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.

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Title:

A collection of original poems by Scotch gentlemen [Vol II] [ESTC T116768] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1762

ESTC No:

T116768

Volume:

2 of 2

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Title:

A collection of original poems by Scotch gentlemen. Volume II [N14984] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1762

ESTC No:

N14984

Volume:

2 of 2

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Related People

Publisher:

James Dodsley

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Absolute (100%)

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Sold by:

Alexander Donaldson

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Absolute (100%)

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Sold by:

Joseph Richardson

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Sold by:

Robert Dodsley

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Content/Publication

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