Poetical Miscellanies consisting of original poems and translations [T133656]

DMI number:

358

Aliases

Poetical miscellanies

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1714

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T133656

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111870182

Shelfmark:

BOD 12 Theta 1057

Full Title:

POETICAL | MISCELLANIES, | Consisting of | [i]ORIGINAL POEMS[/i] | AND | TRANSLATIONS. | [i]By the best Hands[/i]. | [rule] | Publish'd by Mr. [i]STEELE.[/i] | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i]: | Printed for JACOB TONSON at [i]Shake-| spear[/i]'s [i]Head[/i] over-against [i]Catherine-street[/i] | in the [i]Strand[/i]. M DCC XIV.

Epigraph:

n/a

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Octavo

Price:

n/a

Pagination:

[14], [1]-318 pp. (255 misnumbered as 235)

Bibliographic details:

Plate facing title page

Comments:

Contents: Latin verse p. 290. Attributions: some attributions from contents page rather than from body of text.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Dedication 'to Mr. Congreve' signed 'Richard Steele' [8pp]; Contents [4pp].

References:

Case 279 (b)

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Title:

Poetical Miscellanies consisting of original poems and translations [T75180]

Publication Date:

1714

ESTC No:

T75180

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

Poetical Miscellanies consisting of original poems and translations [N37755]

Publication Date:

1726

ESTC No:

N37755

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

Poetical Miscellanies, consisting of original poems and translations [T75179]

Publication Date:

1727

ESTC No:

T75179

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Related People

Dedicatee:

William Congreve

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Dedicated 'to Mr. Congreve'.

Editor:

Sir Richard Steele

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Dedication signed 'Richard Steele'.

Publisher:

Jacob Tonson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for JACOB TONSON at Shake-spear's Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand.'

Content/Publication

First Line:

Behold the woes of matrimonial life

Page No:

pp.3-27

Poem Title:

The Wife of Bath Her Prologue, from Chaucer.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

In vain my muse would imitate the strains

Page No:

pp.28-34

Poem Title:

A Pastoral.

Attribution:

By the Author of the Anonymous Verses before Cato

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Trust me dear George could I in verse but show

Page No:

pp.35-38

Poem Title:

An Epistle...In Answer to a Friend who desired him to write upon the Death of King William. April 20, 1702.

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

This matchless picture Jervas hide

Page No:

pp.38-39

Poem Title:

To Mr. Jervas. Occasion'd by the Sight of Mrs. Chetwind's Picture.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable the Countess of W----

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Grown old in rhyme twere barbarous to discard

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Prologue. Design'd for Mr. D---'s last Play.

Attribution:

Written by several Hands

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A wretch long tortured with disdain

Page No:

pp.42-43

Poem Title:

Love's Relief.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In church the prayer book and the fan displayed

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

To Belinda.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Be gone our nation's pleasure and reproach

Page No:

pp.44-45

Poem Title:

On Nicolini's leaving the Stage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nature in pity has denied you shape

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

To Flavia

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gentle air thou breath of lovers

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

A Sigh

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The muses frolicsome and gay

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

The 30th Ode of Anacreon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Mars the Lemnian darts surveyed

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

The Forty-Fifth Ode of Anacreon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Can you count the silver lights

Page No:

pp.49-50

Poem Title:

An Imitation of a French Author.

Attribution:

By another Hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How ill the motion with the music suits

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

Upon a Company of bad Dancers to good Musick.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Could he whom my dissembled rigour grieves

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

A Soliloquy out of Italian.

Attribution:

By the same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Cippus in the trembling stream surveyed

Page No:

pp.52-55

Poem Title:

A Translation of the Story of Cippus Returning to Rome to Triumph, taken Notice of by Valerius Maximus. Out of the 15th Book of Ovid's Metamorphosis.

Attribution:

By the same [previous poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lovely lasting peace of mind

Page No:

pp.56-60

Poem Title:

A Hymn on Contentment.

Attribution:

By Mr. Parnell

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

My days have been so wondrous free

Page No:

pp.61-63

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Parnell]

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

In Phoebus wit as Ovid said

Page No:

pp.63-64

Poem Title:

To a Young Lady, on Her Translation of the Story of Phoebus and Daphne, from Ovid.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Parnell]

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

Gay Bacchus liking Estcourt's wine

Page No:

pp.64-68

Poem Title:

Anacreontick.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Parnell]

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

What kings henceforth shall reign what states be free

Page No:

pp.69-71

Poem Title:

Prologue To the University of Oxford...Spoken by Mr. Cibber.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Tickell

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Let these soft lines my kindest thoughts convey

Page No:

pp.72-80

Poem Title:

Mary, Queen of France, To Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The reigning fair on polished crystal shine

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

Upon the Toasts of the Hanover Club.

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Ye gentle loves and soft desires

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

The Lover's Prayer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Panthea long had felt love's pleasing smart

Page No:

pp.83-88

Poem Title:

Panthea.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Now Phoebus rose and with his early beams

Page No:

pp.89-95

Poem Title:

Araminta. A Town Eclogue.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Gay]

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Now thus it is when tender virgins burn

Page No:

pp.95-96

Poem Title:

Woman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In the famed Cyprian isle a mountain stands

Page No:

pp.97-104

Poem Title:

The Court of Venus From Claudian. Being Part of the Epithalamium on Honorius and Maria.

Attribution:

By Mr. Eusden

Attributed To:

Laurence Eusden

First Line:

So bright is thy beauty so charming thy song

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

On a Handsome Woman with a fine Voice, but very Covetous and Proud.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In vain O heavenly maid do I peruse

Page No:

pp.105-106

Poem Title:

Verses sent to a Lady, With the Tragedy of Cato.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When wintery blasts and ruffling storms expire

Page No:

pp.107-110

Poem Title:

The Spring

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So fair a semblance of so fair a face

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

To a Painter upon his Drawing a Lady's Picture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Strephon the young the loveliest swain

Page No:

pp.112-114

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The nine fair daughters of immortal Jove

Page No:

pp.114-115

Poem Title:

From Bion, Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou who in thine early bloom of youth

Page No:

pp.116-119

Poem Title:

To Aristus, In Imitation of a Sonnet of Milton.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sun descending the Phoeacian train

Page No:

pp.120-134

Poem Title:

The Arrival of Ulysses in Ithaca. Being Part of the XIIIth Book of Homer's Odysses.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Close to the gates a spacious garden lies

Page No:

pp.135-137

Poem Title:

The Gardens of Alcinous, From the Seventh Book of Homer's Odysses.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Cease cease fair nymph to lavish precious tears

Page No:

pp.138-142

Poem Title:

The Speech of Pluto to Prosperine, From the second Book of her Rape, by Claudian.

Attribution:

By Mr. Eusden

Attributed To:

Laurence Eusden

First Line:

Is Britain rescued from th' Italian chain

Page No:

pp.143-144

Poem Title:

To The Author of Cato.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Those envious flakes came down in haste

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

On Some Snow that melted on a Lady's Breast.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst on their wings the gentle zephyrs bear

Page No:

pp.145-161

Poem Title:

St. Julian's Prayer. A Tale in La Fontaine, Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When pleasure's falling to the low delight

Page No:

pp.162-164

Poem Title:

To Mr. Congreve, Occasion'd by his Comedy, call'd, The Way of the World.

Attribution:

By Mr. Steele

Attributed To:

Sir Richard Steele

First Line:

What mean these wonders can such beams of light

Page No:

pp.165-166

Poem Title:

Upon a beautiful Lady with Cataracts in both Eyes.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman who has an Impediment in his Speech.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Venus once Latona's daughter spied

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

From Sannazarius.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How long will Cynthia own no flame

Page No:

pp.167-168

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No more severely kind affect

Page No:

pp.169-171

Poem Title:

To a Jealous Mistress

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Can this be he could Charles the good the great

Page No:

pp.172-176

Poem Title:

Thoughts Occasioned by the sight of an Original Painting of King Charles I. Taken at the Time of his Tryal. Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable George Clarke, Esq; one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tickell

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Horses and hounds their care their various race

Page No:

pp.177-186

Poem Title:

A Fragment of a Poem upon Hunting.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Tickell]

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Ere the foundations of the world were laid

Page No:

pp.187-189

Poem Title:

A Thought on Eternity.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My lord | To you when public grief implored your aid

Page No:

pp.190-195

Poem Title:

To the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Hallifax, Occasion'd By translating into Latin his Lordship's Poem on the Boyn; and Mr. Stepney's on the late King's Voyage into Holland. Writ in the Year 1709.

Attribution:

By Mr. Eusden

Attributed To:

Laurence Eusden

First Line:

Look here ye pedants who deserve that name

Page No:

pp.196-197

Poem Title:

On Reading the Critique on Milton in the Spectator.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]

Attributed To:

Laurence Eusden

First Line:

From White's and Will's

Page No:

pp.197-198

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Now did the bagpipe in hoarse notes begin

Page No:

pp.199-204

Poem Title:

The Smock-Race, At Finglas.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O sacred bards O all ye tuneful throng

Page No:

pp.205-208

Poem Title:

Upon the happy Disappointment of the French Invasion, in favour of the Pretended Prince of Wales. Written in the Year 1707.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whoever in a mean abode presumes

Page No:

pp.208-210

Poem Title:

On a Tobacco Box.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'm not one of your fops who to please a coy lass

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

By Mr. Budgell

Attributed To:

Eustace Budgell

First Line:

Why will Florella when I gaze

Page No:

pp.211-212

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By another Hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heroic youth in whom a warlike grace

Page No:

pp.212-214

Poem Title:

Written at Hanover, upon the Marriage Contracted, but not then consummated, between the Princess Sophia (whom the present King of Sw----n had demanded in Marriage) and the Prince Royal of Prussia.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [previous poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Long had I known the soft enchanting wiles

Page No:

pp.214-216

Poem Title:

On a Lady, Who is the most Beautiful and Witty when she is Angry.

Attribution:

By Mr. Eusden

Attributed To:

Laurence Eusden

First Line:

You ask my friend how I can Delia prize

Page No:

pp.216-217

Poem Title:

To Mr. --- ---- ----.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]

Attributed To:

Laurence Eusden

First Line:

To Dryden's muse I early homage paid

Page No:

pp.218-219

Poem Title:

On a Dispute with a Gentleman about the Excellence of some of Mr. Dryden's Writings; when a Lady, being ask'd her Opinion, blam'd them.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]

Attributed To:

Laurence Eusden

First Line:

Greece thus embroiled and arms around prepared

Page No:

pp.220-225

Poem Title:

From the Fourth Book of Statius's Thebaid. Beginning at Verse 246.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]

Attributed To:

Laurence Eusden

First Line:

Fame now the important secret had betrayed

Page No:

pp.226-229

Poem Title:

From the Fourth Book of Statius's Thebaid. Beginning at Verse 309.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]

Attributed To:

Laurence Eusden

First Line:

Long have the writers of this warlike age

Page No:

pp.230-231

Poem Title:

To the Author of the Distrest-Mother. March the 26th, 1712.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I know your passion friend and well approve

Page No:

pp.232-233

Poem Title:

An Epistle to D----.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now let the atheist tremble thou alone

Page No:

pp.234-236

Poem Title:

To Mr. Young, on his Poem on the Last Day.

Attribution:

By T. Wharton, A. M. of Maudlin Coll. Oxon.

Attributed To:

Thomas Warton

First Line:

While his redeemer on his canvas dies

Page No:

pp.236-237

Poem Title:

On M. Angelo's famous Piece of the Crucifixion, who stabb'd a Person, that he might draw it more naturally.

Attribution:

By Mr. Young

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Gentle zephyr come away

Page No:

pp.237-238

Poem Title:

Ode on the Spring. For the Month of May.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Daughters of Salem and ye virgin throng

Page No:

pp.239-243

Poem Title:

Solomon's Song. Chap. IV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So fair a form with such devotion joined

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

Written in a Lady's Prayer-Book.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Florella when those eyes I see

Page No:

p.244

Poem Title:

To a Very Young Lady.

Attribution:

By William Harison, Esq; late Secretary to her Majesty at Utrecht

Attributed To:

William Harrison

First Line:

And is Miss Tabby from the world retired

Page No:

p.245

Poem Title:

On the Death of Lady's Cat.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Harrison]

Attributed To:

William Harrison

First Line:

I feel O laudanum thy power divine

Page No:

p.245

Poem Title:

In Praise of Laudanum.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Harrison]

Attributed To:

William Harrison

First Line:

Hail sacred muse and vocal shell

Page No:

pp.246-250

Poem Title:

The Passion of Sappho.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Harrison]

Attributed To:

William Harrison

First Line:

At last is granted what we wished for long

Page No:

pp.251-235[i.e. 255]

Poem Title:

To the Author of the Tatlers.

Attribution:

By Mr. Eusden

Attributed To:

Laurence Eusden

First Line:

If ever grief could perfect form improve

Page No:

pp.235[i.e. 255]-258

Poem Title:

To a Lady, That wept at the hearing Cato read.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]

Attributed To:

Laurence Eusden

First Line:

While the young hero thus with glory burns

Page No:

pp.260-289

Poem Title:

From the Ninth Thebais. Verse 570.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While through the flowery meads glad Isis strayed

Page No:

p.291

Poem Title:

Imitated - Anno 1708.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To enjoy your life in happiness

Page No:

pp.292-293

Poem Title:

Martial. Lib. 10. Ep. 47. Imitated.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Phillis the young the fair the gay

Page No:

p.294

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

By the same Hand [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whether amidst the gloom of night I stray

Page No:

pp.295-298

Poem Title:

A Contemplation of Night

Attribution:

By Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Immortal Venus to whose name

Page No:

pp.299-301

Poem Title:

A Hymn to Venus from the Greek of Sapho.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Their ancient friends as now they nearer drew

Page No:

pp.302-309

Poem Title:

Part of the Fourth Book of Lucan.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tickell

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

The days of man are doomed to pain and strife

Page No:

pp.310-318

Poem Title:

The Procession. A Poem on the Funeral of Queen Mary. Written in the Year 1695.

Attribution:

By Mr. Steele

Attributed To:

Sir Richard Steele