The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry, extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets [T115504] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 1325
- Publication Date:
- 1777
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T115504
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW110631456
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - nearest hard copy is in British Library.
- Full Title:
- THE | POETICAL PRECEPTOR; | OR, A | COLLECTION | OF | Select PIECES of POETRY; | Extracted from the Works of the most eminent | ENGLISH POETS, | PARTICULARLY, | ADDISON, | AKENSIDE, | ARMSTRONG, | CONGREVE, | COWLEY, | DRYDEN, | DYER, | GAY, | GRAY, | HILL, | JOHNSON, | BEN. JONSON, | LEE, | MALLET, | MASON, | MILTON, | OTWAY, | PARNELL, | PHILIPS, | POPE, | PRIOR, | ROWE, | SHAKESPEARE, | SHENSTONE, | SWIFT, | THOMSON, | TICKELL, | WALLER, | WHARTON, | WHITEHEAD, | WILKIE, | YOUNG, &c. | And calculated for the Use, not only of Schools, | but of private Gentlemen. | [double rule] | LONDON: Printed for STANLEY CROWDER, No, 12, [i]Pater-noster-Row.[/i] | MDCCLXXVII.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: advertisement for 'The Polite Preceptor' [1 unnumbered page], preface [pp. iii-vi], contents [pp. vii-xvi]
- First Line:
- Ye deep philosophers who can
- Page No:
- pp.1-3
- Poem Title:
- The Young Lady and Looking-Glass. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Wilkie.
- Attributed To:
- William Wilkie
- First Line:
- A lion tired with state affairs
- Page No:
- pp.3-5
- Poem Title:
- The Lion, the Fox, and the Geese. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- A wolf with hunger fierce and bold
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- How fond are men of rule and place
- Page No:
- pp.6-7
- Poem Title:
- The Lion and the Cub. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- All upstarts insolent in place
- Page No:
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- The Butterfly and Snail. A Fable. [Gay.]
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Is there a bard whom genius fires
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Those who in quarrels interpose
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- The Mastiffs. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- In other men we faults can spy
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- The Turkey and the Ant. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- The man to Jove his suit preferred
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- The Father and Jupiter. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- The lad of all sufficient merit
- Page No:
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- The Cur, the Horse, and the Shepherd's Dog. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- I know you lawyers can with ease
- Page No:
- pp.15-18
- Poem Title:
- The Dog and the Fox. To a Lawyer. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- That man must daily wiser grow
- Page No:
- pp.18-22
- Poem Title:
- The Bear in a Boat. To A Coxcomb. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Hail happy land whose fertile grounds
- Page No:
- pp.22-26
- Poem Title:
- The Man, the Cat, the Dog, and the Fly. A Fable.... To My Native Country.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Begin my lord in early youth
- Page No:
- pp.26-29
- Poem Title:
- The Pack-horse and the Carrier. To A Young Nobleman. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- I hold it rash at any time
- Page No:
- pp.29-37
- Poem Title:
- The Ape, the Parrot, and the Jack-daw. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Wilkie.
- Attributed To:
- William Wilkie
- First Line:
- A Grecian youth of talents rare
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- The Youth and the Philosopher. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- W. Whitehead
- Attributed To:
- William Whitehead
- First Line:
- My dears tis said in days of old
- Page No:
- pp.39-43
- Poem Title:
- The Bee, the Ant, and the Sparrow. A Fable. Address'd to Phebe and Kitty C. at Boarding School.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As two young bears in wanton mood
- Page No:
- pp.43-44
- Poem Title:
- The Bears and Bees. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Merrick.
- Attributed To:
- James Merrick
- First Line:
- Whoever with curious eye has ranged
- Page No:
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- The Monkies. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Merrick.
- Attributed To:
- James Merrick
- First Line:
- To you whose groves protect the feathered choirs
- Page No:
- pp.45-48
- Poem Title:
- The Goldfinches. An Elegy.
- Attribution:
- Jago
- Attributed To:
- Richard Jago
- First Line:
- The spacious firmament on high
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- An Ode on the Heavenly Bodies.
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- When all thy mercies O my God
- Page No:
- pp.49-51
- Poem Title:
- A Hymn on Gratitude.
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- How are thy servants blessed O lord
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- An Ode on Providence.
- Attribution:
- Addison
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Tis not that rural sports alone invite
- Page No:
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- The Employments of a Country-Life.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- O happy plains remote from wars alarms
- Page No:
- pp.55-57
- Poem Title:
- The Happiness of a Country-Life.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- O ye associate walkers o my friends
- Page No:
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- The Advantages of Walking: The miserable fate of a Beau.
- Attribution:
- Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Welcome to Baiae's streams ye sons of spleen
- Page No:
- pp.58-59
- Poem Title:
- Panacea: Or, The Grand Restorative.
- Attribution:
- Graves.
- Attributed To:
- Richard Graves
- First Line:
- Happy the man who his whole time doth bound
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- Claudian's Old Man of Verona.
- Attribution:
- Cowley
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Hail old patrician trees so great and good
- Page No:
- pp.60-62
- Poem Title:
- On Solitude.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Far in a wild unknown to public view
- Page No:
- pp.62-69
- Poem Title:
- The Hermit.
- Attribution:
- Parnell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- In Britain's isle and Arthur's days
- Page No:
- pp.69-76
- Poem Title:
- A Fairy Tale, in the antient English Stile.
- Attribution:
- Parnell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- I've often wished that I had clear
- Page No:
- pp.76-82
- Poem Title:
- The Misery of a Town-Life, and the Happiness of a Country-one; exemplified in the Story of the Town-Mouse and Country-Mouse.
- Attribution:
- Swift and Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander PopeJonathan Swift
- First Line:
- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
- Page No:
- pp.82-87
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard.
- Attribution:
- Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Ye distant spires ye antique towers
- Page No:
- pp.87-90
- Poem Title:
- Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College.
- Attribution:
- Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Twas on a lofty vase's side
- Page No:
- pp.90-91
- Poem Title:
- Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat: Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes.
- Attribution:
- Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Of folly vice disease men proud we see
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- The various Effects of Pride.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- The squire is proud to see his courser strain
- Page No:
- pp.93-94
- Poem Title:
- Character of a Fox-Hunter.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Warm in pursuit of foxes and renown
- Page No:
- pp.94-95
- Poem Title:
- Character of a Florist.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- These all their care expend on outward show
- Page No:
- pp.95-96
- Poem Title:
- Character of a Fop and of a Sloven.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Not gaudy butterflies are Lico's game
- Page No:
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- Character of a Levee-Hunter.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- The languid lady next appears in state
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- Affection of Delicacy ridiculed.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Can gold calm passion or make reason shine
- Page No:
- pp.98-99
- Poem Title:
- The Emptiness of Riches.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Say first of God above or man below
- Page No:
- pp.99-101
- Poem Title:
- The Ignorance of Man, with regard to the General Laws of the Universe, a Reason why he should be contented with his Present State.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate
- Page No:
- pp.101-102
- Poem Title:
- Our Happiness partly owing to our Ignorance of Future Events, partly to our Hope of a Future State.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What would this man now upward will he soar
- Page No:
- pp.103-104
- Poem Title:
- The Unreasonableness of our Complaints against Providence.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Far as creation's ample range extends
- Page No:
- pp.104-106
- Poem Title:
- Order and Subordination prevails through all the Works of God, which form one entire Whole.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Two principles in human nature reign
- Page No:
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- The different Offices of Reason and Self-Love.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Modes of self love the passions we may call
- Page No:
- pp.108-113
- Poem Title:
- On the Passions.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Look round our world behold the chain of love
- Page No:
- pp.113-115
- Poem Title:
- The whole Universe one System of Society.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Nor think in nature's state they blindly trod
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- The State of Nature.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- See him from nature rising slow to art
- Page No:
- pp.116-117
- Poem Title:
- Reason instructed by Instinct in the Invention of Arts, and in Forms of Society.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Order is heaven's first law and this confessed
- Page No:
- pp.117-118
- Poem Title:
- The Gifts of Fortune unequally distributed: Happiness does not consist in the superabundance of these, but in Health, Peace, and Competence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Honour and shame from no condition rise
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- Honour consists in acting our Part well.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Know then this truth enough for man to know
- Page No:
- pp.119-121
- Poem Title:
- Virtue the sole Foundation of Happiness.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Tis from high life high characters are drawn
- Page No:
- p.121
- Poem Title:
- Characters given according to the Rank of Men in the World.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Ah friend to dazzle let the vain design
- Page No:
- pp.122-123
- Poem Title:
- Advice to the Fair Sex.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Odious in woollen twould a saint provoke
- Page No:
- p.122
- Poem Title:
- Examples of the Strength of the Ruling Passion in the Hour of Death.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- But all our praises why should lords engross
- Page No:
- pp.123-124
- Poem Title:
- The Man of Ross.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- But most by numbers judge a poet's song
- Page No:
- pp.124-126
- Poem Title:
- On Versification.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Hector this heard returned without delay
- Page No:
- pp.126-130
- Poem Title:
- The parting of Hector and Andromache.
- Attribution:
- Pope's Homer's Iliad.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Descend ye nine descend and sing
- Page No:
- pp.131-135
- Poem Title:
- Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
- Page No:
- pp.135-139
- 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:
- But o my muse what numbers wilt thou find
- Page No:
- pp.139-140
- Poem Title:
- Description of a Battle, illustrated by a sublime Comparison.
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Fixed at his post was each bold Ajax found
- Page No:
- pp.140-141
- Poem Title:
- The first Onset of a Battle, illustrated by a Noble Comparison.
- Attribution:
- Pope's Homer's Iliad.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Wherever thy navy spreads her canvas wings
- Page No:
- pp.141-142
- Poem Title:
- To the King on his Navy.
- Attribution:
- Waller.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- First Line:
- Tell me what genius did the art invent
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- On the Invention of Letters.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The noble art to Cadmus owes its rise
- Page No:
- p.142
- Poem Title:
- The Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye green-robed Dryads oft at dusky eve
- Page No:
- pp.143-150
- Poem Title:
- The Enthusiast; or the Lover of Nature.
- Attribution:
- J. Warton.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Warton
- First Line:
- O parent of each lovely muse
- Page No:
- pp.150-154
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Fancy.
- Attribution:
- J. Wharton.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Warton
- First Line:
- Hence loathed melancholy
- Page No:
- pp.154-159
- Poem Title:
- L'Allegro.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Hence vain deluding joys
- Page No:
- pp.159-164
- Poem Title:
- Il Penseroso.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Contentment parent of delight
- Page No:
- pp.164-167
- Poem Title:
- The Wish.
- Attribution:
- Green.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Green
- First Line:
- Ere yet ingenuous youth thy steps retire
- Page No:
- pp.167-168
- Poem Title:
- Elegy to a Young Nobleman leaving the University.
- Attribution:
- Mason.
- Attributed To:
- William Mason
- First Line:
- Now jolly swains the harvest of your cares
- Page No:
- pp.169-174
- Poem Title:
- Sheep-shearing: Song on that occasion: Sheep-shearing Feast and Merriments.
- Attribution:
- Dyer.
- Attributed To:
- John Dyer
- First Line:
- From heaven my strains begin from heaven descends
- Page No:
- pp.177-178
- Poem Title:
- On Taste.
- Attribution:
- Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- O blest of heaven whom not the languid songs
- Page No:
- pp.178-180
- Poem Title:
- The Pleasures arising from a Cultivated Imagination.
- Attribution:
- Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Say why was man so eminently raised
- Page No:
- pp.180-182
- Poem Title:
- On Greatness.
- Attribution:
- Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Call now to mind what high capacious powers
- Page No:
- pp.182-184
- Poem Title:
- On Novelty.
- Attribution:
- Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Behold the ways | Of heavens eternal destiny to man
- Page No:
- pp.184-187
- Poem Title:
- The Pain arising from Virtuous Emotions, attended with Pleasure.
- Attribution:
- Akenside.
- Attributed To:
- Mark Akenside
- First Line:
- Begin with gentle toils and as your nerves
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- On Exercise.
- Attribution:
- Armstrong.
- Attributed To:
- John Armstrong
- First Line:
- How to live happiest how avoid the pains
- Page No:
- pp.188-190
- Poem Title:
- Lessons of Widsom.
- Attribution:
- Armstrong.
- Attributed To:
- John Armstrong
- First Line:
- As rising from the vegetable world
- Page No:
- pp.190-195
- Poem Title:
- The Passion of the Groves.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- But happy they the happiest of their kind
- Page No:
- pp.196-197
- Poem Title:
- Domestic Love and Happiness.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Heavens what a goodly prospect spreads around
- Page No:
- pp.198-203
- 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.203-206
- Poem Title:
- The Blessings of Industry.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Soon as the morning trembles over the sky
- Page No:
- pp.206-211
- Poem Title:
- A Harvest-Scene, with the Story of Palemon and Lavinia.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Ah little think the gay licentious proud
- Page No:
- pp.211-212
- Poem Title:
- On the Miseries of Human Life.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Of man's first disobedience and the fruit
- Page No:
- pp.212-214
- Poem Title:
- The Subject of Paradise Lost - Invocation of the Muse - 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.214-216
- Poem Title:
- Satan lying on the Burning Lake.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend
- Page No:
- p.216
- Poem Title:
- Description of Satan's Shield and Spear.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Thus far these beyond
- Page No:
- pp.216-217
- Poem Title:
- Satan's pre-eminence above the other fallen Angels.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Anon out of the earth a fabric huge
- Page No:
- p.217
- Poem Title:
- Pandemonium.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Hail holy light offspring of heaven first born
- Page No:
- pp.217-219
- Poem Title:
- An Address to Light.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- O thou that with surpassing glory crowned
- Page No:
- pp.219-221
- Poem Title:
- Satan's Speech to the Sun.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- So on he fares and to the border comes
- Page No:
- pp.221-222
- Poem Title:
- Satan's approach to Paradise - That Place described.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- That day I oft remember when from sleep
- Page No:
- pp.223-225
- Poem Title:
- Eve gives an Account of what first befel her after her Creation.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Two of far nobler shape erect and tall
- Page No:
- p.223
- Poem Title:
- Satan's first sight of Adam and Eve.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Now came still evening on and twilight grey
- Page No:
- p.225
- Poem Title:
- A Description of Night.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- With thee conversing I forget all time
- Page No:
- pp.225-226
- Poem Title:
- Eve describes her Happiness in Adam's Company.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- While thus he spake the angelic squadron bright
- Page No:
- pp.226-227
- Poem Title:
- Rencounter between Gabriel and Satan in Paradise.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- These are thy glorious works parent of good
- Page No:
- pp.227-229
- Poem Title:
- The Morning Hymn of Adam and Eve.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- So spake the eternal father and fulfilled
- Page No:
- pp.229-230
- Poem Title:
- Raphael's descent from Heaven to Paradise.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- So saying a noble stroke he lifted high
- Page No:
- pp.231-232
- Poem Title:
- Encounter between Abdiel and Satan: Beginning of the first Battle of the Angels.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- They ended parle and both addressed for fight
- Page No:
- pp.232-233
- Poem Title:
- Encounter between Michael and Satan.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Descend from heaven Urania by that name
- Page No:
- pp.233-234
- Poem Title:
- Address to the Muse, Urania.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Meanwhile the son
- Page No:
- pp.235-236
- Poem Title:
- The Creation of the World described.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- First in his east the glorious lamp was seen
- Page No:
- pp.236-237
- Poem Title:
- The first appearance of the Sun and Moon.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Meanwhile the tepid caves and fens and shores
- Page No:
- pp.237-238
- Poem Title:
- The Creation of Birds described.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- As new waked from soundest sleep
- Page No:
- pp.238-240
- Poem Title:
- Adam gives an account of his Condition and Sentiments, immediately after his Creation.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Now heaven in all her glory shone and rolled
- Page No:
- p.238
- Poem Title:
- The Deity resolve to creates Man.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Yet when I approach
- Page No:
- p.240
- Poem Title:
- Adam's description of Eve.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus saying from her husband's hand her hand
- Page No:
- pp.241-243
- Poem Title:
- Eve parts with Adam. - The Serpent finds her; and is so strongly affected with her Beauty and Innocence, that he almost lays aside his hellish Design.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- O fairest of creation last and best
- Page No:
- pp.243-244
- Poem Title:
- Adam's Lamentation over Eve, upon her eating the forbidden Fruit; and his Resolution to share the same Fate with her.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- All the world's a stage
- Page No:
- pp.244-245
- Poem Title:
- The World compared to a Stage.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O unexpected stroke worse than of death
- Page No:
- p.244
- Poem Title:
- Eve's Lamentation upon her being doomed to quit Paradise.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- For who shall go about
- Page No:
- pp.245-246
- Poem Title:
- Honour ought to be conferred on Merit only.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- I'm never merry when I hear sweet music
- Page No:
- pp.246-247
- Poem Title:
- Music.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- The quality of mercy is not strained
- Page No:
- p.246
- Poem Title:
- Mercy.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- I saw him beat the surges under him
- Page No:
- pp.247-248
- Poem Title:
- Description of a Man swimming ashore.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- The lunatic the lover and the poet
- Page No:
- p.247
- Poem Title:
- The Power of Imagination.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Ay ay and she hath offered to the doom
- Page No:
- pp.248-249
- Poem Title:
- A beautiful Person petitioning in vain.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- She never told her love
- Page No:
- p.248
- Poem Title:
- Concealed Love.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- These our actors
- Page No:
- p.248
- Poem Title:
- The Vanity of Human Nature.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- The barge she sat in like a burnished throne
- Page No:
- pp.249-250
- Poem Title:
- Description of Cleopatra's sailing down the Cydnus.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O thou goddess
- Page No:
- p.250
- Poem Title:
- Inborn Royalty.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Seems madam nay it is I know not seems
- Page No:
- p.250
- Poem Title:
- Real Grief.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Angels and ministers of grace defend us
- Page No:
- pp.251-252
- Poem Title:
- Hamlet, on the Appearance of his Father's Ghost.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Give thy thoughts no tongue
- Page No:
- p.251
- Poem Title:
- A Father's Advice to his Son, going to travel.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- To be or not to be that is the question
- Page No:
- pp.252-253
- Poem Title:
- Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- It must be so Plato thou reasonst well
- Page No:
- pp.253-254
- Poem Title:
- Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul.
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Nay do not think I flatter
- Page No:
- pp.254-255
- Poem Title:
- On Flattery, and firmness of Mind.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- My liege I did deny no prisoners
- Page No:
- pp.255-256
- Poem Title:
- Hotspur's Description of a finical Courtier.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- So shaken as we are so wan with care
- Page No:
- p.255
- Poem Title:
- Peace after Civil War.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- I saw young Harry with his beaver on
- Page No:
- pp.256-257
- Poem Title:
- A gallent Warrior.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- I from the orient to the drooping west
- Page No:
- p.257
- Poem Title:
- Rumour.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O gentle sleep
- Page No:
- pp.257-258
- Poem Title:
- On Sleep.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Hear him but reason in divinity
- Page No:
- pp.258-259
- Poem Title:
- King Henry the Fifth's Eloquence.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- So work the honey bees
- Page No:
- p.259
- Poem Title:
- The Common-wealth of Bees.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Suppose that you have seen
- Page No:
- pp.259-260
- Poem Title:
- Description of a Fleet setting sail.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- From camp to camp through the foul womb of night
- Page No:
- pp.260-261
- Poem Title:
- Description of Night in a Camp.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Methinks it were a happy life
- Page No:
- pp.261-262
- Poem Title:
- The Happiness of a Shepherd's Life.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- So farewell to the little good you bear me
- Page No:
- pp.262-263
- Poem Title:
- The Vicissitudes of Life.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Cromwell I did not think to shed a tear
- Page No:
- pp.263-264
- Poem Title:
- Cardinal Wolsey's Speech to Cromwell.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Old men and beldams in the streets
- Page No:
- p.264
- Poem Title:
- News-Tellers on the Death of Arthur.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- What is it that you would impart to me
- Page No:
- p.265
- Poem Title:
- Patriotism.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Why man he doth bestride the narrow world
- Page No:
- p.265
- Poem Title:
- Cassius in contempt of Caesar.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- But tis a common proof
- Page No:
- p.266
- Poem Title:
- Ambition, covered with specious Humility.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Cowards die many times before their deaths
- Page No:
- p.266
- Poem Title:
- Against the Fear of Death.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears
- Page No:
- pp.266-267
- Poem Title:
- Antony's Funeral Oration upon Caesar.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- There is no terror Cassius in your threats
- Page No:
- pp.267-268
- Poem Title:
- Brutus to Cassius.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- There is a tide in the affairs of men
- Page No:
- p.268
- Poem Title:
- Opportunity to be seized in all Affairs.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- This was the noblest Roman of them all
- Page No:
- p.268
- Poem Title:
- Antony's Character of Brutus.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Blow winds and crack your cheeks rage blow
- Page No:
- pp.269-270
- Poem Title:
- Lear's passionate Exclamations amidst the Tempest.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Alas poor country
- Page No:
- pp.270-271
- Poem Title:
- An oppress'd Country.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Come on sir here's the place stand still how fearful
- Page No:
- p.270
- Poem Title:
- Description of Dover-Cliffe.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Most potent grave and reverent signiors
- Page No:
- pp.271-272
- Poem Title:
- Othello's Relation of his Courtship to the Senate.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- All places that the eye of heaven visits
- Page No:
- pp.273-274
- Poem Title:
- Banishment, Consolation under it.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Good name in man and woman dear my lord
- Page No:
- p.273
- Poem Title:
- Reputation.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Oh who can hold a fire in his hand
- Page No:
- p.274
- Poem Title:
- Thoughts ineffectual to moderate Afflictions.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This royal throne of kings this sceptred isle
- Page No:
- pp.274-275
- Poem Title:
- England.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- For within the hollow crown
- Page No:
- pp.275-276
- Poem Title:
- On the Vanity of Power, and the Misery of Kings.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Knowest thou not
- Page No:
- p.275
- Poem Title:
- The Sun rising after a dark Night.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- In common worldly things tis called ungrateful
- Page No:
- p.276
- Poem Title:
- Submission to Heaven, our Duty.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O momentary grace of mortal men
- Page No:
- pp.276-277
- Poem Title:
- The Vanity of Trust in Man.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Princes have but their titles for their glories
- Page No:
- p.276
- Poem Title:
- The Cares of Royalty.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- I called thee then poor shadow painted queen
- Page No:
- p.277
- Poem Title:
- Queen Margaret upbraiding Queen Anne, the Consort of Richard III.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you
- Page No:
- pp.277-278
- Poem Title:
- On Dreams.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- I do remember an apothecary
- Page No:
- p.279
- Poem Title:
- Description of an Apothecary, and his Shop.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Why then you princes
- Page No:
- pp.279-280
- Poem Title:
- Adversity the Test of real Merit. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Now my comates and brothers in exile
- Page No:
- pp.280-281
- Poem Title:
- Solitude preferred to a Court Life, and the Advantages of Adversity. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- The youngest son of Priam a true knight
- Page No:
- p.280
- Poem Title:
- The Character of Troilus. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- A merrier man
- Page No:
- pp.281-282
- Poem Title:
- A Merry Man. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- But do not so I have five hundred crowns
- Page No:
- p.281
- Poem Title:
- Gratitude in an Old Servant. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Heaven doth with us as we with torches do
- Page No:
- p.282
- Poem Title:
- Virtue given to be Exerted. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- I tell thee what Antonio
- Page No:
- p.282
- Poem Title:
- Affected Gravity. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- The world is still deceived with ornament
- Page No:
- p.283
- Poem Title:
- The Deceit of Ornament or Appearances. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Is all the council that we two have shared
- Page No:
- p.284
- Poem Title:
- Female Friendship. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Where I have come great clerks have purposed
- Page No:
- pp.284-285
- Poem Title:
- Youthful Innocence. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Give me the cup
- Page No:
- pp.285-286
- Poem Title:
- A Health. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- In the corrupted currents of this world
- Page No:
- p.285
- Poem Title:
- Part of the King's despairing Soliloquy in Hamlet. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O hard condition and twin born with greatness
- Page No:
- pp.286-287
- Poem Title:
- The Miseries of Royalty. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O polished perturbation golden care
- Page No:
- p.286
- Poem Title:
- Reflections on a Crown. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Her vine the merry cheerer of the heart
- Page No:
- pp.287-288
- Poem Title:
- The Miseries of War. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Be thou blest Bertram and succeed thy father
- Page No:
- p.288
- Poem Title:
- Advice. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted
- Page No:
- p.288
- Poem Title:
- A good Conscience. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- From lowest place when virtuous things proceed
- Page No:
- p.289
- Poem Title:
- Honour due to personal Merit, not to Birth. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- [Shakespeare.]
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Let's take the instant by the forward top
- Page No:
- p.289
- Poem Title:
- Against Delay. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Under an oak whose boughs were mossed with age
- Page No:
- pp.289-290
- Poem Title:
- A fine Description of a sleeping Man, about to be destroyed by a Snake and a Lioness. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- A hungry lean-faced villain
- Page No:
- p.290
- Poem Title:
- Description of a beggarly Conjurer or a Fortune-teller. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- No ceremony that to great ones belongs
- Page No:
- p.290
- Poem Title:
- Mercy in Governors commended. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- England never did nor ever shall
- Page No:
- p.291
- Poem Title:
- England, invincible, if unanimous. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Ever note Lucilius
- Page No:
- pp.291-292
- Poem Title:
- Ceremony insincere. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- You were used
- Page No:
- p.291
- Poem Title:
- Precepts against Ill-fortune. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- I was with Hercules and Cadmus once
- Page No:
- p.292
- Poem Title:
- Hounds and Hunting. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O you hard hearts you cruel men of Rome
- Page No:
- pp.292-293
- Poem Title:
- Popular Ingratitude and Curiosity. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Behold the African
- Page No:
- p.293
- Poem Title:
- The Life of an African. [Addison.]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Let us appear nor rash nor diffident
- Page No:
- pp.293-294
- Poem Title:
- Cato's Address to the Senate. [Addison.]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Portius draw near my son thou oft has seen
- Page No:
- pp.294-295
- Poem Title:
- Cato's Advice to his Son. [Addison.]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Remember o my friends the laws the rights
- Page No:
- p.294
- Poem Title:
- Cato's Advice to his Friends. [Addison.]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- So where our wide Numidian wastes extend
- Page No:
- p.294
- Poem Title:
- Description of a Hurricane. [Addison.]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven
- Page No:
- pp.295-296
- Poem Title:
- Ambition inseparable from Great Minds. [S. Johnson.]
- Attribution:
- S. Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- First Line:
- This were to lose the very end of being
- Page No:
- p.295
- Poem Title:
- Action opposed to Contemplation. [Bellers.]
- Attribution:
- Bellers.
- Attributed To:
- Fettiplace Bellers
- First Line:
- If there be any land as fame reports
- Page No:
- pp.296-297
- Poem Title:
- The Happiness of a free Government. [S. Johnson.]
- Attribution:
- S. Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- First Line:
- No government can ever be safe that's founded
- Page No:
- p.296
- Poem Title:
- The Unsteadiness of an arbitrary Government, and the Misery of a despotic Prince. [Trap.]
- Attribution:
- Trap.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Trapp
- First Line:
- Forth from the thicket rushed another boar
- Page No:
- p.297
- Poem Title:
- The killing of a Boar. [Otway.]
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- We pursued the chase
- Page No:
- p.297
- Poem Title:
- The same. [Smith.]
- Attribution:
- Smith.
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Smith
- First Line:
- He preferred me
- Page No:
- p.298
- Poem Title:
- Rural Courtship. [Dryden.]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- This ancient city
- Page No:
- p.298
- Poem Title:
- Description of a populous City. [Young.]
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- So the eagle
- Page No:
- p.299
- Poem Title:
- The first Feats of a young Eagle. [Rowe.]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- Next night a dreary night
- Page No:
- p.299
- Poem Title:
- Description of a Person left on a desert Island. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- And therefore wert thou bred to virtuous knowledge
- Page No:
- p.300
- Poem Title:
- The true End of Education. [Rowe.]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- Ever since reflection beamed her light upon me
- Page No:
- p.300
- Poem Title:
- Filial Piety. [Mallet.]
- Attribution:
- Mallet.
- Attributed To:
- David Mallet
- First Line:
- With such unshaken temper of the soul
- Page No:
- p.301
- Poem Title:
- Bad Fortune more easily borne than Good. [Rowe.]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- Have I then no tears for thee my father
- Page No:
- p.301
- Poem Title:
- The same. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Though plunged in ills and exercised in care
- Page No:
- p.301
- Poem Title:
- Despair never to be indulged. [Philips.]
- Attribution:
- Philips.
- Attributed To:
- Ambrose Philips
- First Line:
- In a close lane as I pursued my journey
- Page No:
- p.302
- Poem Title:
- Description of a Hag. [Otway.]
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- To be good is to be happy angels
- Page No:
- pp.302-303
- Poem Title:
- Happiness the inseparable Companion of Virtue. [Rowe.]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- He who contends for freedom
- Page No:
- p.302
- Poem Title:
- A Friend to Freedom can never be a Traitor. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Honour my lord is much too proud to catch
- Page No:
- p.303
- Poem Title:
- Honour superior to Justice. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Let truth and virtue be their earliest teachers
- Page No:
- p.303
- Poem Title:
- In what Manner Princes ought to be Taught. [Mallet.]
- Attribution:
- Mallet.
- Attributed To:
- David Mallet
- First Line:
- Tis true I am a king
- Page No:
- p.304
- Poem Title:
- The real Duty of a King. [Rowe.]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- O witness heaven
- Page No:
- p.304
- Poem Title:
- True End of Royalty. [Mallet.]
- Attribution:
- Mallet.
- Attributed To:
- David Mallet
- First Line:
- Yes we have lost a father
- Page No:
- p.305
- Poem Title:
- Character of a good King. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- When those whom heaven distinguishes over millions
- Page No:
- pp.305-306
- Poem Title:
- The Guilt of bad Kings. [Mallet.]
- Attribution:
- Mallet.
- Attributed To:
- David Mallet
- First Line:
- Reflect that life and death affecting sounds
- Page No:
- p.306
- Poem Title:
- The same. [S. Johnson.]
- Attribution:
- S. Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- First Line:
- The prince in a lone court was placed
- Page No:
- pp.306-307
- Poem Title:
- A Lion overcome by a Man. [Lee.]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Who who would live my Narva just to breathe
- Page No:
- p.306
- Poem Title:
- The true End of Life. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- How could my tongue
- Page No:
- p.307
- Poem Title:
- Character of an excellent Man. [Rowe.]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- I tell thee then whoever amidst the sons
- Page No:
- pp.307-308
- Poem Title:
- Virtue the only true Source of Nobility. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Wished morning's come and now upon the plains
- Page No:
- p.308
- Poem Title:
- A Description of the Morning. [Otway.]
- Attribution:
- Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- So when the spring renews the flowery field
- Page No:
- pp.309-310
- Poem Title:
- The same. [Rowe.]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- From amber shrouds I see the morning rise
- Page No:
- p.309
- Poem Title:
- Another. [Lee.]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Thus in some poplar shade the nightingale
- Page No:
- p.309
- Poem Title:
- The charming Notes of the Nightingale. [Lee.]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Were honour to be scanned by long descent
- Page No:
- p.310
- Poem Title:
- A worthless Person can claim no Merit from the Virtues of his Ancestors. [Rowe.]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Rowe
- First Line:
- His only blot was this that much provoked
- Page No:
- p.310
- Poem Title:
- The Love of our Country the greatest of Virtues. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Learn hence ye Romans on how sure a base
- Page No:
- p.311
- Poem Title:
- The same. [W. Whitehead.]
- Attribution:
- W. Whitehead.
- Attributed To:
- William Whitehead
- First Line:
- Philosophy consists not
- Page No:
- p.311
- Poem Title:
- In what Philosophy really consists. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- What with admiration
- Page No:
- pp.311-313
- Poem Title:
- Scipio restoring the captive Princess to her Royal Lover. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- O beauteous peace
- Page No:
- pp.313-314
- Poem Title:
- The Blessings of Peace. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- As far as I could cast my eyes
- Page No:
- pp.314-315
- Poem Title:
- Description of Ships appearing at a Distance, and approaching the Shore. [Dryden.]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Let us
- Page No:
- p.314
- Poem Title:
- Prudence. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- There is a power
- Page No:
- p.314
- Poem Title:
- Providence. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- What though no gaudy titles grace my birth
- Page No:
- p.315
- Poem Title:
- Virtue preferable to Rank. [Rowe.]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- Tis dreadful | how reverend is the face of this tall pile
- Page No:
- p.316
- Poem Title:
- Description of an ancient Cathedral. [Congreve.]
- Attribution:
- Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- He comes and with a port so proud
- Page No:
- pp.316-317
- Poem Title:
- Description of a Triumph. [Lee.]
- Attribution:
- Lee.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Lee
- First Line:
- Great minds like heaven are pleased with doing good
- Page No:
- p.317
- Poem Title:
- Virtue its own Reward. [Rowe.]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- The unbusied shepherd stretched beneath the hawthorn
- Page No:
- p.317
- Poem Title:
- A Shepherd's Life happier than a King's. [Hill.]
- Attribution:
- Hill.
- Attributed To:
- Aaron Hill
- First Line:
- Ah me full sorely is my heart forlorn
- Page No:
- pp.318-328
- Poem Title:
- The School-Mistress. In Imitation of Spencer. [Shenstone.]
- Attribution:
- Shenstone.
- Attributed To:
- William Shenstone
- First Line:
- The wise and active conquer difficulties
- Page No:
- p.318
- Poem Title:
- No Difficulties insuperable to the Prudent and Brave. [Rowe.]
- Attribution:
- Rowe.
- Attributed To:
- Nicholas Rowe
- First Line:
- While you my lord the rural shades admire
- Page No:
- pp.328-333
- Poem Title:
- A Letter from Italy, to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax, in the Year 1701. [Addison.]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- If dumb too long the drooping muse hath stayed
- Page No:
- pp.333-336
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison. [Tickell.]
- Attribution:
- Tickell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Of Leinster famed for maidens fair
- Page No:
- pp.336-338
- Poem Title:
- Colin and Lucy. A Ballad. [Tickell.]
- Attribution:
- Tickell.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Tickell
- First Line:
- Happy the man who void of cares and strife
- Page No:
- pp.339-343
- Poem Title:
- The Splendid Shilling. An Imitation of Milton. [J. Philips.]
- Attribution:
- J. Philips.
- Attributed To:
- John Philips
- First Line:
- Tomorrow didst thou say
- Page No:
- pp.343-344
- Poem Title:
- To-Morrow. [Dr. Cotton.]
- Attribution:
- Dr. Cotton.
- Attributed To:
- Nathaniel Cotton
- First Line:
- Nobles and heralds by your leave
- Page No:
- p.344
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph. [Prior.]
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Underneath this stone doth lie
- Page No:
- p.344
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph. [Ben. Jonson.]
- Attribution:
- Ben. Jonson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
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