Water poetry [T126559] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1401

Publication Date:

1771

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T126559

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115511630

Shelfmark:

BOD ECCO

Full Title:

WATER POETRY | A | COLLECTION | OF | VERSES | WRITTEN AT | SEVERAL PUBLIC PLACES, | Most of them never before printed. | VIZ | [2 columns] [column 1] BATH, | TUNBRIDGE, | MARGATE, | BRIGHTHELMSTON, [/column 1] | [column 2] BRISTOL, | SCARBOROUGH, | SOUTHAMPTON, | CHELTENHAM, &C. | [/column 2] [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed for G. PEARCH, No 12. [i]Cheapside.[/i]

Epigraph:

[i]The Water-Poets are an innocent tribe, and deserve all the | encouragement I can give them. It would be barbarous to | treat those authors with bitterness, who never write out of | the season, and whose works are useful with the waters.[/i] | Guardian, Vol. II. No 174.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Half title: VERSES | AT | BATH. Title page p. [35]: VERSES | AT | TUNBRIDGE. Title page p. [63]: VERSES | AT | OTHER PUBLIC PLACES.

Comments:

Latin verse p.34; French verse p.41.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Preface pp. iii-vi.

Related People

Publisher:

George Pearch

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Much wondrous good doth fount dispense

Page No:

Poem Title:

A Poetical Compliment To Mr. P- at Bath. Kynge Bladyde, to W- P- (now L-D C---M) Sendeth greeting.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Not contented to rival Tibullus and Gray

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pp.1-3

Poem Title:

To The Ingenious Author Of The New Bath Guide

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Apollo of old on Britannia did smile

Page No:

pp.4-5

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Bindon at Bath.

Attribution:

By the Honourable Sir C. H. Williams.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

When home I returned from the dancing last night

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p.6

Poem Title:

Mrs. Bindon's Answer

Attribution:

Mrs. Bindon

Attributed To:

Mrs Bindon

First Line:

I'll not believe that Phoebus did not smile

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

Sir Charles's Reply

Attribution:

Sir Charles [i.e. Hanbury Williams]

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

If pleased with your new tenement your breast

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p.8

Poem Title:

Verse upon presenting a Bird Cage to a Lady at Bath. Addressed to the Lady's Bird.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The soul's chief virtues are in symbols shown

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

On Mr. Garrick's Picture by a Bust of Shakespear.

Attribution:

By Dr. H. of Bath.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That tongue which set the table on a roar

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Mr. Quin, Who Died At Bath.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

The old egyptians hid their wit

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pp.12-14

Poem Title:

On Mr. Nash's Picture, At Full Length, Between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope at Bath.

Attribution:

By the E- of C-.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What do scholars and bards and astronomers wise

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pp.15-16

Poem Title:

On the D___ss of R__d.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. E-- of C--]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From weight of sordid venal cares

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pp.17-18

Poem Title:

On a Certain Lawyer Conversing with Miss Talbot at Bath (1740.)

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Tis said for every common grief

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p.19

Poem Title:

To the Right Honourable John Earl of Orrery at Bath, After the Death of the late Earl.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Nor Bath nor Tunbridge can my lays inspire

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

The Earl's Answer. Written extempore.

Attribution:

'The Earl's Answer' [i.e. John, Earl of Orrery]

Attributed To:

John Boyle

First Line:

Say gentle youth that treadst untouched with care

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pp.21-22

Poem Title:

The Hermite's Addresse to Youthe. Written in the Spring-garden at Bath.

Attribution:

The Olde Hermite.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While in these fountains bright Belinda laves

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p.23

Poem Title:

Belinda at Bath

Attribution:

By Dr. Broom

Attributed To:

William Broome

First Line:

Ye heedless fair who trifle life away

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p.24

Poem Title:

Advice to the Ladies at Bath.

Attribution:

Written by a Lady.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On reason faith and mystery high

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p.25

Poem Title:

Epigram Occasioned by a Religious Dispute at Bath. (1749)

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

To all you ladies now at Bath

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pp.26-28

Poem Title:

Farewell to Bath.

Attribution:

By Lady M. W. Montagu

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

Midst flowery meads and Avon's winding floods

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pp.29-31

Poem Title:

On the Ancient City of Bath, Written on the finishing the Circus.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

O health thou best of heavenly deities

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p.32

Poem Title:

At Cheltenham. Ode to Health. In imitation of a Greek Ode.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

See nature clad in her rich array

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p.33

Poem Title:

Verses Presented to a Lady, With a Basket of Flowers.

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First Line:

O precious fount O chief among

Page No:

pp.37-39

Poem Title:

O Fons Blandusiae! Horat.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Compton still shines with bright and sparkling eyes

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p.40

Poem Title:

The Beauties of Tunbridge Wells described, 1759.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Whoever would paint so fine a creature

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p.42

Poem Title:

The Same in English Verse

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While Churchill led his daring Britons on

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p.43

Poem Title:

Epigram

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

That precious gem on any hand but thine

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p.44

Poem Title:

On Seeing a Remarkable Fine Diamond on the Countess of ****'s Finger, at Tunbridge Wells. (1764)

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Venus who all her sex outvies

Page No:

pp.45-47

Poem Title:

The Work-Bag, A Female Implement much in vogue among the Ladies on the pantiles. (1764)

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

You ask me how Chloe just now in her prime

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

Chloe at Tunbridge

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Great Taylor comes loud rumour cries

Page No:

pp.49-50

Poem Title:

On Dr. Taylor, Who came to Tunbridge Wells in the Year 1758.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Avaunt ye furies hence away for here

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

On a Poetical and Political Heroic Contest, at Tunbridge Wells, (1769.) Addressed to the Gentlemen, and Inscribed to the Ladies.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Away with this knotting superfluous such arts

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p.52

Poem Title:

On a Lady Knotting

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The butterfly flies round and round

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p.53

Poem Title:

On a Butterfly in the Ballroom (1765)

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Nymph of the sacred fountain here

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p.54

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Macaulay's Arrival at Tunbridge Wells. For the recovery of her Health, said to be much impaired by her Historical Studies and Writings.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Let other painters boldly take

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

Directions to a Miniature Painter at Tunbridge Wells. (1770)

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With various weapons various art

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By Captain - At Tunbridge Wells.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Curious the bookish man surveying

Page No:

pp.58-59

Poem Title:

Written on the first view of Tunbridge-Wells.

Attribution:

By Mr Lockman.

Attributed To:

John Lockman

First Line:

Weep not sweet nymph thy tender bosom's smart

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Sw-nt-'s Breast Being Stung by a Wasp in Pinchbeck's Room

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Take holy earth all that my soul holds dear

Page No:

pp.65-66

Poem Title:

An Elegy by Mr. Mason on the Death of his Wife: Who died, whilst drinking a glass of water at Bristol Wells.

Attribution:

by Mr. Mason

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Where strays my wandering Laura where

Page No:

pp.67-70

Poem Title:

The Wanderer, or, The Village Maid. Southampton (1756.)

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

When C-ttn first in Buxton walks I viewed

Page No:

pp.71-72

Poem Title:

On Miss Elizabeth C-tt-n, at Buxton Wells. Idyllium.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

When our first father through the dreary waste

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Sonnet Occasioned by Leaving Buxton.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Young Cupid elate with cruel design

Page No:

pp.75-76

Poem Title:

A Latin Epigram of Marcellus, Altered by Scaliger, Imitated: And Addressed to a Young Lady at Astrop-Wells In Northamptonshire.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Doctors by travel are improved

Page No:

pp.77-80

Poem Title:

[Greek] Dr. Sea's Harangue, at Margate.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

In vain the painter shows his skill

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

Verse sent to a Lady at Margate, whose picture was not like her, (1764.)

Attribution:

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First Line:

A youthful pair whom mutual love endears

Page No:

pp.83-87

Poem Title:

A Scarborough Eclogue

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

What means this sudden grief this general gloom

Page No:

pp.88-89

Poem Title:

A Scarborough Elegy On the Death of the Marquis of Granby (1770).

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Was it not enough enchanting fair

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

To a Lady at Brighthelmston (1763)

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Caught in a storm the frightened merchant prays

Page No:

pp.92-95

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode the XVI. B. 2. Translated and Addressed to a Friend at Brighthelmston. (1770.)

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For private loss the lenient tear may flow

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

On the Marquis of Granby's Decease at Scarborough

Attribution:

John Cunningham

Attributed To:

John Cunningham