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'.

Related Miscellanies

Title:

Jemmy Carson's Collections. [T187880] [ECCO NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND]

Publication Date:

1774

ESTC No:

T187880

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

James Carson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

A fart th' wholsome does not fail

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Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Fair saw ye Jemmy and may your heed be gray

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n.p.

Poem Title:

Wrote Extempore, on Jemmy Carson's Collections.

Attribution:

W. D.

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First Line:

Waldgrave in haste I did repair

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p.9-10

Poem Title:

[see comments]

Attribution:

James Kelly

Attributed To:

James Kelly

First Line:

Of late a soldier did invite

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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

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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

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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

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First Line:

Tis strange a harmless joke

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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

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pp.20-22

Poem Title:

A Song. Tune of, The Meel was scant short sine.

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First Line:

My sledge and hammer lies reclined

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p.22

Poem Title:

An Epitaph On a Blacksmith.

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First Line:

Their harts mun be as hard as stean

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pp.23-26

Poem Title:

An Elegy on the Reverend Mess Sawney Sinclaire, wha departerd the First Day o' April, 1722.

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First Line:

Underneath this yerd and stones

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p.26

Poem Title:

Epitaph.

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First Line:

Roll on ye days speed swift O tardy spring

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p.32

Poem Title:

To a young Lady, who promis'd to Marry when the Spring comes.

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First Line:

Scarce had the bells the news began

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pp.33-36

Poem Title:

An Elegy On Quarter-master Brice Blare; who died at Strabane.

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First Line:

Wha views this tomb without a tear

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p.36

Poem Title:

Epitaph.

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First Line:

Now of awe the rare danties we had

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pp.43-44

Poem Title:

The Song.

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First Line:

But lang the heroes war nae robbed o' ease

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p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

by a North Country Bard

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First Line:

The gout as yet I think remains unsung

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pp.48-50

Poem Title:

An Infallible Cure for the Gout.

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First Line:

Drink thirsty mortals drink take take your fill

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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.

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First Line:

At setting day and rising morn

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p.56

Poem Title:

The Faithful Shepherdess. A Song.

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First Line:

As wind in hypochondria pent

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p.61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Hudibras

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

We've often heard how the imprisoned wind

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p.66

Poem Title:

Mingere cum bumbis, res est saluberrima lumbis,

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First Line:

Now Carrigh droop good neighbours Whililoo

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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.

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First Line:

Here Billy's fast

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p.68

Poem Title:

Epitaph.

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First Line:

The youk is a gentle and lovely disease

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pp.75-77

Poem Title:

A New Sang, in Praise of the Youk.

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First Line:

From pounce and paper ink and pen

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p.84

Poem Title:

Ejaculation.

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First Line:

Know all men by these presents death the tamer

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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.

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First Line:

Beneath this verdant hillock lies

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p.96

Poem Title:

The Epitaph.

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First Line:

To ilke body be it kend

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pp.97-100

Poem Title:

A Shop-Bill.

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First Line:

What need of Hallelujahs pray

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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.'

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First Line:

From Coghill's court the news is spread

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pp.118-120

Poem Title:

An Elegy On the much lamented Death of Jemmy Carson.

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