The Bath, Bristol, Tunbridge and Epsom Miscellany [T91309]

DMI number:

544

Publication Date:

1735

ESTC number:

T91309

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW110264068

Shelfmark:

BL 11631.d.4

Full Title:

THE | BATH, BRISTOL, TUNBRIDGE | [i]and[/i] EPSOM | MISCELLANY. | CONTAINING, | [two columns] [col 1]POEMS, | TALES, | SONGS, | EPIGRAMS, | LAMPOONS,[/col 1] [col 2]SATIRES, | PANEGYRICKS, | AMOURS, | INTRIGUES, [i]&c.[/i][/col 2] | [double rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for T. DORMER, for the Author, and sold by the | Booksellers in Town and Country. M.DCC.XXXV. | (Price One Shilling.)

Epigraph:

[i]Fade Flowers, fade, Nature will have it so; | 'Tis but what we must in our Autumn do: | And as our Leaves lye quiet on the Ground, | The Loss alone by those that lov'd them found; | So in the Grave shall we as quiet lye, | Miss'd by some few that lov'd our Company. | But some so like to[/i] Thorns [i]and[/i] Nettles [i]live, | That none for them can, when they perish, grieve.[/i] | WALLER.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of poems about subject/person

Format:

Octavo

Price:

1 s.

Bibliographic details:

FORMAT: Octavo in fours.

Comments:

Query: 'printed for the Author' - is this a miscellany i.e. by multiple hands? PLATES: Frontispiece.

Related People

Printer:

T. Dormer

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Time thou inestimable jewel say

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pp.5-8

Poem Title:

On Dress.

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First Line:

When Celia bathed how did I trembling gaze

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pp.8-9

Poem Title:

On a Lady Bathing.

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First Line:

Scandal with ladies tattling over their tea

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pp.9-10

Poem Title:

Of Scandal.

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First Line:

What mighty wonders have been done

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pp.11-13

Poem Title:

A Song On the Multiplying Virtues of the Bath Waters. Humbly inscrib'd to the Citizen's Wives. Tune of, How long, egregeous Moore, &c.

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First Line:

In the merry month of May

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pp.14-15

Poem Title:

The Female-Beau: Or, The Beau-Female.

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First Line:

Reason is sure a particle divine

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pp.15-16

Poem Title:

An Essay on Humanity. Inscrib'd to the Bristol Captains.

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First Line:

Here o amazing prodigy we see

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p.17

Poem Title:

Extempore Verses on seeing the Princess Amelia's Picture in Miniature.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman of Oxford

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First Line:

If unity be found in heaven's great sphere

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p.17

Poem Title:

On Unity.

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First Line:

Quintus loves Thais and Thais alone

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p.17

Poem Title:

Epigrams. On a one-ey'd Man who fell in Love with a blind Woman.

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First Line:

A woman though her mouth be small

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p.18

Poem Title:

On Woman.

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First Line:

For champagne and Bordeaux I need go no further

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p.18

Poem Title:

On a Vintner, who was suspected to have poison'd four Wives.

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First Line:

A woman at best's but a consummate evil

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p.19

Poem Title:

Another.

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First Line:

Of all the creatures on the earth

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pp.19-20

Poem Title:

The Prude Unmask'd: Or, The pleasant Discovery.

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First Line:

Moll who plyed in Drury Lane

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pp.21-22

Poem Title:

The Bath Fortune-Hunter: Or, The Biter Bit.

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First Line:

Tell me Silvia prithee do

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pp.22-25

Poem Title:

The Rover Reclaim'd. A Dialogue between Damon and Silvia.

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First Line:

I sing the nymph a very woman

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pp.25-28

Poem Title:

A Beautiful Young Nymph at her Toilet.

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First Line:

On Epsom Downs when racing does begin

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p.29

Poem Title:

On the Epsom Horse-Races.

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First Line:

O Scarborough say how comes thy power so great

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pp.30-32

Poem Title:

Scarborough Wells. A Satire.

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First Line:

Tempted by love the fond believing maid

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pp.32-33

Poem Title:

An Epistle from a Lady to a Gentleman who had Debauch'd her.

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First Line:

In northern cave devoid of light and heat

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pp.34-35

Poem Title:

The Golden Mean.

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First Line:

Of people wondrous to behold I treat

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pp.35-38

Poem Title:

On the Bath Puppet-Shew.

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First Line:

Since Cupid bears imperial sway

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p.39

Poem Title:

Silvia's Request.

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First Line:

Of verdant hue smooth as th' unruffled main

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pp.40-42

Poem Title:

The Bowling-Green.

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First Line:

Sweet syren cease thy killing trills give over

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p.42

Poem Title:

To Signior F- - - - - -li.

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First Line:

A married boy a prating elf

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pp.43-44

Poem Title:

The Mock-Hero: Or, Cowardice Display'd.

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First Line:

A brisk young vintner pert and gay

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pp.45-46

Poem Title:

The Repartee: Or, The Lady and Vintner. A Tale.

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First Line:

Chloe by nature was designed

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pp.47-48

Poem Title:

The Ladies Quarrel: Or, the Fop Triumphant.

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