A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 1] [T101653] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 984
- Publication Date:
- 1765
- ESTC number:
- T101653
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW3313419224
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | IN SIX VOLUMES. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [Ornament] | LONDON: Printed by J. HUGHS, | For J. DODSLEY, in PALL-MALL. | [Short rule] | M DCC LXV.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Octavo
- Other matter:
- Advertisement: pp.5-6 Index: pp.382-383
- Printer:
- J. Hughs
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- James Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Contending kings and fields of death too long
- Page No:
- pp.7-29
- Poem Title:
- On the Prospect of Peace, A Poem. To the Lord Privy-Seal.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Tickell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- If dumb too long the drooping muse hath stayed
- Page No:
- pp.29-34
- Poem Title:
- To the Right Honourable the Earl of Warwick, &c. On the Death of Mr. Addison.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Of Leinster famed for maidens fair
- Page No:
- pp.34-38
- Poem Title:
- Colin and Lucy.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- As Mar his round one morning took
- Page No:
- pp.38-42
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of the Prophecy of Nereus. From Horace, Book III. Ode XXV.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- To Whitton's shades and Hounslow's airy plain
- Page No:
- pp.42-44
- Poem Title:
- To Sir Godfrey Kneller, At his Country Seat.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Of Marlborough's captains and Eugenio's friends
- Page No:
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Thou dome where Edward first enrolled
- Page No:
- pp.47-50
- Poem Title:
- An Ode Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sunderland at Windsor.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Where Kensington high over the neighbouring lands
- Page No:
- pp.51-73
- Poem Title:
- Kensington Garden.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- To thee dear rover and thy vanquished friends
- Page No:
- pp.74-82
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from a Lady in England to a Gentleman at Avignon.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Tickell]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- What can the British senate give
- Page No:
- pp.83-97
- Poem Title:
- The Female Reign; an Ode.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- Roxana from the court retiring late
- Page No:
- pp.97-100
- Poem Title:
- Six Town Eclogues [...] Monday. Roxana, or, The Drawing-Room.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L. M. W. M.
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Thou who so many favours hast received
- Page No:
- pp.100-105
- Poem Title:
- Tuesday. St. James's Coffee-House. Silliander and Patch.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L. M. W. M. [p.97]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- No fair Dancinda no you strive in vain
- Page No:
- pp.105-109
- Poem Title:
- Wednesday. The Tete a Tete. Dancinda.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L. M. W. M. [p.97]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- The basset table spread the tallier come
- Page No:
- pp.109-115
- Poem Title:
- Thursday. The Bassette-Table. Smilinda and Cardelia.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L. M. W. M. [p.97]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Now twenty springs had clothed the park with green
- Page No:
- pp.115-118
- Poem Title:
- Friday. The Toilette. Lydia.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L.M.W.M. [p.97]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- The wretched Flavia on her couch reclined
- Page No:
- pp.119-123
- Poem Title:
- Saturday. The Small-Pox. Flavia.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Hon. L.M.W.M. [p.97]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- At length by so much importunity pressed
- Page No:
- pp.123-125
- Poem Title:
- The Lover: A Ballad. To Mr. C---.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Whilst thirst of praise and vain desire of fame
- Page No:
- p.126
- Poem Title:
- The Lady's Resolve. Written extempore on a Window.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Whilst pretty fellows think a woman's fame
- Page No:
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- The Gentleman's Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How happy you who varied joys pursue
- Page No:
- pp.127-131
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Lord B----.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- What could luxurious woman wish for more
- Page No:
- pp.131-133
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Mary, Queen of Scots. Designed to be spoken by Mrs. Oldfield.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Why will Delia thus retire
- Page No:
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to cure the Vapours. Written to Lady J---n.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. the Right Hon. L.M.W.M.]
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- This motley piece to you I send
- Page No:
- pp.135-170
- Poem Title:
- The Spleen. An Epistle to Mr. C--- J---.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Matthew Green of the Custom-house.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- Gil's history appears to me
- Page No:
- pp.170-171
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram. On the Reverend Mr. Laurence Echard's, and Bishop Gilbert Burnet's Histories.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Matthew Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- I lately saw what now I sing
- Page No:
- pp.171-174
- Poem Title:
- The Sparrow and Diamond. A Song.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Matthew Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- Jove for amusement quitted oft his skies
- Page No:
- pp.174-176
- Poem Title:
- Jove and Semele.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Matthew Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- When I first came to London I rambled about
- Page No:
- pp.176-177
- Poem Title:
- The Seeker.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Matthew Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- These sheets primeval doctrines yield
- Page No:
- pp.178-182
- Poem Title:
- On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Matthew Green]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- Now had the archangel trumpet raised sublime
- Page No:
- pp.183-199
- Poem Title:
- Pre-Existence: A Poem, In Imitation of Milton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Old Chiron to his pupil thus began
- Page No:
- pp.200-209
- Poem Title:
- Chiron to Achilles. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Hildebrand Jacob, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Hildebrand Jacob
- First Line:
- What am I how produced and for what end
- Page No:
- pp.209-215
- Poem Title:
- [Greek] Know Your Self.
- Attribution:
- By the late Dr. Arbuthnot.
- Attributed To:
- John Arbuthnot
- First Line:
- Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel
- Page No:
- pp.216-230
- Poem Title:
- London: A Poem. In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Samuel Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- First Line:
- When learning's triumph over her barbarous foes
- Page No:
- pp.231-234
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick, At the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-lane 1747.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Samuel Johnson]
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- First Line:
- Yes you condemn those sages too refined
- Page No:
- pp.234-246
- Poem Title:
- Of Active and Retired Life. An Epistle to H. C. Esq;
- Attribution:
- By William Melmoth, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- William Melmoth
- First Line:
- Silent nymph with curious eye
- Page No:
- pp.247-253
- Poem Title:
- Grongar Hill.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dyer.
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- Enough of Grongar and the shady dales
- Page No:
- pp.254-278
- Poem Title:
- The Ruins of Rome, A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Dyer]
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- Ah me full sorely is my heart forlorn
- Page No:
- pp.279-293
- Poem Title:
- The School-Mistress, A Poem. In Imitation of Spenser.
- Attribution:
- By William Shenstone, Esq
- Attributed To:
- William Shenstone
- First Line:
- If to an human face sir James should draw
- Page No:
- pp.294-325
- Poem Title:
- The Art of Politics, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Reverend Mr. Bramston.
- Attributed To:
- James Bramston
- First Line:
- Whoever he be that to a taste aspires
- Page No:
- pp.326-339
- Poem Title:
- The Man of Taste. Occasion'd by an Epistle Of Mr. Pope's on that Subject.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Bramston]
- Attributed To:
- James Bramston
- First Line:
- The art of converse how to soothe the soul
- Page No:
- pp.340-366
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Conversation.
- Attribution:
- By Benjamin Stillingfleet.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Stillingfleet
- First Line:
- While lost to all his former mirth
- Page No:
- pp.367-369
- Poem Title:
- Ode, to a Lady, On the Death of Col. Charles Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy. Written May, 1745.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. W. Collins.
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- How sleep the brave who sink to rest
- Page No:
- p.370
- Poem Title:
- Ode, Written in the same Year.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. W. Collins]
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song
- Page No:
- pp.371-373
- Poem Title:
- Ode To Evening.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. W. Collins]
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- A muse expiring who with earliest voice
- Page No:
- pp.373-374
- Poem Title:
- Verses written on a Blank Leaf, By Lord Lansdown, when he presented his Works to the Queen, 1732.
- Attribution:
- By Lord Lansdown,
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- First Line:
- Asses milk half a pint take at seven or before
- Page No:
- pp.374-375
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a Lady in Autumn.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The gushing streams impetuous flow
- Page No:
- p.376
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady's drinking the Bath Waters.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mistaken fair lay Sherlock by
- Page No:
- p.377
- Poem Title:
- Verses written in a Lady's Sherlock upon Death.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Fanny blooming fair
- Page No:
- pp.378-379
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whenever Chloe I begin
- Page No:
- pp.380-381
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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