The beauties of the poets. Being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors. [T87951] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1231

Publication Date:

1788

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T87951

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CW115667126

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Full Title:

THE | BEAUTIES | OF THE | POETS. | BEING A | COLLECTION | OF | [i]MORAL and SACRED POETRY,[/i] | From the most eminent AUTHORS. | [rule] | [i]Compiled by the late Rev. THOMAS JANES,[/i] | OF BRISTOL. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [ornamental rule] | LONDON: | Printed at the [i]Cicero[/i] Press by and for HENRY FRY, No. 5, [i]Worship | Street, Upper Moorfields.[/i] | And sold by SCATCHERD and WHITAKER, [i]Ave Maria Lane;[/i] | W. DARTON, [i]White Lion Court, Birchin Lane, Cornhill;[/i] and in | BRISTOL by THOMAS MILLS, in [i]Wine Street.[/i] | M.DCC.LXXXVIII.

Epigraph:

All men agree, that licentious poems do of all writings soonest cor- | rupt 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 ef- | fectual persuasives to goodness? | TATLER.

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London

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Octavo

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Prefatory matter: 'To the Reader' [pp. iii-iv], contents [v-viii]. End matter: subscription list [pp. 305-16]

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First Line:

The son | on his great expedition now appeared

Page No:

pp.1-15

Poem Title:

On Creation.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

These are thy glorious works parent of good

Page No:

pp.15-17

Poem Title:

Morning Hymn.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

For man to tell how human life began

Page No:

pp.17-20

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.20-24

Poem Title:

Adam's Penitential Reflections after his Fall.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

The hour precise

Page No:

pp.24-27

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:

From the Second Chapter of 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:

Thompson.

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.32-35

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.42-44

Poem Title:

The Universal Prayer.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Some seraph lend your heavenly tongue

Page No:

pp.44-45

Poem Title:

The Infinite.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

When the fierce north wind with his airy forces

Page No:

pp.45-47

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.47-48

Poem Title:

Launching into Eternity.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Sweet muse descend and bless the shade

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

Meditation in a Grove.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Theron amongst his travels found

Page No:

pp.50-52

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.52-55

Poem Title:

True Riches.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue

Page No:

pp.55-57

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:

p.58

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.59-67

Poem Title:

Christ above All Praise.

Attribution:

Perronet.

Attributed To:

Edward Perronet

First Line:

How are thy servants blessed O lord

Page No:

pp.68-69

Poem Title:

Preservation by Land and Sea: A Divine Ode.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

It must be so Plato thou reasonest well

Page No:

p.70

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.71-72

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on part of the 19th Psalm.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

The lord my pasture shall prepare

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

The XXXIIIr Psalm.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Farewell a long farewell to all my greatness

Page No:

pp.73-75

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.75-77

Poem Title:

The Man of Ross.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

God works in a mysterious way

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

On Providence.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At Jacob's well a stranger sought

Page No:

p.78

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.79-93

Poem Title:

The Deserted Village.

Attribution:

Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

Stern winter hence with all his train removes

Page No:

pp.94-97

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.98-101

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.101-105

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.105-109

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.109

Poem Title:

Hymn, from Psalm VIII.

Attribution:

[Scott.]

Attributed To:

John Scott

First Line:

Why mourns my friend why weeps his downcast eye

Page No:

pp.110-114

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.115-124

Poem Title:

The Hermit.

Attribution:

Parnell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

By the blue taper's trembling light

Page No:

pp.125-128

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.128-132

Poem Title:

Messiah.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The curfeu tolls the knell of parting day

Page No:

pp.133-138

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.138-143

Poem Title:

To the Right Honorable the Earl of Warwick, on the death of Mr. Addison.

Attribution:

Tickell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Come heavenly pensive contemplation come

Page No:

pp.143-146

Poem Title:

Reflexions. [By a Clergyman in Virginia, Returning Home from his Duty in a Very Gloomy Night.]

Attribution:

By a Clergyman in Virginia

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where proud Augusta blessed with long repose

Page No:

pp.146-153

Poem Title:

Bedlam.

Attribution:

Fitzgerald.

Attributed To:

Thomas Fitzgerald

First Line:

Remote from cities lived a swain

Page No:

pp.153-156

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.156-159

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.160-161

Poem Title:

A Thaw.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Tis done dread winter spreads his latest glooms

Page No:

pp.161-163

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.163-167

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.168-174

Poem Title:

Reaping, and a Tale Relative to it.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Ye shepherds so cheerful and gay

Page No:

pp.174-184

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Ballad, In Four Parts. Written in 1733.

Attribution:

Shenstone.

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Great God with conscious blushes lo I come

Page No:

pp.184-189

Poem Title:

The Royal Penitent.

Attribution:

Daniel.

Attributed To:

Richard Daniel

First Line:

Silent nymph with curious eye

Page No:

pp.190-196

Poem Title:

Grongar Hill.

Attribution:

Dyer.

Attributed To:

John Dyer

First Line:

Turn gentle hermit of the dale

Page No:

pp.196-202

Poem Title:

Edwin and Angelina.

Attribution:

Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

Author of being source of light

Page No:

pp.203-209

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.209-212

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.212-241

Poem Title:

The Grave.

Attribution:

Blair.

Attributed To:

Robert Blair

First Line:

At length escaped from every human eye

Page No:

pp.242-254

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.254-289

Poem Title:

The Last Day.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

O the immense the amazing height

Page No:

pp.289-290

Poem Title:

The God of Thunder.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

And now on earth the seventh

Page No:

pp.290-292

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.293

Poem Title:

A Monumental Inscripton. On the Death of his Son.

Attribution:

Jane.

Attributed To:

Thomas Janes

First Line:

In yonder grave a druid lies

Page No:

pp.294-296

Poem Title:

An Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson.

Attribution:

Collins.

Attributed To:

William Collins

First Line:

Look round the world with what a partial hand

Page No:

pp.296-297

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.298-299

Poem Title:

The Unreasonableness of Denying a Future State.

Attribution:

Glynn.

Attributed To:

Robert Glynn [later Clobery]

First Line:

Man disobeying

Page No:

pp.299-301

Poem Title:

God declares the dreadful Consequence of Adam's Sin to Him and his Posterity, unless satisfaction is made to his Justice; which the Son of God undertakes.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Eve at his feet

Page No:

pp.301-302

Poem Title:

Eve's pathetic Address to Adam to avert his Resentment.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man

Page No:

pp.303-304

Poem Title:

Incidental Miseries attendant on Poverty.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed