Sylvae: or the second part of poetical miscellanies [T116469]
- DMI number:
- 125
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1702
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T116469
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW111944173
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding C 12
- Full Title:
- SYLVAE: | OR, THE | [i]SECOND PART[/i] | OF | POETICAL | MISCELLANIES. | [rule] | Publish'd by Mr. [i]DRYDEN.[/i] | [rule] | [epigraph] | The THIRD EDITION. | [rule] | [i]LONDON,[/i] | Printed for [i]Jacob Tonson,[/i] within [i]Grays-Inn[/i] | Gate, next [i]Grays-Inn[/i] Lane. 1702.
- Epigraph:
- [i]----Non deficit alter | Aureus; & simili frondescit virgametallo.[/i] Virg.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- n/a
- Pagination:
- [36], 1-306, [4]
- Comments:
- Notes: "Vol 2 of Tonson's six-volume 'Miscellany Poems' (1684-1709); in part edited, and chiefly written, by Dryden. 1702 (3rd edn; the contents of this vol differ from earlier edns, 1685, 1692, 1693), 1716 (4th edn). <i>See</i> Case 172(2)(d)" (SUAREZ). Separate title-pages for Essay on Translated verse. Essay on Translated verse also has different running titles ('An Essay on' 'Translated Verse') to the rest of the Miscellany ('The SECOND PART of' 'MISCELLANY POEMS'). Contents: Some pieces in Latin (A3v-A4r, by Charles Dryden; A7v)
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Preface, signed 'John Dryden', (A2r-a4v) End matter: Table to the foregoing poems (Xr-X2v)
- Title:
- Miscellany poems: the first part [T117015]
- Publication Date:
- 1702
- ESTC No:
- T117015
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [N6906]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N6906
- Volume:
- 1 of 6
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Examen Poeticum being the third part of miscellany poems [N6500]
- Publication Date:
- 1706
- ESTC No:
- N6500
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Examen poeticum: being the third part of miscellany poems [ESTC R122]
- Publication Date:
- 1693
- ESTC No:
- R122
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Examen poeticum: being the third part of miscellany poems [ESTC R228541]
- Publication Date:
- 1693
- ESTC No:
- R228541
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellany poems [ESTC R297]
- Publication Date:
- 1684
- ESTC No:
- R297
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellany poems: in two parts [ESTC R31378]
- Publication Date:
- 1692
- ESTC No:
- R31378
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]
- Publication Date:
- 1704
- ESTC No:
- T161282
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical Miscellanies: the sixth part [T142876]
- Publication Date:
- 1709
- ESTC No:
- T142876
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R1682]
- Publication Date:
- 1685
- ESTC No:
- R1682
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R31379]
- Publication Date:
- 1692
- ESTC No:
- R31379
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R41930]
- Publication Date:
- 1693
- ESTC No:
- R41930
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The annual miscellany for the year 1694, being the fourth part of miscellany poems [N34956]
- Publication Date:
- 1708
- ESTC No:
- N34956
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The annual miscellany: for the year 1694 [ESTC R22916]
- Publication Date:
- 1694
- ESTC No:
- R22916
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 5 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- T214159
- Volume:
- 5 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The first part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 1 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fourth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The fourth part of miscellany poems [N64834]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N64834
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [N70161]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N70161
- Volume:
- 2 of 6
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The second part of miscellany poems [T117014] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 2 of 6
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The sixth part of miscellany poems [T175048]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- T175048
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The third part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T117014
- Volume:
- 3 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The third part of miscellany poems [N49205]
- Publication Date:
- 1716
- ESTC No:
- N49205
- Volume:
- 3 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Editor:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Publish'd by Mr. Dryden'.
- Publisher:
- Jacob Tonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for Jacob Tonson'.
- First Line:
- As when by labouring stars new kingdoms rise
- Page No:
- A4v-A6r
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscomon. On his Excellent Poem.
- Attribution:
- Knightly Chetwood
- Attributed To:
- Knightly Chetwood
- First Line:
- Whether the fruitful Nile or Tyrian shore
- Page No:
- A2r-A3r
- Poem Title:
- To The Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- John Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- While satire pleased and nothing else was writ
- Page No:
- A6r-A7r
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- J. Amherst.
- Attributed To:
- J. Amherst
- First Line:
- Happy that author whose correct essay
- Page No:
- pp.1-18
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Thus equal deaths are dealt and equal chance
- Page No:
- pp.19-30
- Poem Title:
- The Entire Episode of Mezentius and Lausus, Translated out of the 10th Book of Virgil's Aeneids.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What has this bugbear death to frighten man
- Page No:
- pp.30-44
- Poem Title:
- Translation of the Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius. Against the fear of Death.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Thus therefore he who feels the fiery dart
- Page No:
- pp.45-58
- Poem Title:
- Lucretius The Fourth Book. Concerning the Nature of Love; Beginning at this Line, Sic igitur, Veneris qui tellis accipit ictum, &c.
- Attribution:
- By Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Twelve Spartan virgins noble young and fair
- Page No:
- pp.58-62
- Poem Title:
- Theocrit. Idyllium the 18th. The Epithalamium of Helen and Menelaus.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- With inauspicious love a wretched swain
- Page No:
- pp.63-67
- Poem Title:
- Idyllium the 23d. The Despairing Lover.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The shepherd Paris bore the Spartan bride
- Page No:
- pp.68-73
- Poem Title:
- Daphnis. From Theocritus, Idyll. 27.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- So may the auspicious queen of love
- Page No:
- pp.74-76
- Poem Title:
- Horat. Ode 3. Lib. I. Inscrib'd to the Earl of Roscomon on his intended Voyage to Ireland.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Behold yon mountain's hoary height
- Page No:
- pp.77-79
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Lib. I. Ode 9.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Descended of an ancient line
- Page No:
- pp.79-84
- Poem Title:
- Horat. Ode 29. Book 3. Paraphras'd in Pindarick Verse; And Inscrib'd to the Right Honouable Lawrence Earl of Rochester.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- How happy in his low degree
- Page No:
- pp.84-89
- Poem Title:
- From Horace, Epod. 2d.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now scorching Sirius burnt the thirsty moors
- Page No:
- pp.89-96
- Poem Title:
- Part of Virgil's 4th Georgic.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Creech
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Creech
- First Line:
- Ah friend the posting years how fast they fly
- Page No:
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- The Fourteenth Ode of the second Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Goatherd the music of yon whistling pine
- Page No:
- pp.98-107
- Poem Title:
- The First Idyllium of Theocritus Translated into English.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Are you grown lazy or does some disease
- Page No:
- pp.108-111
- Poem Title:
- The Reapers. The Tenth Idyllium of Theocritus.
- Attribution:
- Englished by Mr. William Bowles, of King's College in Cambridge
- Attributed To:
- William Bowles
- First Line:
- Scarce three whole days my lovely youth had passed
- Page No:
- pp.111-114
- Poem Title:
- [Greek] or the Twelfth Idyllium of Theocritus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cupid the sliest rogue alive
- Page No:
- pp.115-116
- Poem Title:
- [Greek] or the Nineteenth Idyllium of Theocritus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There on the extremest beach and farthest sand
- Page No:
- pp.117-123
- Poem Title:
- The Complaint of Ariadna. Out of Catullus.
- Attribution:
- By Mr William Bowles
- Attributed To:
- William Bowles
- First Line:
- Proud Eunica when I advanced to kiss
- Page No:
- pp.123-126
- Poem Title:
- The Twentieth Idyllium of Theocritus.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. W. Bowles
- Attributed To:
- William Bowles
- First Line:
- Let's live my dearest Lesbia and love
- Page No:
- pp.126-127
- Poem Title:
- To Lesbia out of Catullus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My Lesbia swears she would Catullus wed
- Page No:
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- To Lesbia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Winter's dissolved behold a world's new face
- Page No:
- pp.128-129
- Poem Title:
- Horace Ode 7th, Book 4th.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We must all live and we would all live well
- Page No:
- pp.130-132
- Poem Title:
- Horace. The 2d Book, Ode the 10th.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear friend for surely I may call him so
- Page No:
- p.132-141
- Poem Title:
- Horace. 18th Epistle, the 1st Book.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Freedom is a real treasure
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Wolsely
- Attributed To:
- Robert Wolseley
- First Line:
- When wits from sighing turn to railing
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- Answer'd.
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Wharton
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Wharton
- First Line:
- Why this talking still of dying
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- Another Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I was at first a piece of fig tree wood
- Page No:
- pp.144-147
- Poem Title:
- Horace Saty. 2. Lib. 1.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- First Line:
- Arise great monarch see the joyful day
- Page No:
- pp.148-150
- Poem Title:
- An Ode. Sung before King Charles the II on New-Years-Day.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. J. Allestry
- Attributed To:
- Jacob Allestry
- First Line:
- Sylvia the fair in the bloom of fifteen
- Page No:
- pp.150-152
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- On death and wounds Camilla looks with joy
- Page No:
- pp.152-161
- Poem Title:
- The Episode Of the Death of Camilla. Translated out of the Eleventh Book of Virgil's Aeneids.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Stafford
- Attributed To:
- John Stafford
- First Line:
- Old as I am for ladies love unfit
- Page No:
- pp.162-164
- Poem Title:
- Cymon and Iphegenia From Boccace. ...Poeta loquitur.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- In that sweet isle where Venus keeps her court
- Page No:
- pp.164-189
- Poem Title:
- Cymon and Iphegenia From Boccace.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- What ail'st thou oh thou trembling thing
- Page No:
- pp.190-192
- Poem Title:
- To my Heart.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What should I ask my friend which best would be
- Page No:
- pp.193-195
- Poem Title:
- Cato's Answer to Labienus, when he advis'd him to consult the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon. Being a Paraphrastical Translation of part of the 9th Book of Lucan, beginning at -Quid quaeri, Labiene, Jubes, &c.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Wolsely
- Attributed To:
- Robert Wolseley
- First Line:
- Sir | As once a twelve month to the priest
- Page No:
- pp.196-204
- Poem Title:
- A Letter to Sir Fleetwood Shepherd.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Let equipage and dress despair
- Page No:
- pp.204-206
- Poem Title:
- Song of Basset.
- Attribution:
- By Sir George Etherege
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Etherege
- First Line:
- To that prodigious height of vice we're grown
- Page No:
- pp.206-211
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue to Satyr.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Gentle reproofs have long been tried in vain
- Page No:
- pp.211-213
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Young, Fluttering, Noisie Disturbers of the Pit.
- Attribution:
- By Collonel Ashton
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Ashton
- First Line:
- Ye sacred nymphs of Lebethra be by
- Page No:
- pp.213-223
- Poem Title:
- The Nature of Women; A Translation of Part of the fourth Eclogue of Mantuan. A Satyr.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since love and verse as well as wine
- Page No:
- pp.223-226
- Poem Title:
- Sir George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton.
- Attribution:
- Sir George Etheridge
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Etherege
- First Line:
- To you who live in chill degree
- Page No:
- pp.227-230
- Poem Title:
- A Letter From Mr. Dryden to Sir George Etheridge.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- From hunting whores and haunting play
- Page No:
- pp.231-232
- Poem Title:
- Sir George Etheridge's Second Letter to the Lord Middleton.
- Attribution:
- Sir George Etheridge
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Etherege
- First Line:
- On the remains of an old blasted oak
- Page No:
- pp.233-237
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of Mr. Oldham.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- God prosper long our noble king
- Page No:
- pp.238-263
- Poem Title:
- Chevy-Chase, By the Order of the Bishop of London.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Would you be quite cured of love
- Page No:
- pp.264-267
- Poem Title:
- Remedy of Love.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Evelyn
- Attributed To:
- John Evelyn
- First Line:
- Come poetry and with thee bring along
- Page No:
- pp.268-269
- Poem Title:
- An Ode ... For her Majesty, Queen to King Charles I.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Abraham Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Fair virtue should I follow thee
- Page No:
- pp.270-272
- Poem Title:
- On Virtue.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Evelyn
- Attributed To:
- John Evelyn
- First Line:
- I love I dote I rave with pain
- Page No:
- pp.273-275
- Poem Title:
- The Complaint. A Song To a Scotch Tune.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Thomas Otway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Oh how does my dear Aeschines oh how
- Page No:
- pp.276-280
- Poem Title:
- Cynisca: Or, The Fourteenth Idyllium of Theocritus Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By W. Bowles, Fellow of Kings-Coll. Cambr.
- Attributed To:
- William Bowles
- First Line:
- Now first with bolder sails I tempt the main
- Page No:
- pp.280-286
- Poem Title:
- Proteus: Being the fourth Eclogue of Sanazarius. Inscribed to Ferdinand of Arragon, Duke of Calabria, Son of Frederick King of Naples.
- Attribution:
- By W. Bowles, Fellow of Kings-Coll. Cambr.
- Attributed To:
- William Bowles
- First Line:
- Ye happy swains whose hearts are free
- Page No:
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By Sir G. Etheridge
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Etherege
- First Line:
- In Chloris all soft charms agree
- Page No:
- pp.288-289
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John How
- First Line:
- The gods are not more blessed than he
- Page No:
- pp.289-290
- Poem Title:
- Sapho's Ode from Longinus.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. W. Bowles
- Attributed To:
- William Bowles
- First Line:
- Lyce the gods have heard my prayer
- Page No:
- pp.291-293
- Poem Title:
- The Thirteenth Ode Of The Fourth Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat
- Page No:
- pp.293-295
- Poem Title:
- The Grove.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- In those cold regions which no summers cheer
- Page No:
- pp.296-298
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to his Royal Highness, Upon his first Appearance at the Duke's Theatre since his Return from Scotland, 1682.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- I'll tell you a story if it be true
- Page No:
- pp.298-302
- Poem Title:
- The Salisbury Ghost.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me gentle Strephon why
- Page No:
- pp.303-304
- Poem Title:
- The Forsaken Mistress: A Dialogue Between Phillis and Strephon.
- Attribution:
- By Sir George Etherege
- Attributed To:
- Sir George Etherege
- First Line:
- What horror's this that dwells upon the plain
- Page No:
- pp.305-306
- Poem Title:
- The Beginning of a Pastoral on the Death of his Late Majesty.
- Attribution:
- Written by Mr. Ottoway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
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