The poetical miscellany consisting of select pieces for the use of schools [ESTC T118165] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 1058
- Publication Date:
- 1762
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T118165
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW111975111
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO BOD
- Full Title:
- THE | Poetical Miscellany; | CONSISTING OF | SELECT PIECES | From the Works of the following Poets, [i]viz[/i]. | [2 columns] [column 1] MILTON, | DRYDEN, | POPE, | ADDISON, | GAY, | PARNEL, [/column 1] | [column 2] YOUNG, | THOMSON, | AKENSIDE, | PHILIPS, | GRAY, | WATTS, [i]&c.[/i] [/column 2] | [rule] | For the Use of SCHOOLS. | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT, | at Tully's Head, in the Strand. | [rule] | MDCCLXII.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of educational texts and Collection aimed at children/young people
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Preface [2pp.]; contents page [4pp.].
- Title:
- Poetical miscellany consisting of select pieces for the use of schools the fourth edition [ESTC T132703]
- Publication Date:
- 1789
- ESTC No:
- T132703
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The poetical miscellany consisting of select pieces [ESTC T175134] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1769
- ESTC No:
- T175134
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The poetical miscellany consisting of select pieces for the use of schools third edition [ESTC T118166] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1778
- ESTC No:
- T118166
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Peter Abraham De Hondt
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Thomas Becket
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- O blest of heaven whom not the languid songs
- Page No:
- Poem Title:
- The Advantages resulting from a well-formed Imagination
- Attribution:
- Akenside
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- The spacious firmament on high
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- Ode on the Glories of the Heavens.
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- The lord my pasture shall prepare
- Page No:
- pp.2-3
- Poem Title:
- David's Pastoral Hymn on Providence
- Attribution:
- Addison
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- When all thy mercies O my God
- Page No:
- pp.3-5
- Poem Title:
- Hymn on Gratitude.
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Say first of God above or man below
- Page No:
- pp.6-8
- Poem Title:
- Of the Nature and State of Man, with respect to the Universe.
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- Hope implanted in the human Breast, as an Earnest of future Bliss
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What would this man now upward will he soar
- Page No:
- pp.9-10
- Poem Title:
- The Unreasonableness of Man's Complaints against Providence
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Far as creation's ample range extends
- Page No:
- pp.11-13
- Poem Title:
- The Works of God, One entire Whole, where all the Parts have a necessary Dependence on, and Relation to each other.
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- All are but parts of one stupendous whole
- Page No:
- pp.13-14
- Poem Title:
- The Omnipresence of God, and Submission to his Providence
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Two principles in human nature reign
- Page No:
- pp.14-22
- Poem Title:
- The Origin, Use, and End of the Passions.
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Look round our world behold the chain of love
- Page No:
- pp.22-24
- Poem Title:
- The Whole Universe one System of Society
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- See him from nature rising slow to art
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- Reason instructed by Instinct in the Invention of Arts
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Know then this truth enough for man to know
- Page No:
- pp.25-27
- Poem Title:
- Happiness to be found in Virtue alone
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Search then the ruling passion there alone
- Page No:
- pp.27-29
- Poem Title:
- Men to be known only by their Ruling Passion
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Ah friend to dazzle let the vain design
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- Advice to the Fair Sex, for their true Interest
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- As rising from the vegetable world
- Page No:
- pp.30-35
- Poem Title:
- The Passion of the Groves
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Still let my song a nobler note assume
- Page No:
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- The Influence of Spring on Man
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- But happy they the happiest of their kind
- Page No:
- pp.36-38
- Poem Title:
- The Joys of virtuous Love
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- When now no more the alternate twins are fired
- Page No:
- pp.39-40
- Poem Title:
- Description of the Dawn, and Sun-Rising
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Let no presuming impious railer tax
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- The impious Presumption of taxing creative Wisdom
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Thus up the mount in airy vision rapt
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- A Cataract
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Behold slow settling over the lurid grove
- Page No:
- pp.43-45
- Poem Title:
- A Storm of Thunder and Lightning
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Heavens what a goodly prospect spreads around
- Page No:
- pp.45-52
- Poem Title:
- A Panegyric on Great Britain
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- These are thy blessings industry rough power
- Page No:
- pp.52-55
- Poem Title:
- The Blessings of Industry
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Defeating oft the labours of the year
- Page No:
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- A Harvest Storm
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Here the rude clamour of the sportsman's joys
- Page No:
- pp.58-60
- Poem Title:
- The Barbarity of Shooting and Hunting
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Give ye Britons then
- Page No:
- pp.60-65
- Poem Title:
- A ludicrous Account of Fox-hunting with Advice to the Fair Sex
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Oh knew he but his happiness of men
- Page No:
- pp.65-70
- Poem Title:
- A Panegyric on a philosophical Country Life
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- As thus the snows arise and foul and fierce
- Page No:
- pp.70-73
- Poem Title:
- A Man perishing in the Snow, with Reflexions on the Miseries of human Life
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Meantime the village rouzes up the fire
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- A Winter-Evening described, as spent by the Country People, and in the City.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Tis done dread winter spreads his latest glooms
- Page No:
- pp.74-76
- Poem Title:
- Moral Reflections on a future State
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Ere the radiant sun
- Page No:
- pp.76-79
- Poem Title:
- The Ideas of the divine Mind, the Origin of every Quality pleasing to the Imagination, &c.
- Attribution:
- Akenside
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Thus with a faithful aim have we presumed
- Page No:
- pp.80-84
- Poem Title:
- The different Degrees of Beauty in different Species of Objects, &c.
- Attribution:
- Akenside
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Inhabitant of earth to whom is given
- Page No:
- pp.84-86
- Poem Title:
- The OEconomy of Providence
- Attribution:
- Akenside
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- For since the course
- Page No:
- pp.86-88
- Poem Title:
- The Origin of Vice
- Attribution:
- Akenside
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Behold the foremost band of slender thought
- Page No:
- pp.88-92
- Poem Title:
- The general Sources of Ridicule in the Characters of Men, with the final Cause of the Sense of it.
- Attribution:
- Akenside
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- By what fine ties hath God connected things
- Page No:
- pp.92-94
- Poem Title:
- The Benevolent Order of the World, illustrated in the arbitrary Connection of Pleasure with the Object which excites it.
- Attribution:
- Akenside
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Say first for heaven hides nothing from thy view
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- Man's Disobedience - Loss of Paradise - Satan driven out of Heaven
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate
- Page No:
- pp.98-100
- Poem Title:
- Satan lying on the burning Lake
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Anon out of the earth a fabric huge
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- Pandemonium
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- O thou that with surpassing glory crowned
- Page No:
- pp.101-103
- Poem Title:
- Satan's Speech to the Sun
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- That day I oft remember when from sleep
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- Eve gives an Account of herself upon her first Creation
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- These are thy glorious works parent of good
- Page No:
- pp.105-107
- Poem Title:
- Adam and Eve, in a morning Hymn, call upon all the Parts of the Creation to join with them in extolling their common Maker
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- To whom in brief thus Abdiel stern replied
- Page No:
- pp.107-116
- Poem Title:
- Battle of Angels - first Fight
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Now when fair morn in orient heaven appeared
- Page No:
- pp.116-121
- Poem Title:
- Second Fight
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- So said he over his scepter bowing rose
- Page No:
- pp.121-126
- Poem Title:
- The Glory of the Victory reserved for the Messiah
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Meanwhile the son
- Page No:
- pp.126-128
- Poem Title:
- The Messiah, surrounded with an host of Angels, goes forth in the Power of his Father, to perform the Work of Creation.
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Here finished he and all that he had made
- Page No:
- pp.128-129
- Poem Title:
- The Messiah returns to Heaven, and takes a Survey of his Work
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- As new waked from soundest sleep
- Page No:
- pp.129-130
- Poem Title:
- Adam gives an Account of his Condition and Sentiments immediately after his Creation
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Oh by what name for thou above all these
- Page No:
- pp.131-134
- Poem Title:
- Adam describes a Conference which he held with his Maker upon the Subject of Solitude
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- When out of hope behold her not far off
- Page No:
- pp.134-135
- Poem Title:
- Adam's Joy and Gratitude upon the Discovery of a Creature resembling the Apparition presented to him in his Dream
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- O Earth how like to heaven if not preferred
- Page No:
- pp.135-138
- Poem Title:
- Satan's Soliloquy after traversing the Globe, and examining the Nature of every Creature
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- He added not and from her turned but Eve
- Page No:
- pp.138-140
- Poem Title:
- Eve addresses herself to Adam for Pardon - their Reconciliation, &c.
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- What better can we do than to the place
- Page No:
- pp.140-141
- Poem Title:
- Our first Parents offer up their penitential Prayers on the very Place where their Judge appeared to them, when he pronounced their Sentence.
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Must I thus leave thee paradise thus leave
- Page No:
- pp.141-142
- Poem Title:
- Eve's Complaint, upon hearing that she was to be removed from the Garden of Paradise
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Celestial whether among the thrones or named
- Page No:
- pp.142-143
- Poem Title:
- Adam's Speech to Michael, &c.
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- To whom our saviour calmly thus replied
- Page No:
- pp.143-146
- Poem Title:
- Our Saviour's Reply to Satan, when tempted by him in the Wilderness.
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Darkness now rose
- Page No:
- pp.146-147
- Poem Title:
- Description of a horrid Night, which Satan is feigned to have conjur'd up in the Wilderness
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Mylo forbear to call him blessed
- Page No:
- pp.147-148
- Poem Title:
- False Greatness
- Attribution:
- Dr. Watts
- Attributed To:
- Isaac Watts
- First Line:
- The rising year beheld the imperious Gaul
- Page No:
- pp.149-150
- Poem Title:
- True Monarchy
- Attribution:
- Dr. Watts
- Attributed To:
- Isaac Watts
- First Line:
- I am not concerned to know
- Page No:
- pp.151-153
- Poem Title:
- True Riches
- Attribution:
- Dr. Watts
- Attributed To:
- Isaac Watts
- First Line:
- Happy the man who void of cares and strife
- Page No:
- pp.153-158
- Poem Title:
- The Splendid Shilling. An Imitation of Milton.
- Attribution:
- Phillips
- Attributed To:
- John Philips
- First Line:
- Lovely lasting peace of mind
- Page No:
- pp.158-161
- Poem Title:
- A Hynm to Contentment.
- Attribution:
- Parnell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- By the blue taper's trembling light
- Page No:
- pp.161-164
- Poem Title:
- A Night-Piece on Death
- Attribution:
- Parnell
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- Tired nature's sweet restorer balmy sleep
- Page No:
- pp.164-179
- Poem Title:
- Reflections on Life, Death, and Immortality
- Attribution:
- Young
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Where the prime actors of the last year's scene
- Page No:
- pp.180-190
- Poem Title:
- Reflections on Time, Eternity, the last Day, &c.
- Attribution:
- Young
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- This prospect vast what is it weighed aright
- Page No:
- pp.190-214
- Poem Title:
- A moral Survey of the nocturnal Heavens
- Attribution:
- Young
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Thy nature immortality who knows
- Page No:
- pp.214-234
- Poem Title:
- Thoughts on Immortality
- Attribution:
- Young
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Since virtue's recompence is doubtful here
- Page No:
- pp.234-239
- Poem Title:
- Proofs of the Immortality of the Soul
- Attribution:
- Young
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Couldst thou persuade me the next life could fail
- Page No:
- pp.240-247
- Poem Title:
- The gross Absurdities and Horrors of Annihilation
- Attribution:
- Young
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- The world's a system of theology
- Page No:
- pp.247-255
- Poem Title:
- The Difficulty of being an Infidel, &c.
- Attribution:
- Young
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- The wind was high the window shakes
- Page No:
- pp.255-257
- Poem Title:
- The Miser and Plutus. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- A monkey to reform the times
- Page No:
- pp.257-259
- Poem Title:
- The Monkey who had seen the World. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Is there no hope the sick man said
- Page No:
- pp.260-261
- Poem Title:
- The sick Man and the Angel. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Is there a bard whom genius fires
- Page No:
- pp.262-263
- Poem Title:
- The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- The man to Jove his suit preferred
- Page No:
- pp.263-265
- Poem Title:
- The Father and Jupiter. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Friendship like love is but a name
- Page No:
- pp.265-267
- Poem Title:
- The Hare and many Friends. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- The man of pure and simple heart
- Page No:
- pp.267-273
- Poem Title:
- The Squire and his Cur. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Hail happy land whose fertile grounds
- Page No:
- pp.274-279
- Poem Title:
- The Man, the Cat, the Dog, and the Fly. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Whether amid the gloom of night I stray
- Page No:
- pp.279-281
- Poem Title:
- A Contemplation on Night.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Ere the foundations of the world were laid
- Page No:
- pp.281-282
- Poem Title:
- A Thought on Eternity.
- Attribution:
- Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
- Page No:
- pp.283-290
- Poem Title:
- Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music; an Ode on St. Cecilia's Day.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Descend ye nine descend and sing
- Page No:
- pp.290-295
- Poem Title:
- Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- A parish priest was of the pilgrim train
- Page No:
- pp.295-300
- Poem Title:
- The Character of a Good Parson, imitated from Chaucer.
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Now jolly swains the harvest of your cares
- Page No:
- pp.300-306
- Poem Title:
- On Sheep-shearing - Song on that Occasion, &c.
- Attribution:
- Dyer
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- Through all the brute creation none as sheep
- Page No:
- pp.306-307
- Poem Title:
- Recommendation of Mercifulness to Animals
- Attribution:
- Dyer
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- Our vallies yield not or but sparing yield
- Page No:
- pp.307-309
- Poem Title:
- Few Dyes the natural Product of England - the Advantages and Necessity of Trade, &c.
- Attribution:
- Dyer
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- Even nature lives by toil
- Page No:
- pp.309-311
- Poem Title:
- Recommendation of Labour
- Attribution:
- Dyer
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- O when through every province shall be raised
- Page No:
- pp.311-315
- Poem Title:
- Country Workhouses proposed - a Description of one - good Effects of Inudstry exemplified, &c.
- Attribution:
- Dyer
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- On Guinea's sultry strand the drapery light
- Page No:
- pp.315-316
- Poem Title:
- Reflections on the Slave-Trade
- Attribution:
- Dyer
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- The wise and great of every clime
- Page No:
- pp.316-325
- Poem Title:
- Ode to the Right Honourable Francis Earl of Huntingdon. 1747.
- Attribution:
- Akenside
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Ye distant spires ye antique towers
- Page No:
- pp.326-329
- Poem Title:
- Ode on a distant Prosepct of Eton College
- Attribution:
- Gray
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Daughter of Jove relentless power
- Page No:
- pp.329-331
- Poem Title:
- Hymn to Adversity
- Attribution:
- Gray
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Kneller with silence and surprise
- Page No:
- pp.331-334
- Poem Title:
- To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his Picture of King George I.
- Attribution:
- Addison
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- But were there one whose fires
- Page No:
- pp.334-335
- Poem Title:
- Character of Atticus
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- O thou great arbiter of life and death
- Page No:
- p.335
- Poem Title:
- An Address to the Deity
- Attribution:
- Young
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Father of light and life thou good supreme
- Page No:
- p.336
- Poem Title:
- Another Address to the Deity
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- These as they change almighty father these
- Page No:
- pp.336-340
- Poem Title:
- A Hymn
- Attribution:
- Thomson
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
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