Miscellaneous poems and translations [T5780] [vol I]
- DMI number:
- 305
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1722
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T5780
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW124773718
- Shelfmark:
- BOD 12 Theta 1017 (v.1)
- Full Title:
- MISCELLANEOUS | [r]POEMS[/r] | AND | TRANSLATIONS, | By several Hands. | PARTICULARLY, | [two columns] [column one] I. Windsor-Forest, [i]with | the[/i] Messiah. | II. Essay on Criticism. | III. Rape of the Lock. | IV. Ode on St. CECILIA's | Day. | V. Verses to the Memo- | ry of a Lady. [/column one] | [column two] VI. To Mr. JERVAS, with | FRESNOY's Art of | Painting. | VII. To a young Lady, | with the Works of | VOITURE. | VIII. ELOISA to ABE-| LARD. [/column two] | [rule] | [r]By Mr. [i]POPE[/i].[/r] | [rule] | THE FOURTH EDITION. | [rule] | [r][i]LONDON:[/i][/r] | Printed for BERNARD LINTOT between the [i]Temple-[/i] | Gates in [i]Fleetstreet[/i], 1722.
- Epigraph:
- n/a
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Price:
- n/a
- Pagination:
- [2], [5]-288.
- Bibliographic details:
- Title page in red and black. Plate (portrait of Pope) facing title page. Windsor Forest (p. [5]) , Essay on Criticism (p. [33]), Rape of the Lock (p. [69]) Eloisa to Abelard (p. [157]), Chaucer's Characters (p. [237]), The Miller of Trompington (p. [269]) all have separate title pages. Index to this vol is included in vol II. BOD 12 Theta 1017 has numerous underlinings, and several of the early poems have line numbers written in.
- Comments:
- Attributions: some attributions taken from the index in vol II.
- References:
- Case 260 (1) (d)
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems and translations [T5777]
- Publication Date:
- 1712
- ESTC No:
- T5777
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems and translations [T5778]
- Publication Date:
- 1714
- ESTC No:
- T5778
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems and translations [T5779] [vol I]
- Publication Date:
- 1720
- ESTC No:
- T5779
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems, translations and imitations [T5779] [vol II]
- Publication Date:
- 1720
- ESTC No:
- T5779 [vol II]
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems, translations and imitations [T5780] [vol II]
- Publication Date:
- 1722
- ESTC No:
- T5780
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'By Mr. Pope.'
- Publisher:
- (Barnaby) Bernard Lintot [Lintott]
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for BERNARD LINTOT between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-street.'
- First Line:
- Thy forests Windsor and thy green retreats
- Page No:
- pp.7-26
- Poem Title:
- Windsor-Forest.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Ye nymphs of Solyma begin the song
- Page No:
- pp.27-32
- Poem Title:
- Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, In Imitation of Virgil's Pollio.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
- Page No:
- pp.35-68
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Criticism.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What dire offence from amorous causes springs
- Page No:
- pp.75-112
- Poem Title:
- The Rape of the Lock.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Descend ye nine descend and sing
- Page No:
- pp.113-119
- Poem Title:
- Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia's Day.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The fair Pomona flourished in his reign
- Page No:
- pp.120-125
- Poem Title:
- Vertumnus and Pomona: From the fourteenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade
- Page No:
- pp.126-129
- Poem Title:
- Verses To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- This verse be thine my friend nor thou refuse
- Page No:
- pp.130-134
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Jervas, With Fresnoy's Art of Painting, Translated by Mr. Dryden.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- In these gay thoughts the loves and graces shine
- Page No:
- pp.135-138
- Poem Title:
- To a Young Lady, With the Works of Voiture.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- As some fond virgin whom her mother's care
- Page No:
- pp.139-141
- Poem Title:
- To the Same, On her leaving the Town after the Coronation.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Be gone ye critics and restrain your spite
- Page No:
- pp.142-143
- Poem Title:
- To The Author of a Poem Entituled, Successio.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Come gentle air the Aeolian shepherd said
- Page No:
- p.144
- Poem Title:
- On a Fan of the Author's Design, in which was painted the Story of Cephalus and Procris, with the Motto, Aura Veni.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Silence coeval with eternity
- Page No:
- pp.145-148
- Poem Title:
- On Silence, In Imitation of the style of the late E. of R.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- A pleasing form a firm yet cautious mind
- Page No:
- p.149
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- To wake the soul by tender strokes of art
- Page No:
- pp.150-152
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Prodigious this the frail one of our play
- Page No:
- pp.153-155
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to Jane Shore. Design'd for Mrs. Oldfield.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- In these deep solitudes and awful cells
- Page No:
- pp.159-175
- Poem Title:
- Eloisa to Abelard.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Thy relics Rowe to this fair shrine we trust
- Page No:
- p.176
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph Design'd for Mr. Rowe in Westminster-Abbey...To the Memory of Nicholas Rowe Esq; his Wife erected this Monument.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- See the wild waste of all-devouring years
- Page No:
- pp.177-180
- Poem Title:
- Verses Occasion'd by Mr. Addison's Treatise of Medals.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Such were the notes thy once-loved poet sung
- Page No:
- pp.181-183
- Poem Title:
- Dedication to Dr. Parnell's Poems...To the Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Ye shades where sacred truth is sought
- Page No:
- pp.184-186
- Poem Title:
- Chorus of Athenians.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Oh tyrant love hast thou possessed
- Page No:
- pp.186-188
- Poem Title:
- Two Chorus's To The Tragedy of Brutus, Not yet Publick
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Whither is ancient virtue gone
- Page No:
- pp.189-191
- Poem Title:
- First Song after the end of the first Act. Chorus of free Citizens of Rome.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace the Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- Lo to prevent this awful empire's doom
- Page No:
- pp.191-192
- Poem Title:
- Second Song after the second Act. The Genius of Rome.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace the Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- Dark is the path poor mortals tread
- Page No:
- pp.192-193
- Poem Title:
- Third Song after the third Act. Chorus of Roman Senators.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace the Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- Our vows thus cheerfully we sing
- Page No:
- pp.194-195
- Poem Title:
- Fourth Song after the fourth Act. Chorus of Soldiers in the Army of Brutus and Cassius.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace the Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- With age decayed with courts and business tired
- Page No:
- pp.196-197
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Pope and his Poems.
- Attribution:
- 'By the same' i.e. Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- Pallas attentive heard the muses song
- Page No:
- pp.198-208
- Poem Title:
- The Story of Arachne, From the beginning of the sixth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. J. Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- While you my lord bid stately piles ascend
- Page No:
- pp.209-216
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle To the Right Honourable the Earl of Burlington. A Journey to Exeter.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Gay]
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Madam to all your censures I submit
- Page No:
- pp.217-224
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle To A Lady. Occasioned by the arrival of her Royal Highness.
- Attribution:
- 'By the Same' i.e. Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- As when some skilful cook to please each guest
- Page No:
- pp.225-229
- Poem Title:
- On a Miscellany of Poems To Bernard Lintott.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some Colinaeus praise some Bleau
- Page No:
- pp.230-231
- Poem Title:
- Verses design'd to be prefix'd to Mr. Lintott's Miscellany.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All in the downs the fleet was moored
- Page No:
- pp.232-235
- Poem Title:
- Sweet William's farewel to Black-ey'd Susan. A Ballad.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gay. Set by Mr. Leveridge
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Twas when the fields imbibe the vernal showers
- Page No:
- pp.239-267
- Poem Title:
- Chaucer's Character.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Betterton
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Betterton
- First Line:
- At Trompington not far from Cambridge stood
- Page No:
- pp.271-285
- Poem Title:
- The Miller of Trompington, Or The Reve's Tale from Chaucer.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Betterton
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Betterton
- First Line:
- Chloe a coquet in her prime
- Page No:
- p.286
- Poem Title:
- On the Marriage of an Old Maid.
- Attribution:
- By R. F.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He who in impious times undaunted stood
- Page No:
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on the Monument of the Marquis of Winchester.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So fair so young so innocent so sweet
- Page No:
- p.288
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Paston of Barningham in Norfolk.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Dryden]
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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