The Agreeable Medley or, Universal Entertainer [T98503]

DMI number:

728

Publication Date:

1748

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T98503

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW124637949

Shelfmark:

BL - 12354.bbb.17

Full Title:

THE | [red] AGREEABLE MEDLEY [/red] | OR, | Universal Entertainer. | [Ornament] | [Double rule] | [red] [i]MALTON:[/i] [/red] | Printed by JOSHUA NICKSON | MDCCXLVIII.

Place of Publication:

Malton

Genres:

Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[1-2] 3-434 pp.

Comments:

Contents: Mixture of letters, verse and prose. PAGINATION: pp.65-66 missing; p.98 mispaginated 97; p.179 mispaginated 176; pp.263 mispaginated 265; p.294 mispaginated 194.

References:

Case 457

Related People

Printer:

Joshua Nickson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

These are thy glorious works parent of good

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Milton's Paradise Lost, Book v. l.153.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

His faultless shape appeared with every grace

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Writ by lady B--s

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In what soft language shall my thoughts get free

Page No:

pp.9-12

Poem Title:

A Poem, by a Lady on the Death of her Husband.

Attribution:

By a Lady

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

On seeing a Miser at the late Concert in Spring-Gardens.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What still these mournful plaints and flowing eyes

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

Advice to the young Lady upon the Death of her Husband

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Mistaken world considerate how few

Page No:

pp.24-26

Poem Title:

Custom. A Satire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wretched the bard who from a golden dream

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

The Poet's Morning Ejaculation to his Empty Pocket.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your sage and moralist can show

Page No:

pp.30-37

Poem Title:

The Cobler. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Taught by long miseries we find

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

Moral.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pleasures would court in vain and beauty smile

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Tis finished now the great deciding part

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The counsel of a friend Belinda hear

Page No:

pp.53-55

Poem Title:

Advice to a young Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ten months after Florimel happened to wed

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

A True Maid

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Prithee Belinda for thou knowst I'm young

Page No:

pp.56-58

Poem Title:

The Females Choice. Set forth in a Dialogue, between Melissa and Belinda.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sceptics think 'twas long ago

Page No:

pp.59-63

Poem Title:

The Ladle

Attribution:

Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

This commoner has worth and parts

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

Moral

Attribution:

Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

O Stephen Stephen if thy gentler ear

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

Verses...to Stephen Duck

Attribution:

by a Miller in Ireland

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cupid make your virgins tender

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

The true Sportsman's prayer to Cupid.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In our forefathers' stupid days the name

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

Epigram

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Maggot pretends to some discerning

Page No:

pp.73-75

Poem Title:

The Valetudinarian

Attribution:

Philo Grubaeus Cantab

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Bacchus to give the toping world surprise

Page No:

pp.75-76

Poem Title:

Epitaph on poor Robin, a late Drawer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Distracted with care

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

The Despairing Lover

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hans Carvel impotent and old

Page No:

pp.82-86

Poem Title:

Monsieur De la Fontain's Hans Carvel. Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear delightful tender creature

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

Ode to Caelia, an Anacreontick

Attribution:

Geff. Walmsley

Attributed To:

Geff. Walmsley

First Line:

Their golden harps they take

Page No:

p.89

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lucy while resting in this verdant shade

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

A Pastoral. Henry and Lucy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thinkst thou I shun the marriage chain

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

Caelia to Strephon

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

My gentle Celia think again

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

Strephon's answer to Caelia

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Gentlest air thou breath of lovers

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

A Sigh

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gentlest blast of ill concoction

Page No:

pp.95-96

Poem Title:

A F-----t

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Amongst the myrtles as I walked

Page No:

pp.96-97

Poem Title:

The Enquiry

Attribution:

By Thomas Carew, Esq

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Pastora's come with myrtle crowned

Page No:

pp.97-98

Poem Title:

The Shepherd's Wedding.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Outward shows be least themselves

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Shakespears play of the Merchant of Venice

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

To learn on what intent

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

A Letter to a new married Friend

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your wife doubtless will say

Page No:

pp.105-106

Poem Title:

Postscript

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tom Ramble a rake of true catholic hope

Page No:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

The Confession

Attribution:

By Mr. T---s R--l--t

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Celia who now are in your beauteous prime

Page No:

pp.107-108

Poem Title:

To Caelia, A Dissuasion from Marriage

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

May guardian angels sportive round you play

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

The Wish, address'd to the Ladies

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Trust not false man the experienced Prisca cries

Page No:

pp.110-112

Poem Title:

Prisca's Advice to Novinda

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When generous Prisca's early counsel came

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

Novinda's Answer to Prisca

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Earth's as a printing house in which enclosure

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

On a Printing-House

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies a knave in this cold grave

Page No:

p.117-118

Poem Title:

Mr. Whitfield's Epitaph

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How can a true lover enjoy

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

The Lovers Complaint. Tweed side. Written in the Midst of Despair.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Adam alone could not be easy

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

Epigram

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If I am doomed the marriage chain to wear

Page No:

p.121

Poem Title:

The Virgin's Prayer

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If you can sit on an old three legged chair

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

From a Country Parson to a Country Squire In Imitation of Hor. Lib. I. Epist. V.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In ancient times as story tells

Page No:

pp.127-132

Poem Title:

Baucis and Philemon: Imitated from Ovid.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy well known malice fretful envy cease

Page No:

p.141-143

Poem Title:

Ovid's Love-Elegies. Book I. Eleg. XV. Of the Imortality of the Muses. Inscrib'd to Mr. Dryden.

Attribution:

By Henry Cromwell, Esq.

Attributed To:

Henry Cromwell

First Line:

Help me ye muses to discover

Page No:

pp.143-144

Poem Title:

On the happy State of Matrimony.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How wretched is a woman's fate

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

Verses written by a young lady, on Women born to be controul'd!

Attribution:

written by a young lady,

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How happy is a woman's fate

Page No:

pp.145-146

Poem Title:

The Answer:

Attribution:

By a Gentleman

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh ye delightful ye transporting scenes

Page No:

pp.148-151

Poem Title:

On the Approach of Winter: A Soliloquy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Erminia by the centinels surprized

Page No:

pp.151-155

Poem Title:

The Story of Erminia, translated from Tasso's Jeausalem, [sic] Book VI. Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Lady Viscountess Weymouth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hourly we see some raw pen-feathered thing

Page No:

pp.156-157

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden's Trans. Persius.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Thy muses lamely paint the joy

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

An Answer to the Author of a Poem, On the Happy State of Matrimony.

Attribution:

Lothario

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When I sigh by my mistress and gaze on those eyes

Page No:

pp.166-167

Poem Title:

Love's Antidote

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Virtue and happiness are both the same

Page No:

pp.167-169

Poem Title:

Man exhorted to Virtue and a moderate and regular Use of Pleasure, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The rover scorns a husband's name

Page No:

pp.175-176

Poem Title:

A Reply to Lothario

Attribution:

Acasto

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In fruitful Lombardy of yore

Page No:

pp.176-189

Poem Title:

Woman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To that sweet village where no purling rill

Page No:

p.198

Poem Title:

Cloe

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A monkey once an odd request

Page No:

ppp.199-200

Poem Title:

The Monkey and Jupiter: A Fable in imitation of Phaedrus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But happy they the happiest of their kind

Page No:

pp.204-205

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Thompson's Spring.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Thrice blissful day thrice memorable man

Page No:

pp.206-207

Poem Title:

The Grocers and Barbers Apprentices Jubilee: Or, Sabbath Restored

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Is no way left my boisterous dame

Page No:

pp.216-219

Poem Title:

A Dialogue Between Sir Roger and Peg

Attribution:

Rusticus

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The marriage bed's a bed of thorns

Page No:

p.219

Poem Title:

Moral

Attribution:

Rusticus

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since all must certainly to death resign

Page No:

pp.224-225

Poem Title:

Against the Fear of Death

Attribution:

By the Honourable Sir Robert Howard

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

We love and hate as restless monarchs sigh

Page No:

pp.225-226

Poem Title:

Against Enjoyment

Attribution:

By Mr. Yalden

Attributed To:

Thomas Yalden

First Line:

There's no way left my blustering sir

Page No:

pp.236-237

Poem Title:

Peg's Reply To Sir Roger's Moral, &c.

Attribution:

Rusticus

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cheering Phoebus come away

Page No:

pp.237-238

Poem Title:

To the Spring: An Invocation. Written in the Person of Anacreon.

Attribution:

By J. L.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To every scene through humane life

Page No:

p.237

Poem Title:

Moral

Attribution:

Rusticus

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For many unsuccessful years

Page No:

p.239

Poem Title:

The Conquest

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When winter's rage and cruel storms

Page No:

pp.240-241

Poem Title:

The Grashopper, and the Ant. A Fable. In old English Verse.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In a fair island in the southern main

Page No:

pp.249-255

Poem Title:

The Statues: Or, The Trial of Constancy. A Tale for the Ladies.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When we are laid within the peaceful grave

Page No:

p.265[i.e. 263]

Poem Title:

Some humble but affecting Lines, lately insculp'd and exhibited to the Glory of Divine Providence.

Attribution:

T. & A.G.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who though at Stonegate torn from life's estate

Page No:

p.265[i.e. 263]

Poem Title:

In Memory of Mr. Thomas Gent. Citizen of London, and Author of the Histories of England, York, Rippon, Hull, &c.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Studious from differing tales to show

Page No:

pp.264-268

Poem Title:

The Experimental Moralist. A Fable.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Transcendent maid still philosophic live

Page No:

pp.271-272

Poem Title:

To Miss D......

Attribution:

By another hand...Dorinant

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What though from low extraction sprung

Page No:

p.271

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The husband's the pilot the wife is the ocean

Page No:

pp.279-280

Poem Title:

A Satire on Marriage

Attribution:

Tom Brown

Attributed To:

Thomas Brown

First Line:

A man of wisdom may disguise

Page No:

pp.281-284

Poem Title:

A true Tale of a Country Squire

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why pants my bosom for some joy unknown

Page No:

pp.288-291

Poem Title:

The Batchelor's Idea of Marriage. Inscrib'd to a young Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A star indeed unrivalled in renown

Page No:

p.301

Poem Title:

To R.T. and W.D. &c.

Attribution:

Philemon

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lulled in a pleasing sleep old Cornell lies

Page No:

pp.301-302

Poem Title:

The Miser's Dream

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A farmer once to London went

Page No:

p.302-305

Poem Title:

The Farmer's Blunder

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A finished form charms to allure the eye

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

The Character of Amanda of N. M.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In matters of a vulgar kind

Page No:

pp.305-306

Poem Title:

A Tale

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A pretty young lady in love with a beau

Page No:

pp.314-315

Poem Title:

The Officious Mistress

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say my Sametha say the wondrous charms

Page No:

pp.315-319

Poem Title:

To Sametha: An Epistle from the Country

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where Humber's streams divide the fruitful plain

Page No:

pp.322-328

Poem Title:

The Comic Gift. Imitated from Chaucer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Will K - h turned jester O fie fie that's dull

Page No:

p.322

Poem Title:

To the Burghers

Attribution:

Draw-Cansir

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If can be found another who inherits

Page No:

p.330

Poem Title:

Amanda's Character approved.

Attribution:

Batchelerus

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The tiger dreads the cuckoo's note as travellers relate

Page No:

p.331

Poem Title:

To Caliban

Attribution:

Misanthropos

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Transcendent sir still still poetic live

Page No:

p.331

Poem Title:

To Dorinant - On his Lines to Miss D -

Attribution:

Horatio

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Young Lysander wooed me long

Page No:

p.337

Poem Title:

The old Maid's Advice to her Sex

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sturdy swains

Page No:

p.340

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Philip's Cyder

Attributed To:

John Philips

First Line:

Exhilerate your languid minds within

Page No:

p.341

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Philip's Cyder

Attributed To:

John Philips

First Line:

Another there is every charm she inherits

Page No:

p.342-3

Poem Title:

To Batchelerus

Attribution:

Dorinant

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou who dost all my worldly thoughts employ

Page No:

p.342

Poem Title:

From Mrs M - h at Bath, to her Husband in London

Attribution:

From Mrs M - h at Bath,

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The picture pleased and Batchelerus sends

Page No:

p.343

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By another Hand...Loveless

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A bear who'd not age to make him seem wise

Page No:

pp.347-348

Poem Title:

The Bear's Progress

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What will you then requires a youthful friend

Page No:

pp.348-349

Poem Title:

The Wish

Attribution:

Phocyas

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I wonder what possessed the bards of old

Page No:

pp.350-352

Poem Title:

Mr Burnet's Poem on the much-lamented Death of Trudge his favourite and only Horse, who departed this Life in the 25th Year of his Age.

Attribution:

Mr Burnet

Attributed To:

Mr. Burnet

First Line:

Whoever thou art that seest my stone

Page No:

p.352

Poem Title:

Trudge's Epitaph

Attribution:

Mr Burnet

Attributed To:

Mr. Burnet

First Line:

Huntsman lead on behind the clustering pack

Page No:

pp.358-363

Poem Title:

Hare-Hunting...Extracted from an excellent Poem of his, lately published, called, The Chace.

Attribution:

By William Somerville, Esq

Attributed To:

William Somervile

First Line:

In northern sphere where disaffection

Page No:

pp.369-370

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of finest mould was formed fair S - w

Page No:

p.375

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

It's you my friend who must poetic live

Page No:

pp.376-377

Poem Title:

To Horatio

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O fie fie ye criticks your lasses at Hull

Page No:

p.376

Poem Title:

To the Kingstonians

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pshaw prithee now Dorinant why dost thou joke

Page No:

p.376

Poem Title:

To Dorinant

Attribution:

Batchelerus

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You say she's a star unrivalled in renown

Page No:

p.377

Poem Title:

To Philemon on Miss D -

Attribution:

AG.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When approached by the sweet dewy fingers of spring

Page No:

pp.378-380

Poem Title:

The Spring, a Rural Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My life on't a wag I'll never come there

Page No:

p.390

Poem Title:

To Batchelerus

Attribution:

Dorinant

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Old friend accept at once from me

Page No:

pp.390-391

Poem Title:

A Receipt for an Astma

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Quoth I to my friend with a heart full of glee

Page No:

pp.397-398

Poem Title:

To A. G.

Attribution:

Philemon alias Dorinant

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Returning morn composed my pensive lay

Page No:

pp.398-400

Poem Title:

On Inconstancy and Resolution

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Brethren by this my mind you'll know

Page No:

pp.400-402

Poem Title:

A Letter from a Bishop to his Clergy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy auspicious birth my pretty youth

Page No:

pp.413-414

Poem Title:

Upon the Birth of Lord Morpeth - Address'd to his Lorship.

Attribution:

Dorinant

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your sparkling eye my lovely miss

Page No:

pp.414-415

Poem Title:

To a Young Lady

Attribution:

Philemon

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear youth didst thou by sweet experience know

Page No:

pp.415-416

Poem Title:

The Happiness of Virtue.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where can the wretchedst of all creatures fly

Page No:

pp.416-427

Poem Title:

Cruelty and Lust. An Epistolary Essay.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Excuse me bright Lucinda if I dare

Page No:

pp.429-430

Poem Title:

Love above Friendship. In a Letter to a Young Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While thus my thoughts their softest sense express

Page No:

pp.431-432

Poem Title:

To Miss ****

Attribution:

Laura

Attributed To:

Not attributed