The beauties of the poets: being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors. [N16023] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1235

Publication Date:

1790

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

N16023

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB126144176

Shelfmark:

ECCO - nearest hard copy is in Princeton

Full Title:

THE | BEAUTIES | OF THE | POETS: | BEING A | COLLECTION | OF | [i]MORAL and SACRED POETRY,[/i] | From the most eminent AUTHORS. | [i]Compiled by the late Rev. THOMAS JANES,[/i] | OF BRISTOL. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed by R. NOBLE, [i]Shire Lane, Temple-Bar.[/i] SOLD BY G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON ; T. AND J. | EVANS ; W. DARTON, AND CO. C. STALKER ; | J. BEW ; SCATCHERD AND WHITAKER ; AND | ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN LONDON :- BY S. | HAZARD, BATH ; AND T. MILLS, BRISTOL. | MDCCXC.

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.

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London

Format:

Octavo

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Prefatory matter: 'To The Reader' [pp. iii-iv], contents [pp. v-viii]

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Content/Publication

First Line:

The son | on his great expedition now appeared

Page No:

pp.1-18

Poem Title:

On Creation.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

These are thy glorious works parent of good

Page No:

pp.18-20

Poem Title:

Morning Hymn.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

For man to tell how human life began

Page No:

pp.20-23

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.23-28

Poem Title:

Adam's Penetential Reflections after his Fall.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

The hour precise

Page No:

pp.28-30

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.30-32

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.33-34

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on 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.34-35

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.36-39

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.39-46

Poem Title:

Virtue Alone affords True Happiness.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Father of all in every age

Page No:

pp.46-48

Poem Title:

The Universal Prayer.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Some seraph lend your heavenly tongue

Page No:

pp.49-50

Poem Title:

The Infinite.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

When the fierce north wind with his airy forces

Page No:

pp.50-52

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.52-53

Poem Title:

Launching into Eternity.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Sweet muse descend and bless the shade

Page No:

pp.54-55

Poem Title:

Meditation in a Grove.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Theron among his travels found

Page No:

pp.55-57

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.58-61

Poem Title:

True Riches.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue

Page No:

pp.61-63

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.64

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.65-74

Poem Title:

Christ above All Praise.

Attribution:

Perronet.

Attributed To:

Edward Perronet

First Line:

How are thy servants blessed O lord

Page No:

pp.74-76

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.76-77

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.77-78

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.78-79

Poem Title:

The XXIIIrd Psalm.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Farewell a long farewell to all my greatness

Page No:

pp.80-82

Poem Title:

Cardinal Wolsey's Lamentation of his Fall.

Attribution:

Shakspeare.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

But all our praises why should lords engross

Page No:

pp.82-83

Poem Title:

The Man of Ross.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

God works in a mysterious way

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

On Providence.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At Jacob's well a stranger sought

Page No:

p.85

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.86-101

Poem Title:

The Deserted Village.

Attribution:

Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

Stern winter hence with all his train removes

Page No:

pp.102-105

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.106-109

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.109-113

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.114-117

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.118

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.119-123

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.124-133

Poem Title:

The Hermit.

Attribution:

Parnell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

By the blue taper's trembling light

Page No:

pp.134-137

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.138-142

Poem Title:

Messiah.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The curfeu tolls the knell of parting day

Page No:

pp.142-148

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.148-152

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.153-155

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.156-163

Poem Title:

Bedlam.

Attribution:

Fitzgerald.

Attributed To:

Thomas Fitzgerald

First Line:

Remote from cities lived a swain

Page No:

pp.163-166

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.167-170

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.170-171

Poem Title:

A Thaw.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Tis done dread winter spreads his latest glooms

Page No:

pp.172-173

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.174-178

Poem Title:

An Hymn on the Seasons.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Soon as the morning trembles over the sky

Page No:

pp.179-185

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.185-190

Poem Title:

The Royal Penitent.

Attribution:

Daniel.

Attributed To:

Richard Daniel

First Line:

Silent nymph with curious eye

Page No:

pp.191-197

Poem Title:

Grongar Hill.

Attribution:

Dyer.

Attributed To:

John Dyer

First Line:

I'm not designed to say who lies beneath

Page No:

pp.195-296

Poem Title:

A Monumental Inscription, on the Death of his Son.

Attribution:

Janes.

Attributed To:

Thomas Janes

First Line:

Turn gentle hermit of the dale

Page No:

pp.197-203

Poem Title:

Edwin and Angelina.

Attribution:

Goldsmith.

Attributed To:

Oliver Goldsmith

First Line:

Author of being source of light

Page No:

pp.204-210

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.210-213

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.214-244

Poem Title:

The Grave.

Attribution:

Blair.

Attributed To:

Robert Blair

First Line:

At length escaped from every human eye

Page No:

pp.244-257

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Lyttelton.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

While others sing the fortune of the great

Page No:

pp.257-293

Poem Title:

The Last Day.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

And now on earth the seventh

Page No:

pp.293-295

Poem Title:

The Institution and Solemnity of the Sabbath.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

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:

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man

Page No:

pp.302-303

Poem Title:

Incidental Miseries attendant on Poverty.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed