Miscellaneous poems on several occasions [T71696] [ecco]

DMI number:

510

Publication Date:

1734

ESTC number:

T71696

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB132856468

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

MISCELLANEOUS | POEMS | ON | Several Occasions. | [rule] | [i]By Mr[/i] DAWSON, [i]&c.[/i] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | To which are added, | A LETTER of the late Bp. A-T-R-B-Y's | to Mr P-P-E. | AND | A COPY of VERSES spoke Extempore | by Dean SWIFT, upon his Curate's complaint | of hard Duty. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for J. ROBERTS, near the [i]Oxford-Arms[/i] in | [i]Warwick-Lane[/i] ; | A. DODD, without [i]Temple-Bar[/i] ; | T. PAYNE, near the [i]South-Sea[/i] House, [i]Bishopsgate- | Street[/i] ; and J. FISHER in [i]Cornhill[/i]. 1735. | [Price One Shilling.]

Epigraph:

[i]I; fuge, sed poteras tutior esse domi.[/i] OVID

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Comments:

Contents : Prose pp. 60-63. Genre: collection of occasional verse.

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J. Fisher

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James Roberts

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T. Payne

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First Line:

Whilst anxious mortals strive in vain

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pp.3-5

Poem Title:

No true Felicity below.

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While crowds of visitants your levee throng

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pp.5-6

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Epithalamium: To Belinda.

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First Line:

Choked with the vapour of the air

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pp.6-8

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A Thought in a Meadow.

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Painters shall use their fading arts no more

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p.8

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To Septimia, on a Picture wrought by her in Silk.

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First Line:

Parnassus sacred hill we're told

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p.9

Poem Title:

Written in a Book at a School where some young Gentlemen had copied their Poetical Exercises.

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Amidst a radiant circle Strephon sate

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p.10

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On receiving a Dish of Tea from Septimia.

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First Line:

Fair Melesinda young and gay

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pp.10-11

Poem Title:

The Divided Triumph; or, The Coquet taken.

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First Line:

Certain it is man was not born

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pp.14-17

Poem Title:

Liberty. In a Letter to a Friend.

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First Line:

In vain Almeria do you this way strive

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p.14

Poem Title:

To the Antiquated Almeria, Shewing her Picture that was drawn when she was but sixteen.

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Unhappy flower in vain thy virgin white

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pp.17-18

Poem Title:

Ty'd to a White Rose Tree, on the 10th of June.

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First Line:

Two heroes not famous for martial adventures

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pp.18-19

Poem Title:

The Mock Duel.

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Whilst you Septimia mongst the swains

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pp.19-20

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To Septimia, inviting her to Town.

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First Line:

What quit the pleasures of the laurel grove

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pp.21-22

Poem Title:

To a Logician, who persuaded me to leave the Muses.

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First Line:

In Lancashire there dwells a knight

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pp.22-25

Poem Title:

Mock-Beggar's Hall.

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First Line:

Hail soft resplendent majesty of night

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pp.25-26

Poem Title:

A Hymn to the Moon.

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First Line:

How senselessly dull is the priest

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pp.26-29

Poem Title:

The Burial.

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First Line:

Whilst you oh Tityrus at your ease are laid

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pp.29-34

Poem Title:

The First Eclogue of Virgil. Tityrus and Meliboeus.

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First Line:

Sad Philocles sighed to the wind

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pp.35-37

Poem Title:

The Dispairing [sic] Swain.

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Long was the muse of every theme bereft

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pp.37-38

Poem Title:

The Privy.

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First Line:

Now tyrant god thy rule give over

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pp.38-39

Poem Title:

The Disappointment: To Cupid.

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First Line:

Sir | Since to poetry yet you were never much inclined

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pp.40-42

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr J. D.

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First Line:

Weak from its quickend rudiments in earth

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p.42

Poem Title:

The Infant.

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First Line:

Within the concave of this cup

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p.43

Poem Title:

On a Lady's Chamber-Pot, neglected to be emptied.

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It is a maxim of the schools

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pp.44-50

Poem Title:

The Game at Quoits. A Tale for Theoretic Lovers.

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First Line:

Let fools assert that good old Homer nods

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p.44

Poem Title:

On a Lady not extremely handsome, who prevented my Fall, by giving me her Hand.

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First Line:

Chloe has wit I need must own

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p.51

Poem Title:

To a Lady who always laughed at her own Repartees.

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First Line:

Bold is the man who in these factious times

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pp.52-53

Poem Title:

To Mr Francis Peck upon his publishing the Antiquities of Stamford. 1723.

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By Mr P. T.

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First Line:

If mere good nature drew this audience here

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pp.54-55

Poem Title:

A Prologue to the Orphan...Acted March the 26th, 1722. Spoken by Chamont.

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By Mr. I. E.

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First Line:

Tonight for our diversion we essay

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pp.55-57

Poem Title:

A Prologue to Theodosius acted July 16. 1722. Spoken by Leontine.

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By Mr. M. B.

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First Line:

Once more we young asserters of the stage

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pp.57-58

Poem Title:

A Prologue to Cato...spoken by the Author at Hatton-Garden, Aug. 1. 1723.

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By Mr. P. T.

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First Line:

As souls about to leave their bodies bare

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pp.58-59

Poem Title:

On Parting.

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By Mr. P. T.

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First Line:

I came I saw and was undone

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p.58

Poem Title:

Upon falling in Love.

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First Line:

As she was once few of her sex you'll see

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pp.59-60

Poem Title:

On Lady Scudamore.

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First Line:

Nassau prepares for martial toils

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p.60

Poem Title:

On their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange.

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First Line:

I marched three miles through scorching sand

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pp.63-64

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:

Deaf giddy helpless left alone

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p.64

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Swift]

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift