A collection of poems in six volumes, by several hands [Vol. 6] [T144532]

DMI number:

1340

Publication Date:

1770

Volume Number:

6 of 6

ESTC number:

T144532

EEBO/ECCO link:

N/A

Shelfmark:

BL G.18.419

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | IN SIX VOLUMES. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [ornament] | LONDON: Printed for J. DODSLEY, in PALL-MALL. | M DCC LXX.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[4], [3]-336

Bibliographic details:

HALF-TITLE: [ornamental rule] | A | COLLECTION OF POEMS. | VOL. VI. | [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.

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Available online from Hathi Trust Digital Library (original from University of Michigan): http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000158257

Other matter:

BACK MATTER: Postscript, p.333; Index, pp. 334-336.

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First Line:

Over yonder eastern hill the twilight throws

Page No:

pp.3-15

Poem Title:

Hymn to the Naiads.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akenside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

The wise and great of every clime

Page No:

pp.15-24

Poem Title:

Ode To the Right Honourable Francis Earl of Huntingdon. M DCC XLVII.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Akenside.]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

For toils which patriots have endured

Page No:

pp.25-29

Poem Title:

Ode to the Right Reverend Benjamin Lord Bishop of Winchester.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Akenside.]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

To me whom in their lays the shepherds call

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

I. For a Grotto.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Akenside.]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Such was old Chaucer such the placid mien

Page No:

pp.30-31

Poem Title:

II. For a Statue of Chaucer at Woodstock.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Akenside.]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Whoever thou art whose path in summer lies

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

III.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Akenside.]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

O youths and virgins o declining eld

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

IV.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Akenside.]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Thou who the verdant plain dost traverse here

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

VI. For a Column at Runnymede.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

If rightly tuneful bards decide

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

Ode.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Dr. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Hail sacred stream whose waters roll

Page No:

pp.37-41

Poem Title:

Ode to the Tiber. Written Abroad. On entering the Campania of Rome, at Otricoli, M DCC LV.

Attribution:

By William Whitehead, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Silent and clear through yonder peaceful vale

Page No:

pp.41-44

Poem Title:

Elegy I. Written at the Convent of Haut Villers in Champagne, 1754.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead, Esq;]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Amid these mouldering walls this marble round

Page No:

pp.44-47

Poem Title:

Elegy II. On the Mausoleum of Augustus. To the Right Honourable George Bussy Villiers, Viscount Villiers. Written at Rome. 1756.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead, Esq;]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Yes noble youth tis true the softer arts

Page No:

pp.47-49

Poem Title:

Elegy III. To the Right Honourable George Simon Harcourt, Visc. Newnham. Written at Rome. 1756.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead, Esq;]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

From Latian fields the mansions of renown

Page No:

pp.50-53

Poem Title:

Elegy IV. To an Officer. Written at Rome. 1756.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead, Esq;]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Twas in this isle o Wright indulge my lay

Page No:

pp.54-56

Poem Title:

Elegy V. To a Friend Sick. Written at Rome, 1756.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead, Esq;]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Behold my friend to this small orb confined

Page No:

pp.56-58

Poem Title:

Elegy VI. To another Friend. Written at Rome 1756.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead, Esq;]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Mason snatch the votive lyre

Page No:

pp.58-60

Poem Title:

The Lyric Muse to Mr. Mason. On the Recovery of the Right Honourable the Earl of Holdernesse from a dangerous Illness.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead, Esq;]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

To all inferior animals 'tis given

Page No:

pp.60-90

Poem Title:

On the Immortality of the Soul. Translated From the Latin of Isaac Hawkins Brown, Esq;

Attribution:

By Soame Jennyns, Esq;

Attributed To:

Soame Jenyns

First Line:

To these lone shades where peace delights to dwell

Page No:

pp.91-97

Poem Title:

The Arbour: An Ode to Contentment.

Attribution:

By Mr. Thomas Cole.

Attributed To:

Thomas Cole

First Line:

Come musing silence nor refuse to shed

Page No:

pp.97-100

Poem Title:

The Grotto: An Ode to Silence.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Thomas Cole.]

Attributed To:

Thomas Cole

First Line:

While Saturn's fane with solemn step we trod

Page No:

pp.100-124

Poem Title:

The Picture of Human Life. Translated from the Greek of Cebes the Theban.

Attribution:

By Mr. T. Scott.

Attributed To:

Thomas Scott

First Line:

A jolly brave toper who could not forbear

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

The Dropsical Man.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Taylor.

Attributed To:

William Taylor

First Line:

Seek not for paradise with curious eye

Page No:

pp.126-129

Poem Title:

Paradise Regain'd.

Attribution:

By H. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though strength of genius by experience taught

Page No:

pp.129-135

Poem Title:

To the Right Hon. Sir Robert Walpole.

Attribution:

By the Honourable Mr. D---

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold the magic of Theresa's hand

Page No:

pp.135-137

Poem Title:

To a Lady on a Landscape of her Drawing.

Attribution:

By Mr. Parrat.

Attributed To:

Charles Parrott

First Line:

Come thou rosy dimpled boy

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

Ode to Cupid on Valentine's Day.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Parrat]

Attributed To:

Charles Parrott

First Line:

In frolic's hour ere serious thought had birth

Page No:

pp.138-142

Poem Title:

To the Worthy, Humane, Generous, Rev. and Noble, Mr. F. C. Now Lord Bishop of Litchfield. [...] Written in the year 1743.

Attribution:

By Dr. D.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

French power and weak allies and war and want

Page No:

pp.142-148

Poem Title:

To His Friend and Neighbour Dr. T. 1744.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Dr. D.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hence sage mysterious law

Page No:

pp.148-154

Poem Title:

Vacation.

Attribution:

By ---- Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Prithee why so fantastic and vain

Page No:

pp.155-156

Poem Title:

To a Lady very handsome, but too fond of Dress.

Attribution:

By the Same. [Not attributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In the dead of the night when with labour oppressed

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

Anacreon. Ode III.

Attribution:

Translated by the Same. [Not attributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He that would great in science grow

Page No:

pp.158-159

Poem Title:

An Imitation of Horace, Book III. Ode 2. Augustam amice, &c. [...] to Dr. Bentley.

Attribution:

By Mr. Titley

Attributed To:

Walter Titley

First Line:

Who strives to mount Parnassus hill

Page No:

pp.160-161

Poem Title:

A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Book III. Ode 2. of Horace, Augustam amice pauperim pati, &c. And sent by Mr. Titley to Dr. Bentley.

Attribution:

By Dr. Bentley.

Attributed To:

Richard Bentley

First Line:

Here shunning idleness at once and praise

Page No:

pp.161-162

Poem Title:

Inscription on a Grotto of Shells at Crux-Easton, the Work of Nine young Ladies.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

So much this building entertains my sight

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

Verses occasioned by seeing a Grotto built by Nine Sisters.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Phoebus's beams are withdrawn from our sight

Page No:

pp.162-163

Poem Title:

An Excuse for Inconstancy, 1737.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Dr. Lisle.

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

O Goddess most revered above

Page No:

pp.164-165

Poem Title:

To Venus. A Rant, 1732. Set to Music by Dr. Hayes.

Attribution:

By the Same. [Rev. Dr. Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

When Orpheus went down to the regions below

Page No:

p.166

Poem Title:

The Power of Music. A Song. Imitated from the Spanish...Set to Music by Dr. Hayes.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. the Rev. Dr. Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

The hero who to Smyrna bay

Page No:

pp.167-172

Poem Title:

Letter from Smyrna to his Sisters at Crux-Easton, 1733.

Attribution:

By the Same. [Rev. Dr. Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

While you my dear girls in your paradise stray

Page No:

pp.172-174

Poem Title:

Part of a Letter to my Sisters at Crux-Easton, wrote from Cario in Egypt, August 1734.

Attribution:

By the Same. [Rev. Dr. Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

Lord sister here's the butcher come

Page No:

pp.174-177

Poem Title:

Letter from Marseilles to my Sisters at Crux-Easton, May 1735.

Attribution:

By the Same. [Rev. Dr. Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

In Russia's frozen clime some ages since

Page No:

pp.178-210

Poem Title:

The History of Porsenna, King of Russia. In Two Books.

Attribution:

By the Same. [Rev. Dr. Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

When tepid breezes fanned the air

Page No:

pp.211-212

Poem Title:

The Evergreen.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The warmest friend I ever proved

Page No:

pp.212-213

Poem Title:

Candour.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too timorous maid can time or chance

Page No:

p.212

Poem Title:

Answer

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis true my wish will never find

Page No:

pp.213-214

Poem Title:

Lysander to Cloe.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of vagrant loves and fickle flames

Page No:

pp.213-214

Poem Title:

Cloe to Lysander.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas always held and ever will

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

To the Memory of an agreeable Lady bury'd in Marriage to a Person undeserving her.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hark through the sacred silence of the night

Page No:

pp.217-220

Poem Title:

An Elegy, written on Valentine Morning.

Attribution:

By * * * *

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where aged elms in many a goodly row

Page No:

pp.221-225

Poem Title:

The Dowager.

Attribution:

By the Same. [By * * * *]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now Britain's senate far renowned

Page No:

pp.226-227

Poem Title:

Ode to the Honourable * * * *

Attribution:

By the late Mr. F. Coventr.y

Attributed To:

Francis Coventry

First Line:

The midnight moon serenely smiles

Page No:

pp.228-229

Poem Title:

To Miss * * * *.

Attribution:

By Miss Elisa Carter.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Good madam when ladies are willing

Page No:

pp.230-231

Poem Title:

Sir W***** Y*****'s Answer.

Attribution:

Sir W***** Y*****

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Colin prevent my warm blushes

Page No:

p.230

Poem Title:

Lady Mary W***, to Sir W*** Y***

Attribution:

Lady Mary W***,

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

In vain mistaken maid you'd fly

Page No:

pp.231-232

Poem Title:

Miss Soper's Answer to a Lady, who invited her to retire into a monastic Life at St. Cross, near Winchester.

Attribution:

Miss Soper

Attributed To:

Miss Soper

First Line:

All attendants apart

Page No:

pp.232-233

Poem Title:

Repentance.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss Soper]

Attributed To:

Miss Soper

First Line:

O Nancy wilt thou go with me

Page No:

pp.233-234

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By T. P***cy.

Attributed To:

Thomas Percy

First Line:

Beneath an aged oak's embowering shade

Page No:

pp.234-239

Poem Title:

Cynthia, an Elegiac Poem.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. T. P***cy.]

Attributed To:

Thomas Percy

First Line:

Cease Chlorinda cease to chide me

Page No:

pp.239-241

Poem Title:

Dialogue to Chlorinda.

Attribution:

By Mr. Alsop.

Attributed To:

Anthony Alsop

First Line:

See Strephon what unhappy fate

Page No:

pp.241-242

Poem Title:

To Chlorinda.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Alsop]

Attributed To:

Anthony Alsop

First Line:

Ixion as the poets tell us

Page No:

pp.242-246

Poem Title:

The Fable of Ixion. To Chlorinda.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Alsop]

Attributed To:

Anthony Alsop

First Line:

Dame Venus a daughter of Jove's

Page No:

pp.246-249

Poem Title:

A Tale. To Chlorinda.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Alsop]

Attributed To:

Anthony Alsop

First Line:

Inmate of smoking cots whose rustic shade

Page No:

pp.250-252

Poem Title:

Ode on Lyric Poetry.

Attribution:

By Mr. Marriot.

Attributed To:

James Marriott

First Line:

Queen of each sacred sound sweet child of air

Page No:

pp.253-255

Poem Title:

Arion, an Ode.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Marriot.]

Attributed To:

James Marriott

First Line:

Never dear Faz torment thy brain

Page No:

pp.255-258

Poem Title:

Horace, Book II. Ode II. [...] --Paul to Faz.

Attribution:

Imitated by Lord B--h.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Balm of my cares sweet solace of my toils

Page No:

pp.258-263

Poem Title:

A Panegyric on Ale.

Attribution:

By T. W*****

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou that on a pointless spear reclined

Page No:

pp.263-264

Poem Title:

Ode to the Genius of Italy, occasioned by the Earl of Corke's going Abroad.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. Duncombe.

Attributed To:

John Duncombe

First Line:

From friendship's cradle up the verdant paths

Page No:

pp.265-266

Poem Title:

To C*** P****, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear thoughtless Clara to my verse attend

Page No:

pp.267-268

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.268-270

Poem Title:

The Cheat's Apology.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ellis.

Attributed To:

John Ellis

First Line:

As Chloe plied her needle's art

Page No:

pp.270-271

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Ellis]

Attributed To:

John Ellis

First Line:

A wretch tired out with fortune's blows

Page No:

pp.271-272

Poem Title:

To Mr. Grenville on his intended Resignation.

Attribution:

By Richard Berenger, Esq;

Attributed To:

Richard Berenger [Beranger]

First Line:

Sue venal Belinda to grant you the blessing

Page No:

pp.271-272

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Ellis]

Attributed To:

John Ellis

First Line:

Where yonder trees rise high in cheerful air

Page No:

pp.273-275

Poem Title:

To Mr. Garrick, on his erecting a Temple and Statue to Shakespear.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Richard Berenger, Esq;]

Attributed To:

Richard Berenger [Beranger]

First Line:

Peace to this meeting

Page No:

pp.275-276

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Richard Berenger, Esq;]

Attributed To:

Richard Berenger [Beranger]

First Line:

Led by the muse my step pervades

Page No:

pp.276-280

Poem Title:

An Ode to Sculpture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Colin's good dame who long held him a tug

Page No:

p.280

Poem Title:

True Resignation.

Attribution:

By Mr. H * * * *

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Voltaire believe me were I now

Page No:

pp.282-284

Poem Title:

An Epistle from the King of Prussia to Monsieur Voltaire, 1757. Translated into English.

Attribution:

By John Gilbert Cooper, Esq;

Attributed To:

John Gilbert Cooper

First Line:

In that remote and solitary place

Page No:

pp.284-286

Poem Title:

At seeing Archbishop Williams's Monument in Carnarvonshire.

Attribution:

By Dr. D.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Long was the great Figg by the prize-fighting swains

Page No:

pp.286-289

Poem Title:

Extempore Verses upon a Trial of Skill between two great Masters of Defence, Messieurs Figg and Sutton.

Attribution:

By Dr. Byrom.

Attributed To:

John Byrom

First Line:

Though plagued with algebraic lectures

Page No:

pp.290-294

Poem Title:

A Letter from Cambridge to a young Gentleman at Eton School.

Attribution:

By Dr. Littleton.

Attributed To:

Edward Littleton

First Line:

What self sufficiency and false content

Page No:

pp.294-295

Poem Title:

The Indolent.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis enough the hour is come

Page No:

pp.295-296

Poem Title:

The Song of Simeon paraphrased.

Attribution:

By Mr. Merrick.

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

Tell me what genius did the art invent

Page No:

pp.296-297

Poem Title:

On the Invention of Letters.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The noble art to Cadmus owes its rise

Page No:

p.297

Poem Title:

The Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

True wit is like a brilliant stone

Page No:

p.297

Poem Title:

On Wit.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Artist who underneath my table

Page No:

pp.298-299

Poem Title:

On a Spider.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Kitty's charming voice and face

Page No:

p.299

Poem Title:

The Play-Thing chang'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Old Plumb who though blessed in his Kentish retreat

Page No:

pp.300-302

Poem Title:

The Fable of Jotham: To the Borough-Hunters.

Attribution:

By Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq;

Attributed To:

Richard Owen Cambridge

First Line:

In scenes where Hallet's genius has combined

Page No:

pp.302-306

Poem Title:

An Elegy written in an empty Assembly-Room.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Richard Owen Cambridge.]

Attributed To:

Richard Owen Cambridge

First Line:

A fakeer a religious well known in the east

Page No:

pp.306-308

Poem Title:

The Fakeer: A Tale.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Richard Owen Cambridge.]

Attributed To:

Richard Owen Cambridge

First Line:

Tis so though we're surprised to hear it

Page No:

pp.309-310

Poem Title:

To Mr. Whitehead, On his being made Poet Laureat.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Richard Owen Cambridge.]

Attributed To:

Richard Owen Cambridge

First Line:

The muse disgusted at an age and clime

Page No:

pp.311-312

Poem Title:

Verses on the Prospect of planting Arts and Learning in America.

Attribution:

By the late Dr. Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne.

Attributed To:

George Berkeley

First Line:

Believe me Mason tis in vain

Page No:

pp.312-314

Poem Title:

To Mr. Mason.

Attribution:

By William Whitehead, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Here on my native shore reclined

Page No:

pp.315-318

Poem Title:

Ode. To Independency.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mason.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Ah cease this kind persuasive strain

Page No:

pp.318-320

Poem Title:

Ode. On Melancholy. To a Friend.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Mason]

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Awake aeolian lyre awake

Page No:

pp.321-326

Poem Title:

Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Ruin seize thee ruthless king

Page No:

pp.326-332

Poem Title:

Ode.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Gray]

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray