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)
- Title:
- A collection of poems by several hands, in three volumes [Vol.1] [T124507]
- Publication Date:
- 1748
- ESTC No:
- T124507
- Volume:
- 1 of 3
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems by several hands, in three volumes [Vol.3] [T124507]
- Publication Date:
- 1748
- ESTC No:
- T124507
- Volume:
- 3 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:
- 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:
- Publisher:
- Robert Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 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
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