Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 by Various
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great cities do not often sink into the waves, like exhalations, without
some report of their fate. V. Belgravia. _Dodsley's Poems_ (Vol. ii., pp. 264. 343).--THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT is informed that the first edition of Dodsley's _Collection of Poems, by several Hands_, was published in 1748, 3 vols. 12mo. A fourth volume was added in 1749, containing pieces by Collins, Garrick, Lyttelton, Pope, Tickell, Thomson, &c. Those by Garrick and Lyttelton are anonymous. The four volumes were reprinted uniformly in 1755. The fifth and sixth were added in 1758. AMICUS CURIÆ. _Shunamitis Poema_ (Vol. ii., p. 326.).--The titlepage to the volume of poems inquired after by E.D. is as follows: "Latin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of Trinity College, Oxford. 'Nec lusisse pudet sed non incidere ludum.' HOR. London: printed for L. Bathurst over against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street, MDCCXLI." I know not the author; but I suspect either that the title of an Oxford |
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