Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [May 1711]

DMI number:

314

Aliases

Delights for the ingenious

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Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

01/05/1711

Volume Number:

5 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: With the [i]Rising, South-| ing, Setting[/i], and [i]Meridian Altitudes[/i] of the [i]PLANETS[/i] | and [i]Fixed Stars[/i]. | [rule] | [g]To be Continued Monthly.[/g] | [rule] | [r]By the [i]Author[/i] of the LADIES-DIARY[/r] | [rule] | This FIFTH for MAY 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 | February, March,[/i] and [i]April[/i] may be had.) Price 3 d.

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n/a

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Periodical miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Price:

3d

Pagination:

[161]-200 pp.

Bibliographic details:

pp. 161-168 (i.e. sheet N) in red and black. Pagination and signatures continue from previous volume.

Comments:

Contents: Almanac pp. 163-165; discourse on astronomy pp. 166-168; prose narrative pp. 175-176; mathematical solutions pp. 184-188, 190-193; answers to questions (in prose and verse) about God and human souls.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: various addresses to the reader p. 162 Back matter: Contents p. 200

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Editor:

John Tipper

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Addresses to reader signed 'John Tipper'.

Printer:

James Roberts

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Absolute (100%)

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

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:

Ah Cupid Cupid why so cruel ar't

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pp.169-170

Poem Title:

To Cupid.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Calliope inspire me with a song

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p.169

Poem Title:

A Gratulatory Poem on Queen Anne's Happy Accession to the Crown on March the 8th.

Attribution:

by a Youth of Fourteen Years of Age

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Not attributed

First Line:

If mighty wealth which gives the rules

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p.170

Poem Title:

Against Riches

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Not attributed

First Line:

Say my best friend if ought you know

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pp.170-171

Poem Title:

No true Happiness in this World

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Not attributed

First Line:

Why mourns my Thirsis thus What should the reason be

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pp.171-172

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Dialogue between Daphnis and Thirsis occasioned on the Death of Mr. John Philips.

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Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Herein does the religious cheat I guess

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p.172

Poem Title:

An Epigram upon a Hypocrite

Attribution:

By Mr. Dod

Attributed To:

Thomas Dodd

First Line:

To thee my purse thus troubled I complain

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p.172

Poem Title:

A Complaint to his Empty Purse.

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Not attributed

First Line:

A man unfortunate was wont to cry

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pp.173-174

Poem Title:

The Unfortunate Man and Death. Translated out of Fontaine.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

A peasant past his climacteric year

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p.173

Poem Title:

Death and the Clown. Out of Aesop. An Imitation.

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Not attributed

First Line:

By various artful methods once I strove

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p.174-175

Poem Title:

Coyness Punished

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Cis by that candle in my sleep I thought

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p.174

Poem Title:

The Wife too hard for the Husband

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

How willingly would I resign

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p.174

Poem Title:

To Pretty Celinda's Lap-Dog

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Samuel Phillips

First Line:

The cudgel thus the cuckold nicely pleased

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p.176

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By all your description one may plainly see

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p.177

Poem Title:

The first Aenigma answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Edward Goodwin

Attributed To:

Edward Goodwin

First Line:

Herein indeed thou'rt like a man

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p.177

Poem Title:

The Same answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Thomas Dod

Attributed To:

Thomas Dodd

First Line:

It is well known a windmill may

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pp.177-178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. Alexander Weeden

Attributed To:

Alexander Weeden

First Line:

That daring monster in your first aenig

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p.177

Poem Title:

The Same likewise answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Tho. Ladbrook

Attributed To:

Thomas Ladbrook

First Line:

Although your form and size is great

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p.178

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. Hen. Beighton

Attributed To:

Henry Beighton

First Line:

Nothing strange riddle sure and yet to boast

Page No:

pp.178-179

Poem Title:

The same likewise answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Dod

Attributed To:

Thomas Dodd

First Line:

Sir your enigma is abstruse

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

The same answered

Attribution:

By Mr. T. Collyed

Attributed To:

T. Collyed

First Line:

Time brings all secret hidden things to light

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p.178

Poem Title:

The same answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Godwin

Attributed To:

Mr. Godwin

First Line:

Time is the standard by which things are tried

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p.178

Poem Title:

The Second Enigma answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Tho. Arnold

Attributed To:

Thomas Arnold

First Line:

A dream such various scenes doth show

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pp.179-180

Poem Title:

The same answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Beighton

Attributed To:

Henry Beighton

First Line:

If you are a blacksmith and used to make keys

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p.179

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. Ladbrook

Attributed To:

Thomas Ladbrook

First Line:

Musing one night what might this riddle mean

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p.179

Poem Title:

The Fourth Aenigma answered.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though you are small yet by your aid

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p.179

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. Beighton

Attributed To:

Henry Beighton

First Line:

Your size is not proportioned to your trust

Page No:

p.179

Poem Title:

Aenigma the Third, answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Arnold

Attributed To:

Thomas Arnold

First Line:

No sooner to the world I come

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

1. Enig.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dod

Attributed To:

Thomas Dodd

First Line:

Tis strange that I who constantly am fed

Page No:

p.180

Poem Title:

2. Aenig.

Attribution:

By Mrs. H. P.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I make more madmen fools and roguish knaves

Page No:

p.181

Poem Title:

4. Aenig.

Attribution:

By N. N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'm a defence from heat and cold

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p.181

Poem Title:

3. Aenig.

Attribution:

By Lysander

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Indeed old sir seven bottles you did bear

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p.181

Poem Title:

The First Question answered

Attribution:

By Lysander

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The father had seven from hence I can gain

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p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. William Sutton

Attributed To:

William Sutton

First Line:

If of the French wine I had got the son's five

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. John Wilson

Attributed To:

John Wilson

First Line:

If three hundred and one be measured by seven

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

The Second Question answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Tho. Pointon

Attributed To:

Thomas Pointon

First Line:

In this your first question there needs no great pains

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. Henry Jackson

Attributed To:

Henry Jackson

First Line:

The love and affection I always do bear

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By N. N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The number of pears which she had in her basket

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. Weedon

Attributed To:

Alexander Weeden

First Line:

What number of pears the fair maid had to sell

Page No:

pp.182-183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. Amos Fish

Attributed To:

Amos Fish

First Line:

Most witty shepherd you did surely keep

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Lyssander

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The living sheep

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. Goodwin

Attributed To:

Edward Goodwin

First Line:

The number of sheep that you have in your flock

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

The Third Question answered.

Attribution:

By Mr. Rich. Jones

Attributed To:

Richard Jones

First Line:

The shepherd had three hundred got

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. Weeden

Attributed To:

Alexander Weeden

First Line:

Will his wager has lost and deserves to be tossed

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

The Fourth Question answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Fish

Attributed To:

Amos Fish

First Line:

Honest Jack I do send these lines by a friend

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Mr. Newbold

Attributed To:

John Newbold

First Line:

Will still had too much though he did begrutch

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

The same Question answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Weeden

Attributed To:

Alexander Weeden

First Line:

As grave Fidelia with some neighbours sat

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

Question 1.

Attribution:

By Mr. Amos Fish

Attributed To:

Amos Fish

First Line:

A set of companions together did meet

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

Quest. 3

Attribution:

By Mr. John Newbold

Attributed To:

John Newbold

First Line:

If two millions sterling in cash could be found

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

Quest. 4.

Attribution:

By Mr. Jos. Dudley

Attributed To:

Jos. Dudley

First Line:

One day for diversion or pastime and pleasure

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

Quest. 2.

Attribution:

By Mr. John Burnet

Attributed To:

John Burnet

First Line:

The ball that is moving eternally so

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

The Paradox in Page 111 answer'd

Attribution:

By Mr. Dod

Attributed To:

Thomas Dodd

First Line:

I think the time in which the iron ball

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

the same Gentleman [i.e. Dodd]

Attributed To:

Thomas Dodd

First Line:

If Galileus may be believed to be true

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

by Mr. Beighton

Attributed To:

Henry Beighton

First Line:

Our porridge pot is sick I wot

Page No:

pp.191-192

Poem Title:

A Philosophical Question of a Porridge-Pot.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If for the ship's side a plug you provide

Page No:

pp.192-193

Poem Title:

The Mechanical Question, Pag. 112, answer'd

Attribution:

By Mr. Weeden

Attributed To:

Alexander Weeden

First Line:

Suppose a square form of set numbers there be

Page No:

p.192

Poem Title:

A Paradox propos'd

Attribution:

By Mr. Weeden

Attributed To:

Alexander Weeden

First Line:

There's a meadow inclosed in form here you see

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

A Mechanical Question

Attribution:

By Mr. Beighton

Attributed To:

Henry Beighton

First Line:

If any atheist rashly does disown

Page No:

pp.197-198

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

an ingenious Author

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Not from a pre-existing state as some

Page No:

pp.199-200

Poem Title:

The same Answered

Attribution:

By Mr. Shillito

Attributed To:

George Shillito