Poetical blossoms: or, the sports of the genius [T130580] [ecco]

DMI number:

1066

Publication Date:

1766

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T130580

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113618036

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

Poetical Blossoms: | OR, THE | SPORTS of GENIUS. | Being a Collection of | POEMS upon several Subjects. | [rule] By the YOUNG GENTLEMEN of | Mr RULE's ACADEMY at ISLINGTON. | [rule] | To which is annexed, | The AGREEABLE SURPRISE, | A COMEDY of ONE ACT. | Translated from an Original Piece of | Monsieur DE MARIVAUX, | Of the Academy of SCIENCE at PARIS; | And performed by Mr RULE's SCHOLARS, for | their EXERCISE at [i]Whitsuntide[/i], 1766, to the | general Satisfaction of their FRIENDS: | With an Occasional | PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed for the AUTHORS, | By [i]J.[/i] and [i]W. Oliver[/i] in Bartholomew-Close; | And Sold by Messrs JOHNSON and DAVENPORT, | at the [i]Globe[/i], in [i]Paternoster[/i]-Row. | [short rule] | M DCC LXVI. | [Price One Shilling and Sixpence.]

Epigraph:

The young brisk Muse with sportive mirth diverts, | Unbends the bow, and cheers our drooping hearts, | And sage advice in lively Verse imparts.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Miscellany associated with group of poets and Subscription Miscellany

Format:

Duodecimo

Comments:

Contents: drama 'The Agreeable Surprise' pp. 63-126.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Advertisement pp. [iii]-iv; List of subscribers pp. [v]-x; Contents pp. xi-xii. End matter: advertisements [4pp.]

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Editor:

John Rule

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Confident (50%)

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ESTC suggests Rule might be the editor.

Printer:

John Oliver

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Absolute (100%)

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Printer:

William Oliver

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Absolute (100%)

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Sold by:

B. Davenport

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Absolute (100%)

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Sold by:

Joseph Johnson

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Absolute (100%)

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Content/Publication

First Line:

So many orators on heads declaim

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pp.1-7

Poem Title:

A Poem upon Heads, Occasioned by the Celebrated Lecture upon Heads.

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel

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pp.7-9

Poem Title:

On Oratory.

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What art thou death thou dread of human kind

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p.9-10

Poem Title:

On Death.

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The soul with store of bright ideas fraught

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pp.10-11

Poem Title:

On the Immortality of the Soul.

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Our father god of earth and skies

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p.12

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer.

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Tis virtue that exalts the human breast

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pp.12-13

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Stanzas upon Virtue.

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O thou whose power does all events control

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pp.14-15

Poem Title:

Ode on Destiny.

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O happiness our nature's only end

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pp.15-16

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On Happiness.

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The time once come ordained by heaven's high will

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pp.16-17

Poem Title:

A Thought on Birth and Life.

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Let timid guilt with dastard dread

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pp.18-20

Poem Title:

Ode written at Midnight in a Thunder Storm.

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Thinking unseen essence go

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p.18

Poem Title:

Imitation of Pope's Dying Christian to his Soul.

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From all the busy scenes of men retired

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pp.20-21

Poem Title:

Ode to Solitude.

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Why so perplexed fond man take heed

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pp.21-23

Poem Title:

The Blind Man's Soliloquy.

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A man of merit would you find

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pp.23-24

Poem Title:

On Calumny

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Now mourn Britannia just's that cause of grief

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pp.25-26

Poem Title:

A Poem on the Death of His Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland.

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By education nature is refined

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pp.26-27

Poem Title:

On Education.

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Thou flame unseen which dost each art inspire

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pp.27-28

Poem Title:

Ode on Genius.

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How gay this renovation of the year

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pp.28-29

Poem Title:

On the Spring.

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Her faded charms now drooping nature mourns

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pp.29-30

Poem Title:

On Winter.

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Past are the glories of the gorgeous day

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p.31

Poem Title:

Ode on the Evening.

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How calm a how sedate from realms of light

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pp.32-33

Poem Title:

Another on the Evening.

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A wife to make the state of wedlock blessed

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pp.34-36

Poem Title:

A Picture of a Good Wife.

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O solemn midnight sacred hour

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p.34

Poem Title:

An Ode on Midnight.

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In Pliny the receipt's conveyed

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pp.36-37

Poem Title:

Receipt for establishing the true Roman Friendship.

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A horse in science deeply skilled

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pp.38-39

Poem Title:

The Beast's Academy. A Fable.

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Tis education forms the mind

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pp.40-42

Poem Title:

The Academy of Animals. A Fable.

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Pyrrha what slender youth reclined

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pp.42-43

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode V. Book 1. To Pyrrha.

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See how Soracte's whitened over with snow

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pp.43-44

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode IX. Book I. To Thaliarchus.

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Strive not with impious daring mind

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p.44

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XI. Book I. To Leuconoe.

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When Lydia you will strange delight

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p.45

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XIII. Book I. To Lydia.

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The blood and bucks of this lewd town

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p.46

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XXV. Book I. To Lydia.

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Eternally from clouds the rain

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pp.47-48

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode IX. Book II. To Valgius.

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Persian magnificence I hate

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p.47

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XXXVIII. Book I. To his Footman.

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Tempt not too much the boisterous main

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pp.48-49

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode X. Book II. Imitated.

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The merchant when the storms arise

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pp.50-51

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XVI. Book II.

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Whilst to my Lydia I was dear

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pp.52-53

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode IX. Book III. Dialogue between Horace and Lydia.

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Twixt Inachus and Codrus' age

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pp.53-54

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XIX. Book III. To Telephus.

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Ah Posthumus with rapid haste

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pp.54-55

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XIV. Book II. Horace to Posthumus.

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I know not Phillis heavenly fair

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p.56

Poem Title:

A Madrigal.

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Though fate has made us part

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pp.56-57

Poem Title:

The Unprofitable Complaint.

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I'm a lover forlorn and unblessed

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pp.57-58

Poem Title:

A Song.

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The shepherd when with genial ray

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pp.58-59

Poem Title:

A Song.

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Apollo aid refuses

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p.59

Poem Title:

A Song. To a Lady who desir'd to have a Song wrote in her Praise.

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No mortal can love more sincerely

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pp.59-60

Poem Title:

A Song.

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Our studies my lads we may now lay aside

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p.60

Poem Title:

Song for the Whitsuntide Breaking-up.

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Dear Will | I am glad to hear you hold the rudder

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pp.61-62

Poem Title:

Letter to Will the Pilot. Versified by J. W.

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Adventurous we to tread the stage aspire

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pp.63-64

Poem Title:

Prologue. Spoken by Master Anderson.

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What think you now sage critics of the pit

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p.125

Poem Title:

Epilogue, Spoken by Master Witherston In the Character of Pasquin.

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