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]
- Title:
- The beauties of the poets. Being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors [T90031] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1799
- ESTC No:
- T90031
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The beauties of the poets: being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authors. [N16023] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1790
- ESTC No:
- N16023
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- 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
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- 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
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