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 CURIAE.
_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
man was assumed by a Cantab, who might fairly wish not to be suspected
as the author of several of the poems; or that the author, having been
rusticated at Cambridge, vide at p. 84. the ode "Ad Thomam G." (whom I
take to be Thomas Gilbert of Peterhouse), transferred himself and his
somewhat licentious muse to Oxford.
COLL. ROYAL SOC.
_Jeremy Taylor's Works_ (Vol. ii., p. 271.).--It seems desirable that an
advance should occasionally be made in _editing_, beyond the mere
verification of authorities, in seeing, that is, whether the passages
cited are _applicable_ to the point in hand, and properly apprehended.
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