Jemmy Carson's Collections [T99070]
- DMI number:
- 710
- Publication Date:
- 1744
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T99070
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW113755817
- Shelfmark:
- BL - 1206.b.23
- Full Title:
- JEMMY CARSON'S | COLLECTIONS: | Being a Revival of his own | Labours and Lucubrations, | FOR | Thirty Years past; with Pieces upon differ- | ent Subjects, by several Hands. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]DUBLIN:[/i] | Printed by and for JAMES CARSON, in [i]Coghill's:Court, | Dame-Street[/i], 1744.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Girn on wha wull, tho' aw' at my Expence, | My Back can bear----Gean ye'll bat gee the Pence.[/i]
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin
- Genres:
- Miscellaneous collection and Collection including prose
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- [4], 9-120pp.
- Bibliographic details:
- Octavo in fours.
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATERIAL: 'Wrote Extempore, On Jemmy Carson's Collections'.
- Title:
- Jemmy Carson's Collections. [T187880] [ECCO NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND]
- Publication Date:
- 1774
- ESTC No:
- T187880
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- James Carson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- A fart th' wholsome does not fail
- Page No:
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair saw ye Jemmy and may your heed be gray
- Page No:
- n.p.
- Poem Title:
- Wrote Extempore, on Jemmy Carson's Collections.
- Attribution:
- W. D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Waldgrave in haste I did repair
- Page No:
- p.9-10
- Poem Title:
- [see comments]
- Attribution:
- James Kelly
- Attributed To:
- James Kelly
- First Line:
- Of late a soldier did invite
- Page No:
- pp.10-12
- Poem Title:
- Captain Barnaby Brett, an ingenious Gentleman, in the aforesaid County, and Register of the Ecclesiastical Court, took up the Cuddgles in behalf of the Quarter-master, and wrote to Mr. Kelly as follows.
- Attribution:
- Captain Barnaby Brett.
- Attributed To:
- Captain Barnaby Brett
- First Line:
- Dear Captain | That late smarting plaster
- Page No:
- pp.13-15
- Poem Title:
- Mr. Kelly finding himself agreeably Attacked by Mr. Brett, a Gentleman whom Mr. Kelly had in much Esteem; wrote to him in this Submissive Manner.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Kelly
- Attributed To:
- James Kelly
- First Line:
- Right reverend Sir with due respects
- Page No:
- pp.15-17
- Poem Title:
- After Mr. kelly had wrote the above submissive Letter to Mr. Brett, the Quarter-master not satisfy'd, prevails on one Mr. Hunter, to write to the Parson, which he did as follows.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Hunter
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis strange a harmless joke
- Page No:
- p.17-19
- Poem Title:
- Upon the Receipt of the above, Mr. Kelly was very much Disgusted, that the Quarter-master should employ so many against him, after his writing so submissively to the first. He wrote to the Quarter-master the following Reflection.
- Attribution:
- James Kelly.
- Attributed To:
- James Kelly
- First Line:
- Gud sirs gein ye'll inlist
- Page No:
- pp.20-22
- Poem Title:
- A Song. Tune of, The Meel was scant short sine.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My sledge and hammer lies reclined
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph On a Blacksmith.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Their harts mun be as hard as stean
- Page No:
- pp.23-26
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy on the Reverend Mess Sawney Sinclaire, wha departerd the First Day o' April, 1722.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Underneath this yerd and stones
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Roll on ye days speed swift O tardy spring
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- To a young Lady, who promis'd to Marry when the Spring comes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Scarce had the bells the news began
- Page No:
- pp.33-36
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy On Quarter-master Brice Blare; who died at Strabane.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wha views this tomb without a tear
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now of awe the rare danties we had
- Page No:
- pp.43-44
- Poem Title:
- The Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- But lang the heroes war nae robbed o' ease
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- by a North Country Bard
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The gout as yet I think remains unsung
- Page No:
- pp.48-50
- Poem Title:
- An Infallible Cure for the Gout.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Drink thirsty mortals drink take take your fill
- Page No:
- pp.50-52
- Poem Title:
- The following Piece was wrote several Years ago, being a Prediction of the loss of St. Patrick's Well-spring. Inscrib'd to J------- B---- Yeoman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At setting day and rising morn
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- The Faithful Shepherdess. A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As wind in hypochondria pent
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hudibras
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- We've often heard how the imprisoned wind
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- Mingere cum bumbis, res est saluberrima lumbis,
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now Carrigh droop good neighbours Whililoo
- Page No:
- pp.67-68
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy on the much lamented Death of William Murry, a noted Cobbler, who lived under the Mountain of Carrigh in the County of Wicklow.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here Billy's fast
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The youk is a gentle and lovely disease
- Page No:
- pp.75-77
- Poem Title:
- A New Sang, in Praise of the Youk.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From pounce and paper ink and pen
- Page No:
- p.84
- Poem Title:
- Ejaculation.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Know all men by these presents death the tamer
- Page No:
- pp.95-96
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy on the Much lamented Death of Mr. Demar, the famous Rich Man, who died the Sixth of July, 1720.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath this verdant hillock lies
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- The Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To ilke body be it kend
- Page No:
- pp.97-100
- Poem Title:
- A Shop-Bill.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What need of Hallelujahs pray
- Page No:
- p.100
- Poem Title:
- The following Lines were occasion'd by reading a Grand, Mysterious Ode on the Battle of Dettingen; the second Line of which is expressed in these majestical Terms. 'All true Britons sing Hallelujah, &c.'
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From Coghill's court the news is spread
- Page No:
- pp.118-120
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy On the much lamented Death of Jemmy Carson.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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