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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
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CW111975111
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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.
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London
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Collection of educational texts and Collection aimed at children/young people
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Duodecimo
Other matter:
Prefatory matter: Preface [2pp.]; contents page [4pp.].
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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