Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [March 1711]

DMI number:

312

Aliases

Delights for the ingenious

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

01/03/1711

Volume Number:

3 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]Adventures[/i]; Amazing [i]Paradoxes[/i]; With [i]Songs | Anagrams, Emblems, Dialogues, Elegies, Epigrams[/i]; and | other [i]Useful[/i] and [i]Diverting[/i] SUBJECTS, both in | [r]PROSE and VERSE.[/r] | [rule] | To [i]which is now[/i] Added, | How many [i]Minutes[/i] and [i]Seconds[/i], all Good [i]Watches[/i] | and [i]Clocks[/i] should go Faster (or Slower) than the SUN, | for every Day of the Month: And also the Reason, | why from [i]Noon[/i] to [i]Noon[/i], is not [i]exactly[/i] 24 Hours, but | sometimes [i]more[/i], and sometimes[i]less[/i]. | [rule] | [g]To be Continued Monthly.[/g] | [rule] | [r]By the [i]Author[/i] of the LADIES-DIARY[/r] | [rule] | This THIRD for MARCH 1711. | [rule] | [r][i]LONDON:[/i][/r] Printed by [i]J. Roberts[/i], and Sold by | [i]Joseph Collier[/i] at [i]Stationers-Hall[/i]; (Where those for [i]January[/i] | and [i]February[/i] may be had.) Price Three-Pence.

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n/a

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Periodical miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Price:

3d

Pagination:

[81]-120 pp. (90 mispaginated as 60)

Bibliographic details:

First 6 pp. (i.e. most of sheet G) are in red and black. Pagination and signatures are continuous from previous issue.

Comments:

Contents: Almanac pp. 82-85; discourse on time, pp. 86-60[i.e. 90]; prose answers to questions posed in January's issue, part prose, part verse, pp. 97-102; further questions p. 104; prose response to a paradox pp. 108-110; answer to maths question pp. 112-113; names of those who have sent answers, p. 113; prose narrative pp. 114-119.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: various addresses to the reader, p. 82. Back matter: Contents, pp. 119-120.

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Printer:

James Roberts

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

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

Editor:

John Tipper

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Admonition to the reader signed John Tipper p. 82.

Sold by:

Joseph Collier

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

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

Content/Publication

First Line:

Would heaven which never fails to hear the poor

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

The Wish

Attribution:

By Thirsis

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Not attributed

First Line:

Anne is an angel true what though she be

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p.92

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Angel, whom a Lawyer Wooed.

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First Line:

I cannot stand or go the cripple cries

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p.92

Poem Title:

Upon a Cripple

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Not attributed

First Line:

In midst of life then least am I

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p.92

Poem Title:

Epigram: On a Shadow.

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First Line:

Whilst Lydia sought no foreign charms

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p.92

Poem Title:

Horace and Lydia, Translated from 3. Book, Ode 9.

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First Line:

Death in a doubt of thy last end did stand

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p.93

Poem Title:

On a Cobler.

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First Line:

Here lies a tallow chandler I need not tell it

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p.93

Poem Title:

On a Tallow-Chandler.

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First Line:

If Kitchen was his name as I have found

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p.93

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Thomas Kitchen.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Oh charming creature of my heart

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p.93

Poem Title:

Philander to Sylvia...(Extempore)

Attribution:

By Mr. Mills

Attributed To:

Mr. Mills

First Line:

Tis your desire my dearest friend that I

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pp.93-94

Poem Title:

In Imitation of Martial, Epigram 47. B. 10.

Attribution:

By Mr. R. Clavering

Attributed To:

Richard Clavering

First Line:

I never could admire

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pp.94-95

Poem Title:

A Song

Attribution:

By T. C.

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Not attributed

First Line:

O for a quill drawn from an angel's wing

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pp.95-96

Poem Title:

On Virtue.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tate, Poet-Laureat

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Close thine eyes and sleep secure

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p.96

Poem Title:

On a quiet Conscience.

Attribution:

By K. Charles I

Attributed To:

Charles I

First Line:

The mindless fool whose head through care

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p.98

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr Thomas Dod

Attributed To:

Thomas Dodd

First Line:

Had I but a plentiful yearly estate

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p.99

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr Miles

Attributed To:

Mr. Miles

First Line:

Beauty and wit the mighty maker gave

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p.100

Poem Title:

Of Wit and Beauty.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. O.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Did I in France a prisoner lie

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p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Miles

Attributed To:

Mr. Miles

First Line:

From an orchard last autumn you come

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p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

by Mr. Joseph Clements

Attributed To:

Joseph Clements

First Line:

Good sir you've taken a world of art

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p.102

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Of a gigantic form I'm made

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pp.102-103

Poem Title:

Enig. 1.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ant. Wells

Attributed To:

Ant. Wells

First Line:

I'm never very large in size

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p.103

Poem Title:

Enigma 3.

Attribution:

By Mrs. E. D.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Nothing I am nor real being have

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p.103

Poem Title:

Enigma 2.

Attribution:

By Mr. George Shillito

Attributed To:

George Shillito

First Line:

Let fame select in every learned age

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p.104

Poem Title:

Enigma 4.

Attribution:

By Terpsiphilus

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Not attributed

First Line:

Since you're indisposed by hard drinking my friend

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p.105

Poem Title:

Answer'd also by Mr. Jeffery Miles

Attribution:

By Mr. Jeffery Miles

Attributed To:

Mr. Miles

First Line:

The skilful youth deserves to be commended

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pp.105-106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Lysander

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Not attributed

First Line:

Was I to go to the boarding school

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p.105

Poem Title:

Second question answer'd

Attribution:

By Mr. Henry Beighton

Attributed To:

Henry Beighton

First Line:

When with fi'pence farthing your fuddle-cap went

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p.105

Poem Title:

Answer to Question the First

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Once as I was riding one morning abroad

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p.106

Poem Title:

Second Question

Attribution:

By Mrs. Mary Dod

Attributed To:

Mary Dod

First Line:

The cubic inches that are in the sphere

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p.106

Poem Title:

Third question answer'd

Attribution:

By Mr. Dod

Attributed To:

Thomas Dodd

First Line:

The father and the son upon a time

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p.106

Poem Title:

First Question

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sides of each enclosure be

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p.106

Poem Title:

Fourth Question answer'd

Attribution:

By Mr. James Mouse

Attributed To:

James Mouse

First Line:

As a shepherd in the field sat tenting his sheep

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

Third Question

Attribution:

By Mr. Nathaniel Brown

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Brown

First Line:

On shrove-Tuesday last I'll tell you what past

Page No:

pp.107-108

Poem Title:

Fourth Question

Attribution:

By Mr. Henry Beighton

Attributed To:

Henry Beighton

First Line:

If the number of men in the world do exceed

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p.108

Poem Title:

The second Paradox answer'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your father is the man indeed

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p.108

Poem Title:

The first answer'd

Attribution:

By Mr. James Mouse

Attributed To:

James Mouse

First Line:

From noon to noon astronomers do say

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pp.110-111

Poem Title:

The Third Paradox answer'd

Attribution:

by Mr. Henry Beighton; And put into Verse by the Author

Attributed To:

Henry Beighton

First Line:

Begin from the end just one third of a foot

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

The Mechanical Question answer'd

Attribution:

By Mr. Jos. Clements

Attributed To:

Joseph Clements

First Line:

Suppose a round ball for to move in the air

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

A Paradox propos'd

Attribution:

By Mr. John Newbold

Attributed To:

John Newbold

First Line:

A French ship was lately engaged with another

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

A Mechanical Question

Attribution:

by the said Mr. Clements

Attributed To:

Joseph Clements

First Line:

Of the proposed oaken joist

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

The Philosophical Question answer'd

Attribution:

By Mr. John Weeden

Attributed To:

John Weeden

First Line:

If in one second's time an iron ball

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p.113

Poem Title:

A Philosophical Question propos'd.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

And like the ocean after ebb shall move

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p.119

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed