Select Poems, From Dodsley's Collection [T175707]
- DMI number:
- 1039
- Publication Date:
- 1776
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T175707
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB129191127
- Shelfmark:
- NLS Hall.275.g
- Full Title:
- SELECT | POEMS, | FROM | DODSLEY'S | COLLECTION. | GLASGOW: | PRINTED BY R. CHAPMAN AND A. DUNCAN. | MDCCLXXVI.
- Place of Publication:
- Glasgow
- Genres:
- Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [i-viii] [1]-219 pp.
- Bibliographic details:
- 'The Enthusiast' has separate title page.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Advertisement [1p.]; Contents [3pp.]
- First Line:
- Ye green-robed Dryads oft at dusky eve
- Page No:
- pp.3-11
- Poem Title:
- The Enthusiast: Or the Lover of Nature.
- Attribution:
- By the Reverend Mr. Joseph Watson
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Watson
- First Line:
- O parent of each lovely muse
- Page No:
- pp.12-17
- Poem Title:
- An Ode to Fancy.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. 'Watson']
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Watson
- First Line:
- Ah me is all our pleasure mixed with woe
- Page No:
- pp.18-23
- Poem Title:
- The Education of Achilles.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Bedingfield.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Bedingfield
- First Line:
- Thou whom to counsel is to praise
- Page No:
- pp.24-27
- Poem Title:
- The Female Drum: Or, The Origin of Cards. A Tale. Addressed to the Honourable Miss Carpenter.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Offspring of folly and of noise
- Page No:
- pp.28-38
- Poem Title:
- The Estimate of Life, In Three Parts.
- Attribution:
- By John Gilbert Cooper, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- John Gilbert Cooper
- First Line:
- Where early Phoebus sheds his milder beams
- Page No:
- pp.39-56
- Poem Title:
- Psyche: Or the Great Metamorphosis. A Poem. Written in Imitation of Spenser.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Genius of Penshurst old
- Page No:
- pp.57-67
- Poem Title:
- Penshurst. Inscribed to William Perry, Esq. And the Honourable Mrs. Elizabeth Perry.
- Attribution:
- By the Late Mr. F. Coventry.
- Attributed To:
- Francis Coventry
- First Line:
- Think not I write my innocence to prove
- Page No:
- pp.68-72
- Poem Title:
- Roxana to Usbeck From Les Lettres Persannes.
- Attribution:
- By the Late Lord Hervey.
- Attributed To:
- John Hervey
- First Line:
- I came great bard to gaze upon thy shrine
- Page No:
- pp.73-77
- Poem Title:
- Virgil's Tomb. Naples, 1741
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The owl expires death gave the dreadful word
- Page No:
- pp.78-79
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of a Lady's Owl.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Led by the jocund train of vernal hours
- Page No:
- pp.80-85
- Poem Title:
- The Tears of Old May-Day.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When fierce Pisarro's legions flew
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- The Revenge of America.
- Attribution:
- By the Reverend Mr. Joseph Warton.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Warton
- First Line:
- Mother of musings contemplation sage
- Page No:
- pp.87-97
- Poem Title:
- The Pleasures of Melancholy. Written in the Year 1745.
- Attribution:
- By the Reverend Mr. Thomas Wharton.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Warton
- First Line:
- O solitude romantic maid
- Page No:
- pp.98-107
- Poem Title:
- Solitude An Ode.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Grainger.
- Attributed To:
- James Grainger
- First Line:
- Ne gay attire ne marble hall
- Page No:
- pp.108-109
- Poem Title:
- Father Francis' Prayer. Written In Lord Westmorland's Hermitage.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath these moss grown roots this rustic cell
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- An Inscription on the Cell.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet bird that singest on yonder spray
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- An Inscription in the Cell.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An open heart a generous mind
- Page No:
- pp.110-111
- Poem Title:
- The Rake,
- Attribution:
- By a Lady in New-England.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Welcome to Baiae's streams ye sons of spleen
- Page No:
- pp.112-113
- Poem Title:
- Panacea: Or, The Grand Restorative
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Graves.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Graves
- First Line:
- Try not my St---e tis in vain
- Page No:
- pp.114-116
- Poem Title:
- Ode on the Death of Matzel, A Favourite Bull-Finch, Addressed to Mr. St--pe, to whom the author had given the reversion of it when he left Dresden.
- Attribution:
- By the Honourable Sir Charles Han. Williams. Knigt. [sic] of the Bath.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
- First Line:
- Who by retirement to these sacred groves
- Page No:
- p.117
- Poem Title:
- An Inscription...O Ye!
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ere yellow autumn from our plains retired
- Page No:
- pp.118-120
- Poem Title:
- The Swallows. Written September, 1748.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Jago.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Jago
- First Line:
- Awake my muse prepare a loftier theme
- Page No:
- pp.121-124
- Poem Title:
- The Scavengers. A Town Eclogue. In the Manner of Swoft.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Jago]
- Attributed To:
- Richard Jago
- First Line:
- To print or not to print that is the question
- Page No:
- pp.125-126
- Poem Title:
- Hamlet's Soliloquy Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Jago]
- Attributed To:
- Richard Jago
- First Line:
- Sceptre of ease whose calm domain extends
- Page No:
- pp.127-129
- Poem Title:
- Vacuna.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. D---.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What ken mine eyes enchanted man of ease
- Page No:
- pp.130-133
- Poem Title:
- On J. W. Ranging Pamphlets.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. D---]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye nymphs that from Diana's sport retired
- Page No:
- pp.134-136
- Poem Title:
- Epithalamium. John Dodd, Esq. and Miss St. Leger.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. D---]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lend thy voice celestial maid
- Page No:
- pp.137-140
- Poem Title:
- The Hymns of Dionysius: Translated from the Greek.
- Attribution:
- By the Reverend Mr. Merrick.
- Attributed To:
- James Merrick
- First Line:
- Why wears my pensive friend that gloomy brow
- Page No:
- pp.141-149
- Poem Title:
- A Satire In The Manner of Persius, In A Dialogue Between Atticus and Eugenio.
- Attribution:
- By the Late Lord Hervey.
- Attributed To:
- John Hervey
- First Line:
- Oft has it been my lot to mark
- Page No:
- pp.150-152
- Poem Title:
- The Camelion: A Fable After Monsieur De La Motte.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Merrick.
- Attributed To:
- James Merrick
- First Line:
- Are these thy palms oh queen of love
- Page No:
- pp.153-154
- Poem Title:
- Ode To Venus, From Her Votaries of the Street.
- Attribution:
- By *****
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sister of Phoebus gentle queen
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Cynthia
- Attribution:
- By Miss F.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet warbler to whose artless song
- Page No:
- p.156
- Poem Title:
- Ode to a Thrush.
- Attribution:
- By Miss P***
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail sacred stream whose waters roll
- Page No:
- pp.157-160
- Poem Title:
- Ode to the Tiber. Written Abroad...On Entering the Campania of Rome, At Otricoli, MDCCLV.
- Attribution:
- By William Whitehead, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- William Whitehead
- First Line:
- Amid these mouldering walls this marble round
- Page No:
- pp.161-163
- Poem Title:
- Elegy on the Mausoleum of Augustus. To The Right Honourable George Bussy Villiers, Viscount Villiers. ...Written at Rome, MDCCLVI.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Whitehead]
- Attributed To:
- William Whitehead
- First Line:
- Come thou rosy dimpled boy
- Page No:
- pp.164-165
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Cupid on Valentine's Day.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Parrat.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Parrott
- First Line:
- In frolic's hour ere serious thought had birth
- Page No:
- pp.166-169
- Poem Title:
- To the Worthy, Humane, Generous, Reverend and Noble, Mr. F. C. Lord Bishop of Litchfield...Written in the Year MDCCXLIII.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. D.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- French power and weak allies and war and want
- Page No:
- pp.170-175
- Poem Title:
- To His Friend and Neighbour Dr. T. MDCCXLIV.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Dr. D.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hark through the sacred silence of the night
- Page No:
- pp.176-179
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy Written on Valentine Morning.
- Attribution:
- By * * * *
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath an aged oak's embowering shade
- Page No:
- pp.180-184
- Poem Title:
- Cynthia: An Elegiac Poem.
- Attribution:
- By T. P***cy.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Percy
- First Line:
- Balm of my cares sweet solace of my toils
- Page No:
- pp.185-189
- Poem Title:
- A Panegyric on Ale.
- Attribution:
- By T. W*****
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis enough the hour is come
- Page No:
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- The Song of Simeon Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Merrick.
- Attributed To:
- James Merrick
- First Line:
- Old Plumb who though blessed in his Kentish retreat
- Page No:
- pp.191-193
- Poem Title:
- The Fable of Jotham: To the Borough-Hunters.
- Attribution:
- By Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Owen Cambridge
- First Line:
- Where Kensington high over the neighbouring lands
- Page No:
- pp.194-212
- Poem Title:
- Kensington Garden.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Tickell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- I lately saw what now I sing
- Page No:
- pp.213-215
- Poem Title:
- The Sparrow and Diamond. A Song.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Green.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- These sheets primeval doctrines yield
- Page No:
- pp.216-219
- Poem Title:
- On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
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