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Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 by Various
page 45 of 64 (70%)
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."

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