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.).

Related Miscellanies

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:

Related People

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).

Content/Publication

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 Prior

Charles 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