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1 From the Daily Pofr-Boy* March 22

... isaboutto print a Poem grounded upon Reafon, and the Author of the Philo fc^hical Enquiry will print another, tofhew that Poetry does not pretend to Reafo'n.' Calais, March 25. Yefterday a Man was (hot here with the accuftomed Ceremonies, fot le3v- ...

Published: Mon 31 Mar 1729
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 351 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

I^^* • - rrjntverfal Sietlator..I f0 the Author oft ac nt J

... heroic Vertnes, as can- not but warm the Heart ofthe coldeft Woman-hater. The Odes of Sapho gained her the beft Reputation for Poetry in the Age fhe lived in •, Witnefs the Fragments we luve of her. But to came nearer to our own Times : The Lady Jane Gray ...

Published: Mon 17 Aug 1730
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1155 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

' vrom the Vnivcrfal SpeB ator, Aug. 25

... fine, their Theme is the Spot ts of Shephei ds ; my Topick, the Em- ployment of a Rural Life : Arcadia is the Scene ia their Poetry ■; and the Country of England, the Sub- .jea of my (hort Fjfay. It is Eftablifhed hy the Oiticks as a Standart of good Tafte ...

Published: Tue 01 Sep 1730
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1261 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Wye's Letter Verbatim, London, 0:1. 27

... becaufe you have not complied k ith our Demands. ?? r- The Pifture of Stephen Duck the Threfber, fo much noted for Pieces of Poetry, and the Qpeen s fading a Peufion upon him for Life as a Reward ot BsGenios, is painting by Mr. Jirvais the Kings Painter ...

Published: Mon 02 Nov 1730
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 709 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Frotn the Vniverfal SpeUator, Nov. J

... other Cenfure) that tbe Inequality of my Numbers is a greater Proof of the Sincerity ot my Pafiion, than of the Badnefs of my Poetry. She. would eafiiy believe you, if fhe knew how greata Share fhe ?? of my Time •, how much- her I- rrraee mixes it felf with ...

Published: Thu 12 Nov 1730
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1200 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Extraft of a Letter ftom Vienna

... the Apoftles, Chap. xxv. 35. It is more ffsd to give thaK to receive. The fame Day the A- jemy will alfo give the Prize of Poetry founded by the late Bifhop of Noyon *, the Subject whereof will bs,7be Progrefs of the Art ?? during the Reign of Lewis the ...

Published: Thu 14 Jan 1731
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1655 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

I From the ZJniverfal Spe&ator, Aug? 21

... ancient and modern Learning. He's a ?? /fp ?? a curious Mathematician, a found Divl 1 - - has an elegant Tafte in Painting, Poetry 2nd . ?? With ail this, he's modtU, courteous, humar.t fij Generous, the SuppOl t ot Merit and Inge-maty-* - * -■• ver ready ...

Published: Mon 30 Aug 1731
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1831 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

1 fo ths Author of the Weekly Journal

... 1 fo ths Author of the Weekly Journal. (Send you this Pkce of Poetry, made by a poor pilor who never read Ariftotle or Horace ; he is one of Gapt. Jenkins's Crew when taken by the Iniards ; fothat he might Cay with Juvenal, Fa- \ndigr.atio ver fum. If ...

Published: Thu 30 Dec 1731
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 442 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Extract of a private Letter from Paris. .»

... duplici cordi, & labiis fceleftis, & fttt* tori terram ingrtdienti duabus viis. 7he fame Da? the Academy will give the Prize of Poetry tin Theme will fee, 7 he Progrefs of Tragedy in the Rt& of Lewis the Great. The new Academy of Surgeons propofe thff $ lowing ...

Published: Tue 01 Feb 1732
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LONDO N, f I

... engrofs'd the lefs illuminated .ments of Mankind. 'Tis faid alfo, that this 3 Prelate (efteem'd a Crrtick in I arm and ■■lilh Poetry, as appears from his Latin Tranfta- ?? DRYDEN'- Abfalom and Achithophd, &c-) 'tranflated Vigil's Ceorgicks, which he h.sfent ...

Published: Mon 29 May 1732
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 576 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

From the pvcnin? Polls. Nov. 27

... Academy of Wirtemberg in Saxony has conferred the Laurel on Madam de Zeiglerin, for her profound Skill in the Greek and Latin, Poetry ; nnd that the Emperor has alfo honour'd the fame L3dy, en? h the Title of Imperial Poetefs. H*?ue,^Die. 4. We learn from ...

Published: Tue 04 Dec 1733
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 708 | Page: 2 | Tags: none