Original and genuine letters sent to the Tatler and Spectator [T147412] [vol. 1]

DMI number:

565

Publication Date:

1725

Volume Number:

1 of 2

ESTC number:

T147412

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW105197707

Shelfmark:

Bod Hope 8° 565 v.1

Full Title:

ORIGINAL and GENUINE | LETTERS | SENT TO THE | [i]Tatler[/i] and [i]Spectator[/i], | During the Time those Works were publishing. | [rule] | [i]None of which have been before Printed.[/i] | [rule] | VOL. I. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed by R. HARBIN, for CHARLES LILLIE, | Perfumer, at the Corner of Beaufort-Buildings in | the Strand. MDCCXXV.

Epigraph:

[i]Interdum speciosa locis, morataq; recte | Fabula nullius veneris, fine pondere & arte, | Valdius oblectat populum, meliusq; moratur, | Quam versus in opes rerum, nugaeq; canorae.[/i] HOR. | Vid. Spect. No 85.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Subscription Miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[24] [1]-368, [8]

Bibliographic details:

The ink on several pages in BOD Hope 8° 565 v.1 is very faded (Light damage? See, for example, pp.228-229).

Comments:

MISCELLANY GENRE: Prose and verse miscellany. MISCELLANY CONTENTS: Consists of reader contributions sent to The Tatler and The Spectator (but not included therein), in prose and verse.

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATERIAL: Letter from Richard Steele to Charles Lillie (1p.); List of subscribers (12pp.); Dedication to Steele, signed by Charles Lillie (4pp.); Preface (5pp.). BACK MATTER: Index (8pp.)

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Title:

Original and genuine letters sent to the Tatler and Spectator [T147412] [vol. 2]

Publication Date:

1725

ESTC No:

T147412

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Related People

Dedicatee:

Sir Richard Steele

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Editor:

Charles Lillie

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

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Printer:

Richard Harbin

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

Charles Lillie

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Absolute (100%)

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Content/Publication

First Line:

Begin my friend to uncommon things aspire

Page No:

pp.2-3

Poem Title:

My Lord Fopp--ton, B--ron of Ch--bury, his advice to his friend to write.

Attribution:

My Lord Fopp--ton, B--ron of Ch--bury

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Victorious wisdom whose supreme command

Page No:

pp.18-21

Poem Title:

On Wisdom.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By the side of a murmuring stream

Page No:

pp.35-38

Poem Title:

Collin's Complaint.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah Colin why should thou despair

Page No:

pp.38-39

Poem Title:

The Answer.

Attribution:

his mistress's answer, by a confidant of hers' p. 35.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Now Phoebus gently with enlivening rays

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

On the Spring.

Attribution:

by the same hand

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Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst I thy faithful love possessed

Page No:

pp.58-61

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

by a young gentleman

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Not attributed

First Line:

Think but how often you denied

Page No:

pp.75-80

Poem Title:

To Mrs. A.B.

Attribution:

A.B.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Keen satire rise and help my willing pen

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

E.M.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Two tragedies within one month you've seen

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The following verses were lately sent me from some of my friends at Stratford upon Avon

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Not attributed

First Line:

While fortune did with fate agree

Page No:

pp.104-106

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

R.T.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Blessed is the man yea doubly blessed is he

Page No:

pp.108-109

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

R.S.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Lovers like dying men may well

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Celia's charming voice I hear

Page No:

p.141

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

J.S.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When nature first an human shape designed

Page No:

pp.154-159

Poem Title:

A Poem upon the same subject.

Attribution:

by a humble servant of mine

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Not attributed

First Line:

Be charmed my friend by neither love nor wine

Page No:

pp.162-163

Poem Title:

The translation of an Epigram attributed to Virgil, concerning Love and Wine.

Attribution:

W. L.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All day the shrew Afflana does complain

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

An Epigram out of Owen.

Attribution:

By the same hand

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Not attributed

First Line:

Degenerate isle from what mad freak

Page No:

p.173

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Far have I travelled lovely mead

Page No:

pp.182-186

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Florimell Pratilla

Attributed To:

Florimell Pratilla

First Line:

Flavia the world allows your numerous charms

Page No:

pp.200-201

Poem Title:

On Flavia, upon her smiling disdainfully, and shewing her ebony teeth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis better for sure to slumber in the grave

Page No:

pp.216-219

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Virtue of old was scarce or women bad

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of the old heroes when the warlike shades

Page No:

pp.239-243

Poem Title:

A fragment of a Poem on the death of Capt. Douglas, burnt on one of his Majesty's ships at Chatham. By Cleaveland's Ghost.

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Not attributed

First Line:

When Celadon fair Celia saw

Page No:

pp.272-274

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

More babbling of inconstancy

Page No:

p.289

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

A Young gentleman in our neighbour

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Not attributed

First Line:

Gods have their flying mercury but we

Page No:

p.307

Poem Title:

To the author of the Tatler. Upon Letters.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh how your melting voice does charm my ears

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

On a Lady's Voice extempore.

Attribution:

By the same hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We chime to prayers toll for the dead

Page No:

p.322

Poem Title:

The Use of Bells. On Brigadier Sutton's giving a ring of Bells to Newark upon Trent.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unto the mighty God who rules above

Page No:

pp.340-342

Poem Title:

Song of Zachary. St Luke, chap. i. ver. 68. to ver. 79.

Attribution:

L. S.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lately strayed from peace and pleasure

Page No:

pp.356-357

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

I take this to come from the owner of the stray-heart you proffered a reward for, in your Spectator No 208.

Attributed To:

Not attributed