The new paradise of dainty devices: consisting of original poems, by different hands. [T101992] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 1324
- Publication Date:
- 1777
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T101992
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW116282550
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - nearest copy is in Bodleian Library.
- Full Title:
- THE | NEW PARADISE | OF | DAINTY DEVICES: | CONSISTING OF | ORIGINAL POEMS. | BY DIFFERENT HANDS. | [epigraph] | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR J. ALMON, OPPOSITE BURLINGTON-HOUSE, | PICCADILLY. | 1777.
- Epigraph:
- ----placidis coeant immitia --- | Serpentes avibus geminentur, tigribus agni. HORACE.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Quarto
- Price:
- Two Shillings and Sixpence.
- Bibliographic details:
- Cancel title page: 'NEW PARADISE | OF | DAINTY DEVICES. | [Price Two Shillings and Sixpence.]
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: contents [2 unnumbered pages]
- First Line:
- Awake my muse awake and speak
- Page No:
- pp.1-5
- Poem Title:
- Ode to the ----
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The stealing hand of slowly creeping time
- Page No:
- pp.6-8
- Poem Title:
- The Chelsea Pensioner.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- God bless John Calf whom cruel death
- Page No:
- p.9
- Poem Title:
- Imitation.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Husbands are such provoking fellows
- Page No:
- pp.9-11
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When through the terrors of the stormy sea
- Page No:
- pp.[12]-14
- Poem Title:
- Ancient and Modern Music Compared; and their respective Effects.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas in the time of elves and fays
- Page No:
- pp.15-26
- Poem Title:
- The Wife of Bath's Tale. From Chaucer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poor Jenny having been beguiled
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- Sister Jane. A Tale. From La Fontaine.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Prithee sweet fair one why so coy
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye chosen few of seoft eyed pity's train
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For gentle Grizel is my heart forlorn
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- The Death of Patient Grizel, and Advice to the Ladies, being the Sequel of Chaucer's Clerk's Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thomas and Ned were noble fellows
- Page No:
- pp.33-34
- Poem Title:
- The Friends. A Tale. From La Fontaine.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great Jove as ancient poets tell us
- Page No:
- pp.35-42
- Poem Title:
- The Guniad. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O thou who erst from Baii's smoking plain
- Page No:
- pp.43-47
- Poem Title:
- Bath: its Beauties and Amusements.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The chapel bell with hollow mournful sound
- Page No:
- pp.48-53
- Poem Title:
- Elegy written in a College Library.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of vice or virtue void here rests a man
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- The Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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