The morning walk or city encompassed...with a prologue and appendix, from the best poets on similar subjects. [T12485] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 798
- Publication Date:
- 1751
- ESTC number:
- T12485
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW112503164
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - Bod
- Full Title:
- THE | MORNING WALK; | OR, | CITY Encompass'd. | A POEM in Blank VERSE. | With a PROLOGUE and APPENDIX, from the | best Poets on similar Subjects. | Dedicated to the Right Honourable the | EARL of BATH. | [epigraph] | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed from the Author; and Sold by M. COOPER, in | Pater-noster-Row, and at all the Pamphlet-shops. | [short rule] | MDCCLI.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Octavo
- Comments:
- Contains 'Prologue from the Writings of the best Poets' pp. viii-xiii; 'Appendix from The best Poets on Similar Subjects' pp. 67-77; 'Occasional verses by the same Author' pp. 78-96.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Advertisement [1pp]; Dedication to the Earl of Bath signed W. H. Draper pp. iii-iv; address to the reader pp. v-ii; 'Prologue from the Writings of the best Poets' pp. viii-xiii; errata p. [xiv].
- Dedicatee:
- William Pulteney
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Editor:
- William H. Draper
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- Mary Cooper
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Avaunt ye critics too severe
- Page No:
- p. vi-vii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Descend from heaven Urania by that name
- Page No:
- pp.xi-xiii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Go the rich chariot instantly prepare
- Page No:
- pp.viii-xi
- Poem Title:
- On invoking the Muses.
- Attribution:
- Cowl.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Descend thou heavenly muse Macaenas calls
- Page No:
- pp.1-66
- Poem Title:
- The Morning Walk, Or, City Encompass'd.
- Attribution:
- W. H. Draper.
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- The beasts that under the warm hedges slept
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- On the Morning.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Now the fair morn smiles with a purple ray
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Black.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Richard Blackmore
- First Line:
- From amber shrouds I see the morning rise
- Page No:
- pp.68-69
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Now rose the ruddy morn from Tithon's bed
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- And now a glance from mild Aurora's eyes
- Page No:
- pp.69-70
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Garth.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- Now morn her rosy steps in th' orient clime
- Page No:
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Mark how the lusty sun salutes the spring
- Page No:
- pp.70-71
- Poem Title:
- On the Sun.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- The approach of night
- Page No:
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- Evening.
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The evening now with blushes warms the air
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Gar.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Samuel Garth
- First Line:
- The western sun now shot a feeble ray
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Addis.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- As when from mountain tops the dusky clouds
- Page No:
- pp.72-73
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- The gilded planet of the day
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Behn.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- First Line:
- The queen of night whose vast command
- Page No:
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- The Moon.
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The moon | Rising in clouded majesty at length
- Page No:
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- The Moon.
- Attribution:
- Milt.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- When spring makes equal day
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- Spring.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- The swallows privileged above the rest
- Page No:
- pp.74-75
- Poem Title:
- Swallow.
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Hear how the doves with pensive notes complain
- Page No:
- p.74
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- In storms when clouds the moon do hide
- Page No:
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- Quiet.
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- And now my muse what most delights her sees
- Page No:
- pp.75
- Poem Title:
- Grove.
- Attribution:
- Wall.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- How good how wise thus to instruct mankind
- Page No:
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- On seeing in M.S. the Poem, intituled, The Morning Walk, or Benefit of Exercise. To the Author.
- Attribution:
- Sylvanus.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Meantime the master porter wide displayed
- Page No:
- p.76
- Poem Title:
- On Sloth.
- Attribution:
- Thomson's Castle of Indolence.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Behold a cleanly rural cottage rise
- Page No:
- p.78
- Poem Title:
- The Cottage.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- Immense thy power through all preceding time
- Page No:
- pp.79-80
- Poem Title:
- On the Supreme Being.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- Bright illustrious sparkling gem
- Page No:
- pp.80-81
- Poem Title:
- To Miss Lucy Draper on her Birth-day, aged Nine Years.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- Experienced young whose bright ingenious pen
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- Inscribed to Mr. Daniel Draper, on his writing the Ship Boscawen's Voyage to Bombay in the East-Indies (Anno 1749.) published in October last.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- Bright maid possessed of every grace
- Page No:
- pp.82-83
- Poem Title:
- To Miss Gravett, playing on the Harpsichord.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- Happy the man with virtue blessed and sense
- Page No:
- pp.84-85
- Poem Title:
- The Sentiment.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- Thou learned inventor of that curious art
- Page No:
- pp.86-89
- Poem Title:
- Inscribed to the Memory of Laurence Coster, a Native of the Town of Harlem in Holland, first Inventor of the mysterious Art of Printing, Anno 1420.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- Would you enjoy the sweetest hour of day
- Page No:
- pp.89-90
- Poem Title:
- On the Benefit of Morning Air.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- Happy the man with competency blessed
- Page No:
- pp.90-91
- Poem Title:
- On Competency and Retirement.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- See that beauteous blooming rose
- Page No:
- pp.91-92
- Poem Title:
- To Miss Lucy Draper, on a Rose.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- Hail great inventor of fair optic light
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- On the Inventor of Optic-Glasses.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- Hail lucid offspring of the radiant sun
- Page No:
- pp.93-94
- Poem Title:
- The Splendid Morning.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
- First Line:
- What scene tremendous shakes my inmost soul
- Page No:
- pp.95-96
- Poem Title:
- Soliloquy on Eternity, occasion'd in a storm off the Islands St. Paul's and Amsterdam 38 Deg.S.Lat. in the Ship Houghton, bound for China, Anno 1739. Capt. Philip Worth, Commander.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author [i.e. Draper]
- Attributed To:
- William H. Draper
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