Miscellanea nova et curiosa: the new and curious miscellany; to which is added a collection of poems [T73638]

DMI number:

900

Publication Date:

1749

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T73638

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW124736330

Shelfmark:

BOD 2705 e.681

Full Title:

[red]MISCELLANEA[/red] | NOVA ET CURIOSA: | THE NEW AND | [red]Curious Miscellany:[/red] | BEING | A Series of remarkable INCIDENTS, | and pleasant ADVENTURES, interspersed | with a Variety of other PIECES on the | most entertaining Subjects; extracted from | the best ENGLISH and FRENCH Authors. | To which is added, | [red]A COLLECTION of POEMS:[/red] | Several of which were never before published. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [double rule] | [red]DUBLIN:[/red] | Printed by S. POWELL, in [i]Crane-lane[/i]. | [rule] | [red]M DCC XLIX.[/red]

Epigraph:

Title page: [i]I; fuge; sed poteras tutior esse domi --- | Quisquis es, o faveas, nostrisque laboribus adsis! | His quoque des veniam.[/i] [red]OVID.[/red] Title page of A Collection of Poems: [i]With[/i] Ellen [i]I begin my Lays, | And end them all in[/i] Ellen[i]'s Praise; | Nothing but[/i] Ellen [i]dwells upon my Tongue, | Charm of my Heart, and Subject of my Song.[/i]

Place of Publication:

Dublin

Genres:

Collection including prose and Subscription Miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[2], [iii]-xii, [22], 1-203, [15], 207-285, [7], 289-400p

Bibliographic details:

Verse section is headed by separate title page: A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS, | ON | Various Subjects; | Several of which were never before | Published. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i]DUBLIN:[/i] | Printed by S. POWELL, for the AUTHOR. | [rule] | M DCC XLVIII. Title page in red and black.

Comments:

Contents: Prose: 'A Series of Remarkable Incidents, Entertaining Adventures, &c.' pp. 1-175; 'La Mere Mari; Or the Mother a Husband: A Gallant Adventure' pp. 179-203; 'Miscellanies Divine, Moral, and Entertaining' pp. 205-285. 'A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects' pp. 289-400 has separate titlepage and prefatory index. Contains Latin verse on p. 304, 329-331, 343, 363, 372, 398. French verse on p. 360, 374. Attributions: ESTC states 'The author’s conclusion on p. 400 signed: H. C.; sometimes attributed to Hill Chetwood.' It seems likely that the majority of poems in this collection are by H. C.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Dedicatory epistle to James, Earl of Kildare signed 'The Editor' pp.[iii]-viii; Preface pp. [ix]-xii; 'The Names of the Subscribers' [13pp.]; 'A Table of Incidents and Remarkable Adventures' [7pp]; List of errata [1p].

References:

Case 462

Related People

Editor:

Hill Chetwood

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Comments:

ESTC: The author's conclusion on p. 400 signed: H. C.; sometimes attributed to Hill Chetwood.

Printer:

S. Powell

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

As when the piercing northern blast

Page No:

pp.289-290

Poem Title:

To Miss Ambrose, on promoting my Subscription, and coming to the Country in Autumn, 1747.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

By strong suspicions you appear to be

Page No:

pp.290-291

Poem Title:

To a Reverend Clergyman, suspected by the Author for sending him a Green Ribbon, on the Wedding-Day of his Mistress.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

While both attract by equal charms

Page No:

p.290

Poem Title:

On Two Sisters.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Thou little tory why the jest

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

Spoken extempore to a Lady, on wearing an Orange-coloured Breast-knot.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

What are those radiant eyes to me

Page No:

pp.292-293

Poem Title:

The Lover's Complaint. To Miss ---- Ambrose.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Ellen fair it is new years day

Page No:

pp.293-295

Poem Title:

Verses, wrote on New-Years Day, 1743. To the Same.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Once on a time a righteous sage

Page No:

pp.295-299

Poem Title:

The Birth of Manly Virtue. From Callimachus. Inscrib'd to the Lord Carteret, now Earl of Granville.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Though hard is his doom that loves a cruel fair

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pp.299-300

Poem Title:

On a Lady's going to the North.

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First Line:

Midst all the evils of a transient life

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pp.300-301

Poem Title:

A Hymn.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hark how my charming maid the birds

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pp.301-302

Poem Title:

Corydon To Delia.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Say Barber can your pencil trace

Page No:

pp.302-303

Poem Title:

To Mira.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

An oaken broken elbow chair

Page No:

pp.303-304

Poem Title:

A true and faithful Inventory of the Goods belonging to Doctor J--n S---t, Vicar of Lara Cor, upon lending his House to the Bishop of Meath, 'till his own was built.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Corinna now with Damon tied for life

Page No:

pp.304-305

Poem Title:

[Omnia Siccis Dura ('Connubio stabili, Damoni juncta Corinna')] Englished.

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First Line:

Madam your charms would never seem the less

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

To the Same.

Attribution:

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First Line:

These gloves can keep thy arms my fair

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

To a handsome Lady, with a present of Gloves.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Farewell the gilded follies pleasant troubles

Page No:

pp.306-307

Poem Title:

The Holy Melancholy.

Attribution:

Supposed to be wrote by Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Give me leave to rail at you

Page No:

pp.308-309

Poem Title:

To Thirsis.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Rochester]

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

From wine to love from love to wine I run

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

Wrote on a Window,

Attribution:

by a Gentleman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Amintor loved and lived in pain

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

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First Line:

How blessed was the created state

Page No:

pp.310-311

Poem Title:

The Fall.

Attribution:

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First Line:

All my past life is mine no more

Page No:

pp.311-312

Poem Title:

Love and Life.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What cruel pains Corinna takes

Page No:

p.311

Poem Title:

To Corinna.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thought is the tyrant of the soul

Page No:

pp.312-313

Poem Title:

Extempore Thoughts upon Thought.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

To this moment a rebel I threw down my arms

Page No:

pp.313-314

Poem Title:

The Submission.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

As various arts do shine in various men

Page No:

p.314

Poem Title:

A Character.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Plaints unattempted yet in bill or count

Page No:

pp.315-324

Poem Title:

The Templer's Bill of Complaint. In the Stile of Milton.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Great liberty each Britons chief delight

Page No:

pp.324-326

Poem Title:

On the Duke of Cumberland's Victory obtained over the Rebels, April 16, 1746, at Culloden-Muir.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Helen's sweet voice is like her eyes

Page No:

p.326

Poem Title:

On Miss Ambrose Singing.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Imaginary terrors scare

Page No:

pp.327-328

Poem Title:

The Lion and the Eccho. A Fable. Occasioned by the first Report of the late Invasion.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Madam these lines with pleasure I indite

Page No:

p.328

Poem Title:

To a Lady, on her saying that I preferred another before her.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Me from myself will Helen then convey

Page No:

pp.331-333

Poem Title:

Disney to Helen. Translated from the Latin.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Stanhope hath gained one branch of fame

Page No:

pp.334-335

Poem Title:

The Exception.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Tis not the tomb in marble polished high

Page No:

p.334

Poem Title:

Epitaph, on a Poor Honest Man.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Since all around so blithe why art thou sad

Page No:

pp.335-337

Poem Title:

A Birth-Day Pastoral. Cuddy and Roger.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Though placed where no reviving breeze

Page No:

pp.337-338

Poem Title:

On Miss Spring, extempore. In Allusion to Horace, Ode 22. Book I. beginning at Pone me pigris, &c.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The candle quite eclipsed by Celia's eyes

Page No:

pp.338-339

Poem Title:

Wrote by a Gentleman, on his letting a Candle fall upon a Lady's Breast.

Attribution:

Wrote by a Gentleman

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The furniture that best doth please

Page No:

p.338

Poem Title:

Dean Swift's Reply to a Friend, who asked him which were his Favourite Furniture.

Attribution:

Dean Swift's Reply

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Thou caterpillar that devours

Page No:

p.339

Poem Title:

The Lady and Caterpillar. A Fable.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O do not grieve nor strive in vain by art

Page No:

pp.340-341

Poem Title:

The following lines were composed, and sung with a very sweet Voice, by Lady, to her Husband, some few moments before she died.

Attribution:

by a Lady

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Young thoughtless gay unfortunately fair

Page No:

p.341

Poem Title:

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Tis somewhat that exists within

Page No:

p.342

Poem Title:

To a Lady, who asked, what is Love.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

I marched three miles through scorching sand

Page No:

p.342

Poem Title:

Spoken extempore by Dean Swift, on his Curate's Complaint of hard Duty.

Attribution:

by Dean Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

The moon hung pendulous above

Page No:

pp.343-344

Poem Title:

The Fifteenth Epode of Horace imitated.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

When Jupiter saw the fair Daphne decline

Page No:

p.343

Poem Title:

[Epigramma. In puellam que subito e gravi convaluit morbo] Englished.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Why droops the sun fair Chloe said

Page No:

pp.344-345

Poem Title:

The following Lines were written by a Gentle-man, on his Mistress's Birth-Day, which always happened to be cloudy.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Since Lucy's death who had my heart

Page No:

pp.345-346

Poem Title:

On Lucinda's Death.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Town wenches cries Rustic I've often been told

Page No:

p.345

Poem Title:

An Epigram.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Miss Ellen beautiful and young

Page No:

pp.347-348

Poem Title:

Apollo's Choice. Inscribed to a certain Lady.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Hail angry maid at sight of this don't frown

Page No:

pp.349-350

Poem Title:

Senesino to Mrs. Robinson.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Indulgent heaven has placed my lot

Page No:

pp.350-352

Poem Title:

The Medium; or, Happy State.

Attribution:

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First Line:

No more shall Polly with his lordship play

Page No:

p.352

Poem Title:

On the Death of a Lady's Parrot.

Attribution:

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First Line:

O thou all spotless as the morning ray

Page No:

pp.352-353

Poem Title:

To a Lady, on seeing her smile.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

When the dear girl I love complains

Page No:

p.353

Poem Title:

To a Lady indisposed.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Madam your bard might censured be

Page No:

p.354

Poem Title:

To a Lady, on her Birth-Day.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Soft Venus love's too anxious Queen

Page No:

pp.354-357

Poem Title:

The Tea-Pot: Or, The Lady's Transformation.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The counsels of a friend Belinda hear

Page No:

pp.357-360

Poem Title:

Advice to a Lady.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

No Spring thou art no more that season fine

Page No:

p.360

Poem Title:

[Written by a Lady on her Lover's Departure to the Army in the Spring ('Non, Printemps! tu n'es plus cette saison si belle')] Imitated in English

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The peasant's blest who in his cot

Page No:

p.361-362

Poem Title:

The Peasant. After the Manner of Mr. Pope's Ode on Solitude.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Behold Clarinda in a flood of sorrow

Page No:

p.363

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The Cyprian goddess on a certain day

Page No:

pp.363-364

Poem Title:

[A Receipt to make Kisses. ('Effinxit quondam, blandum meditata laborem')] Attempted in English.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The labours of a Dublin day

Page No:

pp.364-366

Poem Title:

A Day spent in Dublin. From a Lady there, to another in the Country.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A gloomy tempest rising from the main

Page No:

p.367

Poem Title:

Upon a Storm.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Low down in a valley a small cottage stands

Page No:

pp.367-370

Poem Title:

The Happy Widow.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Some dire event Hibernia must be nigh

Page No:

pp.370-371

Poem Title:

An Elegy, On the much lamented Death of John Maragh, the famous Harper of Kilcullen-Bridge, in the County of Kildare; who departed this Life, the Fifth of November, 1745.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Remorseless death and cruel fate

Page No:

pp.371

Poem Title:

Epitaph.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Ambrosia wrongs me of my song

Page No:

pp.372-373

Poem Title:

To a Lady, promising to sing, but never performing.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Clodius boasts that he a wife will take

Page No:

p.372

Poem Title:

[Epigramma. Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?] Translated. In what will all this Ostentation end?

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst on this subject you afford I write

Page No:

p.373

Poem Title:

A Lover to his Mistress, on her putting a Copy of his Verses in her Bosom.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Early this morn a time to muses kind

Page No:

374

Poem Title:

The Nonpareil.

Attribution:

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First Line:

We both are constant beauteous fair

Page No:

p.375

Poem Title:

[From an eminent French Poet ('Phillis, nous sommes bien constans') Imitated.

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First Line:

When the trees are all bare not a leaf to be seen

Page No:

pp.375-376

Poem Title:

Winter. A Pastoral Ballad.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Dearest heart to Catty go

Page No:

p.377

Poem Title:

The Poet sends his Heart with a Message to his Mistress. From the Latin.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The harnessed seraphims he takes

Page No:

pp.377-378

Poem Title:

On the Power and Dignity of God.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Ah me how frail this mortal state

Page No:

pp.378-380

Poem Title:

An Elegy, On the Death of a Faithful Servant, February 2, 1747.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thus Adam looked when from the garden driven

Page No:

p.378

Poem Title:

On being expelled a Lady's Company.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Here mixed with the common dust

Page No:

p.380

Poem Title:

Epitaph.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Come and behold good brother Hugh

Page No:

pp.381-382

Poem Title:

Marriage for Interest. Illustrated by a Simile.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Tom dined with me the other day

Page No:

p.381

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I tell with equal truth and grief

Page No:

pp.382-383

Poem Title:

The Thief.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The warbling lark and rook with hoarser scream

Page No:

pp.383-384

Poem Title:

A Description of a Country Morning. In Imitation of Dean Swift's City Morning.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

In virtue's cause to draw a daring pen

Page No:

pp.384-385

Poem Title:

On Good and Ill-Nature. To Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In justice to her sex abused

Page No:

p.385

Poem Title:

The Deaf and the Dumb Beauty.

Attribution:

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First Line:

How monstrous riches is thy power grown

Page No:

p.386

Poem Title:

On Riches extempore.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes

Page No:

p.386

Poem Title:

To the Memory of a young Lady.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Philander loads his board with noble fare

Page No:

p.386

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Accept these flowers of different hue

Page No:

p.387

Poem Title:

To a Lady, presenting a Nosegay.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Alike in temper and alike in life

Page No:

p.387

Poem Title:

An Epigram. From Martial.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Go soft desires love's gentle progeny

Page No:

p.387

Poem Title:

From the French.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Celinda think not by disdain

Page No:

p.388

Poem Title:

To Celinda.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When love disgraced in fury's guise

Page No:

p.388

Poem Title:

The Apology. To Chloris.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Come come my friend to this sweet bower

Page No:

pp.389-390

Poem Title:

Retired Friendship.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When dearest maid with heavenly zeal possessed

Page No:

p.389

Poem Title:

Wrote in a Lady's Prayer-book.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

So when an angel by divine command

Page No:

pp.390-391

Poem Title:

This beautiful Simile in Addison's Campaign, attempted in Latin.

Attribution:

'in Addison's Campaign'

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Beauty is but a vain and fleeting good

Page No:

p.391

Poem Title:

Beauty's Value.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Cease charmer cease for pity urge no more

Page No:

p.391

Poem Title:

To Chloe singing sweetly.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Damon dear favourite of the rural throng

Page No:

pp.392-396

Poem Title:

A Pastoral. Colinet, Roger, Hodson.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Oh lead me where my darling lies

Page No:

pp.396-397

Poem Title:

The following Lines were made by a Gentleman on the Death of an only Daughter.

Attribution:

by a Gentleman

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Not attributed

First Line:

No joy I in these peaceful shades can find

Page No:

pp.397-398

Poem Title:

The Complaint.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Let no suspicious fears thy peace destroy

Page No:

p.398

Poem Title:

To Stella.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hellen adorned with every grace

Page No:

p.399

Poem Title:

To the Same.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In young Astrea's sparkling eye

Page No:

p.399

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The country now in all its pride

Page No:

p.399

Poem Title:

To Miss Ambrose in the Country. May 1747.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Muse it's enough thy labour ends

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p.400

Poem Title:

The Author's Conclusion.

Attribution:

H. C.

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Not attributed