A collection of original poems and translations [ESTC T101302]
- DMI number:
- 817
- Publication Date:
- 1745
- ESTC number:
- T101302
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW110942938
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding C 3169
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | Of ORIGINAL | POEMS | AND | TRANSLATIONS. | [rule] | [i]By[/i] JOHN WHALEY, [i]M.A.[/i] | Fellow of [i]King's-College, Cambridge.[/i] | [rule] | [i]LONDON,[/i] | Printed for the AUTHOR, and Sold by R. MANBY, and | H.S. Cox, on [i]Ludgate-Hill.[/i] | MDCCXLV.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of translations/imitations
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- i-viii, [1]-335
- Comments:
- Latin verse (with English translation on facing page), pp. 54-6, 78-90, 94-102, 106-72, 192-200, 248-52, 264-76, 290-4. ATTRIBUTIONS: all unattributed verse in the collection is treated as being by John Whaley, named on the title page as author. See ODNB for further details.
- Other matter:
- Dedication to Horatio Walpole, Esq. signed J. Whaley [1p.]; contents pages [4pp.]
- References:
- Case 448
- Dedicatee:
- Horace Walpole
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Editor:
- John Whaley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printer:
- William Bowyer
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- ESTC identifies Bowyer as printer.
- Publisher:
- Henry Shute Cox
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Richard Manby
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Where mid Italia's ever sunny lands
- Page No:
- pp.1-28
- Poem Title:
- Cornaro and the Turk. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Sweet nymphs that dwell on Pindus' verdant side
- Page No:
- pp.29-51
- Poem Title:
- A Journey to Houghton, The Seat of the Right Hon. Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, in the County of Norfolk. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Sun with light peculiar shining
- Page No:
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- Prothalamium
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Observe how calmly warm my friend
- Page No:
- pp.55-57
- Poem Title:
- To C.P. Esq. From Horace, Book iv. Ode 12.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- The cattle sleek the gilt machine
- Page No:
- pp.58-60
- Poem Title:
- The Dissappointment[sic].
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Bright Phoebus and thou goddess maid
- Page No:
- pp.61-62
- Poem Title:
- Ode. On the Anniversary of the Nuptials of I.D. Esq.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Thou ever verdant venerable shade
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- Verses Wrote in the Oak-Walk at Billingbear in Berkshire.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- To gild over avarice with a specious name
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- A Thought on Gaming.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Dear absent master of this sweet domain
- Page No:
- pp.65-68
- Poem Title:
- To I.D. Esq. Swallowfield Place, March 25, 1740.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- The youth on whom Chloe deigns smile
- Page No:
- pp.69-70
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Sweet solitude that even despair canst charm
- Page No:
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Awake fair bride to this returning morn
- Page No:
- pp.72-73
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady On the Birth Day of her Husband, 1740.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Bright morning star revisit earth
- Page No:
- pp.74-75
- Poem Title:
- Ode On the Birth-day of two Friends. In Imitation of an Epigram of Martial.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- The things that best teach life to please
- Page No:
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- To a Friend. In Imitation of an Epigram of Martial.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- He on whose birth Apollo strongly shone
- Page No:
- pp.78-81
- Poem Title:
- In Imitation of Horace, Book iv. Ode iii.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- O to whose keen yet candid sense
- Page No:
- pp.82-85
- Poem Title:
- In Imitation of Horace. Lib. I. Epist. IV.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Great Mars see Delia bowing at thy shrine
- Page No:
- pp.86-87
- Poem Title:
- Translation of Tibullus. Book IV. Elegy II.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Ye furious boars that haunt the shady grove
- Page No:
- pp.88-91
- Poem Title:
- Translation of Tibullus. Book IV. Elegy III.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Who has breathed Heliconian air
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- To R.D. Esq. A Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Let numerous acres others hopes employ
- Page No:
- pp.94-103
- Poem Title:
- Translation of Tibullus. Book I. Elegy I.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Ye to whom heaven imparts its special fires
- Page No:
- p.104
- Poem Title:
- On reading Lord Bacon's Flattery to King James I.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- The last proud Austrian's tomb the eye surveys
- Page No:
- p.105
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on Charles VI. Emperor of Germany. From the French.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Perish then Bacchus and his darling vine
- Page No:
- pp.106-111
- Poem Title:
- In Praise of Water. A.D. 1736.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- The winter's gone grass clothes the meads once more
- Page No:
- pp.112-115
- Poem Title:
- Imitation of Horace. Book IV. Ode VII.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- While you my friend were pleading at the bar
- Page No:
- pp.116-127
- Poem Title:
- To C.P. Esq. Translation of Horace, Book I. Epist. II.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Full seldom now the rake's bold beat
- Page No:
- pp.128-131
- Poem Title:
- To Lydia. Translation of Horace. Book I. Ode XXV.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Sweet is the music of yon lofty pines
- Page No:
- pp.132-149
- Poem Title:
- Translation of Theocritus. Idyllium the First. Thyrsis and a Shepherd.
- Attribution:
- By a Genleman. [sic]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No balm so strongly healing can we find
- Page No:
- pp.150-161
- Poem Title:
- Translation from Theocritus, The Cyclops, Idyll. XI.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Want can edge wit and sciences inspire
- Page No:
- pp.162-173
- Poem Title:
- Translation from Theocritus. Idyllium XXI.
- Attribution:
- By a Friend.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Is this the region this the soil the clime
- Page No:
- pp.174-177
- Poem Title:
- From Milton. Book I. Verse 242, &c.
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Sceptre of ease whose calm domain extends
- Page No:
- pp.178-181
- Poem Title:
- Vacuna.
- Attribution:
- By a Friend.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Soul of the muses thou supreme of verse
- Page No:
- pp.182-186
- Poem Title:
- Rhapsody, to Milton.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From where the Stroud smooth stream serenely glides
- Page No:
- pp.187-191
- Poem Title:
- A Voyage to Tinterne Abbey in Monmouthshire, from Whitminster in Glocestershire.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- D- of rural scenes a lover grown
- Page No:
- pp.192-201
- Poem Title:
- To J.W. Imitation of Horace. Book I. Epist. X.
- Attribution:
- By the same
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What ken mine eyes enchanted man of ease
- Page No:
- pp.202-207
- Poem Title:
- On J.W. ranging Pamphlets.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In frolic's hour ere serious thoughts had birth
- Page No:
- pp.208-213
- Poem Title:
- To the Hon. and Rev. -----.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In that remote and solitary place
- Page No:
- pp.214-216
- Poem Title:
- At seeing Archbishop Williams's Monument in Carnarvonshire.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Glory to God the avenger power supreme
- Page No:
- pp.217-224
- Poem Title:
- A Song of Deborah. From the Book of Judges, Chap. V.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas when the cruel Idumaean reigned
- Page No:
- pp.225-228
- Poem Title:
- The Nativity.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fairest quarter of the year
- Page No:
- pp.229-232
- Poem Title:
- To the Spring.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis not thy fault that Europe is undone
- Page No:
- pp.233-235
- Poem Title:
- To the Queen of Hungary 1741.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From friendship's cradle up the verdant paths
- Page No:
- pp.236-239
- Poem Title:
- To C.P. Esq.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mortal whoever thou art beware since time
- Page No:
- pp.240-241
- Poem Title:
- A Night Thought.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye nymphs that from Diana's sport retired
- Page No:
- pp.242-245
- Poem Title:
- Epithalamium.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thy sanguine hope completed in a boy
- Page No:
- pp.246-247
- Poem Title:
- To a Gentleman, On the Birth-day of his First Son.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- What says dear A--th to fine places seen
- Page No:
- pp.248-253
- Poem Title:
- Imitation of Horace. Book I. Epist. XI.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There are it seems who think the natal star
- Page No:
- pp.254-255
- Poem Title:
- On two Friends born on the same Day.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A lovely form so permanently fair
- Page No:
- p.256
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of Mrs. M.H.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I would tell thee thou art fair
- Page No:
- pp.257-261
- Poem Title:
- To Miss A.W. a very young Lady.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Birds in joy all birds excelling
- Page No:
- pp.262-263
- Poem Title:
- To the Sparrows at Menwinyon in Cornwal [sic].
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- The minister that's brave and just
- Page No:
- pp.264-277
- Poem Title:
- An Ode to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, February 6. 1741. On his ceasing to be a Minister. Being a just Panegyric on a Great Minister, the Revolution, and Hanover Succession. In Imitation of Justum & tenacem, &c.
- Attribution:
- The Author Anonymous.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though from the north the damsel came
- Page No:
- p.278
- Poem Title:
- On a Young Lady of the North.
- Attribution:
- By --.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail moral bard to whose instructive lay
- Page No:
- pp.279-280
- Poem Title:
- To Alexander Pope, Esq. On his Essay of Man.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. Mr. P.L.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In winter's icy chains lies nature bound
- Page No:
- p.281
- Poem Title:
- On a Young Lady working green Silk on a white Sattin Ground.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Ingenious fair in whose well mingled dyes
- Page No:
- pp.282-283
- Poem Title:
- To a young Lady, who Paints very well, but always Draws her own Sex to Disadvantage.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- When some new rising beauty fills
- Page No:
- pp.284-286
- Poem Title:
- To the same.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- In vain fair nymph thy pencil would disgrace
- Page No:
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- To the same.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- The golden tripod should thy worth receive
- Page No:
- pp.288-289
- Poem Title:
- To - - - - -
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Had heavenly beings been with tears supplied
- Page No:
- pp.290-291
- Poem Title:
- On the Tomb of the Virgin Laura. From Sannazarius.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Here fair Albina lies yet not alone
- Page No:
- pp.292-293
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on Albina. From Marullus.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your wife's possessed of such a face and mind
- Page No:
- pp.294-295
- Poem Title:
- On Charinus the Husband of an ugly Wife. From Johannes Secundus
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Good friend this message to my owner bear
- Page No:
- p.296
- Poem Title:
- On the Statue of a Heifer. From Johannes Secundus.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- As in my cell low prostrate on the ground
- Page No:
- pp.297-306
- Poem Title:
- Abelard to Heloisa.
- Attribution:
- By a Lady.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When youthful charms are blasted in their bloom
- Page No:
- pp.307-311
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of a Young Bride.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- Where the rude waves on Dia's harbour play
- Page No:
- pp.312-325
- Poem Title:
- Theseus and Ariadne.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- And so with look inquisitive you muse
- Page No:
- p.326
- Poem Title:
- Looking on a Tomb Stone, The Interred speak.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- How sweetly careless Delia seems
- Page No:
- p.327
- Poem Title:
- On a Wasp's settling on Delia's Arm.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- First Line:
- French power and weak allies and war and want
- Page No:
- pp.328-335
- Poem Title:
- To the Rev. T.T. D.D.
- Attribution:
- By a Friend.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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