Poems by the Earl of Roscomon. To which is added, An essay on poetry, by the Earl of Mulgrave, now Duke of Buckingham. Together with Poems by Mr. Richard Duke. [T132427]
- DMI number:
- 375
- Publication Date:
- 1717
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T132427
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW110397486
- Shelfmark:
- BOD - XK 41.38[Poe] 28274
- Full Title:
- POEMS | BY THE | Earl of [i]ROSCOMON.[/i] | To which is added, | [i]An[/i] ESSAY [i]on[/i] POETRY, | By the Earl of [i]MULGRAVE[/i], now | Duke of [i]BUCKINGHAM.[/i] | Together with | POEMS | By Mr. [i]RICHARD DUKE[/i]. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] Printed for J. TONSON, at [i]Shakespear[/i]'s | [i]Head[/i] over-against [i]Katharine-street[/i] in | the [i]Strand.[/i] M DCC XVII.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse and Miscellany associated with group of poets
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- pp. [i]-[xx], [1]-536.
- Bibliographic details:
- Essay on Translated verse has separate title page: (1) AN | ESSAY | ON | TRANSLATED VERSE. | [rule] | BY THE | EARL of [i]ROSCOMON.[/i] | [rule] | [epigraphs] | [rule] | The FOURTH EDITION. | [rule] | Printed in the Year MDCCXVII. Duke's poems have separate title page p. [321]: POEMS | UPON | Several Occasions. | BY. | Mr. [i]RICHARD DUKE[/i].
- Comments:
- Contents: Latin translations printed on facing pages of some poems; Latin verse pp. 518-536.
- Other matter:
- 'To the Reader' [2pp.]; 'Contents' [4pp.].
- Publisher:
- J. Tonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Named on title page T132427
- First Line:
- As when by labouring stars new kingdoms rise
- Page No:
- [4pp.]
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Poem.
- Attribution:
- Knightly Chetwood.
- Attributed To:
- Knightly Chetwood
- First Line:
- Whether the fruitful Nile or Tyrian shore
- Page No:
- [3pp.]
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- John Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- While satire pleased and nothing else was writ
- Page No:
- [3pp.]
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- J. Amherst.
- Attributed To:
- J. Amherst
- First Line:
- Happy that author whose correct essay
- Page No:
- pp.1-53
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- O azure vaults o crystal sky
- Page No:
- pp.53-58
- Poem Title:
- A Paraphrase On The CXLVIIIth Psalm.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon�s name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- I first of Romans stooped to rural strains
- Page No:
- pp.59-75
- Poem Title:
- Virgil's Sixth Eclogue. Silenus Translated.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- I first transferred to Rome Sicilian strains
- Page No:
- pp.79-86
- Poem Title:
- Virgil's Sixth Eclogue. Or, Silenus.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since we can die but once and after death
- Page No:
- pp.87-100
- Poem Title:
- A Prospect Of Death.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Hail sacred solitude from this calm bay
- Page No:
- pp.100-103
- Poem Title:
- Ode Upon Solitude.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Virtue dear friend needs no defence
- Page No:
- pp.105-107
- Poem Title:
- The Twenty Second Ode Of The First Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Be gone you slaves you idle vermin go
- Page No:
- pp.112-115
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat
- Page No:
- pp.120-122
- Poem Title:
- The foregoing Scene Translated into English.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Folly and vice are easy to describe
- Page No:
- pp.122-124
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue Spoken to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, at Edinburgh.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- To the pale tyrant who to horrid graves
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- The Dream.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- From deepest dungeons of eternal night
- Page No:
- pp.126-130
- Poem Title:
- The Ghost Of The Old House of Commons, To The New One, appointed to meet at Oxford.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Thou happy creature art secure
- Page No:
- pp.130-131
- Poem Title:
- On The Death Of A Lady's Dog.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Winter thy cruelty extend
- Page No:
- pp.131-132
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Stand sun of justice sovereign God most high
- Page No:
- pp.133-139
- Poem Title:
- The Prayer of Jeremy Paraphras'd. Prophetically representing the Passionate Grief of the Jewish People, for the Loss of their Town and Sanctuary.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- You've seen tonight the glory of the east
- Page No:
- pp.140-142
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Alexander the Great, When acted at the Theatre in Dublin.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- The day of wrath that dreadful day
- Page No:
- pp.143-147
- Poem Title:
- On The Day of Judgment.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- The mighty rivals whose destructive rage
- Page No:
- pp.148-150
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to Pompey, A Tragedy, Translated by Mrs. K. Philips, from the French of Monsieur Corneille, and Acted at the Theatre in Dublin.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Shame of my life disturber of my tomb
- Page No:
- pp.150-151
- Poem Title:
- Ross's Ghost.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Those ills your ancestors have done
- Page No:
- pp.152-161
- Poem Title:
- The Sixth Ode, Of The Third Book of Horace. Of the Corruption of the Times.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Rome was not better by her Horace taught
- Page No:
- pp.176-179
- Poem Title:
- Of This Translation And of the Use of Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By Edm. Waller, Esq
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- If in a picture Piso you should see
- Page No:
- pp.181-245
- Poem Title:
- Horace Of The Art of Poetry.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Of things in which mankind does most excel
- Page No:
- pp.297-317
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Afterwards Marquess of Normanby, Now Duke of Buckingham, and Lord President of the Council.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- How great a curse on human kind
- Page No:
- pp.318-319
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of Julius Caesar; Design'd for a Chorus in that Play.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How have we wandered a long dismal night
- Page No:
- pp.323-340
- Poem Title:
- The Review. Never before Printed.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Twas noon when I scorched with the double fire
- Page No:
- pp.341-343
- Poem Title:
- The Fifth Elegy Of The First Book of Ovid.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Blush not my friend to own the love
- Page No:
- pp.344-346
- Poem Title:
- The Fourth Ode Of The Second Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- If ever any injured power
- Page No:
- pp.346-348
- Poem Title:
- The Eighth Ode Of The Second Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Whilst I was welcome to your heart
- Page No:
- pp.348-350
- Poem Title:
- Horace and Lydia. The Ninth Ode of the Third Book.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- O Short no herb no salve was ever found
- Page No:
- pp.351-359
- Poem Title:
- The Cyclops. Theocritus Idyll. XI. Inscrib'd to Dr. Short.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Fly swift ye hours ye sluggish minutes fly
- Page No:
- pp.359-362
- Poem Title:
- To Caelia.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Thou equal partner of the royal bed
- Page No:
- pp.362-364
- Poem Title:
- Spoken to the Queen in Trinity-College New-Court in Cambridge.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Tell me my Thyrsis tell thy Damon why
- Page No:
- pp.364-371
- Poem Title:
- Floriana, A Pastoral upon the Death of her Grace the Dutchess of Southampton.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- I thought forgive my sin the boasted fire
- Page No:
- pp.372-374
- Poem Title:
- To the Unknown Author Of Absalom and Achitophel.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Goddess of rhyme that didst inspire
- Page No:
- pp.374-379
- Poem Title:
- An Epithalamium Upon the Marriage of Capt. William Bedloe.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Twas love conducted through the British main
- Page No:
- pp.380-385
- Poem Title:
- On the Marriage of George Prince of Denmark, And The Lady Anne.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- If the indulgent muse the only cure
- Page No:
- pp.386-363[i.e. 393]
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of King Charles the Second, And the Inauguration of King James the Second.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Long has the tribe of poets on the stage
- Page No:
- pp.363 [i.e.393]-395
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To Lucius Junius Brutus.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Oh whither do ye rush and thus prepare
- Page No:
- pp.396-397
- Poem Title:
- To the People of England; A Detestation of Civil War, From Horace's 7th Epod.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What to begin would have been madness thought
- Page No:
- pp.398-401
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Creech On His Translation of Lucretius.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Mopsus since chance does us together bring
- Page No:
- pp.401-410
- Poem Title:
- Virgil's Fifth Eclogue.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- When we for age could neither read nor write
- Page No:
- pp.410-411
- Poem Title:
- By Mr. Waller, on the last Verses in his Poems.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Waller,
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- When shame for all my foolish youth had writ
- Page No:
- pp.412-413
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Waller, Upon The Copy of Verses made by himself on the last Copy in his Book.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- After the fiercest pangs of hot desire
- Page No:
- pp.414-415
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Through mournful shades and solitary groves
- Page No:
- pp.415-417
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- See what a conquest love has made
- Page No:
- pp.417-418
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What senseless loads have overcharged the press
- Page No:
- pp.418-420
- Poem Title:
- To his Friend Mr. Henry Dickinson, On His Translation of Father Simon's Critical History of the Old Testament.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- And will our master poet then admit
- Page No:
- pp.420-423
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Dryden, On his Play, call'd, Troilus and Cressida; Or, Truth found too Late.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All health fair nymph thy Paris sends to thee
- Page No:
- pp.424-449
- Poem Title:
- Paris to Helena, Translated from Ovid's Epistles.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Read boldly this here you shall swear no more
- Page No:
- pp.449-462
- Poem Title:
- The Epistle of Acontius to Cydippe. Translated from Ovid.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Once more Crispinus called upon the stage
- Page No:
- pp.463-465[i.e.495]
- Poem Title:
- The Fourth Satyr Of Juvenal.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- Tell me Alexis whence these sorrows grow
- Page No:
- pp.499-500
- Poem Title:
- Damon and Alexis.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When first the young Alexis saw
- Page No:
- pp.500-502
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral. Caelia and Dorinda.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mistress of all my senses can invite
- Page No:
- pp.502-503
- Poem Title:
- To Caelia.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Have we for this served nine hard campaigns
- Page No:
- pp.503-504
- Poem Title:
- To some Disbanded Officers upon the late Vote of the House of Commons.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Duke
- First Line:
- And yet he fears to use them and be free
- Page No:
- pp.505-506
- Poem Title:
- An Imperfect Speech.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Censure and penances excommunications
- Page No:
- p.505
- Poem Title:
- To a R. Catholick upon Marriage.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My much loved friend | When thou art from my eyes
- Page No:
- pp.507-514
- Poem Title:
- Epistle From Mr. Otway to Mr. Duke.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Otway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Dear Tom how melancholy I am grown
- Page No:
- pp.515-517
- Poem Title:
- Answer To The Foregoing Epistle.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Duke.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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