Post-office intelligence: or, universal gallantry [T73279]

DMI number:

566

Publication Date:

1736

ESTC number:

T73279

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW109997838

Shelfmark:

BL 1340.e.16

Full Title:

POST-OFFICE Intelligence: | OR, | [i]Universal Gallantry.[/i] | BEING A | COLLECTION | OF | LOVE-LETTERS, | WRITTEN | By Persons, in all Stations, from most Parts of the | Kingdom. Faithfully published from their Origi- | nals, returned into the [i]General-Post-Office[/i] in [i]Lombard[/i]- | Street, the Parties to whom they were directed being either Dead, or removed from their usual Places of | Abode. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | WITH | [i]Rational Remarks[/i] upon Mr. [i]POPE[/i]'s LETTERS, | and some of his [i]former[/i] and [i]late Productions.[/i] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for E. CURLL, at [i]Pope[/i]'s Head, in [i]Rose[/i]- | Street, [i]Covent-Garden.[/i] 1736. Price 3 [i]s[/i].

Epigraph:

[i]The Am'rous[/i] Quaker here, is set to View; | The[/i] Cook-Maid, Courtezan, [i]and[/i] Liv'ry-Crew; | [i]Th' intriguing[/i] Priest, [i]the[/i] Soldier, [i]All Degrees | Encamp'd with[/i] Mars, [i]or[/i] Venus, [i]which you please, | In ev'ry Class th'Advent'rers take their Turn, | In Love they Languish; and for Love they Burn.[/i]

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Price:

3 s

Pagination:

[16], [1]-80 (p.80 is mispaginated '88').

Bibliographic details:

The 4pp poems 'In Praise of Tobacco' are unsigned and unnumbered. They precede 'To the Reader', and it is questionable as to whether they were originally intended to be part of this collection.

Comments:

CONTENTS: Some letters contain verse quotations. Only those quotations of 4 lines or longer have been recorded. MISCELLANY GENRE: Collection of letters in prose and verse.

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATTER: 'To the Reader' (4pp.); Contents (5pp.)

Related People

Publisher:

Edmund Curll

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Blessed leaf whose aromatic gales dispense

Page No:

[1pp]

Poem Title:

Mr. Pope's Style, Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Critics avaunt tobacco is my theme

Page No:

[1pp]

Poem Title:

Dr. Young's Style, Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou matured by glad Hesperian suns

Page No:

[1pp]

Poem Title:

Mr. Thomson's Style Imitated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pretty tube of mighty power

Page No:

[1pp]

Poem Title:

Of the Praise of Tobacco. Written in Imitation of the Style of Ambrose Philips, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid

Page No:

A3v

Poem Title:

Of the Use of Letters.

Attribution:

'A. Pope'

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

O happy state when souls each other draw

Page No:

sig. A3

Poem Title:

Of Love.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

A bloom like thine attends the vernal rose

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Benjamin Brinton

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For swiftest rivers shall run back

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For the loss of gold is much

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My dear soul of my life

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With you for ever I in woods could rest

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When first I saw you you did sweetly play

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

My tongue and pen

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Return an answer to me thou sweetest flower of beauty

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Believe me Celia tis the heart that speaks

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

Letter XXXIII. Military Gallantry, or the Letters which passed between a certain Captain, and the famous Mrs. S*** Punk-Errant of Bristol, well known both There and Here. Damon to Celia.

Attribution:

Damon

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How hard is the fate

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cynthia glide swiftly and give up thy place

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed