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Faithful Memoirs of the Grubstreet Society [T97922] [ecco]

DMI number:
88
Publication Date:
1732
Volume Number:
1 of 1
ESTC number:
T97922
EEBO/ECCO link:
CW106354203
Shelfmark:
BOD Harding C 2860 (1)
Full Title:
FAITHFUL | MEMOIRS | OF THE | GRUBSTREET SOCIETY. | [rule] | [g]Now first Published by[/g] | Mr. BAVIUS. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [ornament] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | [illeg] for the Benefit of the Grubstreet Society, and sold | by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. | M.DCC.XXXII. | (Price Stitch'd Two Shillings.
Epigraph:
[i]The Honours which from Verse their Source derive, | Shall both surmount Detraction and survive; | And Poets have unquestion'd Right to claim, | If not the Greatest, the most Lasting Name.[/i] | CONG.
Place of Publication:
London
Format:
Duodecimo
Pagination:
0
Bibliographic details:
Frontispiece. Running header is 'Grubiana'.
Comments:
Topical poems reprinted from The Grubstreet Journal. Contents: Latin verse p. 3, 18, 63, 68, 72-73, 78, 86, 94-96, 105, 122-123, 143-145, Mock bills: p. 84-85, 97, Prose p. 85-86, 87-89, 112-114, 148, 162-163, 174, 175, 177-178, Inscription pp. 172-173.
Other matter:
Prefatory matter: Contents (6pp.) End matter: catalogue of 'Pamphlets Printed for T. Dormer, at the Star and Garter, over-against the Castle-Tavern in Fleetstreet' (3pp.) p. 167 'Poems, &c. omitted' - poems from the Journal which haven't been so far included (and therefore printed out of chronological order).
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Publisher:
T. Dormer
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Content/Publication
First Line:
Janus the shining round survey
Page No:
pp.1-2
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No. 2. The Ode for the Year 1730.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Close to her husband Frances joined once more
Page No:
p.3
Poem Title:
[Grubstreet Journal, No. 5. An Epitaph upon a Monument on the South-Side of the Chancel in St. Botolph's Aldersgate Church, which is not to be found in Stow, Weaver or Le Neve.('Hic conjuncta suo recubat Francisca marito')] In English.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Where Peters Calamy and Manton stood
Page No:
pp.3-4
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No. 10. Verses occasion'd by a late Sermon on January 30.
Attribution:
Poppy
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
What pleasure friend in this most dismal den
Page No:
pp.4-5
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No. 13. From the King's-Bench Prison, March 18, 1729.
Attribution:
Bavius
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Young thoughtless gay unfortunately fair
Page No:
p.6
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No. 15. The Character of the Lady A---y.
Attribution:
a fellow of All Souls
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies honest William Dawe
Page No:
p.7
Poem Title:
Another.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies John Coom
Page No:
p.7
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 18. An Epitaph.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Kneller by heaven and not a master taught
Page No:
p.7
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal No 16. An Inscription upon the Monument in Westminster in Memory of the late famous Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bart. (made by Mr. Pope) is as follows, viz.
Attribution:
made by Mr. Pope
Attributed To:
Alexander Pope
First Line:
With native charms adorned improved by art
Page No:
pp.8-9
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 19. Verses on *****
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Not attributed
First Line:
Of all thy short lived progeny this last
Page No:
pp.9-10
Poem Title:
Another.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Poor William Dawe
Page No:
p.9
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 21. An Epitaph.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Want or the pride of being deemed polite
Page No:
pp.10-11
Poem Title:
Blasphemy as Old as the Creation: Or, the Newgate Divine. A Satyr.
Attribution:
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First Line:
From serious arts or glorious arms
Page No:
pp.11-12
Poem Title:
Verses.
Attribution:
By Mr. C----l.
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Not attributed
First Line:
Our brethren of England who love us so dear
Page No:
pp.12-14
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 23. An excellent New Ballad: Or, the true E---sh D---n to be hang'd for a R--pe.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
T' exalt the soul or make the heart sincere
Page No:
pp.15-18
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 24. An Essay on the Dunciad.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Much had pyritic Mun by pamphlets got
Page No:
p.18
Poem Title:
[The following Copy of Verses is taken from the Carmina Quadragesimalia; to which a Translation is subjoin'd by an unknown Hand. ('An causae sint sibi invicem causae? aff') Whether Causes can be mutual? They may.
Attribution:
by an unknown Hand
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Not attributed
First Line:
Augusta chief of cities raise thy head
Page No:
p.19
Poem Title:
Extempore Verses occasion'd by a late Sermon.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
What makes you write at this odd rate
Page No:
p.19
Poem Title:
Mr. J. M. S---e. catechized on his Epistle to Mr. Pope.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
When Mira's hands her needle thread
Page No:
pp.19-21
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 25. To Mrs. M. H. on her working a Coat in Silks.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Ye fair injured nymphs and ye beaux who deceive 'em
Page No:
pp.21-22
Poem Title:
A King at Arms disarm'd at Law. A Ballad.
Attribution:
By an unknown Hand
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Once in his life Moore judges right
Page No:
p.22
Poem Title:
On Mr. M-res going to Law with Mr. Gilliver, inscrib'd to Attorney Tibbald.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
A gold watch found on cinder whore
Page No:
p.23
Poem Title:
An Epigram.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Blessed may the man be by believing
Page No:
p.23
Poem Title:
Answer.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Go fair example of untainted youth
Page No:
pp.23-24
Poem Title:
Epitaph on the Monument of the Honble Robert Digby, and of his Sister the Honourable Mary Digby, in the Church of Sherbone, in Dorsetshire, erected by their father the Lord Digby.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Said Christ the man that's pure in heart
Page No:
p.23
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 26. An Epigram.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Cupid once having robbed an hive
Page No:
p.24
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 27. In Imitation of the XIX Idyllium of Theocritus.
Attribution:
Bavius
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Honest John Short at length is gone
Page No:
pp.25-26
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 30. On John Short, Porter at the General Post-Office.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Three frenchmen grateful in their way
Page No:
p.25
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 28. An Epigram on the celebrated Print, inscribed to Sir R-- W---.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Nay hold friend B--- quit the press
Page No:
pp.26-27
Poem Title:
An Epigram.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
To banish far an English bishop hence
Page No:
p.26
Poem Title:
An Epigram.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Old Zoilus the sourest dame Critice bore
Page No:
pp.27-30
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 37. A Session of the Cambridge Criticks.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Three poets grave divines in England born
Page No:
p.27
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 34. An Epigram.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Fungus by a peculiar knack
Page No:
p.30
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 38.
Attribution:
The underwritten are by the Author of the Ode to his Grace the D. of Buckingham
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Not attributed
First Line:
Oxford or Cambridge wag attend
Page No:
pp.31-32
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Philo-Grubaeus
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Not attributed
First Line:
Though thy all-mimic pencil well can trace
Page No:
p.32
Poem Title:
To my ingenious Friend Mr. Bonewitz, on his drawing a curious Picture of a Chelsea-Pensioner, aged 110.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Leave teasing principle my breast
Page No:
pp.33-35
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 40. The Complaint; a Lyric Rhapsody, address'd to his Genius.
Attribution:
By James Drake
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
O Duck preferred by bounteous queen
Page No:
p.36
Poem Title:
On Stephen Duck.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Old Homer though a bard divine
Page No:
pp.36-37
Poem Title:
To Mr. Stephen Duck, the celebrated Wiltshire Poet and Thresher, on his late Preferment by her Majesty.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Without his worship's leave he's very proud
Page No:
pp.37-38
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 42. To Mr. Bavius, Secretary to the Society of Grubstreet.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Selected citizens i'th' morning all
Page No:
pp.39-43
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 43. The Order of the Procession, in Heroic Verse, written at the latter End of the English Augustian Age.
Attribution:
by that celebrated Dramatick Poet, and learned Ornament of the Society of Grubstreet, Tho. Jordan, Gent.
Attributed To:
Thomas Jordan
First Line:
Accept great sir on this triumphant day
Page No:
pp.43-45
Poem Title:
To the Right Honourable Humphery Parsons, Esq; Lord Mayor of the City of London.
Attribution:
Maevius
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The modest stone what few vain marbles can
Page No:
p.43
Poem Title:
The following Epitaph on Mr. Fenton was written by a celebrated Poet.
Attribution:
By a celebrated Poet
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
O Parsons thou who brewst the best of drink
Page No:
p.46
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 44. To Alderman Parsons, our new Lord Mayor.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Ye knights of La Mancha whose powerful sword
Page No:
pp.46-47
Poem Title:
A Ballad.
Attribution:
By a Lady
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies a piece of Christ a star in dust
Page No:
p.48
Poem Title:
An Epitaph.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Stay passenger a while reluctant see
Page No:
p.48
Poem Title:
To the Memory of Mrs. Anne Oldfield.
Attribution:
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First Line:
My masters give ear and a story you'll hear
Page No:
pp.49-50
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 45. Song.
Attribution:
By an unknown Hand
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The furies at a time in consult met
Page No:
p.49
Poem Title:
The following Epigram comes from Newbold-Super-Avon. I am a Stranger to the Subject of it; but, as it seems to be written with some Spirit, I could not forbear inserting it in this Paper.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Behold ambitious of the British bays
Page No:
p.51
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 46. An Epigram.
Attribution:
Bavius
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Why how now mister Fog
Page No:
pp.51-52
Poem Title:
An extempore Reply to the off-hand Answer, printed in Fog's Journal of the 7th instant.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Happy while --- darts his golden ray
Page No:
pp.52-53
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 47. To the Author of that inimitable Paper, called the Free Briton.
Attribution:
Bavius
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
On rattling floors did late thy flail rebound
Page No:
p.53
Poem Title:
To Mr. Stephen Duck.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Tis no hard task the reason to assign
Page No:
p.53
Poem Title:
An Epigram.
Attribution:
Bavius
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
When Phoebus gave the skittish Daphne chase
Page No:
p.54
Poem Title:
Apollo's Revenge on Daphne.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Why how now Gulliver
Page No:
pp.54-55
Poem Title:
Fog to Gulliver.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
You ask me C--ll--y who appears the brighter
Page No:
p.54
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 49. An extempore Answer to a Question of Mr. C---b---r's, when he was dress'd fit for his Part at the Play-house.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Since farce and tongueless pantomimes can charm
Page No:
pp.55-56
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 50. An Epigram on the late Mrs. Oldfield.
Attribution:
Philo-Grub
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Court fools and poets once illustrious lived
Page No:
p.56
Poem Title:
An Epigram.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
In ancient days when pensions bribes and screens
Page No:
p.56
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 51...An Epigram.
Attribution:
Done by a poetical alehouse-keeper at Islington
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Not attributed
First Line:
The wonders of this age to latest time
Page No:
p.56
Poem Title:
Another.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Tell if you can which did the worse
Page No:
p.57
Poem Title:
A Question.
Attribution:
By Anonymous
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Not attributed
First Line:
To Roman souls what more contemptuous deed
Page No:
p.57
Poem Title:
An Answer.
Attribution:
Mr. Maevius
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Not attributed
First Line:
When Pope displayed in pompous rhyme
Page No:
p.57
Poem Title:
Another.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
If none must be admired but poets born
Page No:
p.58
Poem Title:
Answer to an Epigram printed in the St. James's Evening-Post, Sat. Dec. 12. and ending Admire a Virgil, and disdain a Pope.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Quixote once met a tumbrel on his way
Page No:
pp.58-59
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 52.
Attribution:
By Mr. Poppy
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Not attributed
First Line:
Well said Apollo still tis mine
Page No:
p.59
Poem Title:
An Epigram.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Why envious bards such clamours will you raise
Page No:
p.59
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 53. An Epigram.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Our fathers crossed the wide atlantic sea
Page No:
p.60
Poem Title:
From the New-York Gazette, Nov. 2. The following Lines were put over the Door of the General Court, viz.
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First Line:
Their fathers crossed the wide atlantic sea
Page No:
p.60
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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First Line:
What Cibber laureate made o heavens forbear
Page No:
p.60
Poem Title:
Another.
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First Line:
Once more the ever circling sun
Page No:
pp.61-62
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 54. Ode for New-Year's-Day 1731.
Attribution:
written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureate; set to Musick by Mr. Eccles, and sung at Court by Mr. Hughes, accompany'd with Instrumental Musick.
Attributed To:
Colley Cibber
First Line:
Here lies the man who lived and died obscure
Page No:
p.63
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 55. An Epitaph on the late Rev. Mr. Will. Rollo, of Stamford in Lincolnshire.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
To Hurdman who expired before the term
Page No:
p.63
Poem Title:
On the two Doctors going to Law about Mr. Hurdman's Death.
Attribution:
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First Line:
To blast the man that durst aspire
Page No:
pp.64-66
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 56. Pandora.
Attribution:
Bavius
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Not attributed
First Line:
When knaves of justice cease t' oppress mankind
Page No:
p.67
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 59. From the Fleet-Prison, Feb. 15. 1730-31.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Long have I thought your club to be
Page No:
pp.68-69
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 61.
Attribution:
Belinda
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Not attributed
First Line:
Though beauteous Mira heaven deprives of sight
Page No:
p.69
Poem Title:
On a Beautiful Lady who was Blind.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Thrice happy Lizzy blooming maid
Page No:
pp.69-70
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 62. The City Ladies and Country Lass.
Attribution:
Bavius // The Words by Mr. Lockman; and afterwards set to Music by Dr. Pepusch
Attributed To:
John Lockman
First Line:
True wit is like the brilliant stone
Page No:
p.70
Poem Title:
Upon Wit.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
O Andover with soft attraction gay
Page No:
p.71
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 65. The following Letter I receiv'd some time ago from Burton in Staffordshire.
Attribution:
Bavius
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Not attributed
First Line:
The waterman thus to the doctor replied
Page No:
p.71
Poem Title:
The Waterman's Reply to the Docter's [sic] Answer, printed in the Craftsman of Saturday last.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
What makes for once squire Jemmy's muse so toward
Page No:
p.72
Poem Title:
On Mr. James Moore's pretty Verses on the Birth-day of the Lord Andover, printed in our last Journal.
Attribution:
Bavius
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Not attributed
First Line:
When first Marilla on thy charms I gazed
Page No:
p.72
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 66. To Mrs. M. H.
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First Line:
Arra now Countryman Abel I shwear O hone O honem
Page No:
p.73
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 67. A Motto on a great Lawyer's Coach...To the said Lawyer
Attribution:
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First Line:
But where each science lifts its modern type
Page No:
p.74
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 69.
Attribution:
the scandalous author of the Dunciad
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Not attributed
First Line:
When from gilt tub sublime and masquerade
Page No:
p.74
Poem Title:
On the curious Sermon at the Oratory, concerning the unknown God, on Sunday March 24.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
While malice and injustice reign
Page No:
pp.75-76
Poem Title:
To J--- G--- Esq; W--- of the Fl--t.
Attribution:
J. W. // Bavius
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Not attributed
First Line:
Cease your politics Frank or faith I assure you
Page No:
pp.76-77
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No. 70. To F. Osborne, Esq;
Attribution:
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First Line:
When S-- at first to the mitre was raised
Page No:
p.76
Poem Title:
An Epigram.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Approach ye wise of soul with awe divine
Page No:
p.77
Poem Title:
Design'd of the Monument of Sir Isaac Newton.
Attribution:
W. E.
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Not attributed
First Line:
Now Priam's son thou mayst be mute
Page No:
p.77
Poem Title:
On receiving a Present of an Orange from Mrs. G. L. now Countess of Aboyne.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Acon and Leonilla Acon's mother
Page No:
p.78
Poem Title:
[An Epigram ('Lumine Acon dextro caruit, Leonilla sinistro')] In Burlesque.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Acon and Leonilla each one eye
Page No:
p.78
Poem Title:
[An Epigram. ('Lumine Acon dextro caruit, Leonilla sinistro')]
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First Line:
Paris no more the favour boast conferred on thee my Jove
Page No:
p.78
Poem Title:
To a Lady who presented the Author with a China Orange.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Unto a spaniel says a sow
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pp.79-80
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 72. A Fable, in answer to one by J. W.
Attribution:
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First Line:
When nonsense triumphed witty Villiers rose
Page No:
p.79
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 71. The Contrast between the late Duke of Buckingham, and the Author of the Contrast.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Old Touchwood by the every feature
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pp.80-81
Poem Title:
A Replication of the Answer.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Hyp o not hyp-er-critic Doctor Ratcliff
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p.82
Poem Title:
[no title]
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First Line:
Dear Tom I thank you for the offer
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p.83
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 73. To Mr. T---s B---f--d, D---p---ty W---d---n of the Fl---t.
Attribution:
J. W. // Bavius
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Not attributed
First Line:
To Kneller Dryden writes some bear the rule
Page No:
pp.83-84
Poem Title:
On seeing Mr. C--r's picture just publish'd.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Cibber the glory of the British stage
Page No:
p.86
Poem Title:
[Poeta nascitur, & fit ('O decus angliaci, senior Cibbere, theatri')]
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First Line:
Well broke brave Matt at length we know
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pp.89-90
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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First Line:
Honest Kit | If you can't read you'll get some friend
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pp.90-93
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 76. The Instructions of Mr. J--l J--s to Christopher Hilliard, printed in our last Journal, turn'd into Hudibrastic Verse.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Three sons of dullness an illustrious race
Page No:
pp.93-94
Poem Title:
Mr. Bavius read the following Epigram, printed in the Courant of June 11.
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First Line:
In one bright age three famed Grubeans born
Page No:
p.94
Poem Title:
Mr. Maevius said, he thought it was a fine Encomium upon our Journal; and presented the following Lines, by Way of grateful Return.
Attribution:
Mr. Maevius
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Not attributed
First Line:
Should Dennis print how once you robbed your brother
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p.97
Poem Title:
An Epigram.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Hugh Peters's sense voice language action mien
Page No:
p.98
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 81. An Epigram.
Attribution:
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First Line:
In durance vile while pious Woolston lies
Page No:
pp.98-99
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 82. An Epigram.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Thy wit in vain th' invenomed critic gnaws
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p.98
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 80. To Mr. Pope on his being personally abus'd.
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My dear Kitty
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pp.99-100
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 83. The Epistle of Robin the Butler, to Kitty the Cook's Daughter.
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Near Holborn-Bars that dismal place
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pp.100-103
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 84.
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Under the mask of some fictitious name
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p.100
Poem Title:
An Epigram.
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A pert young daw tricked up with various plumes
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p.104
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 85. A Fable.
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Bavius
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Sheweth | That your petitioners distressed
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pp.104-105
Poem Title:
The humble Petition of the Prisoners lock'd down on the Common Side of his Majesty's Prison of the Fleet, to the Judges of the Court of Common-Pleas.
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Poor in my youth and now when age appears
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p.105
Poem Title:
An Epitaph.
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Poor when in youth now worn with feeble age
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p.105
Poem Title:
[Egraeco ('Pauper eram juvenia, senio confectus inerti')]
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Provoked by Cheyne's silly books
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pp.106-107
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 86. To be prefix'd to the next Edition of Dr. Arbuthnot's Book of Aliments.
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First Line:
An elderly lady whose bulky squat figure
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p.108
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 87.
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H--l--y the rostrum mounts displays his hand---
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p.108
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 88. An Epigram.
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Doctor 'tis strange that you pretend to cure
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pp.109-112
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 89. Doctor J. M--e to Doctor J. H---y, sendeth greeting;
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J. M.
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High church exert thy rage I'm not dismayed
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p.112
Poem Title:
An Epigram.
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A man of wisdom may disguise
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pp.114-117
Poem Title:
A True Tale of a Country 'Squire.
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Bavius
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First Line:
Where healing springs near Astrop placed
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pp.117-118
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 91. Astropian Gallantry: or, The Peach-stone, --occasioned by drinking Miss Sk--th's Health at Astrop-Wells; a Peach-stone, which she once had in her Mouth, being always put into the Glass.
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Drink on my friends drink yeoman dry
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p.118
Poem Title:
An Epigram occasion'd by the Peach-Stone.
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Why sleeps your learned defence still keep in store
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pp.118-119
Poem Title:
A Dialogue betwixt Mr. Maevius and Mr. Bowman, occasioned by the Preface of the latter to his Defence of the Miracle of Cursing the Fig Tree.
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No more may chemist boast an unknown art
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pp.119-120
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 92. On the Astrop Peach-Stone.
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First Line:
When Yorkshire sermon lately took its flight
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p.120
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 93. Verses on the sudden Stop in the sale of Mr. B--'s Sermon, and the Publication of his Defence of the Miracle, &c.
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To my brother freeholders these lines I indite
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pp.121-122
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 94. Grubstreet's Rejoinder...A Candidate's Letter to the Freeholders of a certain County, versified.
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For wisdom old philosophers revered
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p.123
Poem Title:
[no title]
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Since pageants ceased with curious figures wrought
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pp.124-125
Poem Title:
To the Lord Mayor Elect.
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Maevius
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My lord | The muse which with ambitious lay
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pp.126-130
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 96. To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.
Attribution:
Maevius
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First Line:
When Charles from anarchy's retreat
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pp.131-132
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 97. An Ode for his Majesty's Birth-Day.
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Some good whigs late designed by an act injurious
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p.133
Poem Title:
[no title]
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That bays to farce sir turns his tragic strain
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pp.134-138
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, no 98. The Modern Poets. A Satire in Allusion to the 10th Satire of the First Book of Horace.
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By a young Gentleman of Cambridge
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If for pleasure you'd ride in Moorfields a horse hire
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pp.138-139
Poem Title:
[no title]
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A pleasing subject first with care provide
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p.139
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 99. A Receipt to make an Epigram.
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Did Milton's prose o Charles thy death defend
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p.140
Poem Title:
An Epigram, occasion'd by seeing some sheets of Dr. B--t--ly's Edition of Milton's Paradise Lost.
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Just ready to be torn by critics paws
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p.140
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 100. An Imitation of an Epigram.
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While over my page dogmatic B--y stands
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p.140
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 101. On Dr. B---y's Homer, which was preserv'd from Fire.
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If meagre Gildon draw his venal quill
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pp.141-143
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 102. Fragments of a Satire in the Third Volume of Swift and Pope's Miscellanies.
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Says W--d to C-ke over a glass of good ale
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p.141
Poem Title:
Another.
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Hark you d'ye hear the news poor Cibber's dead
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pp.146-147
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 103. An Epilogue to Ignoramus, design'd, but not spoken.
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Accept great poet nor with frowns disdain
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p.147
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 104. To Mr. Pope.
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And for the which when that as once it was
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p.148
Poem Title:
[no title]
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John a Nokes
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First Line:
Awake with joyous songs the day
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pp.149-150
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 105. An Ode to his Majesty, on New-Year's-Day, 1732.
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By Mr. Cibber, Servant to his Majesty.
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Colley Cibber
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Awake with songs the opening day
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pp.151-153
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 106. Ode for the New-Year; faithfully translated into English, for the use of the Readers unskilled in Cibberine Style; and, consequently, not a able to interpret the Figurative sublime of the Original.
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If when at all suppose it should be so
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p.151
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Thomas Stiles
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First Line:
Long have I ranged through every school with pain
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pp.153-155
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 107. On the Reverend Mr. Arthur Collier's Clavis Universalis.
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H. P--r
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First Line:
Ye sages who the causes know
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pp.156-157
Poem Title:
[no title]
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W. H. // Bavius
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First Line:
Here in this grave
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pp.157-158
Poem Title:
An Epitaph on Theophilus Cave, Esq; in the Chancel at Barrow upon Stowre.
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First Line:
Peace returned on downy wings
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pp.158-159
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No. 108.
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When this fine palace sunk in rising flame
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pp.160-161
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 109. Mr. Maevius looking upon the Banqueting-House at White-Hall, Jan 30 1731.
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Mr. Maevius
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First Line:
Wondrous the bard whose happy tragic vein
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pp.161-162
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 110...Prologue spoken by a Young Nobleman, who acted Polydor.
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My birthright's privilege is sure but small
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p.162
Poem Title:
Epilogue, spoken by a Young Gentleman, who acted Castalio.
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Bavius
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First Line:
On Thursday night or rather Friday morning
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pp.164-165
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Mr. William Penkethman
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William Pinkethman
First Line:
I who so long have lorded at the bar
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pp.165-166
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 111. An Epilogue to the Comedy of Ignoramus, lately acted by some Young Gentlemen at Bury-School. Spoken by Ignoramus.
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When sickness reigns and sharp diseases spread
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p.167
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 21. Poems, &c. omitted.
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Bavius
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First Line:
C--- pale with envy lies
Page No:
p.168
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 28.
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Bavius
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First Line:
Philips to thy lamented shade
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p.169
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 34. On the Author of the Verses on the Death of Mr. John Philipps.
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First Line:
What is he gone whither so sudden flown
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p.170
Poem Title:
To the Memory of his Dear Friend, John Philipps, Esq;
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By J. A. an intimate friend of the deceased
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First Line:
Shall royal praise be rhymed by such a ribald
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p.171
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 45. On the Candidates for the Laurel. An Epigram.
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So peaceful rests without a stone a name
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p.171
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 35...to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady murdered.
Attribution:
By Mr. Pope
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Alexander Pope
First Line:
No sooner was the sacred union broke
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p.173
Poem Title:
The Apotheosis of that ever blessed Martyr King Charles I, being an Imitation of the Beginning of the IX Book of Lucan.
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First Line:
At the great theatrical booth called Lee and Harper's
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pp.175-177
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 86.
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Mr. Doggrell
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First Line:
Both may be true for all your comic rhymes
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p.178
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Mr. Dactyl
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First Line:
Came one of these from whig and one from tory
Page No:
p.178
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 90.
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Mr. Gingle
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First Line:
O death thou pleasing end of human woe
Page No:
p.178
Poem Title:
Grubstreet Journal, No 91. On the late unhappy Miss B-----k, written with her own Hand.
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Miss B-----k
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First Line:
A rich old M--e refused to pay
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p.179
Poem Title:
Verses on ****
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