The beauties of the poets. Or, a collection of moral and sacred poetry. From the most eminent authors. [T79396] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1201

Publication Date:

1777

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T79396

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115466545

Shelfmark:

ECCO - nearest copy is in BL.

Full Title:

THE | BEAUTIES | OF | THE POETS. | OR, A | COLLECTION | OF | MORAL AND SACRED POETRY. | FROM | THE MOST EMINENT AUTHORS. | [rule] | COMPILED BY | The late Rev. [i]THOMAS JANES[/i], | Of BRISTOL. | [epigraph] | [ornamental rule] | LONDON: | Printed by J. FRY and Co. Letter-Founders and Printers, in Queen-Street, | near Upper-Moorfields. | And Sold by T. Evans, Fielding and Walker, and G. Robinson in Pater-noster | Row: Wilson and Nichol, and S. Evans in the Strand; J. Phillips, George | Yard, Lombard Street, and W. Davenhill, Cornhill; J. Gough, No. 6., and | G. Street, No. 60, Gracechurch-Street, London; W. Pine, and T. Mills, in | Bristol; D. Prince, in Oxford, and Fletcher and Hodson, in Cambridge. | M.DCC.LXXVII.

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

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Duodecimo

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ESTC states place of publication to be Cambridge.

Other matter:

'To the Reader' [pp. v-vi]; 'The Contents' [pp. vii-xii].

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Content/Publication

First Line:

The son | on his great expedition now appeared

Page No:

pp.1-14

Poem Title:

On Creation.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

These are thy glorious works parent of good

Page No:

pp.14-16

Poem Title:

Morning Hymn.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

For man to tell how human life began

Page No:

pp.16-19

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Man shall not quite be lost but saved who will

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

Scriptural Election and Free Agency.

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.24-26

Poem Title:

Adam and Eve expelled Paradise.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

The theme of malice and the courtier's song

Page No:

pp.27-31

Poem Title:

God Omniscient and Omnipresent. An imitation of the 139 psalm.

Attribution:

Daniel.

Attributed To:

Richard Daniel

First Line:

Great God with conscious blushes lo I come

Page No:

pp.31-36

Poem Title:

The Royal Penitent.

Attribution:

Daniel.

Attributed To:

Richard Daniel

First Line:

How is our reason to the future blind

Page No:

pp.37-39

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.39-40

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on 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.40-41

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.42-44

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.45-51

Poem Title:

Virtue Alone affords True Happiness.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Father of all in every age

Page No:

pp.51-53

Poem Title:

The Universal Prayer.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Some seraph lend your heavenly tongue

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

The Infinite.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

When the fierce north wind with his airy forces

Page No:

pp.55-56

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:

p.57

Poem Title:

Launching into Eternity.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Sweet muse descend and bless the shade

Page No:

pp.58-59

Poem Title:

Meditation in a Grove.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Theron amongst his travels found

Page No:

pp.59-61

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.61-64

Poem Title:

True Riches.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue

Page No:

pp.64-66

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.67

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.68-76

Poem Title:

Christ above All Praise.

Attribution:

Perronet.

Attributed To:

Edward Perronet

First Line:

To speak for God to sound religion's praise

Page No:

pp.76-82

Poem Title:

Religious Discourse.

Attribution:

Gambold.

Attributed To:

John Gambold

First Line:

How are thy servants blessed O lord

Page No:

pp.82-84

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:

pp.84-85

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.85-86

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.86-87

Poem Title:

The XXIIId Psalm.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Farewell a long farewell to all my greatness

Page No:

pp.87-89

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.89-90

Poem Title:

The Man of Ross.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

God works in a mysterious way

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

On Providence.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At Jacob's well a stranger sought

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since we can die but once and after death

Page No:

pp.92-98

Poem Title:

A Prospect of Death.

Attribution:

Pomfret.

Attributed To:

John Pomfret

First Line:

Sweet Auburn loveliest village of the plain

Page No:

pp.99-113

Poem Title:

The Deserted Village.

Attribution:

Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

Why mourns my friend why weeps his downcast eye

Page No:

pp.114-118

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.119-128

Poem Title:

The Hermit.

Attribution:

Parnell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

By the blue taper's trembling light

Page No:

pp.128-131

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.132-135

Poem Title:

Messiah.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

Page No:

pp.136-141

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.142-146

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.146-148

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.149-155

Poem Title:

Bedlam.

Attribution:

Fitzgerald.

Attributed To:

Thomas Fitzgerald

First Line:

What am I how produced and for what end

Page No:

pp.156-160

Poem Title:

Know Thyself.

Attribution:

Arbuthnot.

Attributed To:

John Arbuthnot

First Line:

Remote from cities lived a swain

Page No:

pp.161-163

Poem Title:

The Shepherd and the Philsopher.

Attribution:

Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Is there no hope the sick man said

Page No:

pp.164-165

Poem Title:

The Sick Man and the Angel.

Attribution:

Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Friendship like love is but a name

Page No:

pp.166-168

Poem Title:

The Hare and many Friends.

Attribution:

Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Deep to unfathomable spaces deep

Page No:

pp.168-171

Poem Title:

A Description of Hell.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]

First Line:

Oh my offence is rank it smells to heaven

Page No:

pp.172-173

Poem Title:

The Soliloquy of a Fratricide.

Attribution:

Shakespeare.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

As thus the snows arise and foul and fierce

Page No:

pp.173-176

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.176-178

Poem Title:

A Thaw.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Tis done dread winter spreads his latest glooms

Page No:

pp.178-179

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.180-184

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.184-190

Poem Title:

Reaping, and a Tale Relative to it.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Silent nymph with curious eye

Page No:

pp.190-195

Poem Title:

Grongar Hill.

Attribution:

Dyer.

Attributed To:

John Dyer

First Line:

And feel I death no joy from thought of thee

Page No:

p.196

Poem Title:

Death a Blessing to the true Christian.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Whilst some affect the sun and some the shade

Page No:

pp.197-224

Poem Title:

The Grave.

Attribution:

Blair.

Attributed To:

Robert Blair

First Line:

Author of being source of light

Page No:

pp.224-229

Poem Title:

Eupolis' Hymn to the Creator. From the Greek.

Attribution:

Wesley.

Attributed To:

Samuel Wesley

First Line:

For guilt not innocence his life he poured

Page No:

pp.230-231

Poem Title:

The Great Atonement.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Religion thou the soul of happiness

Page No:

pp.231-232

Poem Title:

Christ the Christian's Glory.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Lysander happy past the common lot

Page No:

pp.232-233

Poem Title:

Creature Happiness an Illusion.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Is it in words to paint you O ye fallen

Page No:

pp.233-234

Poem Title:

The Character of an Infidel.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Lovely lasting peace of mind

Page No:

pp.236-238

Poem Title:

Hymn to Contentment.

Attribution:

Parnell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

While others sing the fortune of the great

Page No:

pp.239-271

Poem Title:

The Last Day.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Oh life thou nothing's younger brother

Page No:

pp.271-273

Poem Title:

Life and Fame.

Attribution:

Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Ardalio jeers and in his comic strains

Page No:

pp.273-274

Poem Title:

On St. Ardalio, who from a Stage-Player became a Christian, and Suffered Martyrdom.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

My thoughts that often mount the skies

Page No:

pp.274-275

Poem Title:

Death and Eternity.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

O the immense the amazing height

Page No:

pp.276-277

Poem Title:

The God of Thunder.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

But many shapes

Page No:

pp.277-278

Poem Title:

Death its Causes and Variety.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

And now on earth the seventh

Page No:

pp.278-280

Poem Title:

The Institution and Solemnity of the Sabbath.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Then from his bright aereal abode

Page No:

pp.281-285

Poem Title:

Part of the XXXVIIIth and XXXIXth Chapters of Job. A Paraphrase.

Attribution:

Broome.

Attributed To:

William Broome

First Line:

A monster in a course of vice grown old

Page No:

p.285

Poem Title:

The Monument.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'm not designed to say who lies beneath

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

A Monumental Inscripton. On the Death of his Son.

Attribution:

Jane.

Attributed To:

Thomas Janes

First Line:

Is then that hero numbered with the dead

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

On the Death of Alexander the Great.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In yonder grave a druid lies

Page No:

p.287-289

Poem Title:

An Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson.

Attribution:

Collins.

Attributed To:

William Collins

First Line:

Say mighty love and teach my song

Page No:

pp.289-291

Poem Title:

Few Happy Matches.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Look round the world with what a partial hand

Page No:

pp.292-293

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.293-294

Poem Title:

The Unreasonableness of Denying a Future State.

Attribution:

Glynn.

Attributed To:

Robert Glynn [later Clobery]

First Line:

Judge not what is best

Page No:

pp.295-296

Poem Title:

Sensual Pleasures Censured.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Henceforth I learn that to obey is best

Page No:

p.296

Poem Title:

True Wisdom.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Do I seem

Page No:

pp.297-299

Poem Title:

The Birth of Sin, and Procreation of Death.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

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.302-303

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Poor is the triumph over the timid hare

Page No:

pp.303-305

Poem Title:

The Barbarity of Hunting.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Lord when my thoughtful soul surveys

Page No:

pp.305-307

Poem Title:

God's Absolute Dominion.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Ah fleeting spirit wandering fire

Page No:

p.308

Poem Title:

Adriani Morientis ad Animam: or, The Heathen to his Departing Soul.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Vital spark of heavenly flame

Page No:

pp.308-309

Poem Title:

Christiani Morientis ad Animam: or, The Christian to his Departing Soul.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The cloud capped towers the gorgeous palaces

Page No:

p.309

Poem Title:

The End of All Things

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man

Page No:

pp.310-311

Poem Title:

Incidental Miseries attendant on Poverty.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Soft babe sweet image of a harmless mind

Page No:

pp.312-314

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.314-317

Poem Title:

The Conflagration.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young