Select poems from a larger collection [T55606] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1204

Publication Date:

1775

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T55606

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB3327559787

Full Title:

SELECT | POEMS | FROM A | LARGER COLLECTION | GLASGOW: | PRINTED BY ROBERT & ANDREW FOULIS, | M.DCC.LXXV.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Other matter:

Advertisement, 1p. Contents, pp.[iii]-iv.

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Publisher:

Andrew Foulis

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

Robert Foulis

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Of Leinster famed for maidens fair

Page No:

pp.[1]-3

Poem Title:

Colin and Lucy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What am I how produced and for what end

Page No:

pp.4-8

Poem Title:

Know Your Self.

Attribution:

By the late Dr. Arbuthnot.

Attributed To:

John Arbuthnot

First Line:

Old battle array big with horror is fled

Page No:

pp.9-10

Poem Title:

Imitation I. A New-Year's Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Little tube of mighty power

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

Imitation II.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou matured by glad Hesperian suns

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p.12

Poem Title:

Imitation III.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Critics avaunt tobacco is my theme

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p.13

Poem Title:

Imitation IV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Blessed leaf whose aromatic gales dispense

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p.14

Poem Title:

Imitation V.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Boy bring an ounce of freeman's best

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pp.14-15

Poem Title:

Imitation VI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In days my lord when mother time

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pp.16-22

Poem Title:

An Epistle from S. J. Esq; in the Country, to the Right Hon. the Lord Lovelace in Town. Written in the year 1735.

Attribution:

from S. J. Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too plain dear youth these tell-tale eyes

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

Chloe to Strephon. A Song.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. S. J. Esq;]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Just broke from school pert impudent and raw

Page No:

pp.25-28

Poem Title:

The Modern Fine Gentleman. Written in the year 1746.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. S. J. Esq;]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Skilled in each art that can adorn the fair

Page No:

pp.29-32

Poem Title:

The Modern Fine Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As doctor -- musing sate

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

Death and the Doctor. Occasion'd by a Physician's lampooning a Friend of the Author.

Attribution:

By D. G.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O say thou dear possessor of my breast

Page No:

pp.35-37

Poem Title:

Elegy To Miss D— W—D. In the manner of Ovid.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Too well these lines that fatal truth declare

Page No:

pp.38-40

Poem Title:

Answer to the foregoing Lines.

Attribution:

By the late Lord Hervey.

Attributed To:

John Hervey

First Line:

Let observation with extensive view

Page No:

pp.41-54

Poem Title:

The Vanity of Human Wishes. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal.

Attribution:

Imitated by Mr. Samuel Johnson.

Attributed To:

Samuel Johnson

First Line:

Ye belles and ye flirts and ye pert little things

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

Song for Ranelagh.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Whitehead.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

The dart of Izdabel prevails twas dipped

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

The Dying Indian.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton.

Attributed To:

Joseph Warton

First Line:

As by some tyrant's stern command

Page No:

pp.58-61

Poem Title:

The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse. Written in the Year 1744.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou who labourst in this rugged mine

Page No:

p.62

Poem Title:

By Miss Cooper, (now Mrs. Madan) in her Brother's Coke upon Littleton.

Attribution:

Miss Cooper (now Mrs. Madan)

Attributed To:

Judith Madan [nee Cowper]

First Line:

Whilst William's deeds and William's praise

Page No:

pp.63-66

Poem Title:

An Ode to the Right Honourable Stephen Poyntz, Esq; &c.

Attribution:

By the Honourable Sir Charles Han. Williams, Knight. of the Bath.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

Come Chloe and give me sweet kisses

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

Martialis Epigramma. Lib. VI. Ep. XXIV. Imitated.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

When now mature in classic knowledge

Page No:

pp.68-72

Poem Title:

The Progress of Discontent. A Poem. Written at Oxford in the Year 1746.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Chloe while the busy crowd

Page No:

pp.73-76

Poem Title:

The Fire-Side.

Attribution:

By Dr. Cotton.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Cotton

First Line:

Tomorrow didst thou say

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

To-Morrow.

Attribution:

By the Same [ie. Dr. Cotton]

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Cotton

First Line:

Away let naught to love displeasing

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My dear companion and my faithful friend

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

An Address to his Elbow-chair, new cloathed.

Attribution:

By the late William Somervile, Esq; Author of the Chace.

Attributed To:

William Somervile

First Line:

The sun had chased the mountain snow

Page No:

pp.83-86

Poem Title:

The Blackbirds. An Elegy.

Attribution:

By Mr. Jago.

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

To thee fair freedom I retire

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Written at an Inn on a Particular Occasion.

Attribution:

By Mr. Shenstone.

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

O come thou melancholy muse

Page No:

pp.89-91

Poem Title:

The Robin: An Elegy. Written at the close of Autumn, 1756.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. G.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sir | While at the helm of state you ride

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

A Letter to Sir Robert Walpole.

Attribution:

By the late Henry Fielding.

Attributed To:

Henry Fielding

First Line:

Dear doctor of St Mary's

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

A Song. Upon Miss Harriet Hanbury, addressed to the Rev. Mr. Birt.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

If virtue prompt thy willing mind

Page No:

pp.96-101

Poem Title:

A Tale.

Attribution:

By Mr. Merrick.

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

A drunken old Scot by the rigorous sentence

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Taylor.

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

Right wele of lerned clerkis is it sed

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

A Fragment of Chaucer.

Attribution:

By J. H. Esq;

Attributed To:

James Harris

First Line:

Between the smooth descent of yonder hills

Page No:

pp.104-107

Poem Title:

The Country Parson.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What time the jocund rosy bosomed hours

Page No:

pp.108-116

Poem Title:

The Tomb of Shakespear. A Vision.

Attribution:

By John Gilbert Cooper, Esq.

Attributed To:

John Gilbert Cooper

First Line:

Hence sage mysterious law

Page No:

pp.117-122

Poem Title:

Vacation

Attribution:

By ---- Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Orpheus went down to the regions below

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where aged elms in many a goodly row

Page No:

pp.124-128

Poem Title:

The Dowager.

Attribution:

By * * * *

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O Nancy wilt thou go with me

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By T. P***cy.

Attributed To:

Thomas Percy

First Line:

Dear thoughtless Clara to my verse attend

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

Epistle from the late Lord Viscount B--gb-ke to Miss Lucy A--k--ns.

Attribution:

Lord Viscount B--gb-ke

Attributed To:

Henry St John

First Line:

Look round the wide world each profession you'll find

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

The Cheat's Apology.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ellis.

Attributed To:

John Ellis

First Line:

Peace to this meeting

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

On the Birth-Day of Shakespear. A Cento. Taken from his Works.

Attribution:

Richard Berenger, Esq.

Attributed To:

Richard Berenger [Beranger]

First Line:

Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel

Page No:

pp.137-151

Poem Title:

London. In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal.

Attribution:

By Mr. Samuel Johnson.

Attributed To:

Samuel Johnson