Miscellany Poems. By Mr. Pope. The Fifth Edition [Vol. 1] [T5782]
- DMI number:
- 555
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T5782
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW125283172
- Shelfmark:
- BL 12274.f.2
- Full Title:
- MISCELLANY | POEMS. | [rule] | VOL. I. | [rule] | By Mr. [i]POPE[/i]. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | The FIFTH EDITION. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for BERNARD LINTOT, at the [i]Cross-Keys[/i]. | between the [i]Temple[/i]-Gates in [i]Fleet-street[/i], 1727.
- Epigraph:
- Haec studia Adolescentiam alunt, Senectutem obtestant; secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium & solatium praebent; delectant domi, non impediunt foris; pernocctant [sic] nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur. Ciccro [sic] pro Arch.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [4], 1-40, [2], [7]-235, [3] (145 and 198 mispaginated 141 and 298 respectively.)
- Bibliographic details:
- A reissue of T5781, with a new titlepage (Source: ESTC). BL copy has biographical information about Pope written at front. HALF-TITLE: [ornamental rule] | Mr. [i]POPE[/i]'s | MISCELLANY. | VOL. I. | [ornamental rule] PAGINATION: Pagination restarts at p.[7] after the commendatory poems; pagination skips p.40, p.64.
- Comments:
- QUERY: Does Swindon (national trust) have vol. 2? CONTENTS: Latin poetry, pp.195-197. "The whole probably edited by Pope ... Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 1000 copies printed." (ESTC). PLATES: Frontispiece: portrait of Pope engraved by George Vertue.
- Other matter:
- BACK MATTER: List of 'Books Printed for Bernard Lintot' (3pp., unnumbered) after p. 235.
- References:
- Griffith, 192; Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 1267 (references taken from ESTC). Case, 260 (1)(e).
- Editor:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- "The whole probably edited by Pope" (ESTC).
- Engraver:
- George Vertue
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- (Barnaby) Bernard Lintot [Lintott]
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- With age decayed with courts and business tired
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Pope and his Poems.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace the Duke of Buckingham' (index)
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- The muse of every heavenly gift allowed
- Page No:
- pp.2-4
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope.
- Attribution:
- By A. Countess of Winchelsea
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- In these more dull as more censorious days
- Page No:
- pp.4-7
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope at Sixteen Years old; on Occasion of his Pastorals.
- Attribution:
- Signed 'W. Wycherley'
- Attributed To:
- William Wycherley
- First Line:
- He comes he comes bid every bard prepare
- Page No:
- pp.7-9
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, On the publishing his Works.
- Attribution:
- By the Hon. Simon Harcourt Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Simon Harcourt
- First Line:
- To praise and still with just respect to praise
- Page No:
- pp.9-13
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope.
- Attribution:
- T. Parnell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- Hail sacred bard a muse unknown before
- Page No:
- pp.13-18
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, On his Windsor-Forest.
- Attribution:
- Fr. Knapp
- Attributed To:
- Francis Knapp
- First Line:
- When Phoebus and the nine harmonious maids
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, In imitation of a Greek Epigram on Homer.
- Attribution:
- E. Fenton
- Attributed To:
- Elijah Fenton
- First Line:
- Tis true what famed Pythagoras maintained
- Page No:
- pp.20-23
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, On his Translation of Homer.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt
- Attributed To:
- Christopher Pitt
- First Line:
- When first thy muse in tuneful rural strains
- Page No:
- pp.24-26
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me by what commanding wondrous art
- Page No:
- pp.26-29
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And hast thou then performed the mighty task
- Page No:
- pp.30-35
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, Upon his translation of Homer's Iliad.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. Dr. Evans
- Attributed To:
- Abel Evans
- First Line:
- Let vulgar souls triumphal arches raise
- Page No:
- pp.36-40
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, Upon the edition of his Works 1725.
- Attribution:
- by the Rev. Mr. Broome
- Attributed To:
- William Broome
- 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:
- Descend ye nine descend and sing
- Page No:
- pp.33-39
- Poem Title:
- Ode for Musick on St Cecilia's Day.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- In that soft season when descending showers
- Page No:
- p.[41]-63
- Poem Title:
- The Temple of Fame.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
- Page No:
- pp.[65]-98
- 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:
- p.[101]-138
- Poem Title:
- The Rape of the Lock.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- O Abelard ill fated youth
- Page No:
- p.[141].
- Poem Title:
- Alma, Cant. 2.
- Attribution:
- Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- In these deep solitudes and awful cells
- Page No:
- pp.143-159
- Poem Title:
- Eloisa to Abelard.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade
- Page No:
- pp.160-163
- 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.164-168
- 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.169-172
- 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.173-175
- Poem Title:
- To the Same, On her leaving the Town after the Coronation.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Such were the notes thy once-loved poet sung
- Page No:
- pp.176-178
- Poem Title:
- To the Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer. With Dr. Parnell's Poems.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- See the wild waste of all-devouring years
- Page No:
- pp.179-182
- Poem Title:
- Verses Occasion'd by Mr. Addison's Treatise of Medals.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- To wake the soul by tender strokes of art
- Page No:
- pp.183-185
- 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.186-188
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to Jane Shore. Design'd for Mrs. Oldfeild [sic].
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Silence coeval with eternity
- Page No:
- pp.189-192
- Poem Title:
- Silence, In Imitation of the late E. of R.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Be gone ye critics and restrain your spite
- Page No:
- pp.193-194
- Poem Title:
- To the Author of a Poem entituled, Successio. In Imitation of the late E. of D.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- To this sad shrine whoever thou art draw near
- Page No:
- p.298 [i.e. p.198]
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph On the Monument of Simon Harcourt, Esq; Erected by the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Harcourt.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thy relics Rowe to this fair shrine we trust
- Page No:
- p.199
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on Mr. Rowe, For a Tomb intended to be erected by his Wife in Westminster-Abbey.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A pleasing form a firm yet cautious mind
- Page No:
- p.200
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Come gentle air the Aeolian shepherd said
- Page No:
- p.201
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How happy he who free from care
- Page No:
- pp.202-203
- Poem Title:
- Solitude. Sapphick.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At length my soul thy fruitless hopes give over
- Page No:
- pp.204-205
- Poem Title:
- Stanza's From the French of Malherbe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh be thou blessed with all that heaven can send
- Page No:
- p.206
- Poem Title:
- The Wish. Sent to Mrs. M.B. on her Birth-Day, June 15.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye shades where sacred truth is sought
- Page No:
- pp.207-209
- Poem Title:
- Chorus of Athenians
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh tyrant love hast thou possessed
- Page No:
- pp.209-211
- Poem Title:
- Two Chorus's to the Tragedy of Brutus
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whither is ancient virtue gone
- Page No:
- pp.212-214
- 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.214-215
- 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.215-216
- 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.217-218
- 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:
- A famous assembly was summoned of late
- Page No:
- pp.219-224
- Poem Title:
- The Election of a Poet Laureat In 1719.
- Attribution:
- By the same hand [i.e. Buckingham]
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- Twas when the seas were roaring
- Page No:
- pp.225-227
- Poem Title:
- A Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All in the Downs the fleet was moored
- Page No:
- pp.228-231
- Poem Title:
- Sweet William's farewel to Black-ey'd Susan. A Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Chloe a coquet in her prime
- Page No:
- p.232
- Poem Title:
- On the Marriage of an Old Maid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- So bright is thy beauty so charming thy song
- Page No:
- p.232
- Poem Title:
- On a handsom Singer, covetous and proud
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Two or three visits and two or three bows
- Page No:
- p.233
- Poem Title:
- Two or Three; or, A Receipt to make a Cuckold.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If ever my humble muse melodious sings
- Page No:
- pp.234-235
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, On his correcting my Verses, By Mr. Broome.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Broome
- Attributed To:
- William Broome
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