The moral miscellany or, a collection of select pieces in prose and verse for the instruction and entertainment of youth [T118537 ] [ecco]

DMI number:

914

Publication Date:

1778

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T118537

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116458065

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BL

Full Title:

THE | Moral Miscellany: | OR, A | COLLECTION | OF | SELECT PIECES, | In PROSE and VERSE. | FOR THE | INSTRUCTION and ENTERTAINMENT | of YOUTH. | [rule] | The FIFTH EDITION. | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed for W. STRAHAN; and T. CADELL | in the Strand. 1778

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Newspaper spinoff and Collection including prose

Format:

Duodecimo

Comments:

Contents: miscellany is predominantly prose, but there is a verse section at the end. Some of the verse contains verse quotations; only those quotations of 4 lines or longer have been indexed. Most of the prose is derived from periodicals e.g. Spectator; Adventurer; Guardian; Rambler etc.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Advertisement [2pp.]; Contents [4pp.]

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Confidence:

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Comments:

Publisher:

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Confidence:

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Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

The sun had chased the winter's snow

Page No:

pp.45-47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Entrust thy fortune to the powers above

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

What better can we do than prostrate fall

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If ever ambition did my fancy cheat

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Mr. Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

I do not think my sister so to seek

Page No:

pp.266-267

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Beneath this moss grown roof within this cell

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Remote from cities lived a swain

Page No:

pp.334-336

Poem Title:

The Shepherd and the Philosopher.

Attribution:

Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Have you a friend look round and spy

Page No:

pp.336-339

Poem Title:

The Countryman and Jupiter ... To Myself.

Attribution:

Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Begin my lord in early youth

Page No:

pp.340-342

Poem Title:

The Pack-Horse and the Carrier ... To a Young Nobleman.

Attribution:

Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

A Grecian youth of talents rare

Page No:

pp.342-343

Poem Title:

The Youth and the Philosopher. A Fable.

Attribution:

Whitehead.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

Page No:

pp.344-347

Poem Title:

An Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard.

Attribution:

Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

The lovely young Lavinia once had friends

Page No:

pp.347-350

Poem Title:

The Story of Palemon and Lavinia.

Attribution:

Thomson's Autumn.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

I came great bard to gaze upon thy shrine

Page No:

pp.350-354

Poem Title:

Virgil's Tomb.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye belles and ye flirts and ye pert little things

Page No:

p.354

Poem Title:

Song for Ranelagh.

Attribution:

By Mr. Whitehead.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Why mourns my friend why weeps his downcast eye

Page No:

pp.355-358

Poem Title:

Elegy. Describing the sorrow of an ingenuous mind on the melancholy event of a licentious amour.

Attribution:

Shenstone.

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

Ye shepherds so cheerful and gay

Page No:

pp.358-363

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Ballad, in Four Parts. Written 1743.

Attribution:

Shenstone.

Attributed To:

William Shenstone

First Line:

What nothing earthly gives or can destroy

Page No:

pp.364-367

Poem Title:

Virtue alone constitutes Happiness.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let courtly bards in polished phrase endite

Page No:

pp.368-373

Poem Title:

The Parish Clerk. A Poem.

Attribution:

W. Vernon.

Attributed To:

William Vernon

First Line:

Say mighty love and teach my song

Page No:

pp.373-375

Poem Title:

Few happy Matches.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Father of all in every age

Page No:

pp.375-376

Poem Title:

The Universal Prayer. Deo Opt. Max.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed