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

Related People

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:

Content/Publication

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