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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
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'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