New foundling hospital for wit part the fourth [T139947] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1408

Publication Date:

1771

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T139947

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW112061468

Shelfmark:

BOD ECCO

Full Title:

THE | NEW FOUNDLING HOSPITAL | FOR WIT. | BEING | A COLLECTION OF CURIOUS PIECES | IN VERSE AND PROSE, | BY | [2 columns] [column 1] SIR C. HANBURY WILLIAMS, | EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, | ----------- DELAWARR, | ----------- HARDWICKE, | ----------- CARLISLE, | LORDS LYTTELTON, | --------- HARVEY, | ----------- CAPEL, | LADY M. W. MONTAGUE, | [/column 1] [column 2] T. POTTER, | C. TOWNSHEND, | J. S. HALL, | J. WILKES, | D. GARRICK, | B. THORNTON, | G. COLMAN, | R. LLOYD, &c. &c. [/column 2] | Adorned with a curious Frontispiece. | [rule] | PART THE FOURTH. | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed for J. ALMON, in PICCADILLY. | 1771.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Unknown

Bibliographic details:

Frontispiece.

Comments:

Contents: prose p.40 47-48, 51-52, 80-82, 93-94, 174-176

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: advertisement [1p.]; contents pp.iii-viii.

Related Miscellanies

Title:

The foundling hospital for wit [T64444] [different setting to T64445]

Publication Date:

1743

ESTC No:

T64444

Volume:

1 of 6

Relationship:

Part of a Series

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

John Almon

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Some strollers invited by Warwick's kind earl

Page No:

pp.5-6

Poem Title:

Mr. Garrick, Invited and strongly pressed to pass a week 'en famille' at Warwick Castle, arrives, is shewn the curiosities like a common traveller, treated with chocolate, and dismissed directly; upon which he wrote the following verses.

Attribution:

Mr. Garrick

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Not attributed

First Line:

When Neville the stout earl of Warwick lived here

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

An Inscription for the Castle Gateway

Attribution:

D. G.

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Not attributed

First Line:

All conquering cruel death more hard than rocks

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

Extempore on the Death of General Wolfe.

Attribution:

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First Line:

As nature and Garrick were talking one day

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

Nature and Garrick

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Hence avaunt tis holy ground

Page No:

pp.8-16

Poem Title:

Ode, for the Installation of Augustus Henry, Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gray

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Hence avaunt tis venal ground

Page No:

pp.9-17

Poem Title:

Gray Travestie

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Hence avaunt tis sacred ground

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pp.18-22

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Twas at the solmen feast for laurels won

Page No:

pp.22-27

Poem Title:

Shakespeare's Feast. An Ode.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Peace to this meeting

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

On the Birth-Day of Shakespeare. A Cento. Taken from his Works.

Attribution:

By Richard Berenger Esq.

Attributed To:

Richard Berenger [Beranger]

First Line:

O thou whom adverse fates ordain

Page No:

pp.29-33

Poem Title:

Ode to Colonel L---.

Attribution:

Dargo.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Estate and honours mere caprich

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

On Mr. Secretary Bradshaw.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Returned from the opera as lately I sat

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

A Bon Mot, On A Lady's Wedding Being The Twenty First Of December.

Attribution:

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First Line:

While freedom lies bleeding O fatal mishap

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

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First Line:

O thou whom placemen all adore

Page No:

pp.37-39

Poem Title:

Ode to Lord North, on his being appointed Commander in Chief of the House of Commons, 1770.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Down dropped her brush the dish clout thrown aside

Page No:

pp.41-43

Poem Title:

Cindaretta. A Mock-Pastoral Poem.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Go truth old fashioned guest

Page No:

pp.44-47

Poem Title:

The Lie

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Teach us the difference to know

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

Impromptu. To Thomas De Grey, Esq. Member for Norfolk.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Mr Painter you joke

Page No:

pp.49-51

Poem Title:

A Dialogue between a Gentleman and a Painter, at the Exhibition in Spring-Gardens, in the Spring, 1770.

Attribution:

Bobadil.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You cannot imagine my dear lady Bab

Page No:

pp.52-54

Poem Title:

Epistle from Lady Bridget L***, to Lady Bab Butterfly, at York.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Once on a time a grand lord mayor

Page No:

pp.54-59

Poem Title:

The State-Coach, a Tale. In Imitation of the Manner of Dr. Swift.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If signing with the twelve to heaven

Page No:

pp.59-60

Poem Title:

An Answer.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The church and rooms the other day

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

In the season of 1760, The Subscription-Books at Bath were opened for Prayers at the Abbey, and Gaming at the Rooms. In the Evening of the first Day, the Numbers stood as under:

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Of outs and ins the common sins

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Says Ch-dl-gh to a certain dame

Page No:

p.60

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Of vice the secret friend the foe professed

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

A Character.

Attribution:

Allen's Ghost.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The outs much like an empty stomach are

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

On the Outs and Ins.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

To hear your complaints I shall ever be ready

Page No:

pp.63-64

Poem Title:

The Answer

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Where wilt thou stop thou all corrupting thane

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

To the Lord of the Isle

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here rests at last

Page No:

pp.65-68

Poem Title:

Epitaph for Sir D-y R-r, K-t.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Yes yes you may rail at the pope as you please

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

On part of the University-Church in Oxford being converted into a Law School.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In vain poor sable son of woe

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

On a Black Marble Statue of a Slave standing in one of the Inns of Court.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With unstained edges and in spotless calf

Page No:

pp.69-70

Poem Title:

On Seeing a Law Book. Bound in Uncoloured Calf, and White Edges.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Long have the men triumphant reigned

Page No:

pp.70-79

Poem Title:

The Petticoat Administration

Attribution:

Molly Machiavel.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To this famed character how just thy right

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

Written under a Picture of Kitty Fisher, Drawn in the Character of Cleopatra.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What all the posts of honour gone

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

To Miss Molly Machiavel on her Petticoat Administration

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Old Homer but what have we with him to do

Page No:

pp.83-85

Poem Title:

Liberty Hall

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

To break his word or lose his place

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

An Important Question Decided.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To you my Lord these lines I write

Page No:

pp.85-88

Poem Title:

To the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Pulteney. Written in the year 1747, at Westminster School.

Attribution:

By George Colman.

Attributed To:

George Colman

First Line:

Tired with the noise and smoke of town

Page No:

pp.88-90

Poem Title:

Ashted Cot

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In a fever of youth every pulse in a flame

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

The Dying Rake's Soliloquy

Attribution:

By Dr. Bartholemew

Attributed To:

Dr. Bartholemew

First Line:

Leave leave the drawing room

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

Written at Tunbridge Wells, on Miss Temple, Afterwards Lady of the Late Sir Thomas Lyttelton.

Attribution:

By Mr. Congreve. Not in the works of that poet.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Sincerest critic of my prose or rhyme

Page No:

pp.95-98

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Lord Cobham.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Says Phoebe why is gentle love

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Sweet doings truly we are finely fobbed

Page No:

pp.99-100

Poem Title:

Epilogue, Spoken by Mrs. Woffington, at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane, 1747.

Attribution:

By Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Attributed To:

Samuel Johnson

First Line:

To Holdernesse the muses three

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

Upon Mr. Mason's Taking Orders.

Attribution:

By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Marseilles no more shall boast his art

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

On The Academy For Teaching Grown People To Dance.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Garrick]

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Talk of war with a Briton he'll boldly advance

Page No:

pp.103-104

Poem Title:

On Johnson's Dictionary. By the Same.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Garrick]

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Kitty a fair but frozen maid

Page No:

pp.104-105

Poem Title:

A Riddle.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Garrick]

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

How vain are all the joys of man

Page No:

pp.105-106

Poem Title:

Sir William Young to his Lady, On having an Eye beat out.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The graces were play fellows never asunder

Page No:

pp.107-109

Poem Title:

A Ballad. Occasioned by the enlarging of the house of office at the D- of D- seat in Sussex, for the accommodation of three ladies at once, viz. The D-ss of R-d, L-y A-le, and Miss P-st.

Attribution:

By the same.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While yet no amorous youths around thee bow

Page No:

pp.109-110

Poem Title:

To Sappho, a young lady of thirteen years of age, 1762.

Attribution:

By W.M. Melmoth, esq.

Attributed To:

William Melmoth

First Line:

I have often thought my lord the thing now true

Page No:

pp.111-119

Poem Title:

Epistle to Lord Melcombe.

Attribution:

By Richard Bentley, Esq.

Attributed To:

Richard Bentley

First Line:

While Secker's rules in this discourse I view

Page No:

pp.119-120

Poem Title:

To Mr. Poyntz, With Dr. Secker's sermon on education, preached before the University of Oxford, July 8, 1733.

Attribution:

By Lord Hervey.

Attributed To:

John Hervey

First Line:

Possessed of one great hall for state

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

Extempore Epigram. On the Earl of Burlington and his house at Chiswick,

Attribution:

By Lord Hervey

Attributed To:

John Hervey

First Line:

Rare architect in whose exotic school

Page No:

pp.121-123

Poem Title:

Verse on second thoughts on the same subject.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Hervey]

Attributed To:

John Hervey

First Line:

Have you not seen the morning sun

Page No:

pp.122-124

Poem Title:

Strephon and Collin, A Dialogue.

Attribution:

By the Right Hon. Charles Earl of Middlesex, afterwards Duke of Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

Sir while your heart with transport glows

Page No:

pp.124-127

Poem Title:

An Ode to the most unpopular man living. Written in the year 1753.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O Holkam blessed beloved abode

Page No:

pp.128-130

Poem Title:

Epistle for Lord Lovel to Lord Chesterfield.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pultney, afterwards Earl of Bath.

Attributed To:

William Pulteney

First Line:

Happy the man who with such ease

Page No:

pp.131-134

Poem Title:

An Epistle from a Noble Lord to Mr. Pulteney. Written in 1740.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Physick each morn is T- care

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

On Lady T- at Bath

Attribution:

By the Earl of Bath

Attributed To:

William Pulteney

First Line:

Vain are the charms of white and red

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

On a Dowager Lady E. H-D

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Pultney]

Attributed To:

William Pulteney

First Line:

Some cry up Gunners Bury

Page No:

pp.136-137

Poem Title:

Strawberry Hill

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Pulteney]

Attributed To:

William Pulteney

First Line:

See gentle Cope with gout and love oppressed

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

Advice to General Cope, upon his getting St. Anthony's fire by drinking the bath waters, and at the same time falling in love with the girl that dipped the water.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Pulteney]

Attributed To:

William Pulteney

First Line:

When -- to heaven shall lift one solemn eye

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

On the Bishops and Judges

Attribution:

By P. Duke of Wharton.

Attributed To:

Philip James Wharton

First Line:

When curiosity led you so far

Page No:

pp.140-142

Poem Title:

An Epistle from John Shepherd to the Earl of Macclesfield.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Wharton]

Attributed To:

Philip James Wharton

First Line:

In fable all things hold discourse

Page No:

pp.142-143

Poem Title:

The Triple Aliance

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Wharton]

Attributed To:

Philip James Wharton

First Line:

From sun set to day break whilst folks are asleep

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

On Robbing the Exchequer

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Wharton]

Attributed To:

Philip James Wharton

First Line:

Quoth wild unto Walpole make me under taker

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

Another

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Wharton]

Attributed To:

Philip James Wharton

First Line:

Dear Lloid they say you're Walpole's ferret

Page No:

pp.145-146

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Wharton]

Attributed To:

Philip James Wharton

First Line:

Remote from cities in a country town

Page No:

pp.147-151

Poem Title:

The Lyar. An Heroic Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As young in life and young in love

Page No:

pp.151-153

Poem Title:

A Serio-Comic Pindaric

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How each fond parent still pursues

Page No:

pp.153-155

Poem Title:

The Chimney Sweeper

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Autumnal leaves apace do fade

Page No:

pp.155-157

Poem Title:

Verses on the Approach of Winter

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Of all the trinkets that the toilet grace

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

On a Pincushion

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See where bright Aurelia lies

Page No:

pp.158-159

Poem Title:

On Aurelia Sleeping.

Attribution:

Written by a Youth at the Age of Fifteen.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Jupiter's high mettled dame

Page No:

pp.159-161

Poem Title:

The Girdle of Venus. A Fable from the Greek, for Grown Ladies.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To every fair a pigeon roved

Page No:

pp.162-164

Poem Title:

The Pigeon's Choice

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sabina with an angel's face

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

Cupid's Revenge.

Attribution:

By the Late Sir John Vanbrugh.

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man

Page No:

pp.166-167

Poem Title:

The Beggar.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Without an ear for music sweet

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

A Common Character at the Opera House.

Attribution:

G.B

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In a doublet of stone from the top of a steeple

Page No:

pp.169-172

Poem Title:

Verses on the New Buildings Erecting between Bloomsbury and St. Giles.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What are the falling rills the pendent shades

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

On Reading a Poem, Entitled "A Fit of the Spleen", by Dr. Ibbott.

Attribution:

Verses by Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Some counties vaunt themselves in pies

Page No:

pp.172-174

Poem Title:

The Norfolke Turnippe. An Auncient Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis said that our soldiers so lazy are grown

Page No:

p.172

Poem Title:

On Seeing Captain A- At Mrs. Cornely's Drest Fantastically.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Yes ye must fall ye fathers of the wood

Page No:

pp.176-177

Poem Title:

Quercus loquitur. The Oak Speaks.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All all is Ceasar's new robed Aston cries

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

Tua Ceasar Aetas

Attribution:

Liberty

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While rosy wreaths the goblet deck

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

Verses at Lord Melcombe's, at Hammersmith, ..From An. Authentick Copy. Under the Busto of Comus in a Beauffet. E. August, 1750.

Attribution:

(written by his Lordship) [i.e. Melcombe]

Attributed To:

George Bubb Dodington

First Line:

By the backside good lack good lack

Page No:

pp.179-182

Poem Title:

Two Lyrick Epistles. Or; Margery the Cook-Maid to the Critical Reviewers.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You who assemble in disguise

Page No:

pp.182-185

Poem Title:

Epistle the Second

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some folks get no more by their reading

Page No:

pp.186-188

Poem Title:

The Apologue

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At Rome in ancient times as poets say

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

The Senator Enlightened. Or, Julius Caesar's Slave.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

And shall then another embrace thee my fair

Page No:

pp.189-191

Poem Title:

The Frantic Lover

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst William's deeds and William's praise

Page No:

pp.192-195

Poem Title:

An Ode to the Right Honourable Stephen Poyntz, Esq; &c. &c. &c.

Attribution:

By the Honourable Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Knight of the Bath.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

Four Scotchmen by the names of Adams

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

On Some Encroachments on the River

Attribution:

Londinensis

Attributed To:

Not attributed