Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [Jan 1711]
- DMI number:
- 308
- 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.
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [April 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 4 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [Feb 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 2 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [July-September 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 7 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [June 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 6 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [March 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 3 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [May 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 5 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [October-December 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 8 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- 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.'
- 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
- Page No:
- p.9
- Poem Title:
- The Parting
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah lovely rose how sweetly dost thou smell
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- On a Rose in a Lady's Bosom.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What wonders strike my eyes
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- Upon a Landskip Painted. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A singing bard wore once a dangerous sword
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- The Bard; a True Story Other comments: followed by Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I saw fair Delia all alone
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- On Delia Walking in the Snow.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The fool that is wealthy is sure of a bride
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- Fools have Fortune.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When fools and beggars offer to be great
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- Moral
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Eternal fury hold thy cursed tongue
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- Upon a Scold
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I wondered much my friend what you could mean
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- To One who recommended Sack to a Fat Man to make him Lean.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Look yonder but behold the wretched state
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- The Spendthrift.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why you so spruce and I so threadbare grown
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- On One who took his Cloaths on Tick.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah cruel fair one thus to vex
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- To my Scornful Mistress
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come hear me my boys hast a mind to live long
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- A Catch.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Pray Madam Phillis
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- A Song to Phillis.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Blessings crown the lovely pair
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- An Epithalamium, or Marriage-Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cursed poverty that tames a good man more
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- Of Poverty. From the Greek.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fairest Lydia my delight
- Page No:
- pp.14-16
- Poem Title:
- Love's Transports: an Ode Translated from Cornelius Gallus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Peaceful is he and most secure
- Page No:
- 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
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Admit there be a solid piece of oak
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- A Philosophical Problem
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Suppose a square hole in my cupboard to be
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- A Mechanick Question.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Hawney
- Attributed To:
- 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
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What wretch would choose to wear a chain
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- On Human Passions.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A bed may be little or great short or long
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- The Explication.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'm thick I'm thin I'm short and long
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- An Enigma.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At two days old good Latin I speak
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- A Second Enigma.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'm neither man or woman maid or boy
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- Enigma 1.
- Attribution:
- By Lindabides
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The Latin you speak at two days old
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- The Solution
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As I lay in a heat
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- Enigma 4.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- It is well known last winter that
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- Enigma 2.
- Attribution:
- By J. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My father went with child of me for I never had a mother
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- Enigma 3.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When first the marriage knot was tied
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- A Question propos'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When first the solemn knot was tied
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- The Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- A man that was idle and minded to spend
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- Question 1.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Leadbetter
- Attributed To:
- Charles Leadbetter
- First Line:
- I have two inclosures each perfectly square
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- Question 4.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If the terraqueous globe round like a ball
- Page No:
- 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
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- Paradox 2.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Phillis the shy and scornful fair
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- Paradox 3.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Walking last week in our town street
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- Paradox 1.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fortune makes wretched human things her sport
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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