Miscellanea. In Two Volumes. [T39417]
- DMI number:
- 637
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC number:
- T39417
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW114486629
- Shelfmark:
- BOD 12 Theta 1342 v.1-v.2
- Full Title:
- [i]MISCELLANEA[/i]. | IN | TWO VOLUMES. | [rule] | [i]Never before Published[/i]. | [rule] | [i]VIZ[/i] | I. [i]Familiar Letters[/i] written to HENRY | CROMWELL [i]Esq[/i]; by Mr. POPE. | II. Occasional Poems by Mr. POPE, | Mr. CROMWELL, Dean SWIFT, [i]&c[/i]. | III. LETTERS from Mr. DRYDEN, to | a LADY, in the Year 1699. | [rule] | VOLUME I. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the YEAR, 1727. | Price 5 [i]s[/i].
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Price:
- 5 s.
- Bibliographic details:
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION: Second volume has a separate register and pagination; as does 'Laus Ululae'. First separate title page: FAMILIAR | LETTERS | TO | CORINNA. | [rule] | By Mr. Dryden. | [rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the YEAR, 1727. Second separate title page: [i]MISCELLANEA.[/i] | The SECOND Volume. | I. An ESSAY upon GIBING. | With a project for its Improvement. | II. The PRAISE of WOMEN. | Done out of [i]French[/i]. | III. An ESSAY on the [i]Mischief[/i] | of giving [i]Fortunes[/i] with [i]Women[/i] in | MARRIAGE. | IV. [i]SWIFTEANA:[/i] Or | Poems by Dean SWIFT, and seve- | ral of his FRIENDS. | V. [i]Laus Ululae[/i]. The PRAISE of | OWLS. Translated from the [i]Latin[/i], | By a [i]Canary[/i] BIRD. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the YEAR, 1727. Third separate title page: AN | ESSAY | ON | GIBING, | WITH A | PROJECT | FOR IT'S | IMPORVEMENT. | [i]Opus diu, multumque desideratum[/i]. | [rule] | [i]Omne Vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amice | Tangit, & admissus circum praecordia ludit | Callidus excusso Populum suspendere Naso[/i]. | Pers. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i]: | Printed in the YEAR, 1727. Fourth separate title page: THE | [i]Praise[/i] of WOMEN. | In ANSWER to this | QUESTION; | [i]Whether the Company of[/i] Women | [i]is useful, or hurtful, to[/i] young Gentlemen [i]at their first Setting out in the World?[/i] | [rule] | Translated from the [i]French[/i] Original | Of [i]Monsieur L'Abbé[/i] BELLEGARDE; | By Mr. [i]S. MACKY[/i]. | [rule] | [i] -- O Woman! -- Lovely Woman! -- | Nature made you to temper Man! | We had been Brutes without you; | Angels are painted fair to look like you, | There's in you, all that we believe of Heaven, | Amazing Brightness, Purity, and Truth, | Eternal Joy, and everlasting Love.[/i] OTWAY. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i]: | Printed in the YEAR MDCCXXVII. Fifth separate title page: AN | ESSAY | ON THE | MISCHIEF | OF GIVING | FORTUNES | WITH | [i]WOMEN[/i] | IN | MARRIAGE. | [rule] | [i]Faecunda culpae saecula[/i] Nuptias | [i]Primum inquinavere, & Genus & Domos. | Hoc Fonte derivata Clades | In patriam populumq; fluxit.[/i] Hor. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the YEAR, 1727. Sixth separate title page: [i]SWIFTEANA[/i]. | CONSISTING OF | POEMS | By Dean SWIFT, and se- | veral of his FRIENDS. | [rule] | [i]Never before printed.[/i] | [rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the YEAR, 1727. LAUS ULULAE. | The [g]Praise of Owls.[g] | An | ORATION | TO THE | Conscript Fathers, and Patrons | of OWLS. | [rule] | Written in LATIN, | [i]By[/i] CURTIUS JAELE. | TRANSLATED | [i]By a[/i] CANARY BIRD. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the YEAR 1727. PLATES: Plates facing title pages to each volume and following title page of 'Laus Ululae'
- Comments:
- PAGINATION: [11] 2-146, [147-149] 150-155, [13]. [7] 2-22, [23-25], 26-37, [38-41], 42-66, [67-69], 70-99, [1]. [2] ii-iv, i-ii, [1], 4-101, [1]. MISCELLANY GENRE: Prose / verse miscellany. MISCELLANY CONTENTS: Contains a great deal of prose. PLATES: Plates facing title pages to each volume and following title page of 'Laus Ululae'
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATERIAL: 1. Dedication to Henry Cromwell (2pp.); 'To the Editor' (3pp.); Preface (3pp.) 2. 'To Mr. Alexander Pope.' (2.pp) 3. 'To the Jocund reader' (4pp.); Preface of the Owl (2pp.) BACK MATTER: 1. 'An Explanation of Some of the Passages in the foregoing Letters and Poems' (3pp.); 'The Table' (6pp.); 'Books Printed for E. CURLL. (4pp.)
- References:
- Case 343(1).
- Title:
- Atterburyana: being miscellanies by the late Bishop of Rochester [T145153]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T145153
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellanea: the second volume [T39419] [partial reissue of T39417 vol. 2; reissue of T82103]
- Publication Date:
- 1727
- ESTC No:
- T39419
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dedicatee:
- Henry Cromwell
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printer:
- Edmund Curll
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- See ESTC.
- First Line:
- Sir | This letter greets you from the shades
- Page No:
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- A. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- If wit or critic blame the tender swain
- Page No:
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- A. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- To Baker first my service pray
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- A. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Happy the man who free from care
- Page No:
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- Ode on Solicitude
- Attribution:
- A. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- You know where you did despise
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- A. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Fatis agimur cedite fatis
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- A. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Now lightly skimming over the strings they pass
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Philips's Pastorals
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- First Line:
- As long as Moco's happy tree shall grow
- Page No:
- p.59
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- A. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tell me by all the melting joys of love
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- A. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Some Colinaeus praise some Bleau
- Page No:
- pp.67-68
- Poem Title:
- Verses to be prefix'd before Bernard Lintot's New Miscellany.
- Attribution:
- A. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Jove called before him the other day
- Page No:
- pp.73-77
- Poem Title:
- Verses occasioned by Mr. Durfy's adding an &c. at the End of his Name; in Imitation of Voiture's Verses on Neuf-Germain.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Dear Mr Cromwell | May it please ye
- Page No:
- pp.77-82
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from Mr. Alexander Pope to Henry Cromwell, Esq.
- Attribution:
- from Mr. Alexander Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The sportive mistress of the Paphian court
- Page No:
- p.83
- Poem Title:
- Venus at Bath.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cromwell
- Attributed To:
- Henry Cromwell
- First Line:
- There nymphs the muses' darlings mourn in troops
- Page No:
- p.84
- Poem Title:
- Phaon to Sapho when sick. Her Chamber.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Cromwell]
- Attributed To:
- Henry Cromwell
- First Line:
- Though you melodiously condole my grief
- Page No:
- p.85
- Poem Title:
- Sapho's Answer to Phaon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus to the gods Anacreon said
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- Phaon's Reply.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As the three children late in council sat
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- Epigram Papal on the Female Canticle.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope. [table of contents]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The shepherds and the nymphs were seen
- Page No:
- pp.88-119
- Poem Title:
- Cadenus and Vanessa, A Law Case.
- Attribution:
- By Dean Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Happy are you whom Quintock overlooks
- Page No:
- pp.120-127
- Poem Title:
- Brent. To Thomas Palmer, Esq; Member of Parliament for Bridgwater.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Diaper.
- Attributed To:
- William Diaper
- First Line:
- Panting and breathless from the vale below
- Page No:
- pp.128-130
- Poem Title:
- Wintonia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize
- Page No:
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- To a fair Lady singing to her Lute.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Ozell at Sanger's call invoked his muse
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- The Translator.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- If Dennis writes and rails in furious pet
- Page No:
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- Satire.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Oft as thou know'st I've dared the critic crowd
- Page No:
- pp.134-137
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. Occasioned by two Stanzas in Black-Ey'd-Susan.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Wesley
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Wesley
- First Line:
- Phyllis she is both blythe and yonge
- Page No:
- pp.138-139
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet. ... Never before printed.
- Attribution:
- By Spenser.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Spenser
- First Line:
- When Israel's daughters mourned their past offences
- Page No:
- p.139
- Poem Title:
- Epigram 1726.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Well then when will these railings end
- Page No:
- pp.140-142
- Poem Title:
- A Receipt to make a modern Poet.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pattison
- Attributed To:
- William Pattison
- First Line:
- Back scribbler to thy Caledonian plains
- Page No:
- pp.142-144
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Mitchell, on his two Poetical Petitions.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Pattison]
- Attributed To:
- William Pattison
- First Line:
- While spurious poems daily vex us
- Page No:
- pp.145-146
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. E. Curll, Bookseller.
- Attribution:
- William Pattison. Sidney Coll. Camb. 1715
- Attributed To:
- William Pattison
- First Line:
- How shall I now the nine invoke
- Page No:
- pp.70-75
- Poem Title:
- The Broken Mug. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- By Dean Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Cut the name of the man who his mistress denied
- Page No:
- p.76
- Poem Title:
- A Rebus on Dean Swift.
- Attribution:
- By Vanessa
- Attributed To:
- Esther Van Homrigh
- First Line:
- The nymph who wrote this in an amorous fit
- Page No:
- pp.77-78
- Poem Title:
- The Dean's Answer.
- Attribution:
- The Dean [i.e. Swift]
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Upon a bed of humble clay
- Page No:
- pp.79-80
- Poem Title:
- A Riddle.
- Attribution:
- By Dean Parnell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- Of gentle Philips will I ever sing
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- The Three Gentle Shepherds.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- I reach all things near me and far off to boot
- Page No:
- pp.82-83
- Poem Title:
- A Riddle...Inscribed to the Lady Carteret.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Delany
- Attributed To:
- Patrick Delany
- First Line:
- With half an eye
- Page No:
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- The Same Answered
- Attribution:
- by Dean Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Thalia tell in sober lays
- Page No:
- pp.85-90
- Poem Title:
- The Journal.
- Attribution:
- By Doctor Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, when at the Lord Chief Baron Rochfort's House.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- It was my lord the dextrous shift
- Page No:
- pp.90-94
- Poem Title:
- A Petition to his Grace the Duke of Grafton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear Smed I read thy brilliant lines
- Page No:
- pp.94-96
- Poem Title:
- His Grace's Answer.
- Attribution:
- By Dean Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Dear doctor here comes a young virgin untainted
- Page No:
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- The humble Petition of a beautiful young Lady to the Reverend Dr. Berkeley.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When slaves their liberty require
- Page No:
- pp.98-99
- Poem Title:
- The Answer of a Lady, to a Gentleman, after a long Courtship.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sings in her sweetest saddest plight
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Like gods we passed the rugged Alpine hills
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lee's Sophonisba
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- These greedy birds fly screeching though the skies
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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