Select Epitaphs [Vol. 2] [ESTC T137253]

DMI number:

842

Publication Date:

1755

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T137253

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW106242226

Shelfmark:

BL 143.a.25

Full Title:

SELECT | EPITAPHS. | COLLECTED BY | W. TOLDERVY. | VOL. II. | [epigraphs] | [ornament] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for W. OWEN, [i]Temple-Bar:[/i] And Sold by R. | and J. DODSLEY. A. MILLAR, J. JOLLIFFE, and | T. WALLER. | [rule] | M,DCC,LV.

Epigraph:

[i]Fleres si scires unam tua tempora mensem, | Rides, cum fuerint forsitan una dies[/i]. | Sir THOMAS MORE. Call round her Tomb each Object of Desire; | Each purer Frame, inform'd with purer Fire: | Bid her be all that chears or softens Life, | The tender Sister, Daughter, Friend, and Wife: | Bid her be all that makes Mankind adore; | Then view this Marble, and be vain no more. | POPE.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of poems about subject/person

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[12], [1]-238.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Index [10pp.]

References:

See Thomas Keymer 'William Toldervy and the Origins of Smart's a Translation of the Psalms of David' Review of English Studies (2003) 54(213): 52-66 doi:10.1093/res/54.213.52

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Title:

Select Epitaphs [Vol. 1] [ESTC T137253]

Publication Date:

1755

ESTC No:

T137253

Volume:

1 of 2

Relationship:

Part of a Series

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

W. Toldervy

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

William Owen

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Sold by:

Andrew Millar

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Imprint reads "A. Millar"

Sold by:

James Dodsley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Imprint reads "sold by R. and J. Dodsley"

Sold by:

John Jolliffe

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Imprint reads "J. Jolliffe"

Sold by:

Robert Dodsley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Imprint reads "sold by R. and J. Dodsley"

Sold by:

T Waller

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Come ladies you that would appear

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

On Dame Rebecca Berry.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O last and best of Scots who didst maintain

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

On Lord Viscount Dundee.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Fair kind and true a treasure each alone

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

On Lady Whitmore.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Ye sacred relics which your marble keep

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

On Sir Palmes Fairborne, Knt.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

He who in impious times undaunted stood

Page No:

pp.16-17

Poem Title:

On the Marquis of Winchelsea.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Of gentle blood his parents only treasure

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

On Master Rogers, of Gloucestershire.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

So fair so young so innocent so sweet

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Margaret Paston, of Barningham, Norfolk.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Below this marble monument is laid

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

On Mary Frampton.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

If weeping love enquires to seek to know

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

On the beautiful Niece of the famous Olivarez.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Time is supposed to say

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

On the Honourable Philip Carteret, youngest Son of Lord George Carteret, who died March 19, 1710, Aged 19.

Attribution:

Translated by Mr. Samuel Cobb, of Trinity-College, Cambridge.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

To the dark and silent tomb

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

On an Infant.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unmarked by trophies of the great and vain

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

To the Memory of the Author's Father, and of his other Ancestors.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Much for the prerogative ever for my country

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

On John Duke of Buckinghamshire.

Attribution:

Written by Himself. Translated from Latin, by Dr. Fiddies.

Attributed To:

Dr Fiddies

First Line:

Beneath these honours of a tomb

Page No:

pp.91-93

Poem Title:

On King William the IIId.

Attribution:

By Dr. Isaac Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

In her whose relics mark this sacred earth

Page No:

pp.111-112

Poem Title:

On the Grandmother of Mrs. Jones, of Kanelly in Caermarthenshire.

Attribution:

By Mr. Richard Savage.

Attributed To:

Richard Savage

First Line:

This peaceful tomb does now contain

Page No:

pp.116-117

Poem Title:

On Robert Huntington, of Stanton-Harcourt, Esq; and Robert his Son.

Attribution:

By Mr. Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Children are snatched away sometimes

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

On the young Lord Mount-Cashel.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Mary Barber.

Attributed To:

Mary Barber

First Line:

In act to combat or the foe survey

Page No:

p.128

Poem Title:

On the Duke of Berwick.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. Bancks.

Attributed To:

J. Bancks

First Line:

Thy relics Rowe to this sad shrine we trust

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

On Nicholas Rowe, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Thy relics Rowe to this fair urn we trust

Page No:

pp.130-131

Poem Title:

Intended for the same.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

A pleasing form a firm yet cautious mind

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

On Sir William Trumbull, Knt.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Kneller by heaven and not a master taught

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

On Sir Godfrey Kneller.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

To this sad shrine whoever thou art draw near

Page No:

p.132

Poem Title:

On the Honourable Simon Harcourt, only Son of the Lord Chancellor Harcourt. 1720.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Statesman yet friend to truth of soul sincere

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

On James Craggs, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Go fair example of untainted youth

Page No:

pp.134-135

Poem Title:

On Robert Digby, Esq; (On the Monument of the Honourable Robert Digby and of his Sister Mary, erected by their Father the Lord Digby, 1724.)

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Here rests a woman good without pretence

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Corbett.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Dorset the grace of courts the muses pride

Page No:

pp.136-137

Poem Title:

On Charles, Earl of Dorset.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Here Withers rest thou bravest gentlest mind

Page No:

p.138

Poem Title:

On the same.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Life is a jest and all things show it

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

On John Gay.

Attribution:

By Himself.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

This modest stone what few vain marbles can

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

On Mr. Elijah Fenton. 1731.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Of manners gentle of affections mild

Page No:

p.140

Poem Title:

On the same.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

If modest youth with cool reflection crowned

Page No:

pp.141-142

Poem Title:

On Edmund, Duke of Buckingham. Who died in the 17th Year of his Age. 1735

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Nature and nature's law lay hid in night

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

On the same.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Over nature's law God cast the veil of night

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

On the same.

Attribution:

By Mr. A. Hill.

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

All that accomplished body lends mankind

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

On Henry Jernegan, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mr. A. Hill.

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

More than his name were less twould seem to fear

Page No:

p.144

Poem Title:

On the same.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Hill]

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

Ripe in virtue green in years

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

On a young Lady who died unmarried.

Attribution:

By Mr. A. Hill.

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

Why in such thoughtless haste oh stay and know

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

By Mr. A. Hill.

Attributed To:

Aaron Hill

First Line:

Pensive peruse and keep whoever thou art

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

On Simon Tayler, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear to the wise and good dispraised by none

Page No:

pp.148-149

Poem Title:

On Mr. Aikman, and his only Son, who were interred in the same Grave.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mallet.

Attributed To:

David Mallet

First Line:

This humble grave though no proud structures grace

Page No:

p.149

Poem Title:

On a Young Lady.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mallet.

Attributed To:

David Mallet

First Line:

If humour wit and honesty could save

Page No:

pp.150-151

Poem Title:

On Joseph Miller.

Attribution:

By Mr. S. Duck.

Attributed To:

Stephen Duck

First Line:

The ritual stone thy son doth lay

Page No:

pp.151-152

Poem Title:

On the Rev. Mr. William Edwards.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Robert Edwards.

Attributed To:

Robert Edwards

First Line:

Whom Phoebus favoured on whom fortune frowned

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

On Richard Savage, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If with unequalled skill to win the age

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

On Benjamin Griffin, Comedian.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Coster adieu to native skies returned

Page No:

pp.153-154

Poem Title:

On Thomas Coster, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mr. John Shebbeare.

Attributed To:

John Shebbeare

First Line:

Here Stanley rest escaped this mortal strife

Page No:

pp.154-155

Poem Title:

On Miss Stanley.

Attribution:

By Mr. James Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

While Britain boasts her empire over the deep

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

On Lord Aubrey Beauclerk.

Attribution:

By Doctor E. Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

No marble pomp no monumental praise

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

On Edward Bond, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Briton behold if patriot worth be dear

Page No:

p.165

Poem Title:

On John, Duke of Argyle. Suppos'd to be wrote by the Hand of History

Attribution:

By Mr. Paul Whitehead.

Attributed To:

Paul Whitehead

First Line:

Farewell forever he around whose urn

Page No:

pp.168-169

Poem Title:

On Dr. Cockman, Master of University College, Oxon.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Hawkins, Feb. 12, 1744-5.

Attributed To:

William Hawkins

First Line:

Praised by the grandsires of the present age

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

On Thomas Southern.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Her frail remains are here contained

Page No:

p.174

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Poynter, 1745.

Attribution:

By Dr. Cobden.

Attributed To:

Edward Cobden

First Line:

Beneath this stone the world's just wonder lies

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

On Dr. Keil.

Attribution:

By Mr. Christopher Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

On Lucy Lyttleton,

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable Sir George Lyttleton, Bt.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

Ye weeping muses graces virtues tell

Page No:

pp.180-181

Poem Title:

On Captain Thomas Grenville.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable Sir George Lyttleton, Bt.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

Though Britain's genius hung her drooping head

Page No:

pp.181-182

Poem Title:

On Captain James Cornwall.

Attribution:

By the Right Honourable Sir George Lyttleton, Bt.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

Britons if yet that glorious name be dear

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

On Admiral Thomas Matthews.

Attribution:

By Mr. Rolt.

Attributed To:

Richard Rolt

First Line:

Sleep here ye relics of the just and good

Page No:

pp.183-184

Poem Title:

On his Father.

Attribution:

By Mr. Rolt.

Attributed To:

Richard Rolt

First Line:

Ye lovers of the muse oh thou whose breast

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

On Ambrose Philips, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mr. Rolt.

Attributed To:

Richard Rolt

First Line:

Here truth of soul the heart forever kind

Page No:

pp.184-185

Poem Title:

On Meredith Thomas, Esq;

Attribution:

By Mr. Rolt.

Attributed To:

Richard Rolt

First Line:

To thee an angel's form was given

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

On his Brother James Rolt.

Attribution:

By Mr. Rolt.

Attributed To:

Richard Rolt

First Line:

Oh friend of virtue foe to every vice

Page No:

pp.185-187

Poem Title:

On Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

By Mr. Rolt.

Attributed To:

Richard Rolt

First Line:

What art thou gone and numbered with the dead

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

On Mr. Ubank.

Attribution:

By Mr. Rolt.

Attributed To:

Richard Rolt

First Line:

If filial fondness or parental love

Page No:

p.189

Poem Title:

On his three Children, James, Anne, and Elizabeth Rolt.

Attribution:

By Mr. Rolt.

Attributed To:

Richard Rolt

First Line:

If deathless virtue claims immortal fame

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

On Lieutenant-General Campbell.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou who surveyst these walls with curious eye

Page No:

pp.192-193

Poem Title:

On Sir Thomas Hanmer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy sable bed no pompous heralds raise

Page No:

pp.193-194

Poem Title:

On the Rev. Mr. James Wilson.

Attribution:

By Mr. Brooke.

Attributed To:

Henry Brooke

First Line:

Beneath this marble Devereux lies

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

On the Honourable Mrs. D'evereux.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When the stage heard that death had struck her John

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

On John Hippisley, Comedian.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the man whom generous nature blessed

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

On William Bunbury of Hadleigh in Suffolk, Esq; who died the 12th of September, 1748.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To real merit due this humble song

Page No:

pp.196-197

Poem Title:

On the same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Good nature upright heart unbiased mind

Page No:

p.197

Poem Title:

On William Radford, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To honoured rest here Montague's consigned

Page No:

pp.198-199

Poem Title:

On John Duke of Montague.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When his immortal part by heaven

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

On Thomas Applewhaite, Esq; Member of the Council of Barbadoes, who died June the 4th, 1749.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Reader if pity ever touched thy heart

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

On Andrew Millar, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Reader if science honour reason charm

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

On Gilbert Walmesley, Esq; Obiit August the 3d, 1751, Aetat. 69.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The maid that owns this humble stone

Page No:

p.211

Poem Title:

In a Country Churchyard.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

In a Country Churchyard.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

In beauty's mould her lovely form was cast

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Free.

Attribution:

By Dr. Free.

Attributed To:

Dr. Free

First Line:

With every charm was Celia graced

Page No:

pp.214-215

Poem Title:

On a Young Lady that was forced to marry her nearest Relation.

Attribution:

By Dr. Free.

Attributed To:

Dr. Free

First Line:

Sublime of genius and with science blessed

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

On Paul Doddrige, D.D.

Attribution:

By Mr. Benjamin Sowden, at Rotterdam, Feb. 21, 1754.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Sowden

First Line:

This unambitious stone preserves a name

Page No:

pp.217-218

Poem Title:

On Sir James Sooty.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Henceforth be every tender tear suppressed

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

On Master Newberry.

Attribution:

By Mr. Smart.

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

Was rhetoric on the lips of sorrow hung

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

On a young Clergyman, at St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet.

Attribution:

By Mr. Smart.

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart

First Line:

Philips whose touch harmonious could remove

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

On Claudius Phillips, an excellent Musician at Bridgnorth, Salop; who died very Poor.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Read Tickell's name and gently tread the clay

Page No:

pp.223-224

Poem Title:

On Thomas Tickel, Esq;

Attribution:

By Dr. Clancy.

Attributed To:

Michael Clancy

First Line:

See mortal where yon hallowed tapers burn

Page No:

pp.226-227

Poem Title:

On Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart.

Attribution:

By Richard Gardiner, Esq;

Attributed To:

Richard Gardiner

First Line:

Beneath this marble Butler lies entombed

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

On Dr. Joseph Butler, late Lord Bishop of Durham.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies D'Ablancourt that renowned sage

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

On D'Ablancourt, the French Translator.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies a rose a budding rose

Page No:

p.231

Poem Title:

On Miss Rose, Niece to Hugh Rose, of Kilravock, in Ireland, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stranger these dear remains contained a mind

Page No:

pp.232-233

Poem Title:

On Rebecca Willshaw.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If the remembrance of whatever was dear

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Dudley, Wife to the Rev. Mr. Dudley, of Woodbridge, in Barbadoes.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath a sleeping infant lies

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

On an Infant.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beneath the horrors of a grave

Page No:

p.234

Poem Title:

On a young Lady, at Kinsale, in Ireland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If native worth and piety sincere

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

On the Rev. Ferdinand Shaw, A.M. Pastor of the Dissenting Congregation, at Derby, Forty-six Years. Who died the 26th of January, in the 72d Year of his Age.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come tender friendship drop thy pensive tear

Page No:

pp.236-237

Poem Title:

On Benjamin Toldervy.

Attribution:

By the Editor.

Attributed To:

W. Toldervy

First Line:

When vice with syren charms corrupts the age

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

On Mr. Thomas Read, Son of the Rev. Mr. Read, of Tenbury, in Worcestershire.

Attribution:

By the Editor.

Attributed To:

W. Toldervy

First Line:

Mortals behold and tremble at this shrine

Page No:

p.238

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Susanna Knight.

Attribution:

By the Editor.

Attributed To:

W. Toldervy