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The beauties of the poets: being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors. [T87952] [ECCO]

DMI number:
1232
Publication Date:
1790
Volume Number:
1 of 1
ESTC number:
T87952
EEBO/ECCO link:
CW114139718
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] | [epitaph] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed by R. NOBLE, [i]Shire Lane, Temple-Bar. | SOLD BY G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON ; T. AND J. | EVANS; W. DARTON, AND CO. C. STALKER; | SCATCHERD AD WHITAKER; R. BALDWIN; J. | BEW; MESS. RIVINGTONS; T. LONGMAN; 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.
Place of Publication:
London
Format:
Octavo
Other matter:
Prefatory matter: 'To The Reader' [pp. iii-iv], contents [pp. v-viii]
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The beauties of the poets. Being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors [T90031] [ECCO]
Publication Date:
1799
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T90031
Volume:
1 of 1
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The beauties of the poets: being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors. [N16023] [ECCO]
Publication Date:
1790
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N16023
Volume:
1 of 1
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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
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1 of 1
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First Line:
The spacious firmament on high
Page No:
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
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:
Not attributed
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 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:
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:
Lord 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:
I'm not designed to say who lies beneath
Page No:
pp.295-296
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.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