Poems on several occasions. By the late Matthew Prior [3rd ed.] [T75656]

DMI number:

548

Publication Date:

1733

Volume Number:

3 of 3

ESTC number:

T75656

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW110875436

Shelfmark:

BOD Vet. A4 f.1014

Full Title:

POEMS | ON | [i]Several Occasions[/i]. | By the Late | [i]MATTHEW PRIOR[/i], Esq; | [rule] | VOLUME the THIRD, and LAST. | [rule] | The THIRD EDITION. | [rule] | To which is Prefixed | [i]The[/i] LIFE [i]of Mr[/i]. PRIOR, | By [i]SAMUEL HUMPHREYS[/i], Esq; | [rule] | ADORNED WITH CUTS. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed: And sold by S. BIRT in [i]Ave-Maria- | Lane[/i], and W. FEALES without [i]Temple-Bar[/i]. | [partial rule] | MDCCXXXIII.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Bibliographic details:

SEPARATE TITLE PAGE (sig.E): [ornamental rule] | ORIGINAL POEMS | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | ORNAMENTAL HANDS. | [ornamental rule] 'An unauthorised edition', according to ESTC. p.113 mispaginated 311. BOD Vet. A4 f.1014 is missing pp.72-84; interestingly, the poems removed ('The Curious Maid,' 'The Silent Flute', 'An Allusion to Horace'), whilst hardly pornographic, were probably torn out because of their sexual content (either as censorship, or, more likely, to pass around.) PLATES: Unsigned frontispiece portrait. Illustrative plates by Vandergulcht preceding p.[1], p.[19] and p.[75].

Comments:

PAGINATION: [14], [i]-xlii, [2], [1]-18, [19]-71, [72-75], 76-168, [9], 178-203, [1] MISCELLANY CONTENTS: 'The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd' is a separate prose pamphlet (pp.169-203). Much of the prefatory material is prose. MISCELLANY GENRE: Posthumous miscellany. DATE: 'The Hind and the Panther Transversed' at the end of the volume which has a separate title page but continuous pagination and register, is dated 1734; the title page at front of volume carries the date 1733.

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATERIAL: Dedication to Lionel Duke of Dorset (4pp.); 'The Preface' (4pp.); Contents (4pp.); 'Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Prior' (pp.[i]-xlii)

Related People

Dedicatee:

Lionel Cranfield Sackville

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

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Engraver:

Gerard Vandergucht

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Engraving preceding p.1 signed 'G. V.dr Gucht sculpt'; engraving preceding p.19 signed 'G. V.dr Gucht fecit'.

Publisher:

Samuel Birt

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

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Publisher:

William Feales

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Absolute (100%)

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Content/Publication

First Line:

Could I great bard o could I share

Page No:

pp.ix-x

Poem Title:

To Matthew Prior, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Is Prior gone O would you once inspire

Page No:

pp.xxxiii-xxxv

Poem Title:

On the Death of Matthew Prior, Esq; Of Down-Hall in Essex.

Attribution:

By a Neighbouring Clergyman

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let tears no more lament the dead in vain

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pp.xli-xlii

Poem Title:

On the Publication of Two Posthumous Pieces of Mr. Prior, viz. I. The Turtle and Sparrow, a Tale. II. Down-Hall, a Ballad.

Attribution:

W. Pattison.

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Matt Prior and we must submit

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pp.xxxvi-xxxviii

Poem Title:

Threnus: Or, Stanzas on the Death of Mr. Prior.

Attribution:

By Robert Ingram, Esq;

Attributed To:

Robert Ingram

First Line:

O had my tongue but language to express

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pp.xxxix-xl

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Prior.

Attribution:

Charles Brown

Attributed To:

Mr. Browne

First Line:

I've listened long and now would silence break

Page No:

pp.xvi-xxii

Poem Title:

Horace. Satire VII. Book II. Davus and Horace.

Attribution:

In the Preface signed J. Dennis '...this of Horace. the Translation of which has occasioned the Trouble which I now give you'

Attributed To:

John Dennis

First Line:

Mean artifice to gild precarious fame

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p.xl

Poem Title:

On seeing Mr. Prior's Monument.

Attribution:

Cha. Beckingham.

Attributed To:

Charles Beckingham

First Line:

Behind an unfrequented glade

Page No:

pp.[1]-18

Poem Title:

The Turtle and Sparrow. An Elegiac Tale.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I sing not old Jason who travelled through Greece

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pp.[19]-27

Poem Title:

Down-Hall; a Ballad. To the Tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury. Written in the Year, M DCC XV.

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First Line:

When crowding folks with strange ill faces

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pp.28-31

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Fleetwood Shephard, Esq; Written Anno, 1689.

Attribution:

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First Line:

O Phoebus deity whose powerful hand

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p.32

Poem Title:

Imitated by Mr. Cooke. To my learned Friend Samuel Shaw, at Taking his Doctor's Degree, and Defending a Thesis on the Jaundice.

Attribution:

By Mr. Cooke

Attributed To:

Mr Cooke

First Line:

I sent for Radcliffe was so ill

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

The Remedy Worse than the Disease.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I have no hopes the Duke he says and dies

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p.34

Poem Title:

On Bishop Atterbury's Burying his Grace John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire, 1721.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

How long deluded Albion wilt thou lie

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pp.35-47

Poem Title:

An Ode, In Imitation of the Second Ode of the Third Book of Horace. Written Anno, 1692.

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First Line:

Madam | Since Anna visited the muses' seat

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pp.48-49

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:

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Not attributed

First Line:

What would my humble comrades have me say

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pp.50-51

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Orphan. Represented by some of the Westminster Scholars, at Hickford's Dancing-Room in Panton-Street near Leicester-Fields, the Second of February, 1720. Spoken by the Lord Duplin, who acted Cordelio.

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First Line:

It has always been thought discreet

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pp.52-55

Poem Title:

The Conversation. A Tale.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred

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pp.56-61

Poem Title:

Colin's Mistakes. Written in Imitation of Spenser's Style.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Wissin and nature held a long contest

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pp.62-64

Poem Title:

To the Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Devonshire, on a Piece of Wissen's; Wherein were all her Grandsons Painted.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thus Kitty beautiful and young

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pp.65-67

Poem Title:

The Female Phaeton.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

When Kneller's works of various grace

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pp.67-69

Poem Title:

The Judgement of Venus.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst I am scorched with hot desire

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

To Cloe.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Nobles and heralds by your leave

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

Epitaph, For Himself, Spoken Extempore.

Attribution:

Epitaph, for himself

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Not attributed

First Line:

Beauty's a gaudy sign no more

Page No:

pp.75-78

Poem Title:

The Curious Maid: A Tale.

Attribution:

By Hildebrand Jacob, Esq;

Attributed To:

Hildebrand Jacob

First Line:

O thou designed by nature to control

Page No:

pp.79-82

Poem Title:

The Silent Flute: Or, the Members Speech To Their Soveraign.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Celia this night has promised I

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pp.83-84

Poem Title:

Allusion To Horace, Ode XXX. Book I.

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First Line:

You who like Proteus in all shapes appear

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pp.85-95

Poem Title:

Bedlam.

Attribution:

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First Line:

With flowing pomp and beauteous pride

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pp.95-99

Poem Title:

The Description of a Ship in a Storm.

Attribution:

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First Line:

As Phoebus darted forth a milder ray

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pp.99-103

Poem Title:

Strada's Nightingale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pattison.

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Where the fair Paphian goddess keeps her court

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pp.103-108

Poem Title:

The Court of Venus. From Claudian.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Pattison.]

Attributed To:

William Pattison

First Line:

Dear Chloe while thus beyond measure

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pp.109-111

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The man that is drunk is void of all care

Page No:

pp.112-114

Poem Title:

Horace's Integer Vitae, &c. Imitated (Or, rather, Burlesqu'd.)

Attribution:

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First Line:

Such words the prophet's indignation raise

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pp.115-119

Poem Title:

The Story Of Orpheus Eurydice. From the Fourth Georgic of Virgil.

Attribution:

By Samuel Humphries, Esq;

Attributed To:

Samuel Humphreys

First Line:

Thank heaven at last our wars are over

Page No:

pp.120-137

Poem Title:

Vertumnus. An Epistle to Mr. Jacob Bobart, Botany-Professor to the University of Oxford, and Keeper of the Physic-Garden, 1713.

Attribution:

By Dr. Evans

Attributed To:

Abel Evans

First Line:

Read the commandments Trapp translate no further

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

Written by Dr. Evans in a Blank-Leaf of Dr, Trapp's Blank-Verse-Translation of Virgil.

Attribution:

Written by Dr. Evans

Attributed To:

Abel Evans

First Line:

Whilst you my Lord acquire a deathless name

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pp.138-153

Poem Title:

Cannons. Inscrib'd to his Grace the Duke of Chandos. [...] Written in the Year 1728.

Attribution:

By Samuel Humphreys, Esq;

Attributed To:

Samuel Humphreys

First Line:

When heaven has once with rich profusion joined

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pp.154-158

Poem Title:

Malpasia. A Poem, Sacred to the Memory Of the Right Honourable the Lady Malpas.

Attribution:

By Mr. Humphreys

Attributed To:

Samuel Humphreys

First Line:

Jenny with holy heat run mad

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pp.159

Poem Title:

Sister Jane, from Fontaine.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

By what authority do clergy

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pp.160-161

Poem Title:

On Marriage.

Attribution:

By Mr. Butler, the Author of Hudibras

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Sister Jane a by-blow had

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p.160

Poem Title:

The Same

Attribution:

By Mr. Ozell

Attributed To:

John Ozell

First Line:

Dear Sim by wits extolled by wits cried down

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p.162

Poem Title:

To Mr. Harcourt, Occasioned By his Fathering the Verses to Lady Catherine Hyde.

Attribution:

By Mr. Sewell.

Attributed To:

George Sewell

First Line:

Before Apollo's shrine I prayed

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

Upon Reading Mr. Prior's Poems.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Fain would I sir what you advised fulfil

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pp.164-168

Poem Title:

Harley. An Epistle, From the Country, To a Friend in the City, 1722.

Attribution:

By a Clergyman in Essex

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Not attributed