A collection of poems in six volumes, by several hands [Vol. 1] [T144532]
- DMI number:
- 1630
- Publication Date:
- 1770
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 6
- ESTC number:
- T144532
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- N/A
- Shelfmark:
- BL G.18.414
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | IN SIX VOLUMES. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [ornament] | LONDON: | Printed for J. DODSLEY, in PALL-MALL. | MDCCLXX.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Miscellaneous collection
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- [2], 1-335, [1].
- Bibliographic details:
- HALF-TITLE: [ornamental rule] | A COLLECTION OF POEMS. | VOL. I. | [ornamental rule] ANNOTATION AND OWNERSHIP: BL copy's cover stamped with mark of 'Rt. Honble. Thos. Grenville,' son of the prime minister George Grenville (see Thomas Grenville (1755–1846): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11500). Contains MS identification of authors.
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY: Advertisement (pp.1-2). END MATTER: Index (pp.334-335)
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes, by several hands [Vol. 2] [T144532]
- Publication Date:
- 1770
- ESTC No:
- T144532
- Volume:
- 2 of 6
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes, by several hands [Vol. 3] [T144532]
- Publication Date:
- 1770
- ESTC No:
- T144532
- Volume:
- 3 of 6
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes, by several hands [Vol. 4] [T144532]
- Publication Date:
- 1770
- ESTC No:
- T144532
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes, by several hands [Vol. 5] [T144532]
- Publication Date:
- 1770
- ESTC No:
- T144532
- Volume:
- 5 of 6
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes, by several hands [Vol. 6] [T144532]
- Publication Date:
- 1770
- ESTC No:
- T144532
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Robert Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- James Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printed for J. DODSLEY, in PALL-MALL.
- First Line:
- Of Marlborough's captains and Eugenio's friends
- Page No:
- pp.36-37
- Poem Title:
- On The Death of the Earl of Cadogan.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Contending kings and fields of death too long
- Page No:
- pp.3-21
- Poem Title:
- On The Prospect Of Peace A Poem. To the Lord Privy Seal.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Tickell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- If dumb too long the drooping muse hath stayed
- Page No:
- pp.22-26
- Poem Title:
- To the Right Honourable the Earl of Warwick, &c. On the Death of Mr. Addison.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Of Leinster famed for maidens fair
- Page No:
- pp.26-30
- Poem Title:
- Colin and Lucy.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- As Mar his round one morning took
- Page No:
- pp.30-33
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation Of The Prophecy of Nereus. From Horace, Book III. Ode XXV.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- To Whitton's shades and Hounslow's airy plain
- Page No:
- pp.34-36
- Poem Title:
- To Sir Godfrey Kneller, At his Country Seat.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Thou dome where Edward first enrolled
- Page No:
- pp.38-41
- Poem Title:
- An Ode Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Earl Of Sunderland At Windsor.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Where Kensington high over the neighbouring lands
- Page No:
- pp.41-60
- Poem Title:
- Kensington Garden.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To thee dear rover and thy vanquished friends
- Page No:
- pp.61-68
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from a Lady in England, To A Gentleman at Avignon.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- What can the British senate give
- Page No:
- pp.69-81
- Poem Title:
- The Female Reign: An Ode.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- Roxana from the court retiring late
- Page No:
- pp.82-84
- Poem Title:
- Six Town Eclogues.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L. M. W. M.
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Thou who so many favours hast received
- Page No:
- pp.85-89
- Poem Title:
- Tuesday. St. James's Coffee-House. Sillander and Patch.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L. M. W. M. [p.82]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- No fair Dancinda no you strive in vain
- Page No:
- pp.89-92
- Poem Title:
- Wednesday. The Tete a Tete. Dancinda.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L. M. W. M. [p.82]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- The basset table spread the tallier come
- Page No:
- pp.93-97
- Poem Title:
- Thursday. The Bassette-Table. Smilinda and Cordelia.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L. M. W. M. [p.82]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Now twenty springs had clothed the park with green
- Page No:
- pp.98-100
- Poem Title:
- Friday. The Toilette. Lydia.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L.M.W.M. [p. 82]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- The wretched Flavia on her couch reclined
- Page No:
- pp.101-104
- Poem Title:
- Saturday. The Small-Pox. Flavia.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L.M.W.M. [p.82]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- At length by so much importunity pressed
- Page No:
- pp.105-107
- Poem Title:
- The Lover: A Ballad. To Mr. C--.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. By the Right Hon. L.M.W.M. [p.82]]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Whilst thirst of praise and vain desire of fame
- Page No:
- p.107
- Poem Title:
- The Lady's Resolve. Written Extempore on a Window.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. By the Right Hon. L.M.W.M. [p.82]]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Whilst pretty fellows think a woman's fame
- Page No:
- p.108
- Poem Title:
- The Gentleman's Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How happy you who varied joys pursue
- Page No:
- pp.108-111
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Lord B--.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. By the Right Hon. L.M.W.M. [p.82]]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- What could luxurious woman wish for more
- Page No:
- pp.112-113
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Mary, Queen of Scots. Design'd to be spoken by Mrs. Oldfield.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. By the Right Hon. L.M.W.M. [p.82]]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Why will Delia thus retire
- Page No:
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to Cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J--n.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. By the Right Hon. L.M.W.M. [p.82]]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- This motley piece to you I send
- Page No:
- pp.116-146
- Poem Title:
- The Spleen. An Epistle to Mr. C-- J--.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Matthew Green of the Custom-house.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- Gil's history appears to me
- Page No:
- pp.146-147
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram. On the Reverend Mr. Laurence Echard's, and Bishop Gilbert Burnet's Histories.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- I lately saw what now I sing
- Page No:
- pp.147-149
- Poem Title:
- The Sparrow and Diamond. A Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- Jove for amusement quitted oft his skies
- Page No:
- pp.150-151
- Poem Title:
- Jove and Semele.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- When I first came to London I rambled about
- Page No:
- pp.152-153
- Poem Title:
- The Seeker.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- These sheets primeval doctrines yield
- Page No:
- pp.153-157
- Poem Title:
- On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- Now had the archangel trumpet raised sublime
- Page No:
- pp.158-172
- Poem Title:
- Pre-Existence: A Poem, In Imitation of Milton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Old Chiron to his pupil thus began
- Page No:
- pp.172-180
- Poem Title:
- Chiron to Achilles. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Hildebrand Jacob, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Hildebrand Jacob
- First Line:
- What am I how produced and for what end
- Page No:
- pp.180-185
- Poem Title:
- [greek]. Know Your Self.
- Attribution:
- By the late Dr. Arbuthnot.
- Attributed To:
- John Arbuthnot
- First Line:
- Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel
- Page No:
- pp.186-199
- Poem Title:
- London: A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal.
- Attribution:
- By Samuel Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- First Line:
- When learning's triumph over her barbarous foes
- Page No:
- pp.200-202
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Spoken By Mr. Garrick, At the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane 1747.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Johnson]
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- First Line:
- Yes you condemn those sages too refined
- Page No:
- pp.203-213
- Poem Title:
- Of Active and Retired Life. An Epistle to H. C. Esq;
- Attribution:
- By William Melmouth, Esq; First printed in the Year MDCCXXXV.
- Attributed To:
- William Melmoth
- First Line:
- Silent nymph with curious eye
- Page No:
- pp.214-219
- Poem Title:
- Grongar Hill.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dyer.
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- Enough of Grongar and the shady dales
- Page No:
- pp.220-240
- Poem Title:
- The Ruins of Rome. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Dyer]
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- Ah me full sorely is my heart forlorn
- Page No:
- pp.241-255
- Poem Title:
- The School-Mistress. A Poem, In Imitation of Spenser.
- Attribution:
- By William Shenstone, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- William Shenstone
- First Line:
- If to an human face sir James should draw
- Page No:
- pp.256-285
- Poem Title:
- The Art of Politicks, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Reverend Mr. Bramston.
- Attributed To:
- James Bramston
- First Line:
- Whoever he be that to a taste aspires
- Page No:
- pp.286-297
- Poem Title:
- The Man of Taste. Occasioned by an Epistle Of Mr. Pope's on that Subject.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Bramston]
- Attributed To:
- James Bramston
- First Line:
- The art of converse how to soothe the soul
- Page No:
- pp.298-321
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Conversation.
- Attribution:
- By Benjamin Stillingfleet.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Stillingfleet
- First Line:
- While lost to all his former mirth
- Page No:
- pp.321-323
- Poem Title:
- Ode, to a Lady. On the Death of Col. Charles Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy. Written May 1745.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. W. Collins.
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- How sleep the brave who sink to rest
- Page No:
- p.324
- Poem Title:
- Ode. Written in the same Year.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Collins]
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song
- Page No:
- pp.325-326
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Evening.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Collins]
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- A muse expiring who with earliest voice
- Page No:
- p.327
- Poem Title:
- Verses written on a Blank Leaf, By Lord Lansdown, when he presented his Works to the Queen, 1732
- Attribution:
- By Lord Lansdown,
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- First Line:
- Asses milk half a pint take at seven or before
- Page No:
- pp.328-329
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a Lady in Autumn.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The gushing streams impetuous flow
- Page No:
- pp.329-330
- Poem Title:
- On Lady's drinking the Bath Waters.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mistaken fair lay Sherlock by
- Page No:
- p.330
- Poem Title:
- Verses written in a Lady's Sherlock upon Death.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Fanny blooming fair
- Page No:
- pp.331-332
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whenever Chloe I begin
- Page No:
- pp.332-333
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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