Miscellaneous works of his late excellency Matthew Prior [ECCO] [N35208]

DMI number:

643

Publication Date:

1740

ESTC number:

N35208

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB130794461

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Epigraph:

TITLE: MISCELLANEOUS | WORKS | Of His late EXCELLENCY | [i]MATTHEW PRIOR[/i] Esq; | Consisting of | POEMS | ON | SEVERAL OCCASIONS, | [i]VIZ[/i]. | EPISTLES, TALES, SATIRES, EPIGRAMS, [i]&c[/i]. | With some Select LATIN PERFORMANCES. | Now first published from His | ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS. | [rule] | Revised by Himself, and Copied fair for the | Press | By Mr. [i]ADRIAN DRIFT[/i], His Executor. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for the EDITOR. MDCCXL. | Price Six Shillings. MISCELLANY GENRE: Collection of verses by Matthew Prior and in memory of Prior. PLATES: Frontispiece engraving of 'Mr. Prior's Monument', R. Parr, sculp. CONTENTS: Dedication (4pp.), Contents (4pp.), 'Verses sent to Mr Prior' pp.[i]-lxiii, 'Translations from Tibullus and Ovid' pp.[lxiv]-lxxxvii; miscellaneous verse and prose pp.lxxxviii-xcv. Prose pp.lxxxviii-lxxxix, p.xci. Latin verse pp.xliii-xliv. PAGINATION: ??? NOTES: Also issued as v.2 of Prior’s ’Miscellaneous works’, London: printed for the editor, MDCCXL. And sold by C. Corbett. Dedication signed by J. Bancks.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Price:

6 s.

Comments:

QUERY: Pagination of the ECCO copy is vi, iv, xcv. ESTC says this volume should be vi, iv, 380, xcv. The ECCO copy thus appears to have front and back matter only. More bibliographical work needed to establish the different states of this ed., and its relationship to T75653.

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Title:

Miscellaneous works of his late excellency Matthew Prior [ECCO] [T75653]

Publication Date:

1739

ESTC No:

T75653

Volume:

None

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Related People

Author:

Matthew Prior

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Dedicatee:

Lionel Cranfield Sackville

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Editor:

Adrian Drift

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

Adrian Drift

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for the Editor'.

Content/Publication

First Line:

The first great man who made the world his own

Page No:

pp.iii-ix

Poem Title:

To Matthew Prior, Esq; on his Carmen Saeculare. 1700.

Attribution:

By James Marshall, Esq.

Attributed To:

James Marshall

First Line:

When Prior's muse prepares to sing

Page No:

pp.x-xiii

Poem Title:

To Matthew Prior, Esq; On his excellent Carmen Saeculare.

Attribution:

By A.T. Scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let Britain now at last no more complain

Page No:

pp.xiv-xix

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior, on His excellent Poems. 1709.*

Attribution:

G. Sewell. Aetat 18.

Attributed To:

George Sewell

First Line:

The nymph whose virgin heart thy charms have taught

Page No:

pp.xx-xxi

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior, from a Lady Unknown.*

Attribution:

Anne, Countess of Winchelsea. [Footnote]

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Whilst Harley with more near approaches blessed

Page No:

pp.xxii-xxxiv

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr Prior, on the New Edition, of his Works, in Folio. 1718.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As bards of old in nobler lays could sing

Page No:

pp.xxxv-xxxix

Poem Title:

To the Honourable Matthew Prior, Esq.

Attribution:

Cecini humillimeque obtuli, Geo. Waldron. Olim Coll. Reg. Oxon, 1718

Attributed To:

George Waldron

First Line:

Receive great bard thanks from the meanest muse

Page No:

pp.xl-xlii

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior, from St John's.

Attribution:

By J. Newcome, Fellow of that College [i.e. of St John's, Cambridge]

Attributed To:

J. Newcome

First Line:

Oft have I thought great bard in my poor cell

Page No:

pp.xlv-xlvii

Poem Title:

To Mr Prior, On the Book of Ecclesiastes, and His Own Poem, called Solomon, January 20, 1719-20.

Attribution:

Francis Peck, M.A.

Attributed To:

Francis Peck

First Line:

Hail honoured bard the wonder of our isle

Page No:

pp.xlviii-lvi

Poem Title:

To the Author of Solomon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Maro and Horace equally divine

Page No:

p.lvii

Poem Title:

Written under the Picture of the Honourable Mr Prior, July 21, 1720. His Birth-Day.

Attribution:

A. Drift

Attributed To:

Adrian Drift

First Line:

O dearest master father friend

Page No:

p.lviii-lix

Poem Title:

To the Honourable Mr Prior, Presented to Him On His Birth-Day.

Attribution:

Mr. Drift

Attributed To:

Adrian Drift

First Line:

Wit sense and learning massacred of late

Page No:

pp.lx-lxi

Poem Title:

On a Report of Mr Prior's Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To see this solemn scene this pomp of woe

Page No:

pp.lxii-lxiii

Poem Title:

On Seeing the Funeral of Mr Prior, in Westminster-Abbey.

Attribution:

A. Drift

Attributed To:

Adrian Drift

First Line:

I see the fetters I am doomed to wear

Page No:

pp.[lxvii]-lxxiii

Poem Title:

The Fourth Elegy of the Second Book of Tibullus.

Attribution:

Matthew Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Not that I may in worldly wealth abound

Page No:

pp.lxxiv-lxxvii

Poem Title:

The Third Elegy of the Third Book of Tibullus.

Attribution:

Matthew Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

No woman ever shall draw me from your arms

Page No:

pp.lxxviii-lxxxi

Poem Title:

The Twelfth Elegy of the Fourth Book of Tibullus. To His Mistress.

Attribution:

Matthew Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Chloe since you a handsome woman are

Page No:

pp.lxxxii-lxxxvii

Poem Title:

Ovid's Amours, Book III, Elegy III, Imitated.

Attribution:

Matthew Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Down-Hall well seated near a wood

Page No:

p.xc

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Contained in a letter signed 'John Morley'

Attributed To:

John Morley

First Line:

When man's good-genius viewed the world around

Page No:

pp.xcii-xcv

Poem Title:

To John Morley, Esq; of Halstead in Essex, on his Birth-Day.

Attribution:

George Waldron

Attributed To:

George Waldron