52
Ogilvie’s poems.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 142, no. 52, as above.
OGILVIE,
John.
Poems on Several Subjects. In
Two Volumes. By John Ogilvie, D.D. Vol. I [-II] . . .
London: Printed for
George Pearch,
m.dcc.lxix
. [1769.]
PR3605 .O15
2 vol. 8vo. 142 leaves and 146 leaves, engraved vignettes on the titles, plates and headpieces by and after A. Walker. Volume I contains an Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients, in two letters inscribed to Lord Deskfoord.
Lowndes III, 1720.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 375.
John Ogilvie, 1733-1813, Scots Presbyterian divine and author. The first edition of these
Poems appeared in 1762.
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53
Shenstone’s works.
3. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 143, no. 31, as above.
SHENSTONE,
William.
The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq; in two Volumes. With Decorations . . . The
Fourth Edition. Vol. I [-II.] [The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq; Vol. III. Containing Letters to particular Friends, from the Year 1739 to 1763. The
Third Edition.]
London: Printed by
H. S. Woodfall, for
J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall,
m.dcc.lxxiii
. [1773.]
3 vol. sm. 8vo. 168, 176 and 184 leaves; engraved frontispieces in vol. I and II, engraved vignette on the two titles, engraved
head-pieces and culs-de-lampe; at the end of Vol. II, with half-title: A Description of the Leasowes, the Seat of the late
William Shenstone, Esq; by R. Dodsley, with a folded engraved plan;
H. S. Woodfall’s name is omitted from the imprint in Vol. III.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
Shenstone’s poems were used by Jefferson to illustrate his points in the
Thoughts on English Prosody
. The subdivision
Observations on the three measures begins with three illustrations concerning the accented and the unaccented syllables, two of which are from Shenstone’s poems,
the first from the ballad to Princess Elizabeth (Vol. I, page 124) and the second the first four lines from the poem Disappointment
(I, 190). Other illustrations from Shenstone in the same subdivision are three of the four stanzas from The Progress of Advice
(I, 207), six of the twelve stanzas of the poem written to be affixed to the back of a seat at Leasowes (II, 298) and a stanza
from the poem Hope (I, 185).
The subdivision
of rules for the accent has two illustrations from Shenstone, the last stanza of Song XVIII. Imitated from the French (I, 166) and the whole of the
poem written on a tablet on a small root-house in A Description of The Leasowes (II, 289). Shenstone’s verses are also used
at the end of Jefferson’s essay, to illustrate the fact that the poet may intermingle the different lengths of line in the
same verse according to his fancy. These illustrations include two stanzas from The Dying Kid (I, 147)[,] two stanzas from
Verses written towards the close of the Year 1748, to William Lyttelton, Esq; (I, 179) and single verses from the Ode to Health,
1730 (I, 132), Slender’s Ghost. vid. Shakespear (I, 209)[,] An Irregular Ode after Sickness, 1749 (I, 138) and The Rape of
the Trap. A Ballad, 1737 (I, 200).
William Shenstone, 1714-1763, English poet and essayist, also holds an important place in the history of landscape gardening. He was the owner
of the Leasowes, which, under his care, became, according to Dr. Johnson, a place to be visited by travellers and copied by
designers. For Jefferson’s description of the Leasowes, see no. 4228.
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