The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
- DMI number:
- 401
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1724
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T61568
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW125694062
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding C 83
- Full Title:
- THE | [i]Agreeable[/i] VARIETY: | BEING A | Miscellaneous COLLECTION, | In PROSE and VERSE, | FROM | The WORKS of the most Celebrated | AUTHORS. | [rule] | In TWO PARTS. | [rule] | [i]VIZ.[/i] | PART I. Containing, I. Instructive Discourses, on | the most Useful Subjects, for the happy Conduct of | Human Life. | 2. CHARACTERS of the most [i]Illustrious Personages[/i] of | both Sexes, of our [i]own[/i], and [i]other[/i] Nations; particu-| larly the remarkable Manner of Life of the Excellent | PRINCESS of [i]Parma[/i]; written by herself, and found | among her Papers after her Decease, in the Year 1577. | 3. [i]Choice Poems[/i] and [i]Select Passages[/i], extracted from | [i]Shakespeare, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Roscommon, | Otway, Oldham, Prior,[/i] &c. | PART II. Containing Original POEMS, with sixty | Familiar Letters, upon Education, Love, Friendship, | [i]&c.[/i] By several Eminent Hands. | [i]None of which ever before printed.[/i] | The whole Collected and Published by a LADY. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | The SECOND EDITION. | [i]LONDON[/i]; Printed for A. BETTESWORTH, at the | [i]Red Lyon[/i] in [i]Pater-noster-Row.[/i] | M.DCC.XXIV.
- Epigraph:
- [i]The Pen has almost supplanted the Needle, and Ladies Closets, for-| merly the Shops of Female Baubles, are now turned into Libraries | of Learned Books.[/i] Turkish Spy.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of coterie verse, Collection of extracts/snippets, and Collection including prose
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- [16], 1-338 pp.
- Bibliographic details:
- Reissue of T61602 with new title page and dedication.
- Comments:
- Contents: Miscellany contains several sections (1) Prose extracts pp. 1-117 (2) Verse snippets pp. 118-198 (3) prose epistles pp. 199-286 (4) 'Poems Never before printed' pp. 287-338.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Dedication to 'Mrs Pulteney' signed 'J. M.' pp. iii-iv; Contents [9pp]; Advertisement and errata [1pp].
- References:
- Case 293 (b)
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
- Publication Date:
- 1717
- ESTC No:
- T61602
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Title:
- The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]
- Publication Date:
- 1742
- ESTC No:
- T61569
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Dedicatee:
- Mrs. Pulteney
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dedication to 'Mrs Pulteney'.
- Publisher:
- Arthur Bettesworth
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for A. BETTESWORTH, at the Red Lyon in Pater-noster-Row.'
- First Line:
- Come Anthony and young Octavius come
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Shakespear
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- It is a common proof that lowliness
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Shakespear
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- The friends thou hast and their adoption tried
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Shakespear
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- There is a tide in the affairs of men
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Shakespear
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Blame no employment but blame idleness
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- In speaking truth and exercising love
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Shakespear
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- When love begins to slacken and decay
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Shakespear
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- But what is strength without a double share
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- With thee conversing I forget all time
- Page No:
- pp.119-120
- Poem Title:
- Adam to Eve.
- Attribution:
- From Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- How should the ignorant be judge of wit
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Let all your precepts be succinct and clear
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- To verse we owe our sacred oracles
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- True friends appear less moved than counterfeit
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- What you keep by you you may change and mend
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- You must not think that a satiric style
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- He that intends to gain a glorious prize
- Page No:
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- No artist can pretend to utmost skill
- Page No:
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Some love the dark some choose the clearest light
- Page No:
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Sound judgment is the ground of writing well
- Page No:
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- They seem to be incorrigibly mad
- Page No:
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Let not thy avarice tempt thee to withdraw
- Page No:
- pp.121-122
- Poem Title:
- On with-holding of Tythes.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Phillips.
- Attributed To:
- John Philips
- First Line:
- Ye honest men beware nor trust its smoothness
- Page No:
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- On the Strength of Cyder.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Phillips
- Attributed To:
- John Philips
- First Line:
- And is there found a wretch so base of mind
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- On Woman.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Phillips
- Attributed To:
- John Philips
- First Line:
- Can we forget how the tumultuous gang
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of King Charles the First.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Phillips
- Attributed To:
- John Philips
- First Line:
- Let me be grateful but let far from me
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- On Dissimulation.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Phillips
- Attributed To:
- John Philips
- First Line:
- All must be rapine wars and desolation
- Page No:
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Men counsel and give comfort to that grief
- Page No:
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Beaumont
- Attributed To:
- Francis Beaumont
- First Line:
- Tis meet that noble minds keep ever with their like
- Page No:
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Settle
- Attributed To:
- Elkanah Settle
- First Line:
- Oh charming fair the fatal killing cause of your misfortune
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- The Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me most learned and polite assembly
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- A Question taken out of the British Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The day of wrath that dreadful day
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- On the Day of Judgment, taken from a Miscellany.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Friendship thou plant of tedious growth
- Page No:
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- An Ode on Friendship, from the British Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The soul tis true condemned a while by fate
- Page No:
- pp.129-130
- Poem Title:
- From a Miscellany.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I whose last scene of life has long declined
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- Part of an Epistle to Udoxus, concerning the Follies of Youth, from a Miscellany
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The great good man whom fortune does displace
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- The Great Good Man
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dazzled with the height of place
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- Poem Title:
- A Poem
- Attribution:
- By Sir Francis Bacon
- Attributed To:
- Sir Francis Bacon
- First Line:
- Never break thy rest with the designs of fate
- Page No:
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- From Monsieur St. Evremont
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Had I a fortune equal to my mind
- Page No:
- p.134
- Poem Title:
- On Bounty
- Attribution:
- from the Lady Chudleigh's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]
- First Line:
- O Jonathan the noblest of thy kind
- Page No:
- pp.135-137
- Poem Title:
- David's Lamentation for Jonathan
- Attribution:
- from the Lady Chudleigh
- Attributed To:
- Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]
- First Line:
- Sincerity's my chief delight
- Page No:
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- On Sincerity
- Attribution:
- From the Lady Chudleigh
- Attributed To:
- Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]
- First Line:
- What friendship is Ardelia show
- Page No:
- pp.137-138
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue between Ephelia and Ardelia
- Attribution:
- From Lady Winchelsea's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Adieu ye oft trod paths of Marlborough's plains
- Page No:
- pp.138-141
- Poem Title:
- Cloe to Aminta, from the British Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A generous sense of your indulgent care
- Page No:
- p.141
- Poem Title:
- A Question from a Lady to the British Apollo.
- Attribution:
- From a Lady
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why should your charming numbers condescend
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- The Answer
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your wise decision does the lustre show
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- Another Question to the British Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Grant me kind fate my liberty and health
- Page No:
- pp.143-144
- Poem Title:
- A Wish, taken from the British Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Pursuits like these can never be errors deemed
- Page No:
- p.143
- Poem Title:
- The Answer
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Too curious man why dost thou seek to know
- Page No:
- p.144
- Poem Title:
- Address'd to the too Curious Man.
- Attribution:
- From Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- While fame is young too weak to fly away
- Page No:
- pp.145-146
- Poem Title:
- On Fame
- Attribution:
- from the Marquess of Normanby
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- First Line:
- Physic can only mend our crazy state
- Page No:
- p.145
- Poem Title:
- On Physick.
- Attribution:
- from Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Whovever yet attained to many years
- Page No:
- p.146
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Praise is devotion fit for mighty minds
- Page No:
- p.146
- Poem Title:
- On Praise
- Attribution:
- From Sir William D'avenant
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- The common ingredients of health and long life are
- Page No:
- p.147
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir William Temple, from Sir Philip Sidney
- Attributed To:
- Sir Philip SidneySir William Temple
- First Line:
- Who for each fickle fear from virtue shrinks
- Page No:
- p.147
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir William Temple, from Sir Philip Sidney
- Attributed To:
- Sir Philip SidneySir William Temple
- First Line:
- Cloth of gold do not despise
- Page No:
- p.147
- Poem Title:
- From Charles Brandon's Motto, At a Turnament upon his Marriage with the Queen, the Trappings of his Horse being half Cloth of Gold, and the other half Frize.
- Attribution:
- Sir William Temple
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Temple
- First Line:
- What in this life that soon must end
- Page No:
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- On Baneful Care.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Otway
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Custom does often reason overrule
- Page No:
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Rochester
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Kindness has resistless charms
- Page No:
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Rochester
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Wit like tierce claret when it begins to pall
- Page No:
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Rochester
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- There is a lust in man no charm can tame
- Page No:
- p.149
- Poem Title:
- On Publishing the Faults of others.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Harvey
- Attributed To:
- Stephen Harvey
- First Line:
- Delights those beautiful illusions play
- Page No:
- p.149
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Sir Richard Blackmore
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Sour discontent that quarrels with our fate
- Page No:
- p.149
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Sir Richard Blackmore
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- Hail blooming goddess thou propitious power
- Page No:
- pp.150-151
- Poem Title:
- On Health.
- Attribution:
- From Dr. Garth
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Happy the man that has each fortune tried
- Page No:
- p.150
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Author of A Tale of a Tub
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Let your discretion moderate your cost
- Page No:
- p.150
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Author of A Tale of a Tub
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Love is not always of a vicious kind
- Page No:
- p.151
- Poem Title:
- On Love.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Care that in cloisters only seals her eyes
- Page No:
- p.152
- Poem Title:
- On Care.
- Attribution:
- From Sir William D'avenant
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- First Line:
- No crime so bold but would be understood
- Page No:
- p.152
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Sir John Denham
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- O could I flow like thee and make thy stream
- Page No:
- p.152
- Poem Title:
- On the Thames.
- Attribution:
- From Sir John Denham
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
- First Line:
- There's none from their own sense of shame can fly
- Page No:
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- On Sense of Shame.
- Attribution:
- From Sir Robert Howard
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- The sap which at the root is bred
- Page No:
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- from Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- The taste of hot Arabian spice we know
- Page No:
- pp.153-154
- Poem Title:
- On England.
- Attribution:
- from Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Both faith and hope and all the meaner train
- Page No:
- p.154
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- In boundless verse the fancy soars too high
- Page No:
- p.154
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Should some brave turk that walks among
- Page No:
- p.154
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Misled by hope when pleasure first appears
- Page No:
- pp.155-156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- For joys divine we must with patience wait
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Happy when friends can more than lovers burn
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Thrice happy pair of whom we cannot know
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Time has commission mortals to impair
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Tis not she whom first we love
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Wine fills the veins and healths are understood
- Page No:
- p.155
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Just notions will into good actions grow
- Page No:
- p.156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold's Poems (p. 156) From Mr. Dryden (p. 177)
- Attributed To:
- John DrydenRobert Gould
- First Line:
- Attendance Cowley thinks a barbarous fate
- Page No:
- p.156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- I censure no man that he much does give
- Page No:
- p.156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- Just as the lark does from the hobby flee
- Page No:
- p.156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- Why should the implanted energy of mind
- Page No:
- pp.156-157
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- Though all afflictions that ill fate can send
- Page No:
- p.157
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold's Poems (p. 157) From Mr Settle (p. 181)
- Attributed To:
- Robert GouldElkanah Settle
- First Line:
- How fair and sweet the planted rose
- Page No:
- p.157
- Poem Title:
- From Hudibras.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Philander since you'll have it so
- Page No:
- pp.158-159
- Poem Title:
- Astrea to Philander, on her own Impertinence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Honour should our business be
- Page No:
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- On Honour and Love.
- Attribution:
- From Mrs Behn's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- O my Lucasia let us speak our love
- Page No:
- pp.159-160
- Poem Title:
- In Defence of declar'd Friendship
- Attribution:
- Part of a Poem from Mrs Phillips
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- O if good heaven would be so much my friend
- Page No:
- p.159
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Oldham's Poems
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- If we no old historians name
- Page No:
- pp.160-162
- Poem Title:
- The Enquiry.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Phillips.
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Tis courtly florid and abounds in words
- Page No:
- p.162
- Poem Title:
- On the French Language.
- Attribution:
- From Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Examine how your humour is inclined
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis not enough to have a subject good
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- To Translators.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Good humour only teaches charms to last
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- All fools have still an itching to deride
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Expression is the dress of thought and still
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- In words as fashions the same rule will hold
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The vulgar oft by imitation err
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- There are whom heaven has blessed with store of wit
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tis with our judgments as our watches none
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Trust not yourself but your defects to know
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- We think our fathers fools so wise we grow
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- A vile conceit in pompous words expressed
- Page No:
- p.165
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Men must be taught as if you taught them not
- Page No:
- p.165
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Music resembles poetry in each
- Page No:
- p.165
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Sipping at learning's brink intoxicates the brain
- Page No:
- p.165
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tis best sometimes your censure to restrain
- Page No:
- p.165
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tis not enough wit art and learning join
- Page No:
- p.165
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Without good breeding truth is not approved
- Page No:
- p.165
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope's Poems
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- All Europe can't show such performance of parts
- Page No:
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- On His Majesty's Company of Comedians, from the British Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fools back their feeble want of sense
- Page No:
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Wit with softness does reside
- Page No:
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Those men indeed their loss of wives may brook
- Page No:
- pp.166-167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- Behold that noble golden mean
- Page No:
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love that comes with eager haste
- Page No:
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- From Don Quixote.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since love has kindled in our eye
- Page No:
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- From the Athenian Mercury.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All florid language and a run of words
- Page No:
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- How readily do all our natures bend
- Page No:
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- God's fear to guard us from our selves we need
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Dr. Garth
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- In all your lines let energy be found
- Page No:
- pp.168-169
- Poem Title:
- His Advice to Poets.
- Attribution:
- From Dr. Garth
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Tis hard ever to convince a fool he's so
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Dr. Garth
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Reproaches often useful prove
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lady Chudleigh
- Attributed To:
- Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]
- First Line:
- The sullen lover long unkind
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mrs. Behn
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- Give over for it is in vain
- Page No:
- p.169
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- If the indulgent law allows
- Page No:
- p.169
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Fond love his darts at random throws
- Page No:
- p.169
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- The muses friend tea does our fancy aid
- Page No:
- p.169
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Can you to noble blood just title claim
- Page No:
- p.170
- Poem Title:
- From the British Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some risk must be run whatever is done
- Page No:
- p.170
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poets that lasting marble seek
- Page No:
- p.170
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- So like the chances are of love and war
- Page No:
- p.170
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- To a sharp eye that can with judgment look
- Page No:
- p.170
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Knowledge has bounds that stint th'unwilling soul
- Page No:
- p.171
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mrs Phillips
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Let fond affection no pretenses make
- Page No:
- p.171
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mrs Phillips
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- That man whose troubles from fate's causes flow
- Page No:
- p.171
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mrs Philips
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- While we are free from violence
- Page No:
- p.171
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mrs Philips
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Whose blood does in an equal temper flow
- Page No:
- p.171
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mrs Phillips
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Success the mark no mortal wit
- Page No:
- p.172
- Poem Title:
- On Providence.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Blinded with spite how vain a thing is man
- Page No:
- p.172
- Poem Title:
- On a litigious Man.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- The pleasure that we seek would give content
- Page No:
- p.172
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mrs Phillips
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Let modest silence be your greatest care
- Page No:
- p.173
- Poem Title:
- From Epictetus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh why Macenas should you thus unkind
- Page No:
- p.173
- Poem Title:
- From Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Envy not those who in preferment shine
- Page No:
- p.174
- Poem Title:
- From Catullus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Gold's worth we by the touchstone find
- Page No:
- p.174
- Poem Title:
- From Catullus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Millions of busy thoughts inform my breast
- Page No:
- pp.174-175
- Poem Title:
- From Catullus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My heart enraged by jealous heats
- Page No:
- p.174
- Poem Title:
- From Plutarch.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Soft friendly words revive the afflicted soul
- Page No:
- p.174
- Poem Title:
- From Homer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cease Thirsis cease by an ill timed relief
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- From Mons. St. Evremont.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Rash force by its own weight must fail
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- From Charon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With courage firm and soul sedate
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fade flowers fade nature will have it so
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Waller
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- With how much ease is innocence betrayed
- Page No:
- p.176
- Poem Title:
- Alluding to a Virgin.
- Attribution:
- From a Person of Quality
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I come although at midnight to dispel
- Page No:
- p.176
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Dr. Garth
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Tis false that mourners should in silence weep
- Page No:
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- To have power to forgive
- Page No:
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Ill customs by degrees to habits rise
- Page No:
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Well sounding verses are the charms we use
- Page No:
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Sweet poetry in moving lays
- Page No:
- p.178
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Shakespear
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- How many deathless monuments of wit
- Page No:
- p.178
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- If you delight to hear the actions told
- Page No:
- p.178
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- Innure yourself to early thought and strive
- Page No:
- p.178
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- For souls oppressed and drowned with grief
- Page No:
- p.178
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- A long remove from prudence wit and arts
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- Friends act with cautious temper when sincere
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- Ill bodes that hapless family that shows
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- Money is still an antidote to woe
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- Oft wisdom is to sloth too great a slave
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- Our lord will his excuse ill understand
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- The heart in public views we darkly find
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- First Line:
- A real grief with silent steps proceeds
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Author of A Tale of a Tub
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- None of my actions can fit judges be
- Page No:
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Settle
- Attributed To:
- Elkanah Settle
- First Line:
- Forgiveness to the injured does belong
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Author of a Tale of a Tub
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A genius formed to hold a kingdom's reins
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- The greatest virtue oftenest lies
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- With shame we see our passions can prevail
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Wherever too much sanctity you see
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Author of A Tale of a Tub
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Secrets of marriage still are sacred held
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Tis true that hearts for hearts were made
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When two dispute if the one's anger rise
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Affected noise is the most wretched thing
- Page No:
- p.181
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- When we improve what has been writ before
- Page No:
- p.181
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- A fool is known by looking wise
- Page No:
- p.181
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Settle
- Attributed To:
- Elkanah Settle
- First Line:
- Alas what pains and doubts distract the soul
- Page No:
- p.181
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Settle
- Attributed To:
- Elkanah Settle
- First Line:
- By the loud trumpet which our courage aids
- Page No:
- p.181
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Settle
- Attributed To:
- Elkanah Settle
- First Line:
- Judicious we may be but when respect
- Page No:
- p.181
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Settle
- Attributed To:
- Elkanah Settle
- First Line:
- Something that's bitter will arise
- Page No:
- p.181
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Settle
- Attributed To:
- Elkanah Settle
- First Line:
- Pride of all others the most dangerous fault
- Page No:
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- The men who labour and digest things most
- Page No:
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- Divided empire all wise men avoid
- Page No:
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Sir Robert Howard
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- Oh dangerous friendship kindness to be feared
- Page No:
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Sir Robert Howard
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- Too weak's the power of nature or of art
- Page No:
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Sir Robert Howard
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- Unhappy state of such as wear a crown
- Page No:
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Sir Robert Howard
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- First Line:
- A judge in equal scales cross arguments should lay
- Page No:
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mrs Phillips
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Passions should be excused that only move
- Page No:
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mrs Phillips
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- None ever will be with admiration read
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Lord Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- First Line:
- A large conscience is all one
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Butler
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- True wit like beauty triumphs over the heart
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Our life can never be securely blessed
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- When bent to sin our biassed nature leans
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Letters are serious thoughts digested and resolved
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mrs Behn
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- The heart that's to the altar brought
- Page No:
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mrs Behn
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- Age does alas disclose though never so wise
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If our departed friends survey our tears
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let above all religion be your care
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all the virtues justice is the best
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Our passion gone and reason on her throne
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Power does sometimes a stubborn people bend
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who gives himself away the second time
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An unaffected freedom graced his soul
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- The Character of Prince George of Denmark, taken from the British Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In Charles' time and by Roscommon's pen
- Page No:
- p.186
- Poem Title:
- On Lord Roscommon.
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The pride and advocate of Britain's isle
- Page No:
- p.186
- Poem Title:
- On Bishop Sprat.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Her well taught mind which makes her good and great
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. --------
- Attribution:
- Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Duty and not ambition is her aim
- Page No:
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. --------
- Attribution:
- Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- No dark ambitious thoughts do cloud her brow
- Page No:
- pp.188-189
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. --------
- Attribution:
- Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Freedom from vice is in her nature's part
- Page No:
- pp.189-190
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. --------
- Attribution:
- Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons.
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- She is so prudent and yet so sincere
- Page No:
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. --------
- Attribution:
- Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- The rays did in her countenance appear
- Page No:
- pp.190-191
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs: -------
- Attribution:
- Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons.
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- A man so sedulous sincere and kind
- Page No:
- p.191
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. ------
- Attribution:
- Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Of him I cannot which is hardest tell
- Page No:
- pp.192-193
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. --------
- Attribution:
- taken from Mr. Cowley, Mrs. Phillips, and Mr. Smith
- Attributed To:
- Abraham CowleyKatherine Philips
- First Line:
- If mighty wealth that gives the rules
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I smile at love and all its arts
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The head of man just like a hive is made
- Page No:
- pp.194-195
- Poem Title:
- The Head of Man compar'd to a Hive of Bees
- Attribution:
- From the Dutchess of Newcastle
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- First Line:
- No mind can think nor understanding know
- Page No:
- p.195
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Dutchess of Newcastle
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- First Line:
- There's none should places have in fame's high court
- Page No:
- p.195
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Dutchess of Newcastle
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- First Line:
- Thoughts as a pen do write upon the brain
- Page No:
- p.195
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- from the Dutchess of Newcastle
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- First Line:
- First in their ranks the immortal gods adore
- Page No:
- pp.196-198
- Poem Title:
- The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, containing the Sum of the whole Pythagorean Doctrine
- Attribution:
- taken from Mr. Stanly
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Stanley
- First Line:
- When out of vast confusion heaven's all powerful hand
- Page No:
- pp.287-291
- Poem Title:
- A Poem from a Gentleman to the Honourable Supremia, on her Knowledge in the Oriental Languages.
- Attribution:
- from a Gentleman
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If risen with Christ contemplate things above
- Page No:
- pp.291-292
- Poem Title:
- Rules for our Thoughts, Words and Actions.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Honourable Generosia
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some think by moral rules they can us teach
- Page No:
- pp.292-293
- Poem Title:
- Advice.
- Attribution:
- By Antoninus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As a poor bird just 'scaped the fowler's gin
- Page No:
- pp.293-294
- Poem Title:
- To a Gentleman imprison'd on a Publick Account
- Attribution:
- By a young Lady
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Begin my muse in mournful sounds proclaim
- Page No:
- pp.294-296
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of the Right Honourable the Lord H---, who dy'd about the Year 1650.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Carolo in 1716. from a Latin Copy composed by Antoninus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If once you let that gordian knot be tied
- Page No:
- pp.296-297
- Poem Title:
- Ardelia to Cordelia, advising her not to marry.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If coarse terrestrial pleasures court the sense
- Page No:
- pp.297-299
- Poem Title:
- On Heaven
- Attribution:
- suppos'd to be written by a Nobleman
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If all be true that I am told
- Page No:
- p.300
- Poem Title:
- Four Lines on Philosophy.
- Attribution:
- By Thirsis
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No papist non-juror dissenter or whig
- Page No:
- p.300
- Poem Title:
- A fit Governour for a Child.
- Attribution:
- By Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Notion or fancy never yet could frame
- Page No:
- p.301
- Poem Title:
- On Friendship
- Attribution:
- Gloriana
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Can fair Frugalia ask Apollo's aid
- Page No:
- p.302
- Poem Title:
- Apollo to Frugalia, in Answer to Advice ask'd of him.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since Adam all are gone astray
- Page No:
- pp.302-305
- Poem Title:
- A Poem
- Attribution:
- By Antoninus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh bright Cynthea in whose gentle breast
- Page No:
- p.305
- Poem Title:
- On a Friend.
- Attribution:
- Cleopatra
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While some drink to one party
- Page No:
- pp.306-307
- Poem Title:
- A Health
- Attribution:
- By Thirsis
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Affection bids me now to weep
- Page No:
- pp.307-308
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of Ucledia.
- Attribution:
- By Antoninus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since dear Urania's fled
- Page No:
- pp.308-309
- Poem Title:
- To Urania in the Country. To the Tune of Dear Love regard my Grief.
- Attribution:
- Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Job unto none in all the east gave place
- Page No:
- p.309
- Poem Title:
- On Job
- Attribution:
- By Armedia
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Serve the lord with perfect heart
- Page No:
- pp.310-311
- Poem Title:
- A New-Years Gift from a Gentleman to his Children, written about the Year 1600.
- Attribution:
- from a Gentleman
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Frugalia's charms are far above
- Page No:
- pp.311-312
- Poem Title:
- On Frugalia.
- Attribution:
- Gloriana
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Honoured with Venturana's converse
- Page No:
- p.312
- Poem Title:
- To the Right Honourable Venturana, on Rosania's Sore Throat.
- Attribution:
- Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If friends deceased can mind us still
- Page No:
- pp.312-313
- Poem Title:
- On Friends deceased.
- Attribution:
- By Antoninus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Good Mr Ware
- Page No:
- pp.313-314
- Poem Title:
- Thirsis at Hampstead, to a Youth at Ghent.
- Attribution:
- Thirsis
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At length my dear cracker I hope you have spent
- Page No:
- pp.314-315
- Poem Title:
- To Unanima, her Sister, having made her Angry with opening a Letter of hers, which lay unsealed.
- Attribution:
- Civilia
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I have the key I've read the book
- Page No:
- p.314
- Poem Title:
- Dr. B. to Frugalia, who sent him a Book without a Key.
- Attribution:
- Dr. B.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Supposing your college
- Page No:
- pp.315-317
- Poem Title:
- To her Brother at Cambridge.
- Attribution:
- Unanima
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Near the wild deep where restless atoms fight
- Page No:
- pp.318-319
- Poem Title:
- On Hell.
- Attribution:
- suppos'd to be written by a Nobleman
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Have you not heard how great Alcides toiled
- Page No:
- pp.319-320
- Poem Title:
- A Lampoon...A Vintner's Daughter and an Upholsterer's Daughter, being Friends, and at the Bath together, a Nobleman approving their Friendship, writ a Poem on them; but a young Spark made a Lampoon on the Nobleman. The Lampoon.
- Attribution:
- By a young Spark
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Most haughty sir I do believe
- Page No:
- p.320
- Poem Title:
- On sight of the Lampoon.
- Attribution:
- Gloriana
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I much do rejoice in your married state
- Page No:
- p.321
- Poem Title:
- On his Daughter's Marriage with Philaster.
- Attribution:
- Antoninus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To my well-wishing friend
- Page No:
- p.321
- Poem Title:
- Thirsis to Gloriana, on her wishing him an Admiral.
- Attribution:
- Thirsis
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Surprized delighted and amazed
- Page No:
- pp.322-323
- Poem Title:
- To Urania, on Reception of her Paper of Rhimes.
- Attribution:
- Gloriana
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though various scenes appear to view
- Page No:
- p.322
- Poem Title:
- To Gloriana, on some small Disagreement.
- Attribution:
- Urania
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I still the same unalterably contend
- Page No:
- p.323
- Poem Title:
- On Reservedness in Friendship.
- Attribution:
- Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My dear Venturana give ear to my rhyme
- Page No:
- p.324
- Poem Title:
- To the Right Honourable Venturana, on unneccessary Expence of Time.
- Attribution:
- Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Remember your creator in the days of your youth
- Page No:
- p.324
- Poem Title:
- Two Lines from Victoria to Thirsis.
- Attribution:
- from Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In Solon's time a question did arise
- Page No:
- p.325
- Poem Title:
- On Philaster and Victoria.
- Attribution:
- By Antoninus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One restless hour when sleep was fled
- Page No:
- p.325
- Poem Title:
- To Gloriana from the Country, design'd to be sent with a Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Eliza
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There was a time when once your look
- Page No:
- p.326
- Poem Title:
- A Song made by Cleopatra, for Realia to send to her unconstant Lover. To the Tune of, Forgive me if your Looks, &c.
- Attribution:
- made by Cleopatra
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Can you conceive my willing friendship such
- Page No:
- p.327
- Poem Title:
- To Gloriana, on a Mistake.
- Attribution:
- Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since Ireland does so charming prove
- Page No:
- pp.327-329
- Poem Title:
- To her Brother in Ireland.
- Attribution:
- Unanima
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of every one whose virtue makes 'em rare
- Page No:
- p.329
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By Antoninus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A hopeful youth to honest maxims true
- Page No:
- p.330
- Poem Title:
- To Dr. R-----
- Attribution:
- Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Only of one old world the ancients knew
- Page No:
- p.330
- Poem Title:
- On three ingenious Sisters
- Attribution:
- By Antoninus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wherever you are I shall be there
- Page No:
- p.331
- Poem Title:
- To Victoria, supposing her to be going to live at a great Distance from her.
- Attribution:
- Gloriana
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Agreed at last the blissful day appears
- Page No:
- p.332
- Poem Title:
- On Gloriana's Residence with her.
- Attribution:
- Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When nine years of my days were spent
- Page No:
- pp.332-335
- Poem Title:
- A Journey from Carlton to Oxford.
- Attribution:
- By Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For company and good agreement's sake
- Page No:
- p.335
- Poem Title:
- To Cleopatra.
- Attribution:
- Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With desperate pain and secret woe
- Page No:
- pp.336-337
- Poem Title:
- From the Country. Victoria to Tempelia.
- Attribution:
- Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let not Urania think she has mistook
- Page No:
- p.338
- Poem Title:
- To Urania.
- Attribution:
- Victoria
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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