The Works of Philip late Duke of Wharton [N65295] [Vol I]
- DMI number:
- 1226
- Publication Date:
- 1740
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 2
- ESTC number:
- N65295
- Shelfmark:
- NYPL - *KC 1740 Wharton This copy is missing pp.1-10; the title page is, as a stamp explains, 'Copied from the original in The John Carter Brown Library Brown University Providence, Rhode Island'.
- Full Title:
- THE | WORKS | OF | [i]PHILIP[/i] | LATE | Duke of WHARTON; | WITH | A few Pieces by the Duke's Intimate Acquaintance. | PARTICULARLY | [2 columns] [column 1] Lord BOLINGBROKE, | Lord DORSET, | [/column 1] | [column 2] Dean SWIFT, | Doctor DELANY. [/column 2] | [rule] | In TWO VOLUMES. | [rule] | CONTAINING | [2 columns] [column 1] | The Life of His Grace | The Bridge of Life, an allego- | rical Poem; written on the | Plan of the 159th Spectator. | To Mr. POPE on his second sub- | scription for HOMER. | The magnifying Glass, a Tale. | XII Letters to Lady WHAR- | TON, &c. | The Cat and the Mouse, a Fable | Chardonet; or, the captive | Goldfinch, a Fable | To the lovely PALLAS: or, | the Game at Picquet. | CUPID triumphant; or, the | Battle of the Passions. | XI Letters from Mr. NORRIS | to CORINNA, for the Di- | rection of her Studies, &c. | Almahide, by Henry St. John. [/column 1] | [column 2] Epigram on an effeminate Per- | son, married to a very young | Lady. | The Ingrateful; or, the just | Revenge, a Novel. | Love led astray; or the mutual | Inconstancy, a Novel. | VII Original Letters, by the | Earl of ROCHESTER; com- | municated by ANTHONY | HAMMOND, Esq; and are | not in the Collection already | publish'd under his Lordship's | Name. | Some modern Observations on | JAMAICA; as to its natural | History. Improvement in | Trade, Manner of Living, | &c. by an ENGLISH Mer- | chant. | [rule] | The THIRD EDITION. | [rule] | VOL. I. [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed and sold by [i]F. Noble[/i], at [i]Otway[/i]'s Head; and [i]J. | Duncan[/i], both in [i]St. Martin's Court, Leicesterfields[/i], 1740.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Miscellany dominated by poet and Collection including prose
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [pp.1-10 missing]; 11-35; 4pp; [1]-185 [36 misprinted 35], 3pp.
- Bibliographic details:
- Before text of original collection (pp.1-185) reissue adds 'The Life of His Grace Philip Late Duke of Wharton' pp.1-35 [pages missing in NYPL copy] and 'Menalcas and Enosia, A Pastoral Dialogue' [4pp.]. Separate poem title pages: 'The Tower' p.[85]; 'The Temple of Venus' p.[157]
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATERIAL: Biography of Philip, Duke of Wharton pp.1-35, Pastoral by Duke of Wharton [4pp.] END MATTER: Table of Contents [3pp.]
- Printer:
- Francis Noble
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printer:
- James Duncan
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Why stays my fair see the thick shades descend
- Page No:
- 4pp.
- Poem Title:
- Menalcas and Enosia, A Pastoral Dialogue.
- Attribution:
- 'writ by the Duke of Wharton'.
- Attributed To:
- Philip James Wharton
- First Line:
- Unhappy state of all things here below
- Page No:
- pp.1-5
- Poem Title:
- The Bridge of Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The scenes are new and everything compact
- Page No:
- pp.6-7
- Poem Title:
- Prologue Spoken at Mr. Sheridan's School. Enter Scholar riding on an Ass.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sir having nothing else to do
- Page No:
- pp.8-12
- Poem Title:
- A Letter from the Quid Nuncs at St. James's Coffee-House, London, to their Brethren at Lucas's Coffee-House, in Dublin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Under the notion of a play you see
- Page No:
- pp.13-15
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to a Greek Play, intended to be spoken by a Boy of six Years old.
- Attribution:
- 'Written by Mr. Sheridan'.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Sheridan
- First Line:
- Ye sons of Athens grant me one request
- Page No:
- pp.16-18
- Poem Title:
- Prologue to the Same, spoken by the Boy of six Years old.
- Attribution:
- 'Written by Dean Swift.'
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- God prosper long our noble king
- Page No:
- pp.19-26
- Poem Title:
- The Drinking Match. An Imitation of Chevy-Chace.
- Attribution:
- 'By the Duke of Wharton.'
- Attributed To:
- Philip James Wharton
- First Line:
- In youth exalted high in air
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- A Riddle.
- Attribution:
- By the Reverend Doctor Delany.
- Attributed To:
- Patrick Delany
- First Line:
- Here lies a fine nymph of strong passions and parts
- Page No:
- pp.29-30
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph. Designed for a Lady of Quality, as soon as she dies.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis so old and so ugly and yet so convenient
- Page No:
- pp.30-31
- Poem Title:
- On Gallstown-House.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Delany.
- Attributed To:
- Patrick Delany
- First Line:
- Hibernia hard beset with gloomy cares
- Page No:
- pp.32-35
- Poem Title:
- The Brazen Age Banished.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From a beggarly offspring from dunghill and dirt
- Page No:
- p.35 (i.e.36)-40
- Poem Title:
- No-body turn'd Some-body: Or, The fair Confession of M.D. Esq;
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye people of Ireland both country and city
- Page No:
- pp.40-44
- Poem Title:
- A new Song on Wood's Half-pence.
- Attribution:
- By Dean Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Timely blossom infant fair
- Page No:
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her Mother's Arms.
- Attribution:
- By Ambrose Philips Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- First Line:
- Dimply damsel sweetly smiling
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- To Miss Peggy Pulteney in the Nursery.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Ambrose Philips]
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- First Line:
- Weeping over thy sacred urn
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of the Earl of Halifax.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Ambrose Philips].
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- First Line:
- Damon unhappy Damon sure
- Page No:
- pp.49-52
- Poem Title:
- Damon's Case and Resolution.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tom was a little merry Grig
- Page No:
- pp.52-54
- Poem Title:
- Tom Pun-Sibi Metamorphosed: Or, The Giber Gibed.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Should you want rhymes again for Graecum
- Page No:
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- To the Author of Tom Pun-Sibi Metamorphosed.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear Tom | Nor turkey fat nor goose in country hut
- Page No:
- pp.57-60
- Poem Title:
- A Letter to Tom Pun-sibi. Occasioned by Reading his excellent Farce, called Alexander's Overthrow: Or, the Downfal of Babylon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This is to give notice I Tom the great scribbler
- Page No:
- pp.61-63
- Poem Title:
- Tom Pun-sibi's Farewel to the Muses.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Well Ralph however you're pleased to strive
- Page No:
- pp.64-69
- Poem Title:
- Tom Pun-sibi's Resurrection disproved.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happiest of the spaniel race
- Page No:
- pp.70-72
- Poem Title:
- Upon Rover, A Lady's Spaniel. Instructions to a Painter.
- Attribution:
- By Dean Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- From this small text the furious priest takes pains
- Page No:
- pp.73-80
- Poem Title:
- The Poetical Preacher. Occasioned by Reading Monsieur Bayle's Commentary upon these Words, Compel them to come in, Luke xiv. 12.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye maidens fair pray draw nigh and hear
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- Io's Transformation into a Cow burlesqued.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sylvia says she loves not kissing
- Page No:
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- On a Lady's saying She hated Kissing.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When beauty shines with a triumphant air
- Page No:
- pp.93-126
- Poem Title:
- The Tower. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- Dedication signed 'Thomas Foxton'
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Foxton
- First Line:
- I sing not of the Draper's praise
- Page No:
- pp.127-133
- Poem Title:
- An excellent New Song on his Grace the Arch-Bishop of Dublin.
- Attribution:
- By Honest Jo. one of his Grace's Farmers in Fingal. Footnote: Dean Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Young Chloe flies me as a fawn
- Page No:
- p.134
- Poem Title:
- Out of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To all you sparkling Whigs at court
- Page No:
- pp.135-137
- Poem Title:
- A New Ballad by a Lady. To the Tune of, To all You Ladies now at Land, &c.
- Attribution:
- by a Lady.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O Liddy tell why in your arms dissolved
- Page No:
- p.138
- Poem Title:
- To Lydia on a Fop. In Imitation of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet blossom of as sweet a tree
- Page No:
- pp.139-140
- Poem Title:
- On Miss Morrice.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As Venus from her sphere surveyed
- Page No:
- pp.140-142
- Poem Title:
- On Lady Betty Herbert's Recovery from the Small-Pox.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Should some bright angel leave the sky
- Page No:
- pp.143-144
- Poem Title:
- On Lady Margaret Herbert's forbidding any Body to come near Her, for fear she should infect them with the Small-Pox, from which She was just recovered.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your pen with Marlborough's sword is much the same
- Page No:
- p.144
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Pope, on his second Subscription for Homer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When mighty William his dear breath resigned
- Page No:
- p.145
- Poem Title:
- On The Salic-Law.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A Whig he was bred but at length is turned Papist
- Page No:
- p.146
- Poem Title:
- On the Duke of Wharton's renouncing the Protestant Religion.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. E. Curll]
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Curll
- First Line:
- The Gartered honours Walpole you receive
- Page No:
- p.146
- Poem Title:
- On Sir Robert Walpole's being created a Knight of the Garter.
- Attribution:
- By E. Curll, late Bookseller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Curll
- First Line:
- Two virgins in the prime of life
- Page No:
- pp.147-149
- Poem Title:
- The Magnifying-Glass. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Table of Contents adds 'by Major Pack.'
- Attributed To:
- Richardson Pack
- First Line:
- He needs no bows no warlike force
- Page No:
- pp.150-152
- Poem Title:
- In Imitation of Horace's Integer Vitae.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Parsell.
- Attributed To:
- Mr. Parsell
- First Line:
- Since Whiston and Woolston their shafts have let fly
- Page No:
- p.152
- Poem Title:
- On the revived Controversy of the Thundering Legion.
- Attribution:
- By E. Curll, late Bookseller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Curll
- First Line:
- The snow is gone again the ground
- Page No:
- pp.153-154
- Poem Title:
- In Imitation of Horace's Diffugere Nives, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Corydon beneath a willow
- Page No:
- pp.155-156
- Poem Title:
- A Song. Never before Printed.
- Attribution:
- By the late Earl of Dorset.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Sackville
- First Line:
- Say Maija's son by whose intriguing aid
- Page No:
- pp.159-185
- Poem Title:
- The Temple of Venus. A Poem. In Five Cantos.
- Attribution:
- By William Selbey, Esq;
- Attributed To:
- William Selbey
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