The cabinet for wit: or, an infallible recipe to cure stupidity [ESTC P6303, T191092]

DMI number:

1398

Publication Date:

1751

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

P6303/T191092

EEBO/ECCO link:

n/a

Shelfmark:

Bod Harding C 2755

Full Title:

THE | Cabinet for Wit: | OR, AN | INFALLIBLE RECIPE | TO CURE | STUPIDITY. | [rule] | By [i]TIMOTHY SHARPE,[/i] Esq; | [rule] | INGREDIENTS | [2 columns] [col 1] A Satire on Lady [i]T[/i]--'s Tea- | Table. | An Ode to a Puppy playing | with her Lady in Bed. | An extempore Epigram on see- | ing a Pipe lighted with one | of the Laureat's Odes. | The Officious Mistress, or Di- | ligent Miss --. | Verses on a late Match. | A Receipt to make a married | Man live long. [/col1] | [col2] The present State of Europe, | in Verse. | The English Freeholders. | Verses occasioned by Gil Blas. | A Simile for the Ladies. | The Petition of a School-master | to a noble Earl, after a cer- | tain Election. | The Female Microcosm. | The sound, sagacious right- | fashionable Holder-forth. | Wit flying at St. James's, with | the Answers, and Additions. [/col 2] | [i]With several other Curious Pieces, never before Printed.[/i] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | To be Continued Occasionally. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for A. MORE, near [i]St. Paul[/i]'s. 1751. | [i]N. B.[/i] All Letters directed for [i]Timothy Sharpe[/i], Esq; | at [i]Will's Coffee-House, Scotland-Yard[/i], will be re- | ceiv'd.

Epigraph:

[i]--Poetica Surgit | Tempestas.[/i] Juvenal.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Topical miscellany, Periodical miscellany, and Collection of satirical verse

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[4], [1]-52 pp.

Bibliographic details:

First in a series but apparently no more published. Half title: THE | Cabinet for Wit: | OR, AN | INFALLIBLE RECIPE | TO CURE | STUPIDITY.

Comments:

Contents: prose pp. 33-38; prose riddles pp. 46-52.

References:

Both P6303 and T191092 refer to the same ESTC record.

Related People

Publisher:

Arthur Moore

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

At -- mansions where nymphs select resort

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pp.1-4

Poem Title:

A Satire on Lady --'s Tea-Table.

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Happy Daphnis which can be

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pp.5-6

Poem Title:

Ode to Daphnis, a Puppy, playing with Myrtilla in Bed.

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By Mr. Stacie.

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Mr. Stacie

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A pretty young lady in love with a beau

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pp.6-7

Poem Title:

The Officious Mistress; or, the Diligent Miss.

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While the soft song that warbles George's praise

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p.6

Poem Title:

An Extempore Epigram on seeing a Pipe lighted with one of the Laureat's Odes.

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A doting old fool had a mind for to wed

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pp.7-8

Poem Title:

The Match.

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Marry late my dear friend you will ask me what then

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p.8

Poem Title:

A Receipt to make a Married Man live long.

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My goods are lost my house is burnt

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p.8

Poem Title:

Epigram.

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Throw all your lumber over board

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p.8

Poem Title:

Epigram.

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Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes

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pp.8-9

Poem Title:

Mrs. Littleton's Epitaph

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By the Honourable George Littleton, Esq; her surviving Husband.

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George Lyttelton

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Without a friend without a foe

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pp.9-10

Poem Title:

The Present State of Europe: A New Edition.

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Lying is an occupation

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p.10

Poem Title:

A Song.

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You freeholders all that love English beer

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pp.10-11

Poem Title:

The Freeholders.

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Dire was the hour when to the unlicensed bed

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pp.12-13

Poem Title:

On a Lady who proved unlawfully with Child.

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Houses churches mixed together

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p.12

Poem Title:

A Description of London.

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Our seamen reduced who the nation defended

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p.13

Poem Title:

Britain's Felicity.

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What ails thee Jack thou art grown so dull

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p.14

Poem Title:

The Nettle. Addressed to J-- R--, Esq;

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Are you all ready here's your music here

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pp.15-16

Poem Title:

Prologue to Gil Blas. Spoken by Mr. Woodward, in the Character of a Critick, with a Catcall in his Hand.

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As the success of authors is uncertain

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pp.16-17

Poem Title:

Epilogue.

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Written by Mr. Garrick and spoken by Mrs. Pritchard.

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David Garrick

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For her husband deceased Sally chants the sweet lay

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p.17

Poem Title:

An Epigram. On a Woman who was singing Ballads for Money to bury her Husband.

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I own Gil Blas tis strange to me

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p.17

Poem Title:

On the frequent Repetition of Devil and Devilish, in the new comedy of Gil Blas.

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First Line:

After such mighty fuss and puff

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pp.18-19

Poem Title:

The Opinion of the Council at George's, concerning the Comedy of Gil Blas.

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A, B, C, &c.

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Such a fuss and an uproar about your Gil Blas

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p.19

Poem Title:

To The Author.

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R. N.

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Well Tom what think you of Gil Blas

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p.19

Poem Title:

Another

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P. Q.

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What shocking stuff after such puffing before

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p.19

Poem Title:

De Eodem.

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I often tried in vain to find

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pp.20-22

Poem Title:

A New Simile for the Ladies.

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My lord from my friends I intelligence had

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pp.22-23

Poem Title:

Petition of a certain Schoolmaster to a noble Earl; after a certain Election.

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I cursed be my folly a certainty slighted

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p.23

Poem Title:

Sir John's Soliloquy after writing the above Petition.

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A little world I say again

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pp.24-25

Poem Title:

The Lady's Answer.

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Men are the world in small you say

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p.24

Poem Title:

The Female Microcosm. To a Lady who said Man is a little World.

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By an Oxonian.

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If ever I quite a single life

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p.25

Poem Title:

Writ over a Chimney in Gloucestershire.

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If there's a man in heart and tongue sincere

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p.25

Poem Title:

Occasioned by the above.

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Dorinda.

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First Line:

All compliance apart

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p.26

Poem Title:

Miss -- having over Night promised Miss -- to lead a retired Life with her, sent her the following Verses the next Morning.

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Miss --

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Why must the footman to his lady's pew

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pp.26-27

Poem Title:

A Sunday Epigram.

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Constant gamesters every day

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p.27

Poem Title:

Verses address'd to some Ladies of Ha--d.

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Though life itself is not worth a thought

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pp.27-28

Poem Title:

On Health.

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By the late Lord Harvey.

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John Hervey

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Stanhope has gained one branch of fame

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pp.28-29

Poem Title:

On Lord Chesterfield, when Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.

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A bed that any one might sleep in

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pp.29-30

Poem Title:

Inventory of a humorous Gentleman's Room.

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Random, Jun.

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Give ear all good folks to my ditty

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pp.30-32

Poem Title:

The Sound, Sagacious, Right-fashionable Holderforth. A new, seasonable, suitable, commendatory Kind of a Song.

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An house he hath tis made of such good fashion

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p.33

Poem Title:

An Epitaph in Folkstone Church-yard.

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Long time by court tricks had poor Grinsted been charmed

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pp.39-40

Poem Title:

The Grinsted Ballad.

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Well met noble captain you're welcome on shore

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pp.41-43

Poem Title:

A Satirical Dialogue between a Sea Captain and his Friend in Town; humbly addressed to the Gentlemen who deform'd the Play of Othello, on Th-rs-y, M- the 7th, 1750-1, at the Th-tre R-y-l, in Dr-y L-ne.

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First see her free from that insipid thing

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pp.43-44

Poem Title:

A just History of Lady Frail.

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Here old Grubbinol lies

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p.45

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a certain Nobleman, who died by taking Cantharides

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In ancient times some hundred winters past

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p.45

Poem Title:

The Heroines, or modern Memoirs.

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