The altar of love. Consisting of poems and other miscellanies [ESTC N16485]

DMI number:

1199

Publication Date:

1727

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

N16485

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB126720986

Shelfmark:

NLS [Ai].2/2.49(1)

Full Title:

THE | ALTAR of LOVE. | Consisting of | POEMS, | And other | MISCELLANIES. | [i]By the most eminent[/i] HANDS. | [rule] | Now first collected into a VOLUME. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for H. CURLL in the [i]Strand.[/i] | M.DCC.XXVII. | (Price Six Shillings.)

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:

Collection including prose and Collection of poems about subject/person

Format:

Octavo

Price:

Six shillings

Bibliographic details:

Pagination: [2], 1-16 pp.; 1-22 pp.; [4]; [1]-40 pp.; [1]-112 pp.; [6], [1]-32 pp.; [4], v-viii, [1]-39 pp.; [1]; [1]-24; [1]-37, [1]; [1]-18 pp.; 3-32 pp.; [1]-16 pp.; [1]-22 pp., [1-16pp]

Comments:

From NLS catalogue: Wrongly reported to ESTC as T162561, in fact pagination of NLS copy matches N16845 most closely. NB. 16 p. Catalogue of books printed for H. Curll (ESTC T71509), bound at end of volume, has been treated as a separate item and is not included in pagination. Composite volume made up of poetical works printed for Curll in the 1720s. "The rape of the smock" and "The patch. An heroi-comical poem" have individual title pages, dated 1727 and 1724 respectively. NLS copy has "A catalogue of books printed for H. Curll, over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand" (ESTC T71509) bound at end of volume. Contains Latin and English prose - prefatory matter and Extracts from a Book [3rd item 22 pp.]

Other matter:

Prefatory: Oratio. Nova Philosophia Veteri praeserenda est. (Addison) [16 pp.] [translation] An Oration in Defense of the New Philosophy [16 pp.] End matter (16 pp) A Catalogue of Books printed for H. Curll.

References:

NLS

Related People

Publisher:

Henry Curll

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Take a knuckle of veal

Page No:

[3 pp.]

Poem Title:

A Receipt for 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:

[1 p.]

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

A. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Horses my friend and asses men may try

Page No:

p.1

Poem Title:

Advice before Marriage

Attribution:

Popeana [i.e. extracts from Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Ambition first sprang from the blessed abodes

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

Ambition.

Attribution:

Popeana [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Art shall be theirs to varnish an offence

Page No:

p.3

Poem Title:

Artifice of Women

Attribution:

Popeana [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

For never was it given to mortal man

Page No:

pp.3-4

Poem Title:

Artifice of Women

Attribution:

Popeana [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

Artifice of Women

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Let all mankind this certain maxim hold

Page No:

pp.4-5

Poem Title:

Advice before Marriage.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

How quaint an appetite in women reigns

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

Advice before Marriage.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore

Page No:

pp.5-6

Poem Title:

Batchelors.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Muse at that name thy sacred sorrows shed

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

Lady Bridgwater her Character.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

She went to plain work and to purling brooks

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

Country Conversation.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Ye vigorous swains while youth ferments your blood

Page No:

pp.9-13

Poem Title:

Country Recreations.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

O Death all eloquent you only prove

Page No:

pp.13-14

Poem Title:

Death.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The grave unites where even the great find rest

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

Death.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Envy will merit as its shade persue

Page No:

pp.14-15

Poem Title:

Envy.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

He stopped with kisses my enchanting tongue

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

Enjoyment.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose

Page No:

pp.16-17

Poem Title:

Mrs. Fermor's Character.

Attribution:

'Popeana.' [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Zembla's huge rocks the beauteous work of frost

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

Frost.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The clear reflecting mind presents the sin

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

Guilt.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

Letters.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Love free as air at sight of human ties

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

Love.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

O night more pleasing than the brightest day

Page No:

pp.21-22

Poem Title:

A Lover's Dream.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Come with thy looks thy words relieve my woe

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

The Lover's Request.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope].

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Our grandsire Adam ever of Eve possessed

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

Marriage.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The darksome pines that over yon rocks reclined

Page No:

pp.25-26

Poem Title:

The Seat of Melancholy.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot

Page No:

pp.26-27

Poem Title:

The Nun.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Of all the causes which conspire to blind

Page No:

pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Pride.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows

Page No:

pp.29-32

Poem Title:

The Cave of Spleen.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

When Phoebus yields to night

Page No:

pp.32-34

Poem Title:

Night Tempest.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Still the vile vulgar ever discontent

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

The Vulgar.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

No crafty widows shall approach my bed

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

On Widows.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Unhappy wit like most mistaken things

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

On Wit.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

How much egregious Moore are we

Page No:

pp.37-40

Poem Title:

The Worms. A Satire.

Attribution:

Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

A rigorous arch-deacon whilom lived

Page No:

pp.1-22

Poem Title:

The Apparitor's Match: or A Bargain with the Devil. Being The Fryar's Tale, from Chaucer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Eternal source of joys

Page No:

pp.23-27

Poem Title:

Ode to Love. In Spenser's Style.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lately dear friend your wife I chanced to meet

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

The Fifth Epigram of Secundus Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nectar Neaera's kiss distills

Page No:

pp.28-29

Poem Title:

Kissing. From the Fourth Book of Secundus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Two wags were earnest in debate

Page No:

pp.30-39

Poem Title:

The Egg. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By wondrous power of music's artful force

Page No:

pp.40-43

Poem Title:

The Power of Money, From the First Elegy of the Third Book of Secundus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why do your cheeks such artful colours wear

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

Imitation of a Greek Epigram of Cardinal Barberini. To a Lady who Paints.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whatever men talk of good or just

Page No:

pp.45-65

Poem Title:

The Retaliation. A Tale, from Boccace.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In vain I urge my passion on

Page No:

pp.65-68

Poem Title:

The Deceitful.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nature ever since her works began

Page No:

pp.69-87

Poem Title:

The Chicken. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To no purpose you tell me you never will comply

Page No:

pp.87-89

Poem Title:

Song to Iris.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If Dennis writes and rails in furious pet

Page No:

pp.90-92

Poem Title:

Verses Occasioned By Mr. Tickell's Translation of the First Iliad of Homer.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

When soft expressions covert malice hide

Page No:

pp.92-94

Poem Title:

Answer to the foregoing Verses; Presented to the Countess of Warwick.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Persuasions had her patience tired

Page No:

pp.95-96

Poem Title:

The Swain's Rapture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With Thyrsis in a grove I walked

Page No:

pp.97-98

Poem Title:

The Nymph's Rapture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye fair whose charms Britannia justly boasts

Page No:

pp.99-102

Poem Title:

The Ridotto.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst on Ophelia's breast reclined

Page No:

pp.103-104

Poem Title:

The Usurper.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Jove of old the ethereal scepter swayed

Page No:

pp.105-111

Poem Title:

The Progress of Deformity. Occasioned By Reading my Lord Lansdown's Progress of Beauty.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sable which so long was used

Page No:

pp.111-112

Poem Title:

To A Young Lady Drest in Mourning.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

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:

By Mr. Jacob.

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. Farquhar.

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:

Say gentle muse whence all this mighty care

Page No:

pp.1-27

Poem Title:

The Patch. An Heroi-Comical Poem.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman of Oxford. [dedication also signed F.H.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Taff boasted not of learning much or arts

Page No:

pp.31-39

Poem Title:

The Welch Wedding: A Poem.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman of Oxford.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of that famed British structure fain I'd write

Page No:

pp.1-24

Poem Title:

Buckingham-House: A Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilome a merchant at St Dennis lived

Page No:

pp.1-26

Poem Title:

The Shipman's Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There lived in Derby near the peak

Page No:

pp.27-37

Poem Title:

The Curious Wife. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unhappy man who through successive years

Page No:

pp.1-11

Poem Title:

Reason. A Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thus Kitty beautiful and young

Page No:

pp.12-14

Poem Title:

The Female Phaeton.

Attribution:

By Mr. Harcourt.

Attributed To:

Simon Harcourt

First Line:

When Kneller's works of various grace

Page No:

pp.15-18

Poem Title:

The Judgement of Venus.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Harcourt]

Attributed To:

Simon Harcourt

First Line:

Whilst the glad muse exults her strains

Page No:

pp.3-15

Poem Title:

The Richmond Beauties. A Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sicilian maids inseparable nine

Page No:

pp.17-23

Poem Title:

The Pastoral Muse.

Attribution:

By Mr. Derham.

Attributed To:

William Derham

First Line:

Whilst others different paths pursue

Page No:

pp.24-30

Poem Title:

The Wanton Tamed.

Attribution:

By Mr. Browne.

Attributed To:

Mr. Browne

First Line:

O had my tongue but language to express

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Prior.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Mr. Browne.]

Attributed To:

Mr. Browne

First Line:

Adieu ye toyish reeds that once could please

Page No:

pp.1-16

Poem Title:

The Last Epiphany. A Pindarick Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me my muse if thou wilt deign to lend

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

Bury-Fair: A Poem. Imposed as an Exercise at St. Peter's College, 1721.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In late subscriptions a successful pair

Page No:

pp.12-14

Poem Title:

A South-Sea Couple.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wondrous machine interpreter of art

Page No:

pp.15-17

Poem Title:

Upon a Microscope

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A butterfly awake one night

Page No:

pp.18-22

Poem Title:

Vanity and Worth, Faintly represented in a Fable.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed