A collection of scarce curious and valuable pieces [T123793] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1370

Publication Date:

1785

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T123793

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113266752

Shelfmark:

ECCO BL CAM

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | SCARCE, CURIOUS, and VALUABLE | PIECES, | Both in VERSE and PROSE; | CHIEFLY SELECTED | From the Fugitive Productions | OF | The most eminent Wits of the| present Age. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | EDINBURGH: | Printed by T. RUDDIMAN and Co. | [rule] | M,DCC,LXXV.

Epigraph:

- ridentem dicerce verum | Quid vetat?

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Format:

Duodecimo

Bibliographic details:

P. 280 missing from ECCO copy.

Comments:

Contents: prose pp. 335-351.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: advertisement signed 'Tho. Ruddiman' pp. [iii]-iv; contents, pp. [iii]-iv.

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Title:

A collection of scarce curious and valuable pieces [T128607] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1773

ESTC No:

T128607

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Related People

Printer:

T. Ruddiman

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

When learning grew to such a head

Page No:

pp.1-80

Poem Title:

Rodondo: or the State Jugglers; in three Cantos.

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First Line:

If to a human face sir James should draw

Page No:

pp.81-112

Poem Title:

The Art of Politics, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry

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First Line:

Should some strange poet in his piece affect

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pp.113-130

Poem Title:

The Art of Preaching; in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry

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First Line:

If Belville can his generous soul confine

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pp.143-144

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Choose eggs oblong remember they'll be found

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p.145

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Fops may have leave to level all they can

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pp.154-155

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Dryden (p.154)

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Fools which each man meets in his dish each day

Page No:

pp.155-156

Poem Title:

Prologue

Attribution:

Mr. Dryden (p.154)

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

But though my edge be not too nicely set

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Hang up thy wallet on that tree

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p.163

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Tis true in a long work soft slumbers creep

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p.177

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Ingenious Lister were a picture drawn

Page No:

pp.181-206

Poem Title:

The Art of Cookery; In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. To Dr. Lister.

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First Line:

In the smooth dance to move with graceful mien

Page No:

pp.207-229

Poem Title:

The Art of Dancing. A Poem. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Lady Fanny Fielding.

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Written by S.J. Esq.

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First Line:

If some great artist in whose works conspire

Page No:

pp.240-268

Poem Title:

Harlequin-Horace; or the Art of Modern Poetry

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First Line:

Will virtue frown Severus on our way

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pp.275-280

Poem Title:

Dialogue I. A Defence of Angling.

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First Line:

We fled Piscator to the trees in vain

Page No:

pp.280-284

Poem Title:

Dialogue II. Some General Rules of the Sport.

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First Line:

Me no pleasure shall enamour

Page No:

pp.284-285

Poem Title:

The Angler's Song

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First Line:

The seasons surely in these northern climes

Page No:

pp.286-291

Poem Title:

Dialogue III. Angling for Trout.

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First Line:

Our labour Lepidus is ill repayed

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pp.292-300

Poem Title:

Dialogue IV. Angling for Perch.

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First Line:

Brother awake prevent the chiding day

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pp.300-306

Poem Title:

Dialogue V. Carp

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First Line:

This lonesome dale these shaggy hills which lean

Page No:

pp.307-312

Poem Title:

Dialogue VI. Mixed Angling.

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First Line:

High noon invites my friends come sit and eat

Page No:

pp.312-322

Poem Title:

Dialogue VII. Trowling for Pike.

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First Line:

The sun now wheeling through the fisher's sign

Page No:

pp.322-334

Poem Title:

Dialogue VIII. Fishing for Pike with Lay-Hooks

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First Line:

Hail to the sage who from his native store

Page No:

p.357

Poem Title:

From my much Honoured Friend at Heldelville.

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First Line:

Once on a time in merry mood

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pp.358-359

Poem Title:

The Original of Punning, from Plato Symposiacs, by the Author.

Attribution:

'By the Author' i.e. 'Tom Pun-sibi.'

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First Line:

Had I ten thousand mouths and tongues

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p.360

Poem Title:

Upon the Author

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First Line:

All men of mirth and sense admire and love

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p.367

Poem Title:

Et alibi

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First Line:

He's the king of mirth that slily cheats our sense

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p.368

Poem Title:

Ex Lucano

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First Line:

Thus did great Socrates improve the mind

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p.375

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

If these can't keep your ladies quiet

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p.377

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Vide Roscom.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Thus puppies that adore the dark

Page No:

p.383

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Whoever he be that to a taste aspires

Page No:

pp.391-406

Poem Title:

The Man of Taste.

Attribution:

By the Author of the Art of Politics

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First Line:

If ever in thy sight I found favour Apollo

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pp.406-409

Poem Title:

The Poet's Prayer.

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First Line:

As genius virtue reputation

Page No:

pp.410-412

Poem Title:

Genius, Virtue and Reputation. A Fable. From Mons. De La Motte. Book 5 Fable 6.

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