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A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands [vol 4] [T116245] [ecco]

DMI number:
1137
Publication Date:
1770
Volume Number:
4 of 4
ESTC number:
T116245
EEBO/ECCO link:
CW112093261
Shelfmark:
Ecco - Bod
Full Title:
A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | IN FOUR VOLUMES. | BY SEVERAL HANDS. | [ornament] | LONDON: | Printed for G. PEARCH, No. 12, CHEAPSIDE. | M.DCC.LXX.
Place of Publication:
London
Genres:
Collection of literary verse
Format:
Octavo
Bibliographic details:
Half title: [ornamental rule] | A | COLLECTION of POEMS. | VOL. IV. | [ornamental rule]
Other matter:
Back matter: Index [4pp.]
References:
Harold Forster, Supplements to Dodsley's Collection of Poems (Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, 1980).
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A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands [vol 1] [T116245] [ecco]
Publication Date:
1770
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T116245
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1 of 4
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A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands [vol 2] [T116245] [ecco]
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1770
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T116245
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2 of 4
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A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands [vol 3] [T116245] [ecco]
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1770
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T116245
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3 of 4
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A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands [vol 4] [N14969] [gb]
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1783
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N14969
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4 of 4
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A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands [vol 4] [T95888] [ecco]
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1775
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T95888
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4 of 4
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Publisher:
George Pearch
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Content/Publication
First Line:
Inheritance of weak but proud mortality
Page No:
pp.5-12
Poem Title:
The Valetudinarian. An Ode.
Attribution:
Said To Be Written By Dr. Marriott.
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
High on the bounding bark the royal fair
Page No:
pp.13-15
Poem Title:
The Royal Voyage.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Marriott]
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
What does the sad presaging mean
Page No:
pp.16-21
Poem Title:
Ode On Death. Written In French By His Majesty The King Of Prussia.
Attribution:
Translated By The Same [i.e. Marriott]
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
How soon with nimble wings our pleasures haste
Page No:
pp.21-22
Poem Title:
Inscription Upon A Monument.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Marriott]
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
The weary look desponding air
Page No:
pp.22-24
Poem Title:
To A Lady Sitting For Her Picture.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Marriott]
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
Yes it is past the fatal stroke is given
Page No:
pp.24-27
Poem Title:
Elegy. On The Death Of A Young Lady.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Marriott]
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
While silent streams the moss grown turrets lave
Page No:
pp.28-33
Poem Title:
The Academic. Written April M.DCC.LV.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Marriott]
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
Harmodius breathed the rural air nor found
Page No:
pp.34-40
Poem Title:
Amabella. Written By The Desire Of Mrs. Montagu.
Attribution:
By Mr. Jerningham.
Attributed To:
Edward Jerningham
First Line:
As when diffused in solemn trance
Page No:
pp.41-48
Poem Title:
A Spousal Hymn. Addressed To His Majesty On His Marriage.
Attribution:
By James Scott, M. A. Fellow Of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Attributed To:
James Scott
First Line:
Stranger or guest whomever this hallowed grove
Page No:
p.49
Poem Title:
Sonnet. For the Root-House At Wrest.
Attribution:
By Thomas Edwards, Esq.
Attributed To:
Thomas Edwards
First Line:
Sweet linnet who from off the laurel spray
Page No:
p.50
Poem Title:
Sonnet. To Miss H. M.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. Edwards]
Attributed To:
Thomas Edwards
First Line:
O Heberden whose salutary care
Page No:
p.51
Poem Title:
Sonnet. To W. Heberden, M. D.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. Edwards]
Attributed To:
Thomas Edwards
First Line:
Joseph the worthy son of worthy sire
Page No:
p.52
Poem Title:
Sonnet. To Mr. J. Paice.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. Edwards]
Attributed To:
Thomas Edwards
First Line:
With prudence choose a wife be thy first care
Page No:
p.53
Poem Title:
Sonnet. To The Same.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. Edwards]
Attributed To:
Thomas Edwards
First Line:
Sweet is the love that comes with willingness
Page No:
p.54
Poem Title:
Sonnet. To --.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. Edwards]
Attributed To:
Thomas Edwards
First Line:
My gracious god whose kind conducting hand
Page No:
p.55
Poem Title:
Sonnet.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. Edwards]
Attributed To:
Thomas Edwards
First Line:
Matthew whose skilful hand and well worn spade
Page No:
p.56
Poem Title:
Sonnet. To Matthew Barnard.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. Edwards]
Attributed To:
Thomas Edwards
First Line:
The old Egyptians hid their wit
Page No:
pp.57-58
Poem Title:
On Mr. Nash's Picture At Full Length Between The Busts Of Sir Isaac Newton And Mr. Pope, At Bath.
Attribution:
By the E- of C-.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
What do scholars and bards and astronomers wise
Page No:
pp.58-59
Poem Title:
On The D--ss Of R--d.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. E- of C-]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
When here Lucinda first we came
Page No:
p.59
Poem Title:
Arno's Vale. A Song.
Attribution:
By the Duke of Dorset.
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
First Line:
Who but remembers yesterday
Page No:
p.60
Poem Title:
Britain's Isle. On The Death Of Frederic, Prince of Wales.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. Dorset]
Attributed To:
Charles Sackville
First Line:
The sprightly messenger of day
Page No:
pp.61-63
Poem Title:
Ode To Morning.
Attribution:
By --
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Brimful of anger not of love
Page No:
p.64
Poem Title:
To A Lady, With A Pair of Gloves, On Valentine's Day.
Attribution:
By Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.
Attributed To:
George Villiers
First Line:
Thy park Kimbolton and surrounding shade
Page No:
pp.65-73
Poem Title:
Kimbolton Park.
Attribution:
By The Mr. H--.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Shook from the purple wings of even
Page No:
pp.74-77
Poem Title:
Retirement. An Ode.
Attribution:
By Mr. Beatie.
Attributed To:
James Beattie
First Line:
Memory be still why throng upon the thought
Page No:
pp.77-86
Poem Title:
The Triumph of Melancholy.
Attribution:
By the Same [i.e. Beattie]
Attributed To:
James Beattie
First Line:
Still shall unthinking man substantial deem
Page No:
pp.86-90
Poem Title:
Elegy. Occasioned By The Death Of A Lady.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Beattie]
Attributed To:
James Beattie
First Line:
How sweet to recall the sweet moments of joy
Page No:
pp.90-93
Poem Title:
Absence. A Pastoral Ballad.
Attribution:
By --
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The lesbian lute no more can charm
Page No:
pp.93-94
Poem Title:
Ode To Health.
Attribution:
By Mrs. Brooke.
Attributed To:
Frances Brooke [née Moore]
First Line:
O far removed from my retreat
Page No:
p.95
Poem Title:
Ode.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. Brooke]
Attributed To:
Frances Brooke [née Moore]
First Line:
No more fond love shall wound my breast
Page No:
pp.96-97
Poem Title:
Ode To Friendship.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Brooke]
Attributed To:
Frances Brooke [née Moore]
First Line:
All hail majestic queen of night
Page No:
pp.97-101
Poem Title:
To The Moon.
Attribution:
By Mr. Robert Lloyd.
Attributed To:
Robert Lloyd
First Line:
Ye shepherds so careless and gay
Page No:
pp.102-104
Poem Title:
A Ballad.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. Lloyd]
Attributed To:
Robert Lloyd
First Line:
Hark hark tis a voice from the tomb
Page No:
pp.104-106
Poem Title:
A Ballad
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Lloyd]
Attributed To:
Robert Lloyd
First Line:
While calm you sit beneath your secret shade
Page No:
pp.106-107
Poem Title:
Love-Elegies. Elegy I.
Attribution:
By Mr. Hammond.
Attributed To:
James Hammond
First Line:
Now Delia breathes in woods the fragrant air
Page No:
pp.108-109
Poem Title:
Elegy II.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Hammond]
Attributed To:
James Hammond
First Line:
Let others boast their heaps of shining gold
Page No:
pp.110-113
Poem Title:
Elegy III.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Hammond]
Attributed To:
James Hammond
First Line:
At once to raise our reverence and delight
Page No:
pp.114-123
Poem Title:
The Genealogy Of Christ, As It Is Represented On The East Window Of Winchester Coll. Chapel,
Attribution:
Written At Winton School By Dr. Lowth, Lord Bishop Of Oxford.
Attributed To:
Robert Lowth
First Line:
While learning's pleasing cares my friend detain
Page No:
pp.124-126
Poem Title:
Winter Prospects In The Country. An Epistle To A Friend In London, 1756.
Attribution:
By J. S.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Praise to the almighty lord of heaven arise
Page No:
pp.126-127
Poem Title:
Hymn From Psalm LXV.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. J. S.]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Why asks my friend what cheers the passing day
Page No:
pp.127-128
Poem Title:
Sonnet. Apology for Retirement, 1766.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. J. S.]
Attributed To:
John Scott
First Line:
Of adverse fortune gentle Shenstone plained
Page No:
p.128
Poem Title:
Sonnet.
Attribution:
By the Same [i.e. J. S.]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Thrice has the year its varied circuit run
Page No:
p.129
Poem Title:
Sonnet. To Delia.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. J. S.]
Attributed To:
John Scott
First Line:
Renowned Britannia loved parental land
Page No:
p.130
Poem Title:
Sonnet. To Britannia.
Attribution:
By the Same [i.e. J. S.]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
To Albion's bards the muse of history spoke
Page No:
p.131
Poem Title:
On Reading Mrs. Macaulay's History of England.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. J. S.]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Whoever thou art whom chance or choice may bring
Page No:
p.132
Poem Title:
Written At The Hermitage At Aldersbrook, MDCCLXI.
Attribution:
By Mr. C--
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Shepherd seek not wealth nor power
Page No:
p.133
Poem Title:
Advice To A Shepherd.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Mr. C-]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Adieu the pleasing rural scene
Page No:
pp.134-135
Poem Title:
Ode On Autumn. Written In The Year MDCCLXI.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Mr. C--]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The swain who owned yon rural cot
Page No:
pp.135-136
Poem Title:
Epitaph on a Peasant.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. C--]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Where the fair streams of famed Euphrates stray
Page No:
pp.136-137
Poem Title:
Psalm CXXXVII.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. C--]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Though in Judea's mead the verdant blade
Page No:
pp.137-138
Poem Title:
The Latter Part of Habbakuk, Chapter III.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. C--]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Soft sleep profoundly pleasing power
Page No:
pp.138-139
Poem Title:
Ode To Sleep.
Attribution:
By T-- S--, M. D.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Parent of joy heart easing mirth
Page No:
pp.139-141
Poem Title:
Ode To Mirth.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. T-S-]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
O thou that gladst my lonesome hours
Page No:
pp.141-144
Poem Title:
Ode To A Singing Bird.
Attribution:
By Mr. Richardson, Of Queen's College, Oxon.
Attributed To:
Robert Richardson
First Line:
A hummingbird by nature led
Page No:
pp.144-146
Poem Title:
Elegy on a Humming-Bird. Written In A Flower-Garden.
Attribution:
By --.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Nature thy genial call I hear
Page No:
pp.147-149
Poem Title:
A Morning Soliloquy On Deafness.
Attribution:
By --
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Turn gentle hermit of the dale
Page No:
pp.149-155
Poem Title:
The Hermit.
Attribution:
By Dr. Goldsmith.
Attributed To:
Oliver Goldsmith
First Line:
Hail happy beldames yours those joys
Page No:
pp.156-166
Poem Title:
The Beldames.
Attribution:
By --.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Delightful Eden parent stream
Page No:
pp.166-168
Poem Title:
Ode To The River Eden.
Attribution:
By Dr. J. Langhorne.
Attributed To:
John Langhorne
First Line:
Ye holy cares that haunt these lonely cells
Page No:
pp.169-172
Poem Title:
On The Dutchess Of Mazarin's Retiring Into A Convent.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Langhorne]
Attributed To:
John Langhorne
First Line:
Twas on the border of a stream
Page No:
pp.173-176
Poem Title:
The Tulip and Myrtle.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Langhorne]
Attributed To:
John Langhorne
First Line:
O thou whom love and fancy lead
Page No:
pp.176-178
Poem Title:
Rural Simplicity. An Ode.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Langhorne]
Attributed To:
John Langhorne
First Line:
Thy friends have access to a nobler part
Page No:
pp.179-180
Poem Title:
Written On Another Open Temple Under The Words "Mihi Et Amicus"
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Langhorne]
Attributed To:
John Langhorne
First Line:
To scenes where taste and genius dwell
Page No:
p.179
Poem Title:
Written On A Chinese Temple In Mr. Scott's Garden At Amwell.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Langhorne]
Attributed To:
John Langhorne
First Line:
Sweet muse of Hagley whose melodious lyre
Page No:
p.180
Poem Title:
Lines Occasioned By Lord Lyttleton's Verse To The Countess Of Egremont.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Langhorne]
Attributed To:
John Langhorne
First Line:
Whence comes my love o heart disclose
Page No:
pp.181-182
Poem Title:
A Sonnet Made On Isabella Markhame, When I Firste Thought Her Fayer As She Stood At The Princess's Windowe In Goodlye Attyre, And Talkede To Dyves In The Courte-Yard.
Attribution:
From A MS. Of John Harrington, dated 1564.
Attributed To:
John Harington
First Line:
Erst in Arcadia's lond much praised was found
Page No:
pp.182-183
Poem Title:
The Hospitable Oake.
Attribution:
By --
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Why didst thou raise such woeful wail
Page No:
pp.184-185
Poem Title:
To A Lover.
Attribution:
By --
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Say gentle youth that treadst untouched with care
Page No:
pp.185-186
Poem Title:
The Hermite's Addresse To Youthe. Written In The Spring-Garden At Bath.
Attribution:
By --. // The Olde Hermite.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Shall lordly man the theme of every lay
Page No:
pp.186-201
Poem Title:
The Feminead: Or Female Genius. Written In The Year MDCCLI.
Attribution:
By John Duncombe, M. A.
Attributed To:
John Duncombe
First Line:
For quiet on Newmarket's plain
Page No:
pp.202-204
Poem Title:
Ode To The Hon. John York. Imitated From Horace, Book II. Ode XVI.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Duncombe]
Attributed To:
John Duncombe
First Line:
Sweet companion of the muse
Page No:
pp.205-206
Poem Title:
Solitude. A Song. To Lady Coventry's Minuet.
Attribution:
By Dr. Cotton.
Attributed To:
Nathaniel Cotton
First Line:
Patient to hear and bounteous to bestow
Page No:
pp.206-207
Poem Title:
To The Memory Of The Late Duke of Bridgewater, MDCCXLVIII.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Cotton]
Attributed To:
Nathaniel Cotton
First Line:
Princes my fair unfortunately great
Page No:
pp.207-214
Poem Title:
The African Prince, Now In England, To Zara At His Father's Court. Written In The Year MDCCXLIX.
Attribution:
By Dr. Dodd.
Attributed To:
William Dodd
First Line:
Should I the language of my heart conceal
Page No:
pp.214-220
Poem Title:
Zara, At The Court of Anamaboe, To The African Prince When In England.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Dodd]
Attributed To:
William Dodd
First Line:
All hail bright hope thou when the fatal box
Page No:
pp.221-230
Poem Title:
Hymn To Hope.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Dodd]
Attributed To:
William Dodd
First Line:
The slightest of favours bestowed by the fair
Page No:
pp.230-231
Poem Title:
Verses Occasioned By A Present Of A Moss Rose-Bud, From Miss Jackson Of Southgate.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Dodd]
Attributed To:
William Dodd
First Line:
There was a time when from those hapless schools
Page No:
pp.231-251
Poem Title:
The Equality Of Mankind.
Attribution:
By Mr. Wodhull.
Attributed To:
Michael Wodhull
First Line:
Tis night dead night and over the plain
Page No:
pp.251-255
Poem Title:
Elegy I.
Attribution:
By --
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
When young life's journey I began
Page No:
pp.255-259
Poem Title:
Elegy II.
Attribution:
By the Same [i.e. --]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Consigned to dust beneath this stone
Page No:
p.260
Poem Title:
The Epitaph.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Dark was the sky with many a cloud
Page No:
pp.261-262
Poem Title:
An Inscription Written Upon One Of The Tubs In Ham-Walks, September, 1760.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. --]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Ye green-haired nymphs whom Pan allows
Page No:
pp.263-266
Poem Title:
Verses Written Upon A Pedestal Beneath A Row Of Elms In A Meadow Near Richmond Ferry, Belonging To Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq. September 1760.
Attribution:
By the Same [i.e. --]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
By love too long deprived of rest
Page No:
pp.266-269
Poem Title:
The Recantation. An Ode.
Attribution:
By --
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
O goddess of the gloomy scene
Page No:
pp.269-272
Poem Title:
Ode To Horror. In The Allegoric, Descriptive, Alliterative, Epithetical, Fantastical, Hyperbolical, And Diabolical Style Of Our Modern Ode-Wrights, And Monody-Mongers.
Attribution:
By --.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Yes every hopeful son of rhyme
Page No:
pp.273-277
Poem Title:
Verses On The Expected Arrival Of Queen Charlotte, In An Epistle To A Friend, 1761.
Attribution:
By --.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
An overgrown wood my wandering steps invade
Page No:
pp.277-281
Poem Title:
Aminta. An Elegy.
Attribution:
By Mr. Gerrard.
Attributed To:
John Gerrard
First Line:
O Bean whose fond connubial days
Page No:
pp.282-285
Poem Title:
Petherton-Bridge. An Elegy. Inscribed To The Rev. Mr. Bean, Of Stoke-Sub-Hamdon, Somerset.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Gerrard]
Attributed To:
John Gerrard
First Line:
These the last lines my trembling hands can write
Page No:
pp.285-290
Poem Title:
An Epistle From An Unfortunate Gentleman To A Young Lady.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Gerrard]
Attributed To:
John Gerrard
First Line:
Ye scenes that engaged my gay youth
Page No:
pp.290-292
Poem Title:
A Song.
Attribution:
By The Same. [i.e. Gerrard]
Attributed To:
John Gerrard
First Line:
Hail wondrous being who in power supreme
Page No:
pp.293-298
Poem Title:
On The Eternity Of The Supreme Being.
Attribution:
By Christopher Smart, M. A.
Attributed To:
Christopher Smart
First Line:
Once more I dare to rouse the sounding string
Page No:
pp.299-304
Poem Title:
On the Immensity Of The Supreme Being
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Smart]
Attributed To:
Christopher Smart
First Line:
Arise divine Urania with new strains
Page No:
pp.305-312
Poem Title:
On The Omniscience Of The Supreme Being.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Smart]
Attributed To:
Christopher Smart
First Line:
Tremble thou earth the annointed poet said
Page No:
pp.312-317
Poem Title:
On The Power Of The Supreme Being.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Smart]
Attributed To:
Christopher Smart
First Line:
Orpheus for so the gentiles called thy name
Page No:
pp.318-323
Poem Title:
On The Goodness Of The Supreme Being.
Attribution:
By The Same [i.e. Smart]
Attributed To:
Christopher Smart