Gulliveriana: or, a fourth volume of miscellanies. Being a Sequel of the Three Volumes, published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, Alexanderiana... [ESTC T53830]

DMI number:

698

Publication Date:

1728

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T53830

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW112563478

Shelfmark:

BOD St.Amand 370

Full Title:

[i]GULLIVERIANA:[/i] | OR, A | FOURTH VOLUME | OF | MISCELLANIES. | BEING A | SEQUEL of the THREE VOLUMES, | published by POPE and SWIFT. | To which is added, | ALEXANDERIANA; or A Comparison | between the [i]Ecclesiastical[/i] and [i]Poetical[/i] POPE. | And many Things, in VERSE and PROSE, | relating to the latter. | [rule] | With an ample PREFACE; and a CRITIQUE | on the Third Volume of [i]Miscellanies[/i] lately | publish'd by those two facetious Writers. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for J. ROBERTS, at the [i]Oxford Arms[/i] in | [i]Warwick-lane.[/i] M.DCC.XXVIII.

Epigraph:

[i]Sequitur pede, poena, claudo.[/i] HOR.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection including prose, Collection of poems about subject/person, and Collection of satirical verse

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[i-vii] viii-xliv [1]-344 (215 misprinted as 521)

Comments:

PLATES: Plate facing title page. CONTENTS: Mixture of verse and prose satires. MISCELLANY SECTIONS: 'Gulliveriana' pp.1-282; 'Alexanderiana: Or, a Comparison Between The Ecclesiastical and Poetical Pope; With Some Pieces, in Verse and Prose, relating to the Poet' p.283-332; 'Postscript to the Whole; Containing Some Observations on the Preface, Advertisement and Postscript, of the Three Volumes publish'd by Pope and Swift' p.333-344.

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATTER: Dedication 'To My Self' signed 'The Author' pp.[iii-vi]; Preface pp.[vii]-xxi; 'A Critique of the Third Volume of Miscellanies' pp.[xxii]-xxxix; Table of Contents pp.[xl]-xliv. END MATTER: Errata at foot of p.344

References:

Case 351

Related People

Editor:

Jonathan Smedley

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Case notes: 'The editorship of this miscellany is usually ascribed to Jonathan Smedley. If he was the editor, it is odd that he should have included in the volume a biting satire upon himself (The Ode Maker, p.40).'

Publisher:

J[ames] Roberts

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford Arms in Warwick-lane.' T53830

Content/Publication

First Line:

See Gulliver's is Milo's end

Page No:

p.xxi

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A list the cobblers temple ties

Page No:

p.xxxv

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

'the Captain' i.e. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

But what success Vanessa met

Page No:

p.xxx

Poem Title:

Cadenus and Vanessa.

Attribution:

'the Captain' i.e. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Dear Sid then why wert thou so mad

Page No:

p.xxxii

Poem Title:

'this Poem on the Rod'

Attribution:

'the Captain' i.e. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

For what is understood by fame

Page No:

p.xxxiii

Poem Title:

A New Discovery.

Attribution:

'the Captain' i.e. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

To get their masters half a crown

Page No:

p.xxxv

Poem Title:

Between and Elephant and a Parliament-Man.

Attribution:

'the Captain' i.e. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Thalia tell in sober lays

Page No:

p.13-19

Poem Title:

The Journal.

Attribution:

'Captain Gulliver' and 'Famous Dr. Celer' i.e. Swift p.11

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

A writer held in great renown

Page No:

p.22-26

Poem Title:

The British Journal. NUMB. CCVI. i.e. Satire on Mr. Arbuckle (Table of Contents)

Attribution:

By Gulliver. (Table of Contents) i.e. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Sir | Finding your noddle exhausted and muddy

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

To Mr. Arb--; with the foregoing Tale.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

In good King Edgar's days we read

Page No:

p.28-36

Poem Title:

The Forester and the Wood. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Most reverend Dean pray cease to write

Page No:

p.37-39

Poem Title:

A Satire: Occasion'd by Gulliver's teizing the People of Dublin, with repeated Pamphlets, about Wood's Brass-Farthings.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My age is not a moment's stay

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

Imitated, on a F---:

Attribution:

By J-- S--.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

The rose's age is but a day

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

The Rose:

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips.

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Well Smedley since thou wilt expose

Page No:

p.40-46

Poem Title:

The Ode-Maker.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Partners in wit and in one party joined

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

An Epigram. Imitation of Prior to Lord Dorset.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Upon a time there came a patent

Page No:

p.48-50

Poem Title:

The Fly and the Wheel. A Fable: Or, the Drapier and Wood Explain'd.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Ireland is now our royal care

Page No:

p.50-54

Poem Title:

Apollo's Edict.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Happiest of the spaniel race

Page No:

p.55-58

Poem Title:

A Poem upon Rover, a Lady's Spaniel.

Attribution:

'the Captain' i.e. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Hold hold my good friends for one moment pray stop ye

Page No:

p.61-65

Poem Title:

Epilogue to Mr. Hoppy's Benefit-Night, at Smock-Alley.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

O pretty charmer prithee tell

Page No:

p.68-71

Poem Title:

To Lucinda, Toujours Gay.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Three months ago that rogue Old Nick

Page No:

p.71-73

Poem Title:

On the Death of Old Nick.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Old Reynard once with thirst oppressed

Page No:

p.74-76

Poem Title:

The Fox and Goat. A Tale. To Sir Richard Steele, a little before the Queen died, on the Captain's being denied Preferment.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Today this temple gets a dean

Page No:

p.77-79

Poem Title:

Verses, fix'd on the Cathedral Door, the Day of Dean Gulliver's Installment.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Once on a time in merry mood

Page No:

p.79-82

Poem Title:

The Original of Punning, from Plato's Symposiacks.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Know all men by these presents death the tamer

Page No:

p.82-84

Poem Title:

An Elegy on the much lamented Death of Mr. Damer, the famous Rich Man, who died the sixth Day of July, 1720, at Dublin.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath this verdant hillock lies

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

The Epitaph.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The muse though late to thee the muse's friend

Page No:

p.86-93

Poem Title:

A Christmas Invitation. To the Right. Hon. the Lord Carteret, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1725.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sir having nothing else to do

Page No:

p.94-100

Poem Title:

A Letter from the Quidnuncs at St. James's Coffee-house and the Mall, London, to their Brethren at Lucas's Coffee-house, in Dublin.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

From noise retired and busy life

Page No:

p.101-103

Poem Title:

A Letter to Mr. Ambrose Philips, on his Landing in Ireland, and being abused for his Poems, on Lord Carteret's Family, by many Irish Bards, especially Doctor Gulliver.

Attribution:

By an Irish Clergyman, living privately, in London. i.e. Smedley?

Attributed To:

Jonathan Smedley

First Line:

Since you're resolved dear Sir to abandon

Page No:

p.104-108

Poem Title:

To a Clergyman, residing in a beautiful Vale in Norfolk, on his resolving to live in London.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

It was my lord the dextrous shift

Page No:

p.108-113

Poem Title:

An Epistle to his Grace the Duke of Grafton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Attribution:

author refers to himself in poem as 'Smedley' p.110

Attributed To:

Jonathan Smedley

First Line:

The rod was honest English wood

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

'Motto taken from the Doctor's Miscellanies' i.e. Swift's p.121

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

This rod was slender white and tall

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Three children sliding on the ice

Page No:

p.258

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Tom was a little merry Grig

Page No:

p.260-264

Poem Title:

Tom Pun-Sibi Metamorphos'd: Or, the Giber Gib'd.

Attribution:

'writ by a very Ingenious Clergyman of Ireland'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The profound

Page No:

p.265-266

Poem Title:

A Lilliputian Ode; In Imitation of, and humble Inscib'd to, Captain Gulliver; sole Redivivor of the ancient Fescennine.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Said Old Nick to St Michael you use me but ill

Page No:

p.272-274

Poem Title:

The Devil's Last Game: A Satire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At a court that was called the other day in the air

Page No:

p.275-277

Poem Title:

From the Daily Journal, April 16. 1728. A Copy of Verses, said to be omitted, by Accident, in the last New Miscellany.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I sing a noble ditty

Page No:

p.277-279

Poem Title:

From the Flying-Post, April 23. 1728.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

But when the torrent quenched the dreadful blaze

Page No:

p.281

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

'the Dean' i.e. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Awed by no shame by no respect controlled

Page No:

p.286-287

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

'Mr. Pope has drawn in the following lines'

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Homer is full of wit there is not more

Page No:

p.289-290

Poem Title:

On one of the Admirers of Pope's Translation, who said, There was a great deal of Wit in Homer.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Your triumphs O ye bards proclaim and all your flags unfurl

Page No:

p.295

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

First Jove strains hard to give Ambrosia vent

Page No:

p.315-316

Poem Title:

Alexander P--e's Nosegay: Or, The Dunciad Epitomiz'd.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Homer describing the divine abodes

Page No:

p.316

Poem Title:

To be inserted in the next Edition of the Dunciad.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If Homer's never-dying song begun

Page No:

p.317

Poem Title:

Epigram on the Translation of Homer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See Pope with puffing ardour strains

Page No:

p.319

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Letter signed 'Philoscriblerus.'

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But if great George must mount our throne

Page No:

p.324-325

Poem Title:

Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

May wit and learning once this isle adorn

Page No:

p.328

Poem Title:

The Wish.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Rejoice ye injured bards whose honoured bays

Page No:

p.328-329

Poem Title:

On Reading Sawney, an Heroic Poem, in Answer to the Dunciad.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Well then all human things henceforth avast

Page No:

p.332

Poem Title:

L--t's Lamentation.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Little lads of Dublin town

Page No:

p.337-340

Poem Title:

King Oberon's Edict. On Occasion of the Students of the College of Dublin continually writing in the Lilliputian Manner and Measure of Verse.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Lord how uncertain's human fate

Page No:

p.341-344

Poem Title:

An Indian Tale: Occasion'd by the Verses, on the Quidnunchi's; Miscellanies, Vol. 3. p.229, apply'd to the joint Authors of that Volume.

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