Poems on several occasions, by Matthew Prior [2nd. edition] [T75647]
- DMI number:
- 543
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- Volume Number:
- 3
- ESTC number:
- T75647
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW111592799
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding C 2484
- Full Title:
- POEMS | ON | Several Occasions, | BY | MATTHEW PRIOR [i]Esq[/i]; &[i]c[/i]. | [rule] | VOLUME III. | [rule] | THE SECOND EDITION | [rule] | [i]Adorned with Cuts.[/i] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year, MDCCXXVII. | Price 2 [i]s[/i]. 6 [i]d[/i].
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Price:
- 2 s. 6 d.
- Bibliographic details:
- Has some of the same plates as 1st edition (T144876), but this volume is missing the frontispiece portrait. The plates do not interfere with pagination as in 1st ed. However, pagination slips when 49 is misnumbered 47 and the error is continued until sig.E when an adjustment is made, correcting pagination to 73 (page following '70'). Pleasingly, the subsequent poem is entitled 'Colin's Mistakes'... Some prefaratory material from 1st ed. has been moved to the end, continuing the separate pagination of 'The Hind and the Panther Transversed' PLATES: Illustrative plates by Vandergulcht: preceding p.1; on p.[26]; and on p.92.
- Comments:
- PAGINATION: [6], [i]-xii, [2], [1]-23, [24-27], 28-48, 47-70, 73-90, [91-92], 93-129, [1]; [8], [1-2], 3-34 [2], 36-52, [2]. MISCELLANY CONTENTS: Poem on p.43 is latin, translated on p.44. The prose tract 'The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to The Story of The Country-Mouse, and The City-Mouse.' follows p.129, with separate title page, preface, pagination, and register. MISCELLANY GENRE: Posthumous miscellany.
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATERIAL: At the beginning of volume: dedication to Sir Henry Hussey, Bart., signed 'Philo-Musis', 2pp.; 'On the Publication of two Posthumous Pieces...' 2pp.; 'Some Memoirs of the Author's Life' pp.1-xii. Then, following 'The Hind and the Panther Tranvers'd' (separate pagination): 'Threnus, or, Stanzas on the Death of Mr. Prior' pp.[43]-45; 'The Inscription upon Mr. Prior's Monument...' pp.46-49; 'The Inscription Attempted in English' pp.50-54; 'Epitaph made Extempore by Himself' p.54. Contents are at the end of the volume, unpaginated and pasted in as a single leaf (2pp.).
- Title:
- A new collection of poems on several occasions by Mr. Prior, and others [T144876]
- Publication Date:
- 1725
- ESTC No:
- T144876
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Dedicatee:
- Henry Hussey
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Engraver:
- Gerard Vandergucht
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'G. V. dr Gucht fecit' on engraving preceding p. 1; 'G. V.d Gucht sculpt' on engraving on p.92 (Engraving on p. 26 has been trimmed, but see T144876).
- First Line:
- Let tears no more lament the dead in vain
- Page No:
- no pagination (2pp.)
- Poem Title:
- On the Publication of two Posthumous Pieces of Mr. Prior.
- Attribution:
- W. Pattison.
- Attributed To:
- William Pattison
- First Line:
- Behind an unfrequented glade
- Page No:
- p.[1]-23
- Poem Title:
- The Turtle and Sparrow. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I sing not old Jason who travelled through Greece
- Page No:
- pp.[27]-38
- Poem Title:
- Down-Hall; A Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When crowding folks with strange ill faces
- Page No:
- pp.39-43
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Fleetwood Sheppard Esq; Written Anno, 1689.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O Phoebus deity whose powerful hand
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- The same translated. By Mr. Cooke. To Mr. Samuel Shaw, on Receiving his Doctor's Degree.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cooke
- Attributed To:
- Mr Cooke
- First Line:
- I sent for Radcliffe was so ill
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- The Remedy Worse than the Disease.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I have no hopes the Duke he says and dies
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- On Bishop Atterbury's Burying the Duke of Buckingham.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How long deluded Albion wilt thou lie
- Page No:
- pp.47-61
- Poem Title:
- An Ode, In Imitation of the Second Ode of the Third Book of Horace. Written Anno, 1692.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Madam | Since Anna visited the muses' seat
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- Verses Spoke to the Lady Henrietta-Cavendish Holles Harley, In the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge, November the 9th, Anno: 1719.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What would my humble comrades have me say
- Page No:
- pp.64-65
- Poem Title:
- Prologue To The Orphan. Represented by some of the Westminster-Scholars at Hickford's Dancing-Room, the 2d of February, 1720. Spoken by the Lord Duplin, who acted Cordelio.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- It has always been thought discreet
- Page No:
- pp.66-73
- Poem Title:
- The Conversation. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred
- Page No:
- pp.74-79
- Poem Title:
- Colin's Mistakes. Written in Imitation of Spenser's Style.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wissin and nature held a long contest
- Page No:
- pp.80-83
- Poem Title:
- To the Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Devonshire On a Piece of Wissen's; Wherein all her Grandsons Painted
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus Kitty beautiful and young
- Page No:
- pp.84-86
- Poem Title:
- The Female Phaeton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Kneller's works of various grace
- Page No:
- pp.87-89
- Poem Title:
- The Judgement of Venus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whilst I am scorched with hot desire
- Page No:
- p.90
- Poem Title:
- To His Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beauty's a gaudy sign no more
- Page No:
- pp.93-96
- Poem Title:
- The Curious Maid: A Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Hildebrand Jacob, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Hildebrand Jacob
- First Line:
- Ye wise philosophers explain
- Page No:
- pp.97-111
- Poem Title:
- The Bubble a Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Dean Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- As Phoebus darted forth a milder ray
- Page No:
- pp.112-116
- Poem Title:
- Strada's Nightingale, Imitated
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pattison.
- Attributed To:
- William Pattison
- First Line:
- Where the fair Paphian goddess keeps her court
- Page No:
- pp.116-123
- Poem Title:
- The Court of Venus. From Claudian.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Pattison.]
- Attributed To:
- William Pattison
- First Line:
- Incensed the raging prophet thus replies
- Page No:
- pp.124-129
- Poem Title:
- The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice. From Virgil's, Georgic's Book, IV.
- Attribution:
- 'By the Same' (i.e. William Pattison)
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Is Prior gone O would you once inspire
- Page No:
- pp.35-37
- Poem Title:
- A Poem on the Death of Matthew Prior Esq; of Down-Hall in Essex.
- Attribution:
- By a Neighbouring Clergyman
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fain would I sir what you advised fulfil
- Page No:
- pp.38-42
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from the Country, To his Friend in the City.
- Attribution:
- 'By the same hand 1722' referring to 'The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd', which is attributed in T75647 contents to Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu. Montagu died in 1715, so clearly only Prior is intended by this attribution.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew PriorCharles Montagu
- First Line:
- Matt Prior and we must submit
- Page No:
- pp.43-45
- Poem Title:
- Threnus: Or, Stanzas on the Death of Mr. Prior.
- Attribution:
- By Robert Ingram Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Robert Ingram
- First Line:
- Statesmen and heralds by your leave
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph made Extempore by Himself.
- Attribution:
- by Himself (i.e. Matthew Prior)
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
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