A collection of original poems. By the Rev. Mr Blacklock and other Scotch gentlemen [T116769] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 923
- Publication Date:
- 1760
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T116769
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW110444687
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - Bod
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | ORIGINAL POEMS. | BY | The Rev. Mr BLACKLOCK, and other | SCOTCH GENTLEMEN. | EDINBURGH: | Printed for A. DONALDSON, at Pope's Head; | and sold by R. and J. DODSLEY in Pall-Mall, and | J. RICHARDSON in Pater-noster-row, [i]London.[/i] | MDCCLX.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Bibliographic details:
- Second volume appears in 1762.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Note referring to entry in Stationers' Register [1p]; Advertisement [1p]; Contents pp. v-viii.
- Title:
- A collection of original poems by Scotch gentlemen [Vol II] [ESTC T116768] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1762
- ESTC No:
- T116768
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of original poems by Scotch gentlemen. Volume II [N14984] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1762
- ESTC No:
- N14984
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- James Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- Alexander Donaldson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- Joseph Richardson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- Robert Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Dear ladies whilst the nuptial hour at hand
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- To Two Sisters on their Wedding-Day. An Epistle.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Blacklock.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- One night I dreamed and dreams may oft prove true
- Page No:
- pp.2-3
- Poem Title:
- Estimate of Huma Greatness. In imitation of a French epigram.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Blacklock]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- Hail nature's loveliest work and darling care
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- To her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton, on her recovery from childbed, after the birth of the Marquis of Clydesdale.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. Blacklock]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- Pretty sportive happy creature
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- Ode on a favourite Lap-Dog. To Miss G-- J--.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. Blacklock]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- Thou pity fond unthinking boy
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- To a successful rival, who said ironically, he pitied the author. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Blacklock]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- In distant regions freedom's last retreat
- Page No:
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- Cato Uticensis to his wife at Rome.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Blacklock]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- Dear madam | With long and careful scrutiny in vain
- Page No:
- pp.9-11
- Poem Title:
- The genealogy of Nonsense. An Epistle.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Blacklock]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- O friend by every sympathy endeared
- Page No:
- pp.12-14
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy. Inscribed to C-- S--, Esq;
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Blacklock]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- How often my heart has by love been overthrown
- Page No:
- pp.15-17
- Poem Title:
- The chronicle of a Heart. In imitation of Cowley.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Blacklock]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- To pious sorrow sacred be this day
- Page No:
- pp.18-20
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy on the anniversary of the Death of a Friend ... Inscribed to Mr Blacklock.
- Attribution:
- By --
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O formed at once to feel and to inspire
- Page No:
- pp.20-22
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady. With Hammond's Elegies.
- Attribution:
- By --.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cease cease my dear friend to explore
- Page No:
- pp.22-24
- Poem Title:
- Song. Inscribed to a Friend. In imitation of Shenstone.
- Attribution:
- By Mr Blacklock.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- When Celia dwells on Damon's name
- Page No:
- pp.24-26
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Ode 13. Book 1. imitated.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Blacklock]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Blacklock
- First Line:
- My dear Zelinda since you would explore
- Page No:
- pp.29-39
- Poem Title:
- On the cultivation of Taste. An Epistle. To a young Lady.
- Attribution:
- By Mr C.--
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To nations far remote the lord of day
- Page No:
- pp.40-44
- Poem Title:
- An Evening-Walk. Written beside the ruins of the royal palace at Linlithgow.
- Attribution:
- By Mr R. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lovely beauty breathing spring
- Page No:
- pp.45-47
- Poem Title:
- To Spring. An Hymn.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From these lone walls and this ungrateful shore
- Page No:
- pp.47-50
- Poem Title:
- Epistle. To a Friend. Written at Fort-George.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With roses and with myrtles crowned
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- The Power of Wine.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair rose whose lively glow the fancy warms
- Page No:
- pp.53-55
- Poem Title:
- The Rose.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The jovial season and the flowery field
- Page No:
- pp.55-61
- Poem Title:
- A Narcissa. A Walk.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To thee my fair the muses sing
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- To Chloe. A Song. Tune, The Birks of Invermay.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See how Saphira mid the crowd appears
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- On seeing a young Lady at a distance, and unaquainted.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A whimsical lover's a prey to each care
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- Indifference. A Song. Tune, The man that's contented.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While vernal airs inspire each tuneful tongue
- Page No:
- pp.66-68
- Poem Title:
- To Narcissa. An Elegy.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sure triple brass involved his cruel heart
- Page No:
- pp.69-70
- Poem Title:
- The Larks. An Elegy. Occasioned by seeing two that were shot.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let him whose soul the love of glory charms
- Page No:
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- Elegy. In the manner fo Tibullus.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On yonder plain what awful form appears
- Page No:
- pp.72-74
- Poem Title:
- Elegy. On the death of General Wolfe.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Gay Venus gentle queen of soft desire
- Page No:
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- Elegy.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. A. E.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While other youths play sportive in the shade
- Page No:
- pp.77-79
- Poem Title:
- Elegy.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. A. E.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cherished by fortune now my work's complete
- Page No:
- pp.79-80
- Poem Title:
- Elegy.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. A. E.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poets and painters ever were the same
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- Wrote in answer to a Gentleman who sent a Lady a present of Landscapes, accompanied with Verses.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. A. E.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The sun was sinking to the western hills
- Page No:
- pp.82-85
- Poem Title:
- Lavinia. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. A. E.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sad I am sad indeed my tears still flow
- Page No:
- pp.85-88
- Poem Title:
- Fragment of an Irish Poem. Taken from a literal prose translation.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. A. E.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A starling long had ranged the woods
- Page No:
- pp.89-91
- Poem Title:
- The Starling, the Crows, the Fox, and the Hawk. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. A. E.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How could you deceive me my fair
- Page No:
- pp.92-94
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral Ballad. In the manner of Shenstone.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. A. E.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How blessed is the man who supplies
- Page No:
- pp.95-96`
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. A. E.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Still shall unthinking man substantial deem
- Page No:
- pp.96-99
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy. Occasioned by the death of Mrs *****.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Beattie.
- Attributed To:
- James Beattie
- First Line:
- Ah me vile interest every bosom stains
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- From the Italian of Tasso.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear happy groves where peace eternal dwells
- Page No:
- pp.101-103
- Poem Title:
- From the Italian of Guarini.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If worth departed claims the heartfelt tear
- Page No:
- pp.103-104
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph. On a Young Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though no proud trophies of the great or vain
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Soft passenger the moral lay attend
- Page No:
- pp.105-106
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph. For the Rt Hon. Mary Countess of Errol.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Patient transcriber of my painful strain
- Page No:
- pp.106-116
- Poem Title:
- Translation of an epistle of the Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sans-Souci: A collection of poems (lately published) wrote by the King of Prussia. Epistle XIX. From the King of Prussia to his Private Secretary Mons. Darget.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The weary sailor calls for ease
- Page No:
- pp.117-120
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Ode 16. Book 2. imitated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When tempests sweep and billows roll
- Page No:
- pp.120-122
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Ode 10. Book 2. imitated. To a Friend.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Did fortune what to few she'll give
- Page No:
- pp.122-123
- Poem Title:
- The Choice.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Alas the years how swift they roll
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- Written on a Birth-Day.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain we toil for lasting fame
- Page No:
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- The Monument.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold fair maid what nature could inspire
- Page No:
- pp.126-127
- Poem Title:
- Verses sent to a Young Lady, with some Translations from the Erse.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The wind is up the field is bare
- Page No:
- pp.128-130
- Poem Title:
- The Cave. Written in the Highlands.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I call the man unworthy of my praise
- Page No:
- pp.130-132
- Poem Title:
- Fragments from Tyrtaeus. Fragment I.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye then who boast Alcides' race divine
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- Poem Title:
- Fragment II.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How graceful lies the brave man on the plain
- Page No:
- pp.134-135
- Poem Title:
- Fragment III.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On beds of tender myrtles laid
- Page No:
- pp.135-136
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon, Ode 4. translated.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By night on purple carpets spread
- Page No:
- p.136
- Poem Title:
- Anacreon, Ode 8.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twice has the winter vexed the main
- Page No:
- pp.137-139
- Poem Title:
- In answer to a letter from Delia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis night and storms the forest shake
- Page No:
- pp.139-142
- Poem Title:
- A Night-Piece.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When half the nation round Almira sighs
- Page No:
- pp.142-143
- Poem Title:
- A Letter to a Young Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Be sorrow banished give not all your bloom
- Page No:
- pp.144-149
- Poem Title:
- Adella: A Poem.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My bursting heart is torn with racking pain
- Page No:
- pp.150-152
- Poem Title:
- Morna: A Poem.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sicilian muse sublimer strains inspire
- Page No:
- pp.153-156
- Poem Title:
- The fourth Pastoral of Virgil, Attempted in English Verse ... Pollio.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. Mr J. B.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since you with skill can touch the tender reed
- Page No:
- pp.157-163
- Poem Title:
- The Fifth Pastoral of Virgil, Attempted in English Verse ... Menalcas, Mopsus.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. J. B.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To my last labour lend thy sacred aid
- Page No:
- pp.163-168
- Poem Title:
- The Tenth Pastoral of Virgil, Attempted in English Verse ... Gallus.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. J. B.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dark autumn now assumes its fading reign
- Page No:
- pp.168-170
- Poem Title:
- A Versification of the Fifth Fragment of Ancient Poetry. From the Galic or Erse language. A piece in the taste of the celebrated Mr Gray.
- Attribution:
- By a Gentleman of Scotland.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hushed are the winds and past the driving shower
- Page No:
- pp.171-174
- Poem Title:
- A Poetical Translation of the Twelfth Fragment of Ancient Poetry. From the Galic or Erse language. Ryno, Alpin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail musing midnight let me rove
- Page No:
- pp.174-177
- Poem Title:
- To Midnight. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. A. E--.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How vain are the efforts of art
- Page No:
- pp.177-179
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral Ballad.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. A. E.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In Lothian's fertile fields whose every plain
- Page No:
- pp.180-183
- Poem Title:
- The Chairmen: A Town-Eclogue.
- Attribution:
- By the same [A. E.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By flowery banks of tweed whose waters glide
- Page No:
- pp.184-188
- Poem Title:
- Eclogue I.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. Mr C--.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now Sol the skies with purple light arrayed
- Page No:
- pp.189-195
- Poem Title:
- Eclogue II.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Rev. Mr C--]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wearied with grief's sad office pleasing pain
- Page No:
- pp.196-200
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Mrs K----ch of G-----ton.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Rev. Mr C--]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When pleasing cares disturb the youthful breast
- Page No:
- pp.201-202
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Rev. Mr. C--]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Awake my lyre thy sadly pleasing strain
- Page No:
- pp.202-203
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet II.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. Rev. Mr C--]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One day where winding Liddo streamed
- Page No:
- pp.204-206
- Poem Title:
- A Conversation with Cupid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great sir a love sick swain applies
- Page No:
- pp.206-207
- Poem Title:
- Cupid a Patient ... To Dr Taylor, the celebrated oculist.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Affectedly Anacreon says
- Page No:
- pp.208-209
- Poem Title:
- The Metamorphosis.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let others more forward behave
- Page No:
- pp.210-211
- Poem Title:
- The Respectful Lover.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why heaves my bosom up and down
- Page No:
- pp.211-212
- Poem Title:
- The Mathematician To His Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- They question Jove why he had not
- Page No:
- pp.213-214
- Poem Title:
- The Signs discontented.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I had a bass ah me it is no more
- Page No:
- pp.215-217
- Poem Title:
- Lyroclastes; Or, An elegy on a Bass Viol, broke by a short-sighted gentleman, who sat down upon it.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Just safely landed from a stormy sea
- Page No:
- pp.218-219
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from Phillis to Chloe. Giving an account of the smuggling-trade carried on by the Ladies with the East-India company's ships that came into Leith road in 1758. A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The world esteems such men as are of use
- Page No:
- pp.220-221
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a young Poet.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Matthew Prior to me tis excessively plain
- Page No:
- p.222
- Poem Title:
- Verses written in a blank leaf of Prior's Poems.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let us since all our expeditions fail
- Page No:
- p.223
- Poem Title:
- Imitation of a French Epigram, pasted up in several places at Paris in 1759.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who can unmoved of Dargo's daughter read
- Page No:
- p.224
- Poem Title:
- Verses to Miss **** Written in a blank leaf of the Irish Poems.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While other churches with success
- Page No:
- pp.225-226
- Poem Title:
- The Reformed Church ... To the tune of The birks of Invermay.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O money money I too plainly see
- Page No:
- pp.227-228
- Poem Title:
- To Money.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Keith then is fallen what numbers can there flow
- Page No:
- pp.229-231
- Poem Title:
- On the death of Marshal Keith.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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