Miscellanies, written by Jonathan Swift ... The Fourth Edition [T39486] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 521
- Publication Date:
- 1722
- ESTC number:
- T39486
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW112719545
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - Bod
- Full Title:
- [double rule around title page] Miscellanies, | WRITTEN | By JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. | Dean of St. [i]PATRICK[/i]'s, [i]Dublin[/i]. | [i]VIZ.[/i] | I. The ART of PUNNING. | II. The RIGHT of PRECEDENCE. | III. ADVICE to a Young POET. | IV. The SWEARER's Bank. | V. A DEFENCE of [i]English-Commodities[/i]. | VI An Imitation of HORACE. | VII Letters, Poems, Tales, [i]&c[/i]. | [rule] | The Fourth Edition. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXII. | Price 2[i]s[/i]. 6[i]d[/i].
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Price:
- 2s. 6d.
- Bibliographic details:
- TITLE-PAGE OF POETIC MISCELLANY: [double rule around title page] LETTERS, | POEMS, | AND | TALES: | Amorous, Satyrical, | [i]and[/i] Gallant. | Which passed between several | PERSONS of DISTINCTION. | [rule] | Published from their respective | [i]Originals[/i], found in the Cabinet of | (that Celebrated [i]Toast[/i]) Mrs. ANNE | LONG, since her Decease. | [rule] | The Second Edition. | [rule] | First printed in the Year 1718.
- Comments:
- NOTE: Volume by Edmund Curll consisting of six pamphlets with continuous pagination. The 'fourth edition' is spurious. The ECCO copy is a variant state containing two additional pamphlets after the contents page (see Teerink-Scouten). The poetic miscellany is the final pamphlet (after p.144), a 'second edition' of 'Letters, Poems and Tales: Amorous, Satyrical, and Gallant' (first published in 1718). The two pamphlets bound in to the front of ECCO copy are not included in pagination. p.201 is mispaginated as p.101. CONTENTS OF OVERALL VOLUME: This state contains 2 additional pamphlets at front of volume: 1) Essay on 'The Benefit of Farting Explained' 2) Essay on 'The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders. Being an Accurate Description of ... Mine A----se'. These are followed by 3) Essay on 'The Art of Punning' 4) 'The Right of Precedence, Between Physicians and Civilians Enquired Into.' 5) 'A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet' 6) 'A Defence of English Commodities' 7) 'The Swearer's Bank' 8) 'Letters, Poems, and Tales: Amorous, Satyrical, and Gallant'. MISCELLANY GENRE: Amorous and satirical poems CONTENTS OF POETIC MISCELLANY: English prose pp.147-155, pp.164-165, pp.168-169.
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATTER: Table of contents (3pp.), list of 'Books lately Printed' by Curll (1p.).
- References:
- Paul Baines and Pat Rogers, Edmund Curll: Bookseller (2007), pp. 129 - 130.
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Edmund Curll
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- See Baines and Rogers, 'Edmund Curll, Bookseller' (2007), pp.129-130.
- First Line:
- Sirs I perceive by your attention
- Page No:
- pp.156-162
- Poem Title:
- The Lady and the Blacksmith, A Tale: or News from Oxford. Spoke by a Young Gentleman of Winchester-School.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- But on profounder contemplation
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- A Riddle.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cried Strephon panting in Cosmelia's arms
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- The Rapture.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cupid quite angry that his dart
- Page No:
- pp.166-167.
- Poem Title:
- The Fair, Insensible.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why should the charming Galatea shun
- Page No:
- pp.169-170
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir William Trumball, who was Ambassador to Turkey
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Trumbull
- First Line:
- Too weak are laws and edicts vain
- Page No:
- pp.171-175
- Poem Title:
- The Edict of Prato: Or; Cuckoldom Defended. A Tale from Boccace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Madam | Here sacred truths in lofty numbers told
- Page No:
- pp.176-178.
- Poem Title:
- To Mrs. A.C. with Dr. Young's Poem on the Last Day.
- Attribution:
- By Thomas Tristram, Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tristram
- First Line:
- Larinda the pride of the plain
- Page No:
- pp.179-181
- Poem Title:
- Larinda.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Tristram]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tristram
- First Line:
- No stately pyramid I'd have
- Page No:
- pp.182-184
- Poem Title:
- The Lover's Tomb. Imitated from an Italian Poet.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Tristram]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tristram
- First Line:
- O were I seated by some pitying power
- Page No:
- pp.185-189
- Poem Title:
- Acon: or, The Second Eclogue of John Amaltheus Imitated.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Tristram]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tristram
- First Line:
- Fair nymph ascend to beauty's throne
- Page No:
- pp.190-191
- Poem Title:
- Stanzas. To my Lady Sunderland at Tunbridge-Wells. 1712. After the Manner of Mr. Waller.
- Attribution:
- By the Reverend Mr. Isaac Watts
- Attributed To:
- Isaac Watts
- First Line:
- Who dares affirm this is no pious age
- Page No:
- pp.192-193
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to a Play, for the Benefit of the Weavers in Ireland 1721.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Know all men by these presents death the tamer
- Page No:
- pp.194-196
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy On the much lamented Death of Mr. Demar, the Famous Rich Man, who Died the Sixth Day of July, 1720, at Dublin.
- Attribution:
- 'By the Same' i.e. Jonathan Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Beneath this verdant hillock lies
- Page No:
- p.196
- Poem Title:
- The Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- 'By the Same' i.e. Jonathan Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Harley the nation's great support
- Page No:
- pp.197-204
- Poem Title:
- Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace, Imitated, and addressed to the Earl of Oxford in the Year 1713.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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