Poems on several occasions. By the Earls of Roscommon, and Dorset, &c. [T132428]
- DMI number:
- 393
- Publication Date:
- 1714
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T132428
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW113017992
- Shelfmark:
- BOD - 12 Theta 1241
- Full Title:
- POEMS | ON | [i]Several Occasions[/i]. | By the EARLS of | ROSCOMMON, | AND | DORSET, [i]&c[/i]. | [rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for [i]E. CURLL[/i], MDCCXIV.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse and Miscellany associated with group of poets
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [4], 3-187 pp
- Bibliographic details:
- Plates: frontispiece.
- Comments:
- Contents: Latin verse pp. 170-187.
- Other matter:
- Contents [2pp]; 'Account of the Earl of Roscommon' (by Anthony a Wood) pp.3-5.
- References:
- Case 278
- Title:
- Poems by the Earls of Roscommon and Dorset; The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckingham, &c. [vol. II] [BL]
- Publication Date:
- 1756
- ESTC No:
- N/A
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, also those of the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckinghamshire [T95243]
- Publication Date:
- 1735
- ESTC No:
- T95243
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Edmund Curll
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Named on title page of T132428
- First Line:
- From deepest dungeons of eternal night
- Page No:
- pp.7-10
- Poem Title:
- The Ghost of the Old House of Commons, to the New one, appointed to meet at Oxford, in the Year 1682.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Shame of my life disturber of my tomb
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- Tom Ross's Ghost, To His Pupil The Duke of Monmouth.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Winter thy cruelty extend
- Page No:
- pp.13-14
- Poem Title:
- Song. On A Young Lady, Who sung Finely, and was afraid of a Cold.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Thou happy creature art secure
- Page No:
- pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- On The Death Of A Lady's Lap-Dog.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Hail sacred solitude from this calm bay
- Page No:
- pp.17-19
- Poem Title:
- Ode Upon Solitude.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Cursed be those dull unpointed doggerel rhymes
- Page No:
- pp.20-38
- Poem Title:
- A Faithful Catalogue Of our most Eminent Ninnies.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Earl of Dorset, in the Year 1686.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- In grey haired Celia's withered arms
- Page No:
- pp.39-41
- Poem Title:
- Madam Maintenon's Advice To The French King. Written in the Year 1697.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Dorset's name
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- The day of wrath that dreadful day
- Page No:
- pp.42-46
- Poem Title:
- On The Day of Judgment:
- Attribution:
- By The Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Hear me dull prostitute worse than my wife
- Page No:
- pp.47-59
- Poem Title:
- Dryden's Satire To His Muse.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Lord S---r's.
- Attributed To:
- John Somers
- First Line:
- Diana come attend this mournful story
- Page No:
- pp.60-61
- Poem Title:
- The Greyhound Strip's Elegy: With A Piece of his Skin annex'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I did but look and love a while
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- The Inchantment.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Clasped in the arms of her I love
- Page No:
- pp.64-65
- Poem Title:
- The Enjoyment.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Otway]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- When weeping majesty through clouds appears
- Page No:
- pp.66-72
- Poem Title:
- To The Queen, On The Death of his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark.
- Attribution:
- By Joseph Trapp, M. A.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Trapp
- First Line:
- Janus did ever to thy wondering eyes
- Page No:
- pp.73-75
- Poem Title:
- Ode For the Year 1705.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Edmund Smith, of Christ-Church, Oxon
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Smith
- First Line:
- O born when heavens propitious deigned to smile
- Page No:
- pp.76-79
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Lib. IV. Ode 5. Imitated; And humbly address'd to his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, instead of Augustus, to whom it is dedicated in the Original.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Go mighty prince and those great nations see
- Page No:
- pp.80-81
- Poem Title:
- To his Grace The Duke of Marlborough, Upon his Going into Germany.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whilom in Oxford an old chuff did dwell
- Page No:
- pp.82-112
- Poem Title:
- The Miller's Tale From Chaucer. Inscribed to N. Rowe Esq;
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What can the British senate give
- Page No:
- pp.117-131
- Poem Title:
- The Female Reign: An Ode. Attempted in the Style of Pindar.
- Attribution:
- S Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- Cambray whilst of seraphic love you write
- Page No:
- pp.132-138
- Poem Title:
- An Allusion To the Bishop of Cambray's Supplement of Homer. Written in the Year 1707.
- Attribution:
- By the late Duke of Devonshire.
- Attributed To:
- William Cavendish
- First Line:
- Tway mice full blithe and amicable
- Page No:
- pp.139-142
- Poem Title:
- Erle Robert's Mice. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Fair susan did her her wifehood well maintayne
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- Susannah And The Two Elders.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Prior]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- When fair Susannah in a cool retreat
- Page No:
- p.144
- Poem Title:
- The Same, attempted in a Modern Stile.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In ancient times as story tells
- Page No:
- pp.145-152
- Poem Title:
- Baucis And Philemon. Imitated from the 8th Book of Ovid.
- Attribution:
- By Jonathan Swift, D. D.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Here the young muse instructed how to sing
- Page No:
- p.154
- Poem Title:
- On the following Essay
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Welsted.
- Attributed To:
- Leonard Welsted
- First Line:
- Of things in which mankind does most excel
- Page No:
- pp.155-169
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace John, Duke of Buckinghamshire.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
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