Miscellany poems: in two parts [ESTC R31378]
- DMI number:
- 1647
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1692
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- R31378
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:11951076
- Shelfmark:
- EEBO - Bod
- Full Title:
- [i]MISCELLANY POEMS:[/i] | In Two Parts. | [rule] | Containing New | TRANSLATIONS | OUT OF | [two columns with curly braces in centre] [i]VIRGIL, OVID, | LUCRETIUS, THEOCRITUS, | HORACE[/i], And other Authours. | With Several | ORIGINAL POEMS. | [rule] | [i]By the Most Eminent Hands[/i]. | [rule] | Published by Mr. [i]DRYDEN[/i]. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [g]The Second Edition.[/g] | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed for [i]Jacob Tonson[/i], and are to be Sold by [i]Joseph | Hindmarsh[/i], at the [i]Golden-Ball[/i] in [i]Cornhill[/i], 1692.
- Epigraph:
- [i]Et Vos, O[/i] Lauri, [i]carpam, & Te, proxima[/i] Myrte: | [i]Sic positae quoniam suaveis miscetis odores[/i]. Virg. [i]Ecl[/i]. 2.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse, Collection of literary verse, Made-up miscellany, Collection includes verse in other languages, and Collection of translations/imitations
- Format:
- Octavo
- Bibliographic details:
- CHECK: pp. 168-171 are duplicated in EEBO facsimile. Last word of first line of 'The Parting of Sireno and Diana' is obscured in both images. 'Absalom And Achitophel' has separate title page: p. [13]. Title page states 'The Seventh Edition; Augmented and Revised' and bears date '1692'. Pagination and register are continuous. 'The Medall' has separate title page: p. [73]. Title page states 'The Third Edition' and bears date '1692'. Pagination and register are continuous. 'Virgil's Eclogues. Translated by Several Hands.' has separate title page dated '1692': p. [321]. Pagination and register are continuous. 'Sylvae: Or, The Second Part Of Poetical Miscellanies.' has separate title page: SYLVAE: | OR, THE | [g]Second Part[/g] | OF | POETICAL | Miscellanies. | [rule] | ---[i]Non deficit alter | Aureus; & simili frondescit virga metallo[/i]. Virg. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed for [i]Jacob Tonson[/i], at the [i]Judges-Head[/i] | in [i]Chancery-lane[/i] near [i]Fleetstreet[/i], 1685. Pagination and register are separate.
- Comments:
- CONTENTS: Part One: 'Miscellany Poems' (1) Three poems by Dryden, pp. 1-102. 'Absalom And Achitophel' has separate dated title page (p. [13]) and prefatory address 'To The Reader' in prose (pp. 15-18). 'The Medall' has separate dated title page (p. [73]) and prefatory 'Epistle To the Whigs' in prose (pp. 75-81). (2) 'Several Of Ovid's Elegies, Book I.', pp. 103-19. (3) 'Several Of Ovid's Elegies, Book II.', pp. 120-41. (4) 'Several Of Ovid's Elegies, Book III.', pp. 142-66. (5) Miscellaneous poems and translations, pp. 167-262. Includes a series of versions of Horatian odes, pp. 194-211. (6) Prologues and epilogues, pp. 260-94. (7) Miscellaneous poems and translations, pp. 295-320. Includes a series of versions of Horatian poems, pp. 306-318. (8) 'Virgil's Eclogues. Translated By Several Hands.', pp. 323-407. Separate dated title page p. [321]. Part Two: 'Sylvae' (1) Translations from Virgil, Lucretius and others by Dryden, pp. 1-127. (2) Miscellaneous poems and translations, pp. 128-68. (3) Translations from Theocritus, Catullus and others, pp. 353-448 (pagination jumps from 168 to 353). (4) Miscellaneous poems and translations, pp. 449-94. Includes a Latin poem, 'Horti Arlingtoniani', addressed to Henry Bennet, first earl of Arlington (1618-1685), and attributed to 'Mr Charles Dryden' in the table of contents: pp. 457-64. Duplicate poem: poem ID 41868 appears twice in this miscellany, pp. 136-38 (in first part) and 397-98 (in second part).
- Other matter:
- First part: (1) 'A Table Of The Poems In the Following Miscellanea', fols 2r-4v (unpaged and unsigned). Second part: (1) 'Preface' signed 'John Dryden', sigs A2r-a8v (gathering A is immediately followed by a). (2) 'A Table Of The Poems, Contained In the Second Part of Miscellany Poems', sigs b1r-b4r.
- References:
- NCBEL 338 (1692)
- Title:
- Miscellany poems [ESTC R297]
- Publication Date:
- 1684
- ESTC No:
- R297
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [N6906]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N6906
- Volume:
- 1 of 6
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Examen Poeticum being the third part of miscellany poems [N6500]
- Publication Date:
- 1706
- ESTC No:
- N6500
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Examen poeticum: being the third part of miscellany poems [ESTC R122]
- Publication Date:
- 1693
- ESTC No:
- R122
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]
- Publication Date:
- 1704
- ESTC No:
- T161282
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]
- Publication Date:
- 1709
- ESTC No:
- T142876
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Sylvae: or the second part of poetical miscellanies [T116469]
- Publication Date:
- 1702
- ESTC No:
- T116469
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R1682]
- Publication Date:
- 1685
- ESTC No:
- R1682
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R31379]
- Publication Date:
- 1692
- ESTC No:
- R31379
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R41930]
- Publication Date:
- 1693
- ESTC No:
- R41930
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The annual miscellany for the year 1694, being the fourth part of miscellany poems [N34956]
- Publication Date:
- 1708
- ESTC No:
- N34956
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fourth part of miscellany poems [N64834]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N64834
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [N70161]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N70161
- Volume:
- 2 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [T175048]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- T175048
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Examen poeticum: being the third part of miscellany poems [ESTC R228541]
- Publication Date:
- 1693
- ESTC No:
- R228541
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The annual miscellany: for the year 1694 [ESTC R22916]
- Publication Date:
- 1694
- ESTC No:
- R22916
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 5 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- T214159
- Volume:
- 5 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 1 of 6
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fourth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 2 of 6
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The third part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 3 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The third part of miscellany poems [N49205]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N49205
- Volume:
- 3 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Editor:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Published by Mr. Dryden'.
- Publisher:
- Jacob Tonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for Jacob Tonson'.
- Sold by:
- Joseph Hindmarsh
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'to be Sold by Joseph Hindmarsh'.
- First Line:
- All human things are subject to decay
- Page No:
- pp.1-11
- Poem Title:
- Mac Flecknoe.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Take it as earnest of a faith renewed
- Page No:
- pp.19-20
- Poem Title:
- To The Unknown Authour Of This Excellent Poem.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I thought forgive my sin the boasted fire
- Page No:
- pp.21-22
- Poem Title:
- To The Unknown Authour Of This Admirable Poem.
- Attribution:
- R. D.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Hail heaven born muse Hail every sacred page
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- To The Conceal'd Authour Of This Incomparable Poem.
- Attribution:
- N. T.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- First Line:
- In pious times ere priestcraft did begin
- Page No:
- pp.25-72
- Poem Title:
- Absalom And Achitophel. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Once more our awful poet arms to engage
- Page No:
- pp.82-83
- Poem Title:
- Upon The Authour Of the Following Poem.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus pious ignorance with dubious praise
- Page No:
- pp.84-86
- Poem Title:
- To The Unknown Authour Of the Following Poem, And that of Absalom and Achitophel.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all our antic sights and pageantry
- Page No:
- pp.87-102
- Poem Title:
- The Medal. A Satyre Against Sedition.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In lofty strains said I some mighty thing
- Page No:
- pp.103-105
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the First.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Cooper.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah me why am I so uneasy grown
- Page No:
- pp.105-108
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Second.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Since to constrain our joys that ill bred rude
- Page No:
- pp.108-111
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Fourth. Instructions to his Mrs. how to behave her self at Supper before her Husband.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Sir Ch. Scrope.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas noon when I scorched with the double fire
- Page No:
- pp.112-113
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Fifth.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- There is a bawd renowned in Venus' wars
- Page No:
- pp.114-119
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Eighth. He Curses a Bawd, for going about to debauch his Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Sir Ch. Sidly.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- First Line:
- Cupid begone who would on thee rely
- Page No:
- pp.120-123
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Fifth. To his false Mistress
- Attribution:
- Englished by Sir Ch. Sidly.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- First Line:
- Alas poor Poll my Indian talker dies
- Page No:
- pp.123-126
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Sixth.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- And must I still be guilty still untrue
- Page No:
- pp.127-129
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Seventh. He protests that he had never any thing to doe with the Chamber-maid.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Dear skilful Betty who dost far excel
- Page No:
- pp.130-131
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Eighth. ... To Corinna's Chamber-maid.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Thou to whom every artful dress is known
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Eighth. ... To his Mistris's Maid.
- Attribution:
- Englished by another Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O love how cold and slow to take my part
- Page No:
- pp.133-136
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Ninth. ... To Love.
- Attribution:
- Englished by the late Earl of Rochester.
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Triumphant laurels round my temples twine
- Page No:
- pp.136-138
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Twelfth.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- If for thy self thou wilt not watch thy whore
- Page No:
- pp.138-141
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Nineteenth.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Vex not thy self and her vain man since all
- Page No:
- pp.142-144
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Fourth. To a Man that lockt up his Wife.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Sir Ch. Sidly.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- First Line:
- Twas night and sleep had closed my wearied eyes
- Page No:
- pp.145-148
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Fifth. Ovid's Dream.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thy course thy noble course a while forbear
- Page No:
- pp.148-151
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Sixth. To a River, as he was going to his Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Rimer.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Rymer
- First Line:
- If Memnon's fate bewailed with constant dew
- Page No:
- pp.152-156
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Ninth. Upon the Death of Tibullus.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Stepny.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- I can allow such charms inconstancy
- Page No:
- pp.157-159
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Thirteenth. To his Mistress, desiring her that (if she will be false to him) she wou'd manage her Intrigues with Secresie.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Tate.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- First Line:
- I do not ask you would to me prove true
- Page No:
- pp.160-163
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Thirteenth. He desires his Mistress if she does Cuckold him not to let him know it.
- Attribution:
- Englished by another Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This too I sing this love commanded too
- Page No:
- pp.163-165
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the First Of the Second Book. That He can write of nothing but Love.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Adams.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Adams
- First Line:
- Thou that the finger of my fair shalt bind
- Page No:
- pp.165-166
- Poem Title:
- Elegy the Fifteenth Of the Second Book. On a Ring sent to his Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Adams.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Adams
- First Line:
- Tis not for nothing when just heaven does frown
- Page No:
- pp.167-170
- Poem Title:
- Part Of Virgil's IV. Georgick.
- Attribution:
- Englished by the E. of M.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- Close by a stream whose flowery bank might give
- Page No:
- pp.171-177
- Poem Title:
- The Parting Of Sireno and Diana.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Sir C. Scrope.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Carr Scrope
- First Line:
- Now Tarquin the last king did govern Rome
- Page No:
- pp.178-187
- Poem Title:
- The Story of Lucretia Out Of Ovid de Fastis. Book II.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Be gone you slaves you idle vermin go
- Page No:
- pp.188-190
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscomon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Those gods the pious ancients did adore
- Page No:
- pp.191-193
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Dryden On His Religio Laici.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Virtue dear friend needs no defence
- Page No:
- pp.194-195
- Poem Title:
- The XXII. Ode. Of The First Book Of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Roscomon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Those ills your ancestors have done
- Page No:
- pp.196-199
- Poem Title:
- The VI. Ode. Of The Third Book Of Horace. Of the Corruption of the Times.
- Attribution:
- Roscomon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Conquered with soft and pleasing charms
- Page No:
- pp.200-203
- Poem Title:
- The IV. Ode. Of The First Book Of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Blush not my friend to own the love
- Page No:
- pp.204-205
- Poem Title:
- The IV. Ode. Of The Second Book Of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- If ever any injured power
- Page No:
- pp.206-207
- Poem Title:
- The VIII. Ode. Of The Second Book Of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Whilst I was welcome to your heart
- Page No:
- pp.208-209
- Poem Title:
- Horace and Lydia. The IX. Ode.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- While I remained the darling of your heart
- Page No:
- pp.210-211
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue Between Horace and Lydia.
- Attribution:
- Englished by another Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As on the beach sad Ariadne lay
- Page No:
- pp.212-214
- Poem Title:
- The III. Elegy Of the first Book of Propertius.
- Attribution:
- Englished By Mr. Adams.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Adams
- First Line:
- Tis but a short but a filthy pleasure
- Page No:
- pp.214-215
- Poem Title:
- Out Of Petronius Arbiter.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My much loved friend | When thou art from my eyes
- Page No:
- pp.215-221
- Poem Title:
- Epistle To R. D. from T. O.
- Attribution:
- from T. O.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- A youth once free and happy now a slave
- Page No:
- pp.222-224
- Poem Title:
- A Letter to a Friend.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I praised and loved by the best youth of Rome
- Page No:
- pp.225-231
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy By The Wife of St. Alexias (a Nobleman of Rome) complaining on his absence, he having left her on his Wedding Night unenjoy'd, out of a Pious Zeal to go visit the Christian Churches. Written in Latin by Fran. Remond a Jesuit.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To Amaryllis love compels my way
- Page No:
- pp.232-238
- Poem Title:
- Amaryllis, Or the Third Idyllium Of Theocritus, Paraphras'd.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The philters Thestylis and charms prepare
- Page No:
- pp.239-249
- Poem Title:
- Pharmaceutria, Or The Enchantress. ... Translated from Theocritus.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. William Bowles, of King's College in Cambridge.
- Attributed To:
- William Bowles
- First Line:
- O Short no herb no salve was ever found
- Page No:
- pp.250-256
- Poem Title:
- The Cyclops. Theocritus Idyll. 11th. ... To Dr. Short.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Duke of Cambridge
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Fly swift ye hours ye sluggish minutes fly
- Page No:
- pp.257-259
- Poem Title:
- To Caelia.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- What Greece when learning flourished only knew
- Page No:
- pp.260-262
- Poem Title:
- Prologue, To the University of Oxon. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of the Silent Woman
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- No poor Dutch peasant winged with all his fear
- Page No:
- pp.262-264
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue, Spoken by the same. [i.e. Mr. Hart]
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Poets your subjects have their parts assigned
- Page No:
- pp.264-266
- Poem Title:
- Prologue, to the University of Oxford, 1674. Spoken by Mr. Hart.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Oft has our poet wished this happy seat
- Page No:
- pp.266-268
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue spoken at Oxford by Mrs. Marshall.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Discord and plots which have undone our age
- Page No:
- pp.268-269
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the University of Oxford.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though actors cannot much of learning boast
- Page No:
- pp.270-272
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The University of Oxford.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thespis the first professor of our art
- Page No:
- pp.272-273
- Poem Title:
- The Prologue at Oxford, 1680.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- To say this comedy pleased long ago
- Page No:
- pp.273-276
- Poem Title:
- The Prologue to Albumazar
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With sickly actors and an old house too
- Page No:
- pp.276-277
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to Aviragus Reviv'd: Spoken by Mr. Hart.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So shipwrecked passengers escape to land
- Page No:
- pp.277-279
- Poem Title:
- Prologue spoken the first day of the King's House Acting after the Fire.
- Attribution:
- Writ by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Where none of you gallants ever driven so hard
- Page No:
- pp.279-280
- Poem Title:
- Prologue for the Women, when they Acted at the Old Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A plain built house after so long a stay
- Page No:
- pp.281-284
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue Spoken at the opening of the New House, March 26. 1674.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Though what our prologue said was sadly true
- Page No:
- pp.284-286
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue by the same Author.
- Attribution:
- by the same Author [i.e. Dryden]
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Were you but half so wise as you are severe
- Page No:
- pp.286-287
- Poem Title:
- An Epilogue.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- We act by fits and starts like drowning men
- Page No:
- pp.288-289
- Poem Title:
- An Epilogue for the King's House.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ladies I hope there's none behind to hear
- Page No:
- pp.290-291
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Princess of Cleves.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A qualm of conscience brings me back again
- Page No:
- pp.291-293
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to the Princess of Cleves.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thou equal partner of the royal bed
- Page No:
- pp.293-294
- Poem Title:
- Spoken, To the Queen in Trinity-College New-Court in Cambridge.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Tell me my Thyrsis tell thy Damon why
- Page No:
- pp.295-301
- Poem Title:
- Floriana, A Pastoral upon the Death of her Grace the Dutchess of Southampton.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- On a bank beside a willow
- Page No:
- pp.301-302
- Poem Title:
- The Tears of Amynta, for the Death of Damon. ... Song.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- But neither Median groves whose happy soil
- Page No:
- pp.303-306
- Poem Title:
- The Praises of Italy out of Virgil's Second Georgic.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Chetwood.
- Attributed To:
- Knightly Chetwood
- First Line:
- Verses immortal as my bays I sing
- Page No:
- pp.306-310
- Poem Title:
- The Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stepney.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
- First Line:
- Then this unwieldy factious town
- Page No:
- pp.310-312
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Ode 15. Lib. 2. Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Chetwood.
- Attributed To:
- Knightly Chetwood
- First Line:
- In storms when clouds the moon do hide
- Page No:
- pp.313-315
- Poem Title:
- The Sixteenth Ode Of The Second Book Of Horace.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Then you Mecenas with your train
- Page No:
- pp.316-318
- Poem Title:
- The First Epode Of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As Jupiter I made my court in vain
- Page No:
- pp.319-320
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue intended to have been spoken by the Lady Henr. Mar. Wentworth when Calisto was acted at Court.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In peaceful shades which aged oaks diffuse
- Page No:
- pp.323-330
- Poem Title:
- The First Eclogue.
- Attribution:
- By John Caryll, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- John Caryll
- First Line:
- A hopeless flame did Corydon destroy
- Page No:
- pp.331-335
- Poem Title:
- The Second Eclogue.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Tate.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- First Line:
- Young Corydon hard fate an humble swain
- Page No:
- pp.336-340
- Poem Title:
- The Second Eclogue.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Tell me Dametas tell whose sheep these are
- Page No:
- pp.341-349
- Poem Title:
- The Thrid [sic] Eclogue. Or Palemon.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Creech.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Sicilian muse begin a loftier strain
- Page No:
- pp.350-354
- Poem Title:
- The Fourth Eclogue. Pollio.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Mopsus since chance does us together bring
- Page No:
- pp.355-362
- Poem Title:
- The Fifth Eclogue. Daphnis.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- I first of Romans stooped to rural strains
- Page No:
- pp.363-369
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Eclogue. Silenus.
- Attribution:
- Englished by the Earl of Roscomon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- While Daphnis sat beneath a whispering shade
- Page No:
- pp.373-377
- Poem Title:
- The Seventh Eclogue.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Adams.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Adams
- First Line:
- Sad Damon's and Alphesiboeus muse
- Page No:
- pp.378-384
- Poem Title:
- The Eighth Eclogue. Pharmaceutria.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Stafford.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Stafford
- First Line:
- I Damon and Alpheus loves recite
- Page No:
- pp.384-389
- Poem Title:
- The same Eclogue
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Chetwood.
- Attributed To:
- Knightly Chetwood
- First Line:
- Ho Moeris whither on thy way so fast
- Page No:
- pp.390-395
- Poem Title:
- The Ninth Eclogue.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Sicilian nymph assist my mournful strains
- Page No:
- pp.396-401
- Poem Title:
- The Tenth Eclogue. Gallus.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. Stafford.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Stafford
- First Line:
- One labour more O Arethusa yield
- Page No:
- pp.402-407
- Poem Title:
- The Last Eclogue, Translated, or rather Imitated, in the Year 1666.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From thence his way the Trojan hero bent
- Page No:
- pp.1-7
- Poem Title:
- The entire Episode of Nisus and Euryalus, translated from the 5th. and 9th. Books of Virgils Aeneids. [First Part]
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The Trojan camp the common danger shared
- Page No:
- pp.8-31
- Poem Title:
- The entire Episode of Nisus and Euryalus, translated from the 5th. and 9th. Books of Virgils Aeneids. [Second Part]
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus equal deaths are dealt and equal chance
- Page No:
- pp.32-47
- Poem Title:
- The entire Episode of Mezentius and Lausus, translated out of the 10th. Book of Virgils Aeneids
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now night with sable wings the world overspread
- Page No:
- pp.48-51
- Poem Title:
- The Speech Of Venus To Vulcan: Wherein she perswades him to make Arms for her Son Aeneas, then engag'd in a War against the Latines, and King Turnus: Translated out of the Eighth Book of Virgils Aeneids.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Delight of human kind and gods above
- Page No:
- pp.52-55
- Poem Title:
- Lucretius The beginning of the First Book.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tis pleasant safely to behold from shore
- Page No:
- pp.56-59
- Poem Title:
- Lucretius The beginning of the Second Book.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What has this bugbear death to frighten man
- Page No:
- pp.60-79
- Poem Title:
- Translation Of The Latter Part of the Third Book Of Lucretius, Against the Fear of Death.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus therefore he who feels the fiery dart
- Page No:
- pp.80-97
- Poem Title:
- Lucretius The Fourth Book. Concerning the Nature of Love; Beginning at this Line, Sic igitur, Veneris qui telis accipit ictum, &c.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus like a sailor by the tempest hurled
- Page No:
- pp.98-99
- Poem Title:
- From Lucretius Book the Fifth.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Twelve Spartan virgins noble young and fair
- Page No:
- pp.100-106
- Poem Title:
- Theocrit. Idyllium the 18th. The Epithalamium Of Helen and Menelaus.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With inauspicious love a wretched swain
- Page No:
- pp.107-113
- Poem Title:
- Idyllium the 23d. The Despairing Lover.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The shepherd Paris bore the Spartan bride
- Page No:
- pp.114-123
- Poem Title:
- Daphnis. From Theocritus Idyll. 27.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So may the auspicious queen of love
- Page No:
- pp.124-127
- Poem Title:
- Horat. Ode 3. Lib. I. Inscrib'd to the Earl of Roscomon, on his intended Voyage to Ireland.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Behold yon mountain's hoary height
- Page No:
- pp.128-126 [i.e. 128-130]
- Poem Title:
- Horace Lib. I. Ode 9.
- Attribution:
- by an unknown hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Descended of an ancient line
- Page No:
- pp.127-134 [i.e. 131-138]
- Poem Title:
- Horat. Ode 29. Book 3. Paraphras'd in Pindarique Verse; And Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Lawrence Earl of Rochester.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- How happy in his low degree
- Page No:
- pp.135-159 [i.e. 139-144]
- Poem Title:
- From Horace, Epod. 2d.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now scorching Sirius burnt the thirsty moors
- Page No:
- pp.145-154
- Poem Title:
- Part of Virgils 4th. Georgick.
- Attribution:
- Englished by an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oft I by wine have tried to lull my cares
- Page No:
- pp.155-158
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Elegy Of the First Book of Tibullus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas night and lazy sleep my eyes confined
- Page No:
- pp.158-161
- Poem Title:
- Ovid's Dream.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A pox who'd be a poet in our days
- Page No:
- pp.162-165
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue Intended for the Duke and no Duke.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah friend the posting years how fast they fly
- Page No:
- pp.166-168
- Poem Title:
- The Fourteenth Ode Of the Second Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Goatherd the music of yon whistling pine
- Page No:
- pp.353-366
- Poem Title:
- The First Idyllium Of Theocritus, Translated into English.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Are you grown lazy or does some disease
- Page No:
- pp.367-372
- Poem Title:
- The Reapers. The Tenth Idyllium Of Theocritus.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. William Bowles, of King's College in Cambridge.
- Attributed To:
- William Bowles
- First Line:
- Scarce three whole days my lovely youth had passed
- Page No:
- pp.373-377
- Poem Title:
- [Greek]. Or The Twelfth Idyllium Of Theocritus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cupid the sliest rogue alive
- Page No:
- pp.378-379
- Poem Title:
- [Greek]: Or The Nineteenth Idyllium Of Theocritus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There on the extremest beach and farthest sand
- Page No:
- pp.380-387
- Poem Title:
- The Complaint of Ariadna. Out Of Catullus.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. William Bowles.
- Attributed To:
- William Bowles
- First Line:
- Proud Eunica when I advanced to kiss
- Page No:
- pp.388-392
- Poem Title:
- The Twentieth Idyllium Of Theocritus.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. William Bowles.
- Attributed To:
- William Bowles
- First Line:
- Let's live my dearest Lesbia and love
- Page No:
- pp.392-393
- Poem Title:
- To Lesbia. Out Of Catullus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My Lesbia swears she would Catullus wed
- Page No:
- p.394
- Poem Title:
- To Lesbia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If pleasure follows when we think upon
- Page No:
- pp.399-396 [i.e. 395-396]
- Poem Title:
- To Lesbia. A Petition to be freed from Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'm now at --- where my eyes can view
- Page No:
- pp.395-402 [i.e. 399-402]
- Poem Title:
- Lib. II. Elegy XVI. He invites his Mistress into the Countrey.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now Ceres' feast is come the trees are blown
- Page No:
- pp.402-405
- Poem Title:
- Lib. III. Elegy IX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since earth and water more dilated air
- Page No:
- pp.406-417
- Poem Title:
- Of Natures Changes. From Lucretius. Lib. V.
- Attribution:
- By a Person of Quality.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Winter's dissolved behold a world's new face
- Page No:
- pp.418-420
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Ode 7th, Book 4th.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We must all live and we would all live well
- Page No:
- pp.420-423
- Poem Title:
- Horace, The 2d Book, Ode the 10th.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear friend for surely I may call him so
- Page No:
- pp.423-436
- Poem Title:
- Horace, 18th Epistle, the 1st Book
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I was at first a piece of fig tree wood
- Page No:
- pp.436-441
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Saty. 2. Lib. I.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford.
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- First Line:
- All blots I cannot from my manners wipe
- Page No:
- pp.441-444
- Poem Title:
- Ovid. Amorum. Lib. 2. El. 4. That he loves Women of all sorts and sizes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Condemned to Pontus tired with endless toil
- Page No:
- pp.444-448
- Poem Title:
- Elegy (II.) Lib. 5. De Trist. Ovid complains of his three years Banishment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Arise great monarch see the joyful day
- Page No:
- pp.449-452
- Poem Title:
- An Ode. Sung before the King on New-Years-Day.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all heaven's judgments that was sure the worst
- Page No:
- pp.452-456
- Poem Title:
- Upon the late Ingenious Translation of Pere Simon's Critical History, By H. D. Lsq; [sic]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sylvia the fair in the bloom of fifteen
- Page No:
- pp.464-466
- Poem Title:
- A New Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Go tell Amynta gentle swain
- Page No:
- pp.467-468
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On the remains of an old blasted oak
- Page No:
- pp.468-474
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of Mr. Oldham.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As soon as mild Augustus could assuage
- Page No:
- pp.475-480
- Poem Title:
- On the Kings-House Now Building at Winchester.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On death and wounds Camilla looks with joy
- Page No:
- pp.481-494
- Poem Title:
- The Episode Of the Death of Camilla Translated out of the Eleventh Book of Virgils Aeneids
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford.
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
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