | [i]Who joins[/i] Instruction [i]to[/i] Delight.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Periodical miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Price:

3d

Pagination:

40 pp.

Bibliographic details:

First 8 pp. (i.e. Sheet A) in red and black.

Comments:

Contents: Also includes almanac for the month (pp. 3-5); an essay on maths (pp. 6-9); essay on neat and elegant behaviour (pp. 17-22); a list of questions (p. 22); 'Gratitide in Perfection: A True Story' (pp. 33-38); announcement of the winners of prizes from the Ladies Diary (p. 38); short account of the monarchs of Europe (p. 39).

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: several addresses on p. 2 'To all Gentlemen, Ladies and Others' introducing the project. Back matter: Contents p. 40.

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Editor:

John Tipper

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Address 'to all Gentlemen, Ladies and Others' signed John Tipper p. 2.

Printer:

James Roberts

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

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

Sold by:

Joseph Collier

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

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

Content/Publication

First Line:

A new years gift present I here to you

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

To all Gentlemen, Ladies and Others.

Attribution:

Signed 'John Tipper'.

Attributed To:

John Tipper

First Line:

Chloe once in face and mind

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p.9

Poem Title:

The Parting

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First Line:

Ah lovely rose how sweetly dost thou smell

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p.10

Poem Title:

On a Rose in a Lady's Bosom.

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First Line:

What wonders strike my eyes

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p.10

Poem Title:

Upon a Landskip Painted. An Ode.

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First Line:

A singing bard wore once a dangerous sword

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p.11

Poem Title:

The Bard; a True Story Other comments: followed by Moral.

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First Line:

I saw fair Delia all alone

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p.11

Poem Title:

On Delia Walking in the Snow.

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First Line:

The fool that is wealthy is sure of a bride

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p.11

Poem Title:

Fools have Fortune.

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First Line:

When fools and beggars offer to be great

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p.11

Poem Title:

Moral

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First Line:

Eternal fury hold thy cursed tongue

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p.12

Poem Title:

Upon a Scold

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First Line:

I wondered much my friend what you could mean

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p.12

Poem Title:

To One who recommended Sack to a Fat Man to make him Lean.

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First Line:

Look yonder but behold the wretched state

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p.12

Poem Title:

The Spendthrift.

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First Line:

Why you so spruce and I so threadbare grown

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p.12

Poem Title:

On One who took his Cloaths on Tick.

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First Line:

Ah cruel fair one thus to vex

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p.13

Poem Title:

To my Scornful Mistress

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First Line:

Come hear me my boys hast a mind to live long

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p.13

Poem Title:

A Catch.

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First Line:

Pray Madam Phillis

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p.13

Poem Title:

A Song to Phillis.

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First Line:

Blessings crown the lovely pair

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p.14

Poem Title:

An Epithalamium, or Marriage-Song.

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First Line:

Cursed poverty that tames a good man more

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

Of Poverty. From the Greek.

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First Line:

Fairest Lydia my delight

Page No:

pp.14-16

Poem Title:

Love's Transports: an Ode Translated from Cornelius Gallus.

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First Line:

Peaceful is he and most secure

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p.16

Poem Title:

The Happy Man

Attribution:

By Mr. Flatman

Attributed To:

Thomas Flatman

First Line:

For what's performed with grace with wit and sense

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p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Admit there be a solid piece of oak

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p.23

Poem Title:

A Philosophical Problem

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First Line:

Suppose a square hole in my cupboard to be

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p.23

Poem Title:

A Mechanick Question.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hawney

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Not attributed

First Line:

In Cornwall once or somewhere else

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

The Lawyer, the Two Clowns, and the Oyster. A Fable out of Boileau: Imitated

Attribution:

by T. H. Esq

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First Line:

What wretch would choose to wear a chain

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p.24

Poem Title:

On Human Passions.

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First Line:

A bed may be little or great short or long

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p.25

Poem Title:

The Explication.

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First Line:

I'm thick I'm thin I'm short and long

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p.25

Poem Title:

An Enigma.

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First Line:

At two days old good Latin I speak

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p.26

Poem Title:

A Second Enigma.

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First Line:

I'm neither man or woman maid or boy

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p.26

Poem Title:

Enigma 1.

Attribution:

By Lindabides

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First Line:

The Latin you speak at two days old

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p.26

Poem Title:

The Solution

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First Line:

As I lay in a heat

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pp.27-28

Poem Title:

Enigma 4.

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First Line:

It is well known last winter that

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p.27

Poem Title:

Enigma 2.

Attribution:

By J. S.

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First Line:

My father went with child of me for I never had a mother

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p.27

Poem Title:

Enigma 3.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When first the marriage knot was tied

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p.28

Poem Title:

A Question propos'd.

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First Line:

When first the solemn knot was tied

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pp.28-29

Poem Title:

The Answer.

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First Line:

A man that was idle and minded to spend

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p.29

Poem Title:

Question 1.

Attribution:

By Mr. Leadbetter

Attributed To:

Charles Leadbetter

First Line:

A youth went to a boarding school

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

Question 2.

Attribution:

By Mr. John Richards

Attributed To:

John Richards

First Line:

I have two inclosures each perfectly square

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p.30

Poem Title:

Question 4.

Attribution:

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First Line:

If the terraqueous globe round like a ball

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p.30

Poem Title:

Question 3.

Attribution:

By Mr. John Ford

Attributed To:

John Ford

First Line:

By what means may I know most certainly

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p.31

Poem Title:

Paradox 2.

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First Line:

Phillis the shy and scornful fair

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Paradox 3.

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First Line:

Walking last week in our town street

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p.31

Poem Title:

Paradox 1.

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First Line:

Fortune makes wretched human things her sport

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p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

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