A collection of poems by several hands, in four volumes [N27942]

DMI number:

855

Publication Date:

1749

Volume Number:

4 of 4

ESTC number:

N27942

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB131225863

Shelfmark:

BOD Don. f.20 (1)

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | [r]POEMS.[/r] | [i]By[/i] SEVERAL HANDS. | [r]IN FOUR VOLUMES.[/r] [ornament] | [i] [r]LONDON:[/i] ][/r] | Printed for R. DODSLEY at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall. | [r]M.DCC.XLIV.[/r]

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellaneous collection

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[4], 1-130, [1], 132-187,[1]p.

Bibliographic details:

Vol 4. Dodsley's miscellany. Published for purchasers of the 1st ed. and issued simultaneously with the 2nd ed. of vols. 1-3, entitled 'A collection of poems in three volumes', 1748. Bound together BOD Don. f.20 (1) with 'The Rehearsal: As it is now Acted at the Theatre-Royal. [...] The Thirteenth Edition [...] To which is added, A Key, or Critical View of The Authors, and their Writings, expos'd in this Play [...] M.DCC.XXXV'. PAGINATION: p.[131] unpaginated. MS attribution notes throughout.

Comments:

CONTENTS: Title-page; advertisement; miscellaneous verse; table of contents. Engraved illustrations on pp.[131], 184. HALF-TITLE: [ornamental rule] | VOL. IV. | [ornamental rule]

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATTER: Title-page. END MATTER: Index to the Fourth Volume [pp.185-187].

References:

Suarez, Michael F., ed., 'Robert Dodsley: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands', (1997)

Related Miscellanies

Title:

A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T115891] [Vol.1] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1748

ESTC No:

T115891

Volume:

1 of 3

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Title:

A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T115891] [Vol.2] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1748

ESTC No:

T115891

Volume:

2 of 3

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Title:

A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T115891] [Vol.3] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1748

ESTC No:

T115891

Volume:

3 of 3

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

Robert Dodsley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

If dumb too long the drooping muse hath stayed

Page No:

pp.1-5

Poem Title:

To the Right Honourable the Earl of Warwick, &c.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tickell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

As Mar his round one morning took

Page No:

pp.6-9

Poem Title:

An Imitation Of The Prophecy of Nereus. From Horace, Book III. Ode XXV.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

To Whitton's shades and Hounslow's airy plain

Page No:

pp.10-12

Poem Title:

To Sir Godfrey Kneller at his Country Seat.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Of Marlborough's captains and Eugenio's friends

Page No:

pp.12-13

Poem Title:

On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Thou dome where Edward first enrolled

Page No:

pp.14-17

Poem Title:

An Ode Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sunderland at Windsor.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Where Kensington high over the neighbouring lands

Page No:

pp.17-38

Poem Title:

Kensington Garden.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

To thee dear rover and thy vanquished friends

Page No:

pp.38-46

Poem Title:

An Epistle from a Lady in England, To a Gentleman at Avignon.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

What can the British senate give

Page No:

pp.47-60

Poem Title:

The Female Reign, An Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

While lost to all his former mirth

Page No:

pp.60-62

Poem Title:

Ode, to a Lady, On the Death of Col. Charles Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy. Written May, 1745.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Collins.

Attributed To:

William Collins

First Line:

How sleep the brave who sink to rest

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

Ode, Written in the same Year, By the Same.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Collins]

Attributed To:

William Collins

First Line:

If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song

Page No:

pp.64-66

Poem Title:

Ode to Evening.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. W. Collins]

Attributed To:

William Collins

First Line:

A muse expiring who with earliest voice

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

Verses written on a Blank Leaf, By Lord Lansdown, when he presented his Works to the Queen, 1732.

Attribution:

By Lord Lansdown

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Asses milk half a pint take at seven or before

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

Advice to a Lady in Autumn.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The gushing streams impetuous flow

Page No:

pp.68-69

Poem Title:

On a Lady's drinking the Bath-Waters.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Mistaken fair lay Sherlock by

Page No:

pp.69-70

Poem Title:

Verses written in Lady's Sherlock upon Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Fanny blooming fair

Page No:

pp.70-71

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whenever Chloe I begin

Page No:

p.72

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All that of love can be expressed

Page No:

pp.73

Poem Title:

To the same with Hammond's Elegies.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Once by the muse alone inspired

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

To Miss Lucy F-----.

Attribution:

By -----.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To ease my troubled mind of anxious care

Page No:

pp.74-75

Poem Title:

To the Same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To him who in an hour must die

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

To the Same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair Venus whose delightful shrine surveys

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

A Prayer to Venus in her Temple at Stowe. To the Same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On Thames's bank a gentle youth

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

To the Same. On her pleading want of Time.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your shape your lips your eyes are still the same

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

To the Same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When I think on your truth I doubt you no more

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

To the Same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With me while present may thy lovely eyes

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

To the Same with a New Watch.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye sylvan scenes with artless beauty gay

Page No:

pp.80-81

Poem Title:

An Irregular Ode writ at Wickham in 1746. To the Same. [i.e. Lucy F—]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At length escaped from every human eye

Page No:

pp.82-94

Poem Title:

To the Memory of the same Lady. A Monody. 1747.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

Verses, Making Part of an Epitaph on the same Lady.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thanks Chloe thy coquetting art

Page No:

pp.96-99

Poem Title:

The Indifferent, From the Italian of Metastasio.

Attribution:

By -----.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Phoebe thank thy false heart it has fixed my repose

Page No:

pp.100-102

Poem Title:

The Shepherd's Farewell to his Love. Being the same Ode.

Attribution:

Translated by Mr. -----.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Through the close covert of the shady grove

Page No:

pp.103-105

Poem Title:

Riddle.

Attribution:

By the Same. [Mr. -----.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Torn from the fruitful spot on which I grew

Page No:

pp.105-107

Poem Title:

Riddle.

Attribution:

By the Same. [Mr. ----.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My size is large my shape's uncouth

Page No:

pp.108-109

Poem Title:

Riddle.

Attribution:

By the Same. [Mr. ----.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lyce at length my vows are heard

Page No:

pp.109-111

Poem Title:

Audivere, Lyce, &c. Hor. Book 4. Ode 13. imitated.

Attribution:

By the Same. [Mr. ----.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Capricious W- a sonnet needs must have

Page No:

p.112

Poem Title:

A Sonnet. Imitated from the Spanish of Lopez De Vega. Menagiana tom. iv. p.176.

Attribution:

By the Same. [Mr. ----.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O- whom virtue makes the worthy heir

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

Sonnet I.

Attribution:

By T. E.

Attributed To:

Thomas Edwards

First Line:

Wisely O C- enjoy the present hour

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

Sonnet II.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O sprung from worthies who with councils wise

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

Sonnet III. To F. K. Esq;

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

C--s I hoped the little heaven shall spare

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

Sonnet IV.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When pensive on that portraiture I gaze

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

Sonnet V. On a Family-Picture.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

R-- who well hast judged the task too hard

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

Sonnet VI.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

C--e with whom my pilot and my guide

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

Sonnet VII.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wo worth the man who in ill hour assayed

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

Sonnet VIII. On the Cantos of Spenser's Fairy Queen, lost in the Passage from Ireland.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Peace to thy ashes to thy memory fame

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

Sonnet IX.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O--- great meed shalt thou receive

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

Sonnet X. To the Author of Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Young fair and good ah why should young and fair

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

Sonnet XI.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

W- whose dear friendship in the dawning years

Page No:

p.124

Poem Title:

Sonnet XIII.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou who successive in that honoured seat

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

Sonnet XIII. To the Right Hon. Mr. ---- --- with the foregoing Sonnets.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.113]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Farewell aspiring thoughts no more

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

Contentment.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Duck.

Attributed To:

Stephen Duck

First Line:

Ethereal race inhabitants of air

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

An Ode on Aeolus's Harp.

Attribution:

By Mr. Thompson

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

By Rufus' hall where Thames polluted flows

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

On the Report of a Wooden Bridge to be built at Westminster.

Attribution:

By the Same. [James Thompson]

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Thou who shalt stop where Thames' translucent wave

Page No:

p.[131]

Poem Title:

On a Grotto near the Thames at Twickenham, composed of Marbles, Spars and Minerals.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

If truth can fix thy wavering heart

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

Song. To Sylvia.

Attribution:

By D. G.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou whose artless free born genius charms

Page No:

p.133

Poem Title:

To the Author of the Farmer's Letters, which were written in Ireland in the Year of the Rebellion, by Henry Brooke, Esq; 1745.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. D. G]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Untouched by love unmoved by wit

Page No:

pp.134-135

Poem Title:

Verses written in Sylvia's Prior.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. D. G]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While here the poet paints the charms

Page No:

p.134

Poem Title:

Verses written in a Book call'd Fables for the Female Sex.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. D. G]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Arachne once as poets tell

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

Upon a Lady's Embroidery.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. D. G]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As doctor -- musing sate

Page No:

pp.136-137

Poem Title:

Death and the Doctor. Occasion'd by a Physician's lampooning a Friend of the Author.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. D. G]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The goddesses of wit and love

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

On the Right Side.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. D. G]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though here my body lies interred

Page No:

pp.138-139

Poem Title:

On the Left Side.

Attribution:

By the Same [p.137, i.e. D. G]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The court was met the prisoner brought

Page No:

pp.139-152

Poem Title:

The Trial of Selim the Persian. For divers High Crimes and Misdemeanours.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Deep in a forest's shadowy seat

Page No:

pp.153-164

Poem Title:

The Trophy, Being Six Cantatas To the Honour of his Royal Highness William, Duke of Cumberland; Expressing the just Sense of a grateful Nation [...] Set to Musick by Dr. Greene. 1746.

Attribution:

By -----.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A myrtle flourished mongst the flowers

Page No:

pp.164-167

Poem Title:

The Marriage of the Myrtle and the Yew. A Fable. To Delia, about to marry beneath herself. 1744.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Bold was the irreligious hand

Page No:

pp.167-168

Poem Title:

On a Bay-Leaf, pluck'd from Virgil's Tomb, near Naples. 1736.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The minutes the hours the days and the years

Page No:

pp.169-170

Poem Title:

To Chloe. Written on my Birth-Day, 1734.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To silent groves where weeping yew

Page No:

pp.170-173

Poem Title:

A Song... Set to Musick by Dr. Greene.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nature and fortune blithe and gay

Page No:

pp.173-174

Poem Title:

Nature and Fortune. To the Earl of Chesterfield.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stanhope has gained one branch of fame

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

The Exception.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Can ease be consistent with state

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

To the Earl of Chesterfield.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In measured time | So heaven has willed together with their snows

Page No:

pp.177-184

Poem Title:

A Character of Mr. Pope's Writings. Being An Episode from the Poem call'd Sickness, B. II.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Thompson.

Attributed To:

William Thompson