A Collection of Poems [T102660] [ecco]

DMI number:

82

Publication Date:

1732

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T102660

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115384244

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | [rule] | By JOHN WHALEY, Fellow of KINGS-COLLEGE, | [i]CAMBRIDGE[/i]. | [rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for the AUTHOR. | By JOHN WILLIS, and JOSEPH BODDINGTON, at the [i]Angel[/i] | and [i]Bible[/i], in [i]Great-Tower-Street[/i], | And sold by Messieurs INNYS, and MANBY at the West End of | St. [i]Paul[/i]'s-[i]Church-Yard[/i]; Messieurs BETTESWORTH and HITCH | at the [i]Red-Lion[/i] in [i]Paternoster-Row[/i], and T. ASTLEY, at the [i]Rose[/i] | in St. [i]Paul[/i]'s-[i]Church-Yard[/i], MDCCXXXII.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Subscription Miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

0

Comments:

ATTRIBUTIONS: all unattributed verse in the collection is treated as being by John Whaley, named on the title page as author. See ODNB for further details.

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATTER: Subscription list (10 pp.); Contents (3pp).

Related People

Editor:

John Whaley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'By John Whaley, Fellow of Kings-College, Cambridge'

Printer:

John Willis

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Printed for the Author. By John Willis, and Joseph Boddington, at the Angel and Bible, in Great-Tower-Street, And sold by Messieurs Innys, and Manby at the West End of St. Paul's Church-Yard; Messieurs Bettesworth and Hitch at the Red-Lion in Paternoster-Row, and T. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's-Church-Yard.

Printer:

Joseph Boddington

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Printed for the Author. By John Willis, and Joseph Boddington, at the Angel and Bible, in Great-Tower-Street, And sold by Messieurs Innys, and Manby at the West End of St. Paul's Church-Yard; Messieurs Bettesworth and Hitch at the Red-Lion in Paternoster-Row, and T. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's-Church-Yard.

Sold by:

Arthur Bettesworth

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Printed for the Author. By John Willis, and Joseph Boddington, at the Angel and Bible, in Great-Tower-Street, And sold by Messieurs Innys, and Manby at the West End of St. Paul's Church-Yard; Messieurs Bettesworth and Hitch at the Red-Lion in Paternoster-Row, and T. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's-Church-Yard.

Sold by:

Mr. Hitch

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Printed for the Author. By John Willis, and Joseph Boddington, at the Angel and Bible, in Great-Tower-Street, And sold by Messieurs Innys, and Manby at the West End of St. Paul's Church-Yard; Messieurs Bettesworth and Hitch at the Red-Lion in Paternoster-Row, and T. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's-Church-Yard.

Sold by:

Mr. Manby

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Printed for the Author. By John Willis, and Joseph Boddington, at the Angel and Bible, in Great-Tower-Street, And sold by Messieurs Innys, and Manby at the West End of St. Paul's Church-Yard; Messieurs Bettesworth and Hitch at the Red-Lion in Paternoster-Row, and T. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's-Church-Yard.

Sold by:

Thomas Astley

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Printed for the Author. By John Willis, and Joseph Boddington, at the Angel and Bible, in Great-Tower-Street, And sold by Messieurs Innys, and Manby at the West End of St. Paul's Church-Yard; Messieurs Bettesworth and Hitch at the Red-Lion in Paternoster-Row, and T. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's-Church-Yard.

Sold by:

William Innys

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Printed for the Author. By John Willis, and Joseph Boddington, at the Angel and Bible, in Great-Tower-Street, And sold by Messieurs Innys, and Manby at the West End of St. Paul's Church-Yard; Messieurs Bettesworth and Hitch at the Red-Lion in Paternoster-Row, and T. Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's-Church-Yard.

Content/Publication

First Line:

To call the long past ages back to view

Page No:

pp.3-40

Poem Title:

An Essay on Painting.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Norfolk's proud villas now were left

Page No:

pp.41-46

Poem Title:

Norwich Assembly, Or, The Descent of Venus.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

In days of yore a Grecian state

Page No:

pp.46-50

Poem Title:

The Two Statues; A Fable.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Midst a fair garden's various wild

Page No:

pp.51-55

Poem Title:

The Rose and the Butterfly; a Fable.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Whilst with a too officious care

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

On the Statue of Laocoon, At the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole's Seat, at Houghton, in Norfolk.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Midst thousand bleeding hearts and sighing swains

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

To a Young Lady, On her Recovery from the Small-Pox.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Weep not fair nymph if of some charms

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

To the Same.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Touched into life at Cnidus' sacred shrine

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

On the Statue of Venus at Cnidus.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

When virgin Pallas and the wife of Jove

Page No:

p.59

Poem Title:

On the Same.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Unable yet the yoke to bear

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

Imitation of Horace. Lib. 2, Od. 5.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

See there who held that loosed from breathless man

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

On the Statue of Pythagoras.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

With joy my fair I view th' enlivened paint

Page No:

p.62

Poem Title:

To Caelia who gave me Her Picture.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Quick let Olympus' massy gates be barred

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

On Rome.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Your farms tis true sir you enjoy alone

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

An Epigram, To Mr. --.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Tell me not Damon that I err

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

To a Friend; on Riding some Miles out of the Way to see Miss. ---.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

In these sweet lines for ever blended shine

Page No:

pp.65-66

Poem Title:

To a Lady with Parnell's Poems.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Parent of arts whose skillful hand first taught

Page No:

pp.67-76

Poem Title:

Bleinheim, 1728.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Immortal bard for whom each muse has wove

Page No:

pp.77-82

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. Pope, from a Young Gentleman at Rome.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Great minister whose generous soul disdains

Page No:

pp.83-88

Poem Title:

An Epistle, to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Less noble names let rising columns grace

Page No:

pp.89-90

Poem Title:

On seeing the Monument of the Right Honourable Sidney, Earl of Godolphin, in Westminster-Abbey.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Whilst thou great bard art filled with nobler fire

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

To a Friend; in Imitation of Propertius Lib. 1, Eleg. 7.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

At fate's approach whilst Oroonooko groans

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

On a Young Lady's weeping at Oroonooko.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Let me be tortured with what most I fear

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

Sulpicia to Cerinthus, In Imitation of Tibulllus, Lib. 4, Eleg. 12.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Madam | Charmed with the theme no venal muse essays

Page No:

pp.93-94

Poem Title:

To a Lady in Years, who married a Gentleman of suitable Age to Her-self.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Permit transporting fair a plaintive muse

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

To a Lady, Who after accepting a Present of a Diamond Ring, and wearing it sometime, offer'd by way of Refusal to return it to the Donor, who was then about Sixty.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Lord what is man or what his span of life

Page No:

pp.95-96

Poem Title:

A Reflection upon the shortness of Human Life: Being a Paraphrase upon the two first Verses of the 14th Chap. of the Book of Job.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Receive this present from a pensive mind

Page No:

pp.96-99

Poem Title:

Verses, To an Unfortunate Young Lady of Quality.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

At thy approach each newborn joy appeared

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

To Caelia absent.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

While with the heightened force of rival sound

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

On the famous Contests between Signora Cuzzoni, and Signora Faustina.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Gods who'd ever tempt the stormy main

Page No:

pp.101-103

Poem Title:

Verses wrote in the same Summer-House, as belonging to Capt. Nelly.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Sure this is more than classic ground I tread

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

Verses wrote in the Summer-House where Sir Richard Steel wrote his Conscious Lovers.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

To what dark shades what distant woods

Page No:

pp.103-106

Poem Title:

To a Lady who Plays finely on the Harpsichord, lately recover'd from a Dangerous Fever. March 29th, 1730.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

If beauty truth and sparkling wit

Page No:

pp.106-110

Poem Title:

To a Gentleman lately Married. May 20th, 1724.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

What beauteous sleeping form lies there

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

On a Statue of Venus Sleeping.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Whilst thy enchanting voice I hear

Page No:

p.111

Poem Title:

To Caelia.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Wanton gales that fondly play

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

From those bewitching charms which grace

Page No:

p.113

Poem Title:

To Caelia. The Amulet.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Gormando for gluttony famed through the town

Page No:

pp.114-115

Poem Title:

The Glutton; A Tale.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Fat from breakfast now pretty well rested

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

A Tale.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

As Roger with his Jug was walking

Page No:

pp.117-119

Poem Title:

The Kiss repay'd; A Tale.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

In days when fables first were wrote

Page No:

pp.119-123

Poem Title:

The Linx and the Mole; A Fable.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

In Tonson's shop at Shakespeare's head

Page No:

pp.124-126

Poem Title:

The Two Books; A Tale.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Midst largest heaps of untouched gold

Page No:

pp.127-130

Poem Title:

Minos and the Miser; A Fable.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Ladies to ye this night we consecrate

Page No:

pp.130-133

Poem Title:

A Prologue to an English Play, Perform'd by the young Gentlemen of Norwich School.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

O could my numbers sweetly flow like thine

Page No:

pp.134-137

Poem Title:

An Epistle To Mr. J. W. on his Illness.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

In vain alas my muse would rise

Page No:

pp.137-141

Poem Title:

An Answer To the foregoing Epistle.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Thou happy stranger to thy sexes arts

Page No:

pp.142-144

Poem Title:

To a Young Lady in the Country.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

When shall I break the favourite seal

Page No:

pp.145-147

Poem Title:

To J. C. Esq;

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Methought I heard some rigid reasoner say

Page No:

pp.147-150

Poem Title:

A Prologue to the Fair Penitent, Perform'd by the Young Gentlemen of Norwich School.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

The licence ready and the ring bespoke

Page No:

pp.151-153

Poem Title:

An Epilogue on the same Occasion. Spoken by Altamont.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Venus in tears from morn to even

Page No:

pp.153-157

Poem Title:

Venus's Hue and Cry after Cupid. Imitated from Moschus.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Calista's hapless fate her guilty flame

Page No:

pp.157-159

Poem Title:

On a Young Lady's weeping at the Fair Penitent.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

As over the wide extended plain

Page No:

pp.159-161

Poem Title:

An Epistle to --- Written by Moonlight.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Whilst you my friend on Poplar's shore receive

Page No:

pp.161-164

Poem Title:

An Epistle To Mr J. W. at Poplar. Camb. July 21. 1730.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Less grateful to the traveler's thirst

Page No:

pp.164-167

Poem Title:

An Epistle. To Mr. --- at Cambridge. Poplar, Aug. 13. 1730.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Not India's gems nor costly silks

Page No:

pp.168-170

Poem Title:

An Answer To the foregoing Epistle.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Let souls that in a lower circle move

Page No:

pp.170-171

Poem Title:

Verses Wrote Extempore in the first Leaf of Euclid's Elements.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Let nymphs less bright with nicest care

Page No:

pp.172-173

Poem Title:

To Caelia at her Toilet.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Let softer pens declare the virgin's praise

Page No:

pp.174-177

Poem Title:

On a Couple lately Married.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Don't blush dear sir your flame to own

Page No:

pp.177-179

Poem Title:

To a Gentleman in Love with a Negro Woman. In Imitation of Horace, Lib. 2. Od. 4.

Attribution:

By a Friend

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Would heaven by one imperfect hair

Page No:

pp.180-182

Poem Title:

Imitation of Horace, Lib. 2. Od. 8.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. a friend]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The busy paths of active men

Page No:

pp.182-192

Poem Title:

The Travels of a Shilling. Imitated from the Tatler.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. a friend]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The circling months in happy order past

Page No:

pp.193-197

Poem Title:

Verses, Wrote on the 2d. of February. In Memory of King Henry VI. Founder of the College of Eton, and of King's College at Cambridge.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. a friend]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now from the forded main had Israel's sons

Page No:

pp.197-201

Poem Title:

The Song of Moses, Imitated from the 15th Chapter of Exodus.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. a friend]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wild anarchy is hushed and discontent

Page No:

pp.202-209

Poem Title:

Verses on the Twenty Ninth of May.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. a friend]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ill fated Damon never can cease to mourn

Page No:

pp.210-211

Poem Title:

On Caelia's refusing to see Me.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. a friend]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With steady wing between extremes to soar

Page No:

pp.211-215

Poem Title:

The 6th Epistle in Horace, Imitated, as far as - Numa quo devenit, et Ancus.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. a friend]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If through thy blood contagious humours glide

Page No:

pp.216-220

Poem Title:

The Same continued.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Fairest of the virgin train

Page No:

pp.220-221

Poem Title:

To Chloe.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Ye gods what scorching pain and sharpest torments

Page No:

pp.222-225

Poem Title:

A Speech of Hercules, from the Trachiniae of Sophocles.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Are they then fallen is Israel's glory fled

Page No:

pp.225-228

Poem Title:

David's Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan, Imitated from The first Chap. of the 2d Book of Samuel.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Great god of verse propitious Phoebus hear

Page No:

pp.228-232

Poem Title:

Ode On the Fifth of November.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Twelve dreadful years had fierce rebellion reigned

Page No:

pp.233-238

Poem Title:

Verses On the Twenty Ninth of May.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Hard is the fate when falls exalted power

Page No:

pp.239-242

Poem Title:

On the Death of Edward late Lord Bishop of Chichester.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Who seeks for lasting happiness or fame

Page No:

pp.243-244

Poem Title:

Job, Chap. 20. Verse 5, 6, 7, 8 Imitated.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

When o my soul wilt thou on fancy's wing

Page No:

pp.245-268

Poem Title:

The 4th Hymn of Callimachus. To Delos.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

Night's dark dominion now was well nigh ceased

Page No:

pp.268-280

Poem Title:

Europa, From Moschus.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley

First Line:

When absent Phoebus from our sky retires

Page No:

pp.281-287

Poem Title:

Kew Gardens.

Attribution:

Collected under Whaley's name.

Attributed To:

John Whaley