The Altar of Love [12 Theta 1321]

DMI number:

46

Publication Date:

1731

ESTC number:

N16438

Shelfmark:

BOD 12 Theta 1321

Full Title:

THE | [i]ALTAR[/i] of LOVE: | OR, THE | Whole ART of KISSING | In all its Varieties. | Consisting of | POEMS, | And other | MISCELLANIES. | [i]By the most eminent[/i] HANDS. | [rule] | Now first collected into a VOLUME. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | THE THIRD EDITION. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year M. DCC. XXXI. Price 6 [i]s.[/i]

Epigraph:

LOVE is the [i]Steel[/i] that strikes upon the [i]Flint[/i]; | Gives [i]Coldness[/i] Heat, exerts the [i]hidden Flame[/i], | And spreads the [i]Sparkles[/i] round to [i]warm[/i] the [i]World.[/i] | DRYDEN.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Made-up miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Price:

6 shillings

Pagination:

0

Bibliographic details:

Engravings.

Comments:

DIFFERENT CONTENT TO OTHER COPIES OF ALTAR OF LOVE. CONTENTS: 1. The Art of Kissing pp. 3-33 (no title page) 2. Popeana pp. 1-40. (no title page) 3. A Receipt for a Soup [4pp] (no title page) 4. The Rape of the Smock. An Heroi-Comical Poem...By Mr. Jacob. The Second Edition....Printed for H. Curll...1727. (With title page and prefatory address) (T71504) 5. An Epistle to Cobham (no title page) 6. The Works Of The Most Noble John Sheffield, Late Duke of Buckingham (separate title-page; dedication; contents page; 151 pp. poems; published 1721 by E. Curll). (T86932) 7. A Short character of King Charles (prose) 8. Oratian, Latin and English texts by Addision 9. Extracts from a book intituled Johannis Confratris .../ an Apology for Mr. Moyle. 10. A Catalogue of Books sold by Curll.

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Title:

The Altar of Love [ESTC N16438]

Publication Date:

1731

ESTC No:

N16438

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

The Altar of Love: [Harding C 105] [N16438]

Publication Date:

1731

ESTC No:

N16438

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

Edmund Curll

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Responsible for bundling together these disparate tracts.

Content/Publication

First Line:

Celia thou flower of all the virgin throng

Page No:

pp.3-6

Poem Title:

The Art of Kissing. From Bonefonius. The Request.

Attribution:

By Mr. Bond.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst my Chloe I recline

Page No:

pp.6-7

Poem Title:

The Pleasure and Pain of Kissing.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As on thy lips I wanton play

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

The Same

Attribution:

by another Hand.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go heart fly swiftly to my fair desire

Page No:

pp.8-9

Poem Title:

His Heart sent with a Message to his Mistress.

Attribution:

By Mr. Beckingham.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dearest heart to Delia go

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

The Same

Attribution:

by another Hand.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I roamed the woods and roaming found the fair

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

The Heart-Stealer

Attribution:

By Mr. Goode

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say partial needle tell me true

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

To the Needle that Pricked his Mistress's Finger.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As when my fair one sultry noon

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

He Complains that his Mistress is more terrible to Him, than Thunder and Lightening.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You Myro covet to possess

Page No:

pp.14-15

Poem Title:

To Francis Myro, Advocate of the Parliament of Paris. The Lover's Choice.

Attribution:

By Mr. Baker

Attributed To:

Henry Baker

First Line:

No daily rains disturb the skies

Page No:

pp.15-17

Poem Title:

The Torments of Love

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Behold these flowers with different colours spread

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

To his Mistress, comparing himself to the Red Rose and the White.

Attribution:

By Mr. Baker

Attributed To:

Henry Baker

First Line:

Hail blushing rose for ever rest

Page No:

pp.18-21

Poem Title:

On his Mistress's Breasts, wishing Himself the Rose between them.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me ye gentle gliding showers

Page No:

pp.22-23

Poem Title:

He Declares that his Mistress's Tears, are no Tears, but the Sparks, and Kindlings, of Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lo how I struggle in a doubtful fray

Page No:

pp.24-26

Poem Title:

He complains of the Treachery and Inconstancy of his Misrtess; yet adds, that he must still continue to love her, tho' she be married to another Man.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou little pretty little tender maid

Page No:

pp.26-29

Poem Title:

He desires his Pancharilla to Suck out his very Soul with Kisses.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. Philips

Attributed To:

John Philips

First Line:

Spite of advice my burning passions reign

Page No:

pp.29-32

Poem Title:

He Resolves to be constant to his Mistress. Inscribed to Matthew Bruer, Chancellor of Paris.

Attribution:

By Mr. Foxton

Attributed To:

Thomas Foxton

First Line:

Horses my friend and asses men may try

Page No:

p.1

Poem Title:

Advice before Marriage

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ambition first sprang from the blessed abodes

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

Ambition.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Art shall be theirs to varnish an offence

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

Artifice of Women

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For never was it given to mortal man

Page No:

pp.3-4

Poem Title:

[Collected under] Artifice of Women.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

[Collected under] Artifice of Women.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let all mankind this certain maxim hold

Page No:

pp.4-5

Poem Title:

[Collected under] Artifice of Women.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How quaint an appetite in women reigns

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

[Collected under] Artifice of Women.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore

Page No:

pp.5-6

Poem Title:

Batchelors.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Muse at that name thy sacred sorrows shed

Page No:

pp.6-7

Poem Title:

Lady Bridgwater her Character.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She went to plain work and to purling brooks

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

Country Conversation.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye vigorous swains while youth ferments your blood

Page No:

pp.9-13

Poem Title:

Country Recreations.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O Death all eloquent you only prove

Page No:

pp.13-14

Poem Title:

Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Envy will merit as its shade persue

Page No:

pp.14-15

Poem Title:

Envy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The grave unites where even the great find rest

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

[Collected under] Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He stopped with kisses my enchanting tongue

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

Enjoyment.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

Mrs Fermor's Character.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Zembla's huge rocks the beauteous work of frost

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

Frost

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The clear reflecting mind presents the sin

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

Guilt.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

Letters.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Love free as air at sight of human ties

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O night more pleasing than the brightest day

Page No:

pp.21-22

Poem Title:

A Lover's Dream.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come with thy looks thy words relieve my woe

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

The Lover's Request.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our grandsire Adam ever of Eve possessed

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

Marriage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The darksome pines that over yon rocks reclined

Page No:

pp.25-26

Poem Title:

The Seat of Melancholy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot

Page No:

pp.26-27

Poem Title:

The Nun.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of all the causes which conspire to blind

Page No:

pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Pride.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows

Page No:

pp.29-32

Poem Title:

The Cave of Spleen.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Phoebus yields to night

Page No:

pp.32-34

Poem Title:

Night Tempest.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No crafty widows shall approach my bed

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

On Widows.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Still the vile vulgar ever discontent

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

The Vulgar.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unhappy wit like most mistaken things

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

On Wit.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How much egregious Moore are we

Page No:

pp.37-40

Poem Title:

The Worms. A Satire.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Take a knuckle of veal

Page No:

[3pp.]

Poem Title:

A Receipt for a Soup. Address'd to Dean Swift.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Statesman yet friend to truth in soul sincere

Page No:

[1p.]

Poem Title:

Epitaph on the Monument of Secretary Craggs, in Westminster-Abbey

Attribution:

A. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

A virgin's smock I sing the direful cause

Page No:

pp.1-26

Poem Title:

The Rape of the Smock. An Heroi-Comical Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Giles Jacob

First Line:

A trifling song you shall hear

Page No:

pp.27-30

Poem Title:

A Song on a Trifle.

Attribution:

By the late Ingenious Mr. Fairquhar.

Attributed To:

George Farquhar

First Line:

How cruel is my destiny

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Love Undiscover'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since my weak voice in Congreve's praise preferred

Page No:

pp.3-36

Poem Title:

To Lord Viscount Cobham, In Memory of his Friend The late Mr. Congreve.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My Lord | Sheffield's illustrious muse attends your smile

Page No:

[3pp.]

Poem Title:

To his Grace the Duke of Argyll

Attribution:

John Henley

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In those cold climates where the sun appears

Page No:

pp.1-16

Poem Title:

The Temple of Death

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Of things in which mankind does most excel

Page No:

pp.17-38

Poem Title:

An Essay on Poetry

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Thou flatterer of all the fair

Page No:

pp.39-42

Poem Title:

The Picture. In Imitation of Anacreon's Bathillus

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

From wars and plagues come no such harms

Page No:

pp.43-45

Poem Title:

To a Coquet Beauty

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

From all uneasy passions free

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Such is the mode of these censorious days

Page No:

pp.47-50

Poem Title:

On Mr Hobbes.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Tis not for nothing when just heaven does frown

Page No:

pp.51-55

Poem Title:

Part of Virgil's Fourth Georgick

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Since from my dear Astraea's sight

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Safely perhaps dull crowds admire

Page No:

pp.57-59

Poem Title:

The Ecstatick Lover

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

What heart but yours could hold this double fire

Page No:

pp.60-63

Poem Title:

To a Person, who was designing to retire into a Monastery

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Dejected as true converts die

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

The Convert.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Sighing and languishing I lay

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

The Recovery.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Like children in a starry night

Page No:

pp.68-69

Poem Title:

The Relapse.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Since now my Silvia is as kind as fair

Page No:

pp.70-78

Poem Title:

The Happy Night.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

I yield I yield and can no longer stay

Page No:

pp.79-89

Poem Title:

The Rapture

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Good angels snatched him eagerly on high

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

An Ode on Mr. Henry Purcell's Death

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Oh how I languish what a strange

Page No:

pp.93-94

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Excellent Brutus of all human race

Page No:

pp.95-100

Poem Title:

Brutus

Attribution:

By Mr. Cowley

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Tis said that favourite mankind

Page No:

pp.101-111

Poem Title:

An Ode on Brutus.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Think not my fair tis sin or shame

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Thou lovely slave to a rude husband's will

Page No:

pp.114-116

Poem Title:

To the D-- of R--

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Bright and blooming as the spring

Page No:

pp.117-119

Poem Title:

A Dialogue, sung on the Stage, between an Elderly Shepherd, and a very Young Nymph

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Lovers who waste your thoughts and youth

Page No:

pp.120-122

Poem Title:

The Warning

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

In such a cause no muse should fail

Page No:

pp.123-124

Poem Title:

On Don Alonzo's being killed in Portugal upon account of the Infanta in the Year 1683.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Sure I of all men am the first

Page No:

pp.125-128

Poem Title:

On Apprehension of losing for ever what he had newly gained.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Some vex their souls with jealous pain

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

The Sad Surprize.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Here a poet you behold

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

To be put under his own Picture

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Mistaken zeal was the first Mary's share

Page No:

p.131

Poem Title:

Written under the Picture of, her late Majesty, Queen Anne

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Whither is Roman justice gone

Page No:

pp.132-134

Poem Title:

Four Chorus's to be sung between the Acts of a Tragedy. Written in the Year 1692.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Lo to prevent this mighty empire's doom

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

Second Chorus.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Tell oh tell me whence arise

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

After much Thunder and Lightning. Two Aerial Spirits. Third Chorus.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

What dismal curse has providence

Page No:

p.139-140

Poem Title:

Fourth Chorus.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Dark is the maze poor mortals tread

Page No:

p.141-143.

Poem Title:

Two of the Chorus's for a Tragedy never Acted, called, the Death of Marcus Brutus. Written in the Year 1708. Chorus after the First Act.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Our vows thus cheerfully we sing

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

Chorus Of Soldiers, after the Fourth Act

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Wretched mankind void both of strength and skill

Page No:

pp.147-148

Poem Title:

On the Deity

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

With age decayed with courts and business tired

Page No:

pp.149-151

Poem Title:

On Mr. Pope and his Poems. Written Anno 1617.

Attribution:

Collected under Sheffield's name.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield