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]
- Title:
- The beauties of the poets. Being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors. [T87951] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1788
- ESTC No:
- T87951
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The beauties of the poets. Or, a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors. [T189227] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1773
- ESTC No:
- T189227
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The beauties of the poets. Or, a collection of moral and sacred poetry. From the most eminent authors. [N15990] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1777
- ESTC No:
- N15990
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The beauties of the poets. Or, a collection of moral and sacred poetry. From the most eminent authors. [T79395] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1777
- ESTC No:
- T79395
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The beauties of the poets. Or, a collection of moral and sacred poetry. From the most eminent authors. [T79396] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1777
- ESTC No:
- T79396
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The beauties of the poets: being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors. [N16023] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1790
- ESTC No:
- N16023
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The beauties of the poets: being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors. [T87952] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1790
- ESTC No:
- T87952
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The beauties of the poets: being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors. [N29557] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1800
- ESTC No:
- N29557
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- 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
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