A collection of poems by several hands, in three volumes [Vol.2] [T124507]

DMI number:

776

Publication Date:

1748

Volume Number:

2 of 3

ESTC number:

T124507

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW112823663

Shelfmark:

University of Oxford, Magdalen College Library, s.3.38

Full Title:

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

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellaneous collection and Collection including drama

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[4pp], 3-332

Bibliographic details:

HALF-TITLE: [ornamental rule] | VOL. II. | [ornamental rule] Separate title pages for 'The Progress of Love' p. [1]: THE | PROGRESS | OF | LOVE. | IN | [rule] | FOUR ECLOGUES. | [rule] | [2 columns] [column 1] I. UNCERTAINTY. | To Mr. [i]POPE.[/i] | II. HOPE. | To the Hon. [i]GEORGE | DODDINGTON[/i], Esq; [/column 1] | III. JEALOUSY. | To [i]ED. WALPOLE[/i], Esq; | IV. POSSESSION. | To the Right Honble the | Lord Visc. [i]COBHAM.[/i] [/column 2] Also for 'On the Abuse of Travelling', 'The Institution of the Order of the Garter'.

Other matter:

END MATTER: Table of contents pp.331-332.

References:

Case 458 (2)(a) Suarez, Michael F., ed., 'Robert Dodsley: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands', (1997)

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Title:

A collection of poems by several hands, in three volumes [Vol.1] [T124507]

Publication Date:

1748

ESTC No:

T124507

Volume:

1 of 3

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Title:

A collection of poems by several hands, in three volumes [Vol.3] [T124507]

Publication Date:

1748

ESTC No:

T124507

Volume:

3 of 3

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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:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T148949] [Vol. 2] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1751

ESTC No:

T148949

Volume:

2 of 3

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

Robert Dodsley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Pope to whose reed beneath the beechen shade

Page No:

pp.3-6

Poem Title:

Uncertainty. Eclogue I. To Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hear Doddington the notes that shepherds sing

Page No:

pp.7-10

Poem Title:

Hope. Eclogue II. To Mr. Doddington.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The gods o Walpole give no bliss sincere

Page No:

pp.11-14

Poem Title:

Jealousy. Eclogue III. To Mr. Edward Walpole.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cobham to thee this rural lay I bring

Page No:

pp.15-18

Poem Title:

Possession. Eclogue IV. To Lord Cobham.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas night and Flavia to her room retired

Page No:

pp.18-20

Poem Title:

Soliloquy Of a Beauty in the Country.

Attribution:

Written at Eton-School, by the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Parent of arts whose skillful hand first taught

Page No:

pp.21-27

Poem Title:

Blenheim. Writ at the University of Oxford in the Year 1727.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say dearest friend how roll thy hours away

Page No:

pp.28-33

Poem Title:

To the Reverend Dr. Ayscough at Oxford. Writ from Paris in the Year 1728.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou whose friendship is my joy and pride

Page No:

pp.34-37

Poem Title:

To Mr. Poyntz, Ambassador at the Congress of Soissons, in the Year 1728. Written at Paris.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Such is thy form O Poyntz but who shall find

Page No:

pp.37-38

Poem Title:

Verses to be written under a Picture of Mr. Poyntz.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Immortal bard for whom each muse has wove

Page No:

pp.38-41

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. Pope From Rome, 1730.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Favourite of Venus and the tuneful nine

Page No:

pp.42-44

Poem Title:

To My Lord--------. In the Year 1730. From Worcestershire.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The counsels of a friend Belinda hear

Page No:

pp.45-50

Poem Title:

Advice to a Lady.

Attribution:

By the Same. 1731. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Delia on the plain appears

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

A Song. Written in the Year 1732.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The heavy hours are almost past

Page No:

pp.51-53

Poem Title:

Song. Written in the Year 1733.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me my Delia tell me why

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

Damon and Delia. In Imitation of Horace and Lydia. Written in the Year 1732.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Parent of blooming flowers and gay desires

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

Ode. In Imitation of Pastor Fido (O Primavera Gioventu del Anno.) Written Abroad in 1729.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let others heap of wealth a shining store

Page No:

pp.56-59

Poem Title:

Part of an Elegy of Tibullus Translated. (Divinias alius fulvo sibi congerat Auro.) 1729-30.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say Myra why is gentle love

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

Song. Written in the Year 1732.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go Thames and tell the busy town

Page No:

pp.60

Poem Title:

Writ at Mr. Pope's House at Twickenham, which he had lent to Mrs. G-----lle. In August 1735.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair nature's sweet simplicity

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

To Mr. West, at Wickham. Written in the Year 1740.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

None without hope ever loved the brightest fair

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wise was that Spartan lawgiver of old

Page No:

pp.64-87

Poem Title:

On the Abuse of Travelling. A Canto. In Imitation of Spenser.

Attribution:

By Gilbert West, Esq;

Attributed To:

Gilbert West

First Line:

Hither all ye heavenly powers

Page No:

pp.91-154

Poem Title:

The Institution of the Order of the Garter.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. West]

Attributed To:

Gilbert West

First Line:

While you my lord alas amidst a few

Page No:

pp.155-175

Poem Title:

An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.

Attribution:

By -----------, Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Through the wild maze of life's still varying plan

Page No:

pp.175-189

Poem Title:

An Epistle.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Clarinda dearly loved attend

Page No:

pp.189-197

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a Lady.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heaven in the human breast implants

Page No:

pp.197-199

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pollio wouldst thou condescend

Page No:

pp.200-202

Poem Title:

Epistle to Pollio, from the Hills of Howth in Ireland.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Remote from liberty and truth

Page No:

pp.203-205

Poem Title:

An Ode to William Pultney, Esq;

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lonsdale thou ever honoured name

Page No:

pp.205-208

Poem Title:

An Ode to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Lonsdale.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gentle idle trifling boy

Page No:

pp.208-209

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On Stowe the muse's happy theme

Page No:

pp.210-212[i.e.211]

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too anxious for the public weal

Page No:

pp.212[i.e. 211] -212

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nor me the glories of thy birth engage

Page No:

pp.213-214

Poem Title:

An Ode to Mankind: Address'd to the Prince... Introduction to the Prince.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Is there or do the schoolmen dream

Page No:

pp.215-222

Poem Title:

To Mankind: An Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wearied with indolent repose

Page No:

pp.222-224

Poem Title:

Verses to Camilla.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas when the friendly shade of night

Page No:

pp.224-227

Poem Title:

To Clarissa.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I loved thee beautiful and kind

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

Epigram. I.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since first you knew my amorous smart

Page No:

pp.228-229

Poem Title:

Epigram. II.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unmarked by trophies of the great and vain

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

An inscription on a tomb rais'd to the memory of the author's father, and of others his ancestors.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Among these chiefs of British race

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

Epigram. IV. Upon the Busts of English worthies, at Stow.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My heart still hovering round about you

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

Epigram. III.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though cheerful discreet and with freedom well bred

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

Epigram. V.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Foul with graceless verse

Page No:

pp.230-231

Poem Title:

Epigram. IX. On one who first abused and then made love to a Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I swore I loved and you believed

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

Epigram. VII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lie on while my revenge shall be

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

Epigram. VI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The gentle pen with look demure

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

Epigram. VIII. On Mrs. Penelope.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She who in secret yields her heart

Page No:

p.231

Poem Title:

Epigram. XI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While Lucy chaste as mountain snows

Page No:

p.231

Poem Title:

Epigram. X.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lovely shines thy wedded fair

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

Epigram. XIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We thought you without titles great

Page No:

p.232

Poem Title:

Epigram. XII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tom thought a wild profusion great

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

Epigram. XIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You ask me sir why thus by phantoms awed

Page No:

pp.233-243

Poem Title:

The Dangers of Writing Verse. An Epistle.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Whitehead of Clare-hall in Cambridge.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

O Charles in absence hear a friend complain

Page No:

pp.244-246

Poem Title:

To the Honourable ***

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

On old Parnassus the other day

Page No:

pp.246-250

Poem Title:

To Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Sly hypocrite was this your aim

Page No:

pp.251-252

Poem Title:

Nature to Dr. Hoadly, On his Comedy of the Suspicious Husband.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

A Grecian youth of talents rare

Page No:

pp.253-255

Poem Title:

The Youth and the Philosopher. A Fable.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Ah friend forbear nor fright the fields

Page No:

pp.255-259 [i.e. 257]

Poem Title:

An Ode to a Gentleman, On his pitching a Tent in his Garden.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Hermes the gamester of the sky

Page No:

pp.258-259

Poem Title:

On a Message-Card in Verse, Sent by a Lady.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Yes I'm in love I feel it now

Page No:

p.260

Poem Title:

The Je ne scai Quoi. A Song.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Ye distant spires ye antique towers

Page No:

pp.261-264

Poem Title:

An Ode On a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lo where the rosy bosomed hours

Page No:

pp.265-267

Poem Title:

Ode.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas on a lofty vase's side

Page No:

pp.267-269

Poem Title:

Ode On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sing we no more of Hymeneal lays

Page No:

pp.269-275

Poem Title:

A Monody On the Death of Queen Caroline.

Attribution:

By Richard West, Esq; Son to the Chancellor of Ireland, and Grandson to Bishop Burnet.

Attributed To:

Richard West

First Line:

Old battle array big with horror is fled

Page No:

pp.276-278

Poem Title:

Imitation I. A New-Year's Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Little tube of mighty power

Page No:

pp.278-279

Poem Title:

Imitation II.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou matured by glad Hesperian suns

Page No:

pp.279-280

Poem Title:

Imitation III.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Critics avaunt tobacco is my theme

Page No:

pp.280-281

Poem Title:

Imitation IV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Blessed leaf whose aromatic gales dispense

Page No:

pp.281-282

Poem Title:

Imitation V.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Boy bring an ounce of freeman's best

Page No:

pp.282-283

Poem Title:

Imitation VI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Charles son of York who on the mercy-seat

Page No:

pp.284-286

Poem Title:

Ode to the Hon. C. Y.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I rural life enjoy the town's your taste

Page No:

pp.286-287

Poem Title:

From Caelia to Cloe.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wherefore was man thus formed with eye sublime

Page No:

pp.288-290

Poem Title:

On a Fit of the Gout.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O ship shall new waves again bear thee to sea

Page No:

pp.290-291

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode 14. Book I. Imitated in 1746.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too much my heart of beauty's power hath known

Page No:

pp.291-295

Poem Title:

The Resolution: An Elegy. Written in the Year 1742.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst you Athenia with assiduous toil

Page No:

pp.295-302

Poem Title:

The Female Right to Literature, in a Letter to a young Lady, from Florence.

Attribution:

By ------

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Great Homer's birth seven rival cities claim

Page No:

pp.302-303

Poem Title:

On Shakespear's Monument at Stratford upon Avon.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When fair Serena first I knew

Page No:

pp.303-304

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The potent lord that this bright villa planned

Page No:

p.304

Poem Title:

Chiswick

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When flourished with their state the Athenian name

Page No:

pp.305-320

Poem Title:

An Epistle from Florence. To T. A, Esq; Tutor to the Earl of P---. Written in the Year 1740.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Desponding artist talk no more

Page No:

pp.321-327

Poem Title:

The Beauties. An Epistle to Mr. Eckardt the Painter.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Britons once more in annual joy we meet

Page No:

pp.327-330

Poem Title:

Epilogue to Tamerlane, On the Suppression of the Rebellion. Spoken by Mrs. Prichard, in the Character of the Comic Muse, Nov. 4. 1746.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed