Sylvae: or, the second part of poetical miscellanies [ESTC R1682]

DMI number:

1643

Aliases

Dryden/Tonson Miscellany Poems. Volume 2.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1685

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R1682

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:12265194

Shelfmark:

EEBO - Bod

Full Title:

SYLVAE: | OR, THE | [g]Second Part[/g] | OF | POETICAL | Miscellanies. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed for [i]Jacob Tonson[/i], at the [i]Judges-Head[/i] | in [i]Chancery-lane[/i] near [i]Fleetstreet[/i], 1685.

Epigraph:

[long dash] [i]Non deficit alter | Aureus; & simili frondescit virga metallo[/i]. Virg.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse, Collection of literary verse, Collection includes verse in other languages, and Collection of translations/imitations

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

SIGNATURES: gatherings A(8), a(8) and b(4) make up the preliminaries. The main body and the pagination sequence begin with gathering B.

Comments:

ATTRIBUTIONS: Many attributions taken from contents page. CONTENTS: Latin poem, 'Horti Arlingtoniani', addressed to Henry Bennet, first earl of Arlington (1618-1685): pp. 457-464.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: (1) 'Preface' signed 'John Dryden', sigs A2r-a8v. (2) 'A Table Of The Poems, Contained In the Second Part of Miscellany Poems', sigs b1r-b4r.

References:

NCBEL 335 (1685)

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Related People

Editor:

John Dryden

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Preface is by Dryden. Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins state that 'there can be little doubt of [Dryden's] central role by this time as solicitor of contributions and editor'. Gillespie and Hopkins, eds, The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies, 1684-1709, 6 vols (London, 2008), I:xliv.

Publisher:

Jacob Tonson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for Jacob Tonson'.

Content/Publication

First Line:

From thence his way the Trojan hero bent

Page No:

pp.1-7

Poem Title:

The entire Episode of Nisus and Euryalus, translated from the 5th. and and [sic] 9th. Books of Virgils Aeneids. [First Part]

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

The Trojan camp the common danger shared

Page No:

pp.8-31

Poem Title:

The entire Episode of Nisus and Euryalus, translated from the 5th. and and [sic] 9th. Books of Virgils Aeneids. [Second Part]

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Thus equal deaths are dealt and equal chance

Page No:

pp.32-47

Poem Title:

The entire Episode of Mezentius and Lausus, translated out of the 10th. Book of Virgils Aeneids.

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Now night with sable wings the world overspread

Page No:

pp.48-51

Poem Title:

The Speech Of Venus To Vulcan: Wherein she perswades him to make Arms for her Son Aeneas, then engag'd in a War against the Latines, and King Turnus: Translated out of the Eighth Book of Virgils Aeneids.

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Delight of human kind and gods above

Page No:

pp.52-55

Poem Title:

Lucretius The beginning of the First Book.

Attribution:

Translated by Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Tis pleasant safely to behold from shore

Page No:

pp.56-59

Poem Title:

Lucretius The beginning of the Second Book.

Attribution:

Translated by Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

What has this bugbear death to frighten man

Page No:

pp.60-79

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.80-97

Poem Title:

Lucretius The Fourth Book. Concerning the Nature of Love; Beginning at this Line, Sic igitur, Veneris qui telis accipit ictum, &c.

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Thus like a sailor by the tempest hurled

Page No:

pp.98-99

Poem Title:

From Lucretius Book the Fifth.

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Twelve Spartan virgins noble young and fair

Page No:

pp.100-106

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.107-113

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.114-123

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.124-127

Poem Title:

Horat. Ode 3. Lib. 1. 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.128-126 [i.e. 128-130]

Poem Title:

Horace Lib. 1. Ode 9.

Attribution:

by an unknown hand.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Descended of an ancient line

Page No:

pp.127-134 [i.e. 131-138]

Poem Title:

Horat. Ode 29. Book 3. Paraphras'd in Pindarique Verse; And Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Lawrence Earl of Rochester.

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

How happy in his low degree

Page No:

pp.135-159 [i.e. 139-144]

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.145-154

Poem Title:

Part of Virgils 4th. Georgick.

Attribution:

Englished by an unknown Hand.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oft I by wine have tried to lull my cares

Page No:

pp.155-158

Poem Title:

The Sixth Elegy Of the First Book of Tibullus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas night and lazy sleep my eyes confined

Page No:

pp.158-161

Poem Title:

Ovid's Dream.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A pox who'd be a poet in our days

Page No:

pp.162-165

Poem Title:

A Prologue Intended for the Duke and no Duke.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah friend the posting years how fast they fly

Page No:

pp.166-168

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.353-366

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.367-372

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.373-377

Poem Title:

[Greek]. Or The Twelfth Idyllium Of Theocritus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cupid the sliest rogue alive

Page No:

pp.378-379

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.380-387

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.388-392

Poem Title:

The Twentieth Idyllium Of Theocritus.

Attribution:

by Mr. William Bowles.

Attributed To:

William Bowles

First Line:

Let's live my dearest Lesbia and love

Page No:

pp.392-393

Poem Title:

To Lesbia. Out Of Catullus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My Lesbia swears she would Catullus wed

Page No:

p.394

Poem Title:

To Lesbia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If pleasure follows when we think upon

Page No:

pp.399-396 [i.e. 395-396]

Poem Title:

To Lesbia. A Petition to be freed from Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Triumphant laurels round my temples twine

Page No:

pp.397-398

Poem Title:

Ovid's Elegies. Lib. 2. Eleg. 12

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'm now at --- where my eyes can view

Page No:

pp.395-402 [i.e. 399-402]

Poem Title:

Lib. II. Elegy XVI. He invites his Mistress into the Countrey.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now Ceres' feast is come the trees are blown

Page No:

pp.402-405

Poem Title:

Lib. III. Elegy IX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since earth and water more dilated air

Page No:

pp.406-417

Poem Title:

Of Natures Changes. From Lucretius. Lib. V.

Attribution:

By a Person of Quality.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Winter's dissolved behold a world's new face

Page No:

pp.418-420

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.420-423

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:

pp.423-436

Poem Title:

Horace, 18th Epistle, the 1st Book

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I was at first a piece of fig tree wood

Page No:

pp.436-441

Poem Title:

Horace, Saty. 2. Lib. 1.

Attribution:

By Mr. Stafford.

Attributed To:

John Stafford

First Line:

All blots I cannot from my manners wipe

Page No:

pp.441-444

Poem Title:

Ovid. Amorum. Lib. 2. El. 4. That he loves Women of all sorts and sizes.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Condemned to Pontus tired with endless toil

Page No:

pp.444-448

Poem Title:

Elegy (II.) Lib. 5. De Trist. Ovid complains of his three years Banishment.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Arise great monarch see the joyful day

Page No:

pp.449-452

Poem Title:

An Ode. Sung before the King on New-Years-Day.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of all heaven's judgments that was sure the worst

Page No:

pp.452-456

Poem Title:

Upon the late Ingenious Translation of Pere Simon's Critical History, By H. D. Lsq; [sic]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sylvia the fair in the bloom of fifteen

Page No:

pp.464-466

Poem Title:

A New Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go tell Amynta gentle swain

Page No:

pp.467-468

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On the remains of an old blasted oak

Page No:

pp.468-474

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Oldham.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As soon as mild Augustus could assuage

Page No:

pp.475-480

Poem Title:

On the Kings-House Now Building at Winchester.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On death and wounds Camilla looks with joy

Page No:

pp.481-494

Poem Title:

The Episode Of the Death of Camilla Translated out of the Eleventh Book of Virgils Aeneids

Attribution:

By Mr. Stafford

Attributed To:

John Stafford