Miscellany poems, on several occasions: Written by the Right Honble Anne, Countess of Winchilsea.

Title

Miscellany poems, on several occasions: Written by the Right Honble Anne, Countess of Winchilsea.

Author

Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720.

Publication

London :: printed for J. B. and sold by Benj. Tooke, William Taylor, and James Round,

1713.

Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ecco/ for more information.

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004860039.0001.000 content_copy

Cite this Item

"Miscellany poems, on several occasions: Written by the Right Honble Anne, Countess of Winchilsea." In the digital collection Eighteenth Century Collections Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/004860039.0001.000. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE BOOKSELLER To the READER.
• THE TABLE.
• ERRATA.
• MERCURY and the ELEPHANT.
• All is Vanity.
• The Prevalence of Custom.
• THE Mussulman's Dream OF THE VIZIER and DERVIS.
• The Shepherd Piping to the Fishes.
• Love, Death, and Reputation.
• There's No To-Morrow,
• The Petition for an Absolute Retreat.
• Jupiter and the Farmer.
• The Decision of Fortune.
• The Brass-Pot, and Stone-Jugg.
• Fanscomb Barn.
  • EXPLANATORY NOTES.
• A Description of One of the Pieces of Tapistry at Long-Leat, made after the famous Car|tons of Raphael; in which, Elymas the Sorcerer is miraculously struck Blind by St. Paul before Sergius Paulus, the Pro|consul of Asia.
• The Poor Man's Lamb: OR, Nathan's Parable to David after the Murder of Uriah, and his Marriage with Bathsheba.
• Part of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia, a Tragedy, written in French by Monsieur Racine.
• The SPLEEN.
• An EPISTLE from Alexander to He|phaestion in his Sickness.
• The following Lines occasion'd by the Mar|riage of Edward Herbert Esquire, and Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert.
• La Passion Vaincue.
• The Owl Describing her Young Ones.
• The Philosopher, the Young Man, and his Statue.
• The Hog, the Sheep, and Goat carrying to a FAIR.
• The Shepherd and the Calm.
• The LORD and the BRAMBLE
• The CAUTIOUS LOVERS.
• To DEATH.
• ADAM Pos'd.
• The House of Socrates.
• The EQUIPAGE.
• The Young RAT and his DAM, t COCK and the CAT.
• The Wit and the Beau.
• The EXECUTOR.
• Cupid and Folly.
• For the Better.
• VERSES
• A POEM for the Birth-day of the Right Honble the Lady CATHARINE TUFTON.
• A Tale of the Miser, and the Poet.
• The CHANGE.
• Enquiry after Peace.
• On the Death of the Honourable Mr. Jam Thynne, younger Son to the Right Honou|rable the Lord Viscount Weymouth.
• The Critick and the Writer of FABLE
• The King and the Shepherd.
• An EPISTLE from a Gentleman to Madam Deshouliers, returning Money she had lent him at Bassette, upon the first Day of their Acquaintance.
• To Edward Jenkinson, Esq a very young Gentleman, who writ a Poem on PEACE.
• To the Painter of an ill-drawn Picture of CLEONE, the Honorable Mrs. Thynne.
• A Pastoral DIALOGUE be|tween Two Shepherdesses.
• ALCIDOR.
• Some Pieces out of the first ACT of the AMINTA of TASSO.
  • Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE.
  • AMINTOR, being ask'd by THIRSIS Who is the Object of his Love? speaks as follows.
  • THIRSIS persuades AMINTOR not to despair upon the Predictions of Mopsus discov'ring him to be an Impostor.
  • From the AMINTA of TASSO.
  • From the AMINTA of TASSO.
• To the NIGHTINGALE.
• The ATHEIST and the ACORN.
• The Tradesman and the Scholar.
• Man's Injustice towards Provide
• The Eagle, the Sow, and the Cat.
• To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters.
• A Miller, his Son, and their Ass.
• The Man bitten by Fleas.
• REFORMATION.
• Fragment at Tunbridge-Wells.
• A Pindarick Poem
  • Explanatory NOTES.
• The HYMN.
• Friendship between EPHELIA and ARDELIA.
• The LYON and the GNAT.
• The MAN and his HORSE.
• LIFE's Progress.
• HOPE.
• Moral SONG.
• GLASS.
• The DOG and his MASTER.
• The PHOENIX.
• A SONG.
• JEALOUSY.
• poems
  • A SONG.
  • A SONG.
  • A SONG.
• To Mr. F. now Earl of W.
• A LETTER to the same Person.
• FRAGMENT.
• PSALM the 137th, Paraphras'd to the 7th Verse.
• The Battle between the Rats and the Weazles.
• Democritus and his Neighbours.
• The TREE.
• A Nocturnal Reverie.
• ARISTOMENES: OR, THE Royal Shepherd.
  • Dramatis Personae.
  • ARISTOMENES.
    • act - 1
      • ACT I. SCENE I.
      • scene
      • scene
    • act - 2
      • ACT II. SCENE I.
      • scene
    • act - 3
      • ACT III. SCENE I.
      • scene
    • act - 4
      • ACT IV. SCENE I.
    • act - 5
      • ACT V. SCENE I.
      • scene