The beauties of the poets. Being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors [T90031] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1236

Publication Date:

1799

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T90031

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115802006

Shelfmark:

ECCO - nearest hard copy is in Lincoln College Library, University of Oxford

Full Title:

THE | BEAUTIES| OF | [i]THE POETS.[/i] | BEING | A COLLECTION | OF | [i]MORAL AND SACRED POETRY,[/i] | FROM THE MOST EMINENT AUTHORS. | [double rule] | Compiled by the late | REV. THOMAS JANES, | OF BRISTOL. | [double rule] | [epigraph] | THE SIXTH EDITION. | [ornamented rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed by and for DARTON and HARVEY, Gracechurch-street. | C. G. and J. RONBINSON, E. NEWBERY, G. WILKIE, VERNOR and HOOD, | J. PARSONS, T. BOOSEY, T. HURST, and J. WALLIS. | [double rule] | 1799.

Epigraph:

"All men agree, that licentious Poems do of all writings soonest corrupt | the heart : and why should we not be as universally persuaded, that the grave | and serious performances of such as write in the most engaging manner, by a | kind of divine impulse, must be the most effectual persuasives to goodness?" | TATLER.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Other matter:

'To the Reader [sig. A2r-v], contents [sig. A3r-A4r]

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First Line:

The son | on his great expedition now appeared

Page No:

pp.1-16

Poem Title:

On Creation.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

These are thy glorious works parent of good

Page No:

pp.16-18

Poem Title:

Morning Hymn.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

For man to tell how human life began

Page No:

pp.18-20

Poem Title:

Adam's Relation to Raphael of the First Survey he took of Himself.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

O miserable of happy is this the end

Page No:

pp.21-24

Poem Title:

Adam's Penitential Reflections after his Fall.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

The hour precise

Page No:

pp.25-27

Poem Title:

Adam and Eve expelled Paradise.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

How is our reason to the future blind

Page No:

pp.27-29

Poem Title:

Shortness of Life. From the Wisdom of Solomon.

Attribution:

Ward.

Attributed To:

James Ward

First Line:

When my breast labours with oppressive care

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase of the Latter Part of the Sixth Chapter of St. Matthew.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Ethereal race inhabitants of air

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Ode on Aeolus's Harp.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

In silent horror over the boundless waste

Page No:

pp.32-34

Poem Title:

Hassan; or, The Camel-Driver. An Oriental Eclogue.

Attribution:

Collins

Attributed To:

William Collins

First Line:

What nothing earthly gives or can destroy

Page No:

pp.35-41

Poem Title:

Virtue Alone affords True Happiness.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Father of all in every age

Page No:

pp.41-43

Poem Title:

The Universal Prayer.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Some seraph lend your heavenly tongue

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

The Infinite.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

When the fierce north wind with his airy forces

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

The Day of Judgment. An Ode.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

It was a brave attempt adventurous he

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

Launching into Eternity.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Sweet muse descend and bless the shade

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

Meditation in a Grove.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Theron among his travels found

Page No:

pp.49-50

Poem Title:

The Hero's School of Morality.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

I am not concerned to know

Page No:

pp.51-53

Poem Title:

True Riches.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue

Page No:

pp.54-56

Poem Title:

Charity. A Paraphrase on the Thirteenth Chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians.

Attribution:

Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Great heaven how frail thy creature man is made

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

The Frailty and Folly of Man.

Attribution:

Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Though heaven's bright hosts with earth in concert join

Page No:

pp.57-65

Poem Title:

Christ above All Praise.

Attribution:

Perronet.

Attributed To:

Edward Perronet

First Line:

It must be so Plato thou reasonest well

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

A Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

The spacious firmament on high

Page No:

pp.69-70

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on part of the Nineteenth Psalm.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

The lord my pasture shall prepare

Page No:

pp.70-71

Poem Title:

The Twenty-Third Psalm.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Farewell a long farewell to all my greatness

Page No:

pp.71-73

Poem Title:

Cardinal Wolsey's Lamentation of his Fall.

Attribution:

Shakespeare.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

But all our praises why should lords engross

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

The Man of Ross.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

God works in a mysterious way

Page No:

p.75

Poem Title:

On Providence.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At Jacob's well a stranger sought

Page No:

p.76

Poem Title:

On the words: "If thou knewest who it is, &c."

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sweet Auburn loveliest village of the plain

Page No:

pp.76-90

Poem Title:

The Deserted Village.

Attribution:

Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

Stern winter hence with all his train removes

Page No:

pp.91-94

Poem Title:

Elegy I. Written at the Approach of Spring.

Attribution:

Scott.

Attributed To:

John Scott

First Line:

Three hours from noon the passing shadow shows

Page No:

pp.94-97

Poem Title:

Elegy II. Written in the Hot Summer, 1757.

Attribution:

[Scott.]

Attributed To:

John Scott

First Line:

Farewell the pleasant violet scented shade

Page No:

pp.97-101

Poem Title:

Elegy III. Written in Harvest.

Attribution:

[Scott.]

Attributed To:

John Scott

First Line:

The sun far southward bends his annual way

Page No:

pp.101-104

Poem Title:

Elegy IV. Written at the Approach of Winter.

Attribution:

[Scott.]

Attributed To:

John Scott

First Line:

Almighty power amazing are thy ways

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

Hymn from Psalm VIII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why mourns my friend why weeps his downcast eye

Page No:

pp.106-110

Poem Title:

An Elegy, Describing the Sorrow of an Ingenuous Mind, on the melancholy Event of a Licentious Amour.

Attribution:

Shenstone.

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Far in a wild unknown to public view

Page No:

pp.110-119

Poem Title:

The Hermit.

Attribution:

Parnell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

By the blue taper's trembling light

Page No:

pp.119-122

Poem Title:

A Night Piece on Death.

Attribution:

Parnell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

Ye nymphs of Solyma begin the song

Page No:

pp.123-126

Poem Title:

Messiah.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The curfeu tolls the knell of parting day

Page No:

pp.127-132

Poem Title:

An Elegy, Written in a Country Church-Yard.

Attribution:

Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

If dumb too long the drooping muse hath stayed

Page No:

pp.132-136

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Addison. Addressed to the Earl of Warwick.

Attribution:

Tickell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Come heavenly pensive contemplation come

Page No:

pp.136-139

Poem Title:

Reflections. By a Clergyman in Virginia, Returning Home from his Duty in a Gloomy Night.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where proud Augusta blessed with long repose

Page No:

pp.139-145

Poem Title:

Bedlam.

Attribution:

Fitzgerald.

Attributed To:

Thomas Fitzgerald

First Line:

Remote from cities lived a swain

Page No:

pp.145-148

Poem Title:

The Shepherd and the Philosopher.

Attribution:

Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

As thus the snows arise and foul and fierce

Page No:

pp.148-151

Poem Title:

A Description of a Man Perishing in the Snow. From whence Reflections are Raised on the Miseries of Life.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Muttering the winds at eve with blunted point

Page No:

pp.151-152

Poem Title:

A Thaw.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Tis done dread winter spreads his latest glooms

Page No:

pp.153-154

Poem Title:

Reflections on a Future State, from a Review of Winter.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

These as they change almighty father these

Page No:

pp.155-159

Poem Title:

A Hymn on the Seasons.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Soon as the morning trembles over the sky

Page No:

pp.159-164

Poem Title:

Reaping, and a Tale Relative to it.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Great God with conscious blushes lo I come

Page No:

pp.165-169

Poem Title:

The Royal Penitent.

Attribution:

Daniel.

Attributed To:

Richard Daniel

First Line:

Silent nymph with curious eye

Page No:

pp.170-175

Poem Title:

Grongar Hill.

Attribution:

Dyer.

Attributed To:

John Dyer

First Line:

Turn gentle hermit of the dale

Page No:

pp.175-181

Poem Title:

Edwin and Angelina.

Attribution:

Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

Author of being source of light

Page No:

pp.182-187

Poem Title:

Eupolis' Hymn to the Creator. From the Greek.

Attribution:

Wesley.

Attributed To:

Samuel Wesley

First Line:

Why droops this heart with fancied woes forlorn

Page No:

pp.187-190

Poem Title:

Elegy on the African Slaves.

Attribution:

Shenstone.

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Whilst some affect the sun and some the shade

Page No:

pp.191-217

Poem Title:

The Grave.

Attribution:

Blair.

Attributed To:

Robert Blair

First Line:

At length escaped from every human eye

Page No:

pp.218-229

Poem Title:

A Monody to the Memory of Lady Lyttelton. Written in the Year 1747.

Attribution:

Lord Lyttelton.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

While others sing the fortune of the great

Page No:

pp.230-262

Poem Title:

The Last Day.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

And now on earth the seventh

Page No:

pp.262-264

Poem Title:

The Institution and Solemnity of the Sabbath.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

I'm not designed to say who lies beneath

Page No:

p.265

Poem Title:

A Monumental Inscription, on the Death of his Son.

Attribution:

Janes.

Attributed To:

Thomas Janes

First Line:

Look round the world with what a partial hand

Page No:

pp.266-267

Poem Title:

The Grand Distinction between the Virtuous and the Wicked, reserved for Another State.

Attribution:

Glynn.

Attributed To:

Robert Glynn [later Clobery]

First Line:

Sceptic whoever thou art who sayst the soul

Page No:

pp.267-268

Poem Title:

The Unreasonableness of Denying a Future State.

Attribution:

Glynn.

Attributed To:

Robert Glynn [later Clobery]

First Line:

Man disobeying

Page No:

pp.268-270

Poem Title:

The Messiah promises Satisfaction to God's Justice, for Adam's Disobedience.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man

Page No:

pp.271-272

Poem Title:

Miseries attendant on Poverty, exemplified in the Beggar's Petition.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say mighty love and teach my song

Page No:

pp.273-275

Poem Title:

Few Happy Matches.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Soft babe sweet image of a harmless mind

Page No:

pp.275-277

Poem Title:

Verses written by a Gentleman, on seeing his Child asleep in a Cradle, just before his going to Prison.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By the loud trumpet summoned to the charge

Page No:

pp.277-280

Poem Title:

The Conflagration.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young