Poetical miscellanies: Consisting of Original Poems and translations. By the best Hands. Publish'd by Mr. J. Gay. [Dublin] [ESTC T817]
- DMI number:
- 598
- Publication Date:
- 1729
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T817
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW111859594
- Shelfmark:
- BL 11602.bb.33.(4)
- Full Title:
- POETICAL | MISCELLANIES: | Consisting of | [i]Original[/i] Poems | AND | TRANSLATIONS. | [rule] | [i]By the best Hands. | [rule] | Publish'd by Mr.[/i] J. GAY. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]DUBLIN:[/i] | Printed for J. THOMPSON, Bookseller, | on [i]Cork-Hill.[/i] M DCC XXIX.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin
- Genres:
- Miscellaneous collection
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- [2], [3]-24 pp.
- Editor:
- John Gay
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- 'Publish'd by Mr. J. Gay'. Suarez notes "The tp notes that this is 'Publish'd by Mr. J. Gay', who has nothing to do with John Gay."
- Publisher:
- J. Thompson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for J. Thompson'
- First Line:
- Echo I ween will in the woods reply
- Page No:
- pp.3-5
- Poem Title:
- A Gentle Echo On Woman. In the Dorick Manner.
- Attribution:
- By D. Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- From London Paul the carrier coming down
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- Little Mouths.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. King
- Attributed To:
- William King
- First Line:
- See how the wandering Danube flows
- Page No:
- pp.6-7
- Poem Title:
- On The River Danube.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Panthea long had felt love's pleasing smart
- Page No:
- pp.7-10
- Poem Title:
- Panthea.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Ere the foundations of the world were laid
- Page No:
- pp.10-12
- Poem Title:
- A Thought On Eternity.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A wretch long tortured with disdain
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- Love's Relief.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That all from Adam first begun
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- The Old Gentry. Out of French.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In church the prayer book and the fan displayed
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- To Belinda.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And is Miss Tabby from the world retired
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- On The Death Of A Lady's Cat.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When wintery blasts and ruffling storms expire
- Page No:
- pp.14-16
- Poem Title:
- The Spring.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How ill the motion with the music suits
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- Upon a Company of bad Dancers to good Musick.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The muses frolicsome and gay
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- The Thirtieth Ode Of Anacreon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In Phoebus wit as Ovid said
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- To A Young Lady. On Her Translation of the Story of Phoebus and Daphne, from Ovid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whether amidst the gloom of night I stray
- Page No:
- pp.19-21
- Poem Title:
- A Contemplation On Night.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Job contending with the devil I saw
- Page No:
- pp.21-22
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram, Occasion'd by the News that Sir R---- Bl----re's Paraphrase upon Job was in the Press.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Can you count the silver lights
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation Of A French Author.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Could he whom my dissembled rigour grieves
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- A Soliloquy Out Of Italian.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Mars the Lemnian darts surveyed
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- The Forty-fifth Ode Of Anacreon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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