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

DMI number:

384

Aliases

Poetical miscellanies

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1727

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T75179

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111826989

Shelfmark:

BOD Harding C 218.

Full Title:

POETICAL | MISCELLANIES, | Consisting of | [i]ORIGINAL POEMS[/i] | AND | TRANSLATIONS. | [i]By the best Hands.[/i] | [rule] | Publish'd by | Sir [i]RICHARD STEELE[/i]. | [rule] | The SECOND EDITION. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for J. TONSON in the [i]Strand.[/i] | [rule] M DCCXXVII.

Epigraph:

n/a

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[22], [1]-346 pp.

Bibliographic details:

BOD Harding C 218 has MS annotations on title page: 'Chester Pern' 'the Gift of Laurence Eusden M. A. Poet Laureat'. Case describes frontispiece but this is not present in BOD Harding C. 218. Some poems have separate title pages.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Dedication to Congreve, sig. A3-A8r; Contents A9-A12r.

References:

Case 279 (d).

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Title:

Poetical Miscellanies consisting of original poems and translations [T133656]

Publication Date:

1714

ESTC No:

T133656

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

Poetical Miscellanies consisting of original poems and translations [T75180]

Publication Date:

1714

ESTC No:

T75180

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

Poetical Miscellanies consisting of original poems and translations [N37755]

Publication Date:

1726

ESTC No:

N37755

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Related People

Author:

Jacob Tonson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand'

Dedicatee:

William Congreve

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'To Mr. Congreve' sig. A3-A8r.

Editor:

Sir Richard Steele

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Publish'd by Sir Richard Steele'

Content/Publication

First Line:

Behold the woes of matrimonial life

Page No:

pp.3-22

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.23-28

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.28-30

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.31-32

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.32-33

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:

p.34

Poem Title:

Love's Relief.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In church the prayer book and the fan displayed

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

To Belinda.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nature in pity has denied you shape

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

To Flavia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Be gone our nation's pleasure and reproach

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

On Nicolini's leaving the Stage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gentle air thou breath of lovers

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

A Sigh.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The muses frolicsome and gay

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

The 30th Ode of Anacreon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Mars the Lemnian darts surveyed

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

The Forty-Fifth Ode of Anacreon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Can you count the silver lights

Page No:

p.40

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.40

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:

p.41

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.42-45

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.45-48

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.49-50

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:

p.51

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.52-55

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.56-58

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.58-64

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.64

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.65-66

Poem Title:

The Lover's Prayer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Panthea long had felt love's pleasing smart

Page No:

pp.66-70

Poem Title:

Panthea.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Now Phoebus rose and with his early beams

Page No:

pp.70-75

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.75-76

Poem Title:

Woman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In the famed Cyprian isle a mountain stands

Page No:

pp.77-82

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:

In vain O heavenly maid do I peruse

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So bright is thy beauty so charming thy song

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When wintery blasts and ruffling storms expire

Page No:

pp.85-87

Poem Title:

The Spring.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So fair a semblance of so fair a face

Page No:

p.88

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.88-90

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The nine fair daughters of immortal Jove

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

From Bion, Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou who in thine early bloom of youth

Page No:

pp.91-93

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.94-105

Poem Title:

The Arrival of Ulysses in Ithaca. Being Part of the Thirteenth Book of Homer's Odyssey.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Close to the gates a spacious garden lies

Page No:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

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

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.108-111

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.111-112

Poem Title:

To The Author of Cato.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Those envious flakes came down in haste

Page No:

p.112

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.113-125

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.126-128

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.128-129

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.130

Poem Title:

From Sannazarius.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How long will Cynthia own no flame

Page No:

pp.130-131

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No more severely kind affect

Page No:

pp.132-134

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.135-138

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:

p.139-146.

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.146-148

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.148-152

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 in 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:

p.153

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:

p.154

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Now did the bagpipe in hoarse notes begin

Page No:

pp.155-159

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.159-162

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.162-163

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:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By Mr. Budgell

Attributed To:

Eustace Budgell

First Line:

Why will Florella when I gaze

Page No:

p.164-165

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By another Hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heroic youth in whom a warlike grace

Page No:

pp.165-166

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:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Long had I known the soft enchanting wiles

Page No:

pp.167-168

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.168-169

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.170-171

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.172-176

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.176-178

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.179-180

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.180-181

Poem Title:

An Epistle to D----.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now let the atheist tremble thou alone

Page No:

pp.182-183

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:

p.184

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:

p.185

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.186-189

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.186

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.190

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.191

Poem Title:

On the Death of a 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.191

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.192-195

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.196-199

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.199-202

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.203-226

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.227

Poem Title:

Imitated - Anno 1708.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To enjoy your life in happiness

Page No:

pp.228-229

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.229

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.230-232

Poem Title:

A Contemplation on Night.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Immortal Venus to whose name

Page No:

pp.233-235

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.235-240

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.241-248

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

First Line:

At the close of the day

Page No:

pp.248-250

Poem Title:

The Coquet Mother and Coquet Daughter. A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If yet great sir your heart can comfort know

Page No:

pp.257-270

Poem Title:

An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pardon great duke if Britain's style delights

Page No:

pp.270-273

Poem Title:

To the Duke of Marlborough.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The man whose life by virtue's model framed

Page No:

pp.281-301

Poem Title:

The Vision.

Attribution:

Mr. Croxall

Attributed To:

Samuel Croxall

First Line:

The muse that oft with sacred raptures fired

Page No:

pp.302-304

Poem Title:

To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, With the Tragedy of Cato. Nov. 1714.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Kneller with silence and surprise

Page No:

pp.305-308

Poem Title:

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his Picture of the King.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At length Britannia rescued from thy fears

Page No:

pp.309-310

Poem Title:

The Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre-Royal, the Day after His Majesty's Publick Entry. Spoken by Mr. Wilks.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What god what genius did the pencil move

Page No:

p.310

Poem Title:

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, On his painting for me the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules.

Attribution:

A. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Fair daughter once of Windsor's woods

Page No:

pp.311-312

Poem Title:

An Ode. Occasion'd by His Excellency the Earl Stanhope's Voyage to France.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tickell

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Contending kings and fields of death too long

Page No:

pp.315-316

Poem Title:

To the Lord Privy Seal.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tickell

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

The haughty Gaul in ten campaigns overthrown

Page No:

pp.317-336

Poem Title:

A Poem on the Prospect of Peace.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tickell

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

As Mar his round one morning took

Page No:

pp.337-341

Poem Title:

An Imitation of the Prophecy of Nereus. From Horace Book I. Ode XV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To Whitton's shades and Hounslow's airy plain

Page No:

pp.341-343

Poem Title:

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, At his Country Seat.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Safety attend the ship that brings

Page No:

pp.344-346

Poem Title:

An Ode on His Majesty's Return.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed