Ethic tales and fables [gb] [no estc number]
- DMI number:
- 1321
- Publication Date:
- 1768
- ESTC number:
- n/a
- Shelfmark:
- Google books - Bod
- Full Title:
- N/A
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Made-up miscellany
- Format:
- Quarto
- Bibliographic details:
- Consists of plates taken from N48750/T83831; it's not clear if this was ever issued as a separate publication. No title page. Each plate consists of the header 'Ethic Tales and Fables', an engraving, and a short extract of verse.
- Comments:
- Date: Bodleian catalogue suggests 1780, but plates are taken from a collection [N48750/T83831] published c. 1770.
- References:
- Google books: http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/600087541.pdf
- Editor:
- Daniel Bellamy
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Bellamy is the editor of N48750/T83831 from which these plates have been taken.
- First Line:
- O gratitude dear offspring of the sky
- Page No:
- Fab. 1.
- Poem Title:
- Aristonous
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Say Ned what greater bliss can be
- Page No:
- Fab. 2.
- Poem Title:
- Melesichton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We all behold with envious eyes
- Page No:
- Fab. 3.
- Poem Title:
- Virgil.
- Attribution:
- Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Ah happy rills ah pleasing shade
- Page No:
- Fab. 4.
- Poem Title:
- Alibeg.
- Attribution:
- Gray's Ode.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Power is the best prerogative of heaven
- Page No:
- Fab. 5
- Poem Title:
- Rosimond.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What happiness the rural maid attends
- Page No:
- Fab. 6.
- Poem Title:
- Florisa.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- In trance ecstatic may thy pangs be drowned
- Page No:
- Fab. 7.
- Poem Title:
- Clarifilia.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- As Jove his lower world surveyed
- Page No:
- Fab. 8.
- Poem Title:
- Peronella.
- Attribution:
- Gay's Fables Epitomised.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Sweet is the breath of morn her rising sweet
- Page No:
- Fab. 9.
- Poem Title:
- Lycon.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care
- Page No:
- Fab. 10.
- Poem Title:
- Phoebus.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Let such teach others who themselves excel
- Page No:
- Fab. 11.
- Poem Title:
- The Critick.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The voice of song is all the art we use
- Page No:
- Fab. 12.
- Poem Title:
- Philomela. On the Prince's first Visit to his Grove.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There is forty ducats
- Page No:
- Fab. 13.
- Poem Title:
- The Dragon. Romeo, Apothecary.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Tis yet in vain I own to keep a pother
- Page No:
- Fab. 14.
- Poem Title:
- The Foxes.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Trust not a man we are by nature false
- Page No:
- Fab. 15.
- Poem Title:
- The Lamb.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Next came hypocrisy with meekest look
- Page No:
- Fab. 16.
- Poem Title:
- Grimalkin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Men know thyself the rule was given
- Page No:
- Fab. 17.
- Poem Title:
- The Pythagoreans.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He was a man
- Page No:
- Fab. 18.
- Poem Title:
- The Candidates.
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With the airs of a beau
- Page No:
- Fab. 19.
- Poem Title:
- The Mimick.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The glory Traian shall forever live
- Page No:
- Fab. 21
- Poem Title:
- The Bees.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Revenge is sweeter much than life tis true
- Page No:
- Fab. 22.
- Poem Title:
- The Swaggerers.
- Attribution:
- Croxal.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Croxall
- First Line:
- All met and silence thrice proclaimed
- Page No:
- Fab. 23.
- Poem Title:
- The Judgment of Jupiter.
- Attribution:
- Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Ambition this shall tempt to rise
- Page No:
- Fab. 24.
- Poem Title:
- The Owl.
- Attribution:
- Gray's Ode.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- My story being done
- Page No:
- Fab. 25.
- Poem Title:
- Cleobulus.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Chloe tis said you frequent stand
- Page No:
- Fab. 26.
- Poem Title:
- The Statuary's Garden.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thy humourous vein thy pleasing folly
- Page No:
- Fab. 27.
- Poem Title:
- The Hypochondriack.
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
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