Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [June 1711]
- DMI number:
- 317
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 01/06/1711
- Volume Number:
- 6 of 8
- ESTC number:
- P6193
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- n/a
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Hope adds. 1190
- Full Title:
- DELIGHTS | For the INGENIOUS: | OR, | A MONTHLY Entertainment | For the Curious of | BOTH SEXES. | CONTAINING, | A vast Variety of Pleasant [i]Enigma's[/i]; Delightful | [i]Arithmetical Questions[/i]; Curious [i]Stories[/i]; Witty [i]Epigrams[/i]; | Surprizing [i]Adventures[/i]; Amazing [i]Paradoxes[/i]: With [i]Songs, | Anagrams, Emblems, Dialogues, Elegies, Epigrams[/i]; and | other [i]Useful[/i] and [i]Diverting[/i] SUBJECTS, both in | PROSE and VERSE. | [rule] | To [i]which is now[/i] Added, | How many [i]Minutes[/i] and [i]Seconds[/i], all Good [i]Watches[/i] | and [i]Clocks[/i] should go Faster (or Slower) than the SUN, | for every Day of the Month: With the [i]Rising, South-|ing, Setting[/i], and [i]Meridian Altitudes[/i] of the [i]PLANETS[/i] | and [i]Fixed Stars[/i]. | [rule] | [g]To be Continued Monthly.[/g] | [rule] | By the [i]Author[/i] of the LADIES-DIARY. | [rule] | This SIXTH for JUNE, 1711. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] Printed by [i]J. Roberts[/i], and Sold by | [i]Joseph Collier[/i] at [i]Stationers-Hall[/i]; (Where those for [i]January | February, March, April & May[/i], may be had.) Price 3 [i]d[/i].
- Epigraph:
- n/a
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Periodical miscellany
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- 3d
- Pagination:
- [201]-240 pp.
- Bibliographic details:
- Pagination and signatures continue from previous volume.
- Comments:
- Contents: Almanac pp. 203-205; explication of enigma from the Ladies Diary pp. 206-208; prose answers to questions pp. 233-239.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Addresses to reader, p. 202. Draws attention to the effect of the recent act to impose stamp-duty on pamphlets. Back matter: Contents p. 240.
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [April 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 4 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [Feb 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 2 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [Jan 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 1 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [March 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 3 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [May 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 5 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [July-September 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 7 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [October-December 1711]
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- ESTC No:
- P6193
- Volume:
- 8 of 8
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Editor:
- John Tipper
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Printer:
- James Roberts
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed by J. Roberts, and Sold by Joseph Collier at Stationers-Hall.'
- Sold by:
- Joseph Collier
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed by J. Roberts, and Sold by Joseph Collier at Stationers-Hall.'
- First Line:
- No hands ever had we or colours ever saw
- Page No:
- p.206
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- But we're odd kind of beings and strange pranks have played
- Page No:
- p.208
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From shrubs and from trees and vast caverns below
- Page No:
- p.208
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your birth my lord and great deserts
- Page No:
- pp.209-211
- Poem Title:
- Horat. Odar. Lib. 1. Od. 1. Imitated. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Lord H---x.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though most mankind upbraids and strives to vex
- Page No:
- p.211
- Poem Title:
- Of Man's Levity and Woman's Constancy.
- Attribution:
- By A. W.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let him that will stand on the dangerous heights
- Page No:
- pp.212-213
- Poem Title:
- The Contempt. A Pindarick
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Joshua Wood
- Attributed To:
- Joshua Wood
- First Line:
- Under the shady boughs of this green tree
- Page No:
- pp.213-214
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral. Daphne and Silvia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some say from heaven all marriages descend
- Page No:
- p.214
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram upon a Single Life.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While a young lion just arrived at age
- Page No:
- pp.214-215
- Poem Title:
- The Lion Disarm'd: A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Aspiring souls to great attempts inclined
- Page No:
- p.215
- Poem Title:
- The Moral
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thou H----t guardian of the British laws
- Page No:
- pp.215-216
- Poem Title:
- The Tables turn'd: In Praise of my Lord Keeper.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No shows or triumphs can oblige my sight
- Page No:
- p.216
- Poem Title:
- The Complaints of old Age.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Among the ancients we may read
- Page No:
- p.217
- Poem Title:
- 1. Enigma, Answer'd
- Attribution:
- By J. R. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Things in their natures you anatomize
- Page No:
- pp.217-219
- Poem Title:
- The same Answer'd
- Attribution:
- By Philalethes
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When I did on your riddle ruminate
- Page No:
- p.217
- Poem Title:
- Answer'd also
- Attribution:
- By T. B.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As I was pausing on your lines obscure
- Page No:
- p.217
- Poem Title:
- 2. Enigma, Answer'd
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Tho. Arnold
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Arnold
- First Line:
- No wonder when with seriousness engaged
- Page No:
- p.219
- Poem Title:
- 3. AEnigma. Answered
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Tho. Arnold
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Arnold
- First Line:
- That thou art daily born no doubt
- Page No:
- p.220
- Poem Title:
- 4. Enigma, Answer'd
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. B. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who dares affirm my power is weak
- Page No:
- pp.220-222
- Poem Title:
- 1. Enigma
- Attribution:
- By Strephon of Gloucestershire
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You say your number is but very few
- Page No:
- p.220
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By Mr. S. Widdows
- Attributed To:
- S Widdows
- First Line:
- Among all th' ingenious arts there's none
- Page No:
- p.222
- Poem Title:
- 2. Enigma
- Attribution:
- By Lysander
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I challenge nature for to bring
- Page No:
- pp.222-223
- Poem Title:
- 3. Enigma
- Attribution:
- By J. R. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Married I am yet lead a single life
- Page No:
- p.223
- Poem Title:
- 4. Enigma
- Attribution:
- By Phileremus
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A seat you've got within whose bounds I find
- Page No:
- pp.223-224
- Poem Title:
- 1. Question answer'd
- Attribution:
- By Mr. John Richards
- Attributed To:
- John Richards
- First Line:
- As I sat musing of the many cares
- Page No:
- pp.224-225
- Poem Title:
- Likewise Answered
- Attribution:
- By Lysander
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your orchard sir does seem a paradise
- Page No:
- p.224
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By J. R. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Phoebus past the equinoctial line
- Page No:
- pp.225-226
- Poem Title:
- The same also answer'd
- Attribution:
- By Mr. J. Newbold
- Attributed To:
- John Newbold
- First Line:
- Surely such charms as these must needs delight
- Page No:
- pp.226-227
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richard Jones
- Attributed To:
- Richard Jones
- First Line:
- If in a close room your candle is placed
- Page No:
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- The same Answered
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Samuel Warwick
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Warwick
- First Line:
- Some men in words do much abound
- Page No:
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- The same
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Newbold
- Attributed To:
- John Newbold
- First Line:
- If I take your candle by the right end
- Page No:
- p.227
- Poem Title:
- The Second Question answer'd
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Amos Fish
- Attributed To:
- Amos Fish
- First Line:
- For me let Atlas bear the orbs
- Page No:
- p.228
- Poem Title:
- To the Fourth Question J. R. S. saith,
- Attribution:
- J. R. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Three jovial blades I vow they were
- Page No:
- p.228
- Poem Title:
- Answered also
- Attribution:
- By J. R. S
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An inch of the top your candle required
- Page No:
- p.228
- Poem Title:
- The same likewise resolved
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Jones
- Attributed To:
- Richard Jones
- First Line:
- My jolly brave lads you'd no need to be troubled
- Page No:
- p.228
- Poem Title:
- The Third Question answered
- Attribution:
- By the same hand [i.e. Jones]
- Attributed To:
- Richard Jones
- First Line:
- Whatever country does that hill contain
- Page No:
- pp.228-229
- Poem Title:
- Answer'd
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Amos Fish
- Attributed To:
- Amos Fish
- First Line:
- Upon our coast are two French privateers
- Page No:
- pp.229-230
- Poem Title:
- Qu. 1
- Attribution:
- By J. R. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of a cistern the following proportion we've given
- Page No:
- pp.230-231
- Poem Title:
- Qu. 3
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Jos. Lover
- Attributed To:
- Joshua Lover
- First Line:
- Now that Sylvia and I our whole portions have got
- Page No:
- p.230
- Poem Title:
- Qu. 2.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Amos Fish
- Attributed To:
- Amos Fish
- First Line:
- Although Abel's progenitors
- Page No:
- p.231
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pointin
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Pointon
- First Line:
- Eight cities lying all directly straight
- Page No:
- p.231
- Poem Title:
- Qu. 4.
- Attribution:
- By Mrs. Martha Jonson
- Attributed To:
- Martha Jonson
- First Line:
- Adam I know was never begot
- Page No:
- p.231
- Poem Title:
- The first Paradox answer'd
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Richards
- Attributed To:
- John Richards
- First Line:
- By nice observance it doth plain appear
- Page No:
- p.232
- Poem Title:
- The Philosophical Question answered
- Attribution:
- Answered by the same [i.e. J. R. S.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your paradox must needs surprize
- Page No:
- p.232
- Poem Title:
- The second Paradox answer'd
- Attribution:
- By J. R. S.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When heat and moisture are in one conjoined
- Page No:
- pp.232-233
- Poem Title:
- The Philosophical Question answered also
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pointin
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Pointon
- First Line:
- Enflamed in love and wrapped in ecstasy
- Page No:
- p.233
- Poem Title:
- A Philosophical Question proposed
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Joshua Wood
- Attributed To:
- Joshua Wood
- First Line:
- An humble station is a safe retreat
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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