Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [4th ed] [vol ii] [T127408] [ecco]

DMI number:

832

Publication Date:

1755

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T127408

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116436234

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BL

Full Title:

Miscellaneous Pieces. | CONSISTING OF | SELECT POETRY, | AND | [i]METHODS[/i] | OF | IMPROVEMENT | IN | Husbandry, Gardening, | AND | [i]Various other Subjects, useful to[/i] | FAMILIES | [rule] | VOL. II. | [rule] | The FOURTH EDITION. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | Printed for [i]R. Goadby[/i], in [i]Sherborne[/i]; and sold by [i]W. Owen[/i], | Bookseller, at [i]Temple-Bar, London.[/i] | [short rule] | MDCCLV.

Place of Publication:

Sherborne

Genres:

Miscellaneous collection, Periodical miscellany, and Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Originally printed (and sold?) in parts. Contains parts 34-59. Pagination and signatures are continuous. Unlike T199384, which is also described as 4th ed. but is dated 1752, this vol. only contains the later parts. No '4th ed. vol I' appears to survive. Plates.

Comments:

Contents: parts mingle verse with instructions on gardening, husbandry etc, and other historical or geographical essays; from part 38, items of more recent news (both domestic and European) start to be included including prices of stocks.

Other matter:

End matter: index, [4pp]

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Title:

Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [2nd ed] [T127413] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1752

ESTC No:

T127413

Volume:

None

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Comments:

Title:

Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [3rd ed] [39 parts] [T112124] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1752

ESTC No:

T112124

Volume:

None

Relationship:

Another Edition of

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Title:

Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [4thed] [T199384] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1752

ESTC No:

T199384

Volume:

None

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Title:

Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [T125628] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1752

ESTC No:

T125628

Volume:

None

Relationship:

Another Edition of

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Related People

Publisher:

Robert Goadby

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Sold by:

William Owen

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

A farmer once to London went

Page No:

pp.265-267

Poem Title:

The Farmer, A Tale.

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First Line:

Mortals in vain ye hope to find

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

On Truth.

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First Line:

God's vast existence never decays

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p.269

Poem Title:

On the Return of the New Year.

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First Line:

Soon as the morn salutes your eyes

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p.270

Poem Title:

Rules for Daily Practice.

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First Line:

As Cupid in Cythera's grove

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pp.272-273

Poem Title:

Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus. A Fable.

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First Line:

Where through the meads fair Isis cuts her way

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pp.276-277

Poem Title:

The Young Moralist.

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Great father of the skies whose boundless sway

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pp.278-279

Poem Title:

A Prayer of Cleanthes, an Heathen Philosopher.

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From those blest regions where the sun displays

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pp.279-280

Poem Title:

The Hymn of the three Eastern Magi, adoring our Saviour at his Nativity.

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First Line:

A miser on a scurvy tit

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p.284

Poem Title:

The Miser and the Hog, A Fable.

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First Line:

The things that make a virgin please

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pp.285-286

Poem Title:

The Virgin.

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First Line:

What's life a rough and dangerous sea

Page No:

p.285

Poem Title:

On Life, Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell.

Attribution:

By a Youth of Seventeen.

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First Line:

Welcome thou presage of my certain doom

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

Verses wrote by Mrs. Hannah Wakeford, only Daughter of the Reverend Mr. Towgood, of Exeter, on Occasion of receiving a Mourning Ring some Months before her own Death, at the Funeral of Mrs. Hannah Wakeford, her Husband's Grandmother, and found after her Decease in her own Hand-writing.

Attribution:

by Mrs. Hannah Wakeford

Attributed To:

Hannah Wakeford

First Line:

My god I love and I adore

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pp.293-295

Poem Title:

Searching after God.

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First Line:

Children to your creator god

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pp.295-296

Poem Title:

Remember your Creator, &c. Eccles.

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First Line:

With toilsome steps when I pursue

Page No:

p.305

Poem Title:

The Husbandman's Meditation in the Field.

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First Line:

I hate the man who builds his name

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pp.306-307

Poem Title:

The Poet and the Rose. A Fable.

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To thee my God I hourly sigh

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p.307

Poem Title:

An Hymn.

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First Line:

I come I come and joyfully obey

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p.325

Poem Title:

Thoughts of a dying Christian.

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First Line:

The prudent nymph whose cheeks disclose

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pp.326-327

Poem Title:

The Nightingale and Glow-worm, A Fable.

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First Line:

Not all that parent earth can give

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pp.327-328

Poem Title:

Seeking for Happiness.

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First Line:

Indulgent god whose bounteous care

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p.328

Poem Title:

An Evening Hymn.

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First Line:

If ye powers divine

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p.333

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Eternal wisdom thee we praise

Page No:

pp.337-339

Poem Title:

A Song to Creating Wisdom. In Five Parts.

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These are thy glorious works parent of good

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pp.339-341

Poem Title:

A Morning Hymn.

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First Line:

Old Chiron to his pupil thus began

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pp.353-358

Poem Title:

A Letter to Achilles, a young Grecian Prince, from his Tutor Chiron.

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First Line:

Earth has detained me prisoner long

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pp.369-372

Poem Title:

The Song of Angels above.

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First Line:

Dear Jesus when when shall it be

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pp.385-386

Poem Title:

A Hymn to Christ.

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First Line:

The lord my pasture shall prepare

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pp.386-387

Poem Title:

Psalm XXXIII. Paraphrased.

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First Line:

Let that arithmetician come

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pp.387-388

Poem Title:

On Eternity.

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First Line:

Twas god that turned the rolling spheres

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pp.388-389

Poem Title:

But the Thunder of his Power who can understand? Job xxvi. 14.

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First Line:

When wilt thou speak and tell me thou art mine

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pp.403-404

Poem Title:

Aspiring after God.

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First Line:

Through all the various shifting scene

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pp.404-405

Poem Title:

Man's Dependence on his Creator.

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First Line:

I hate the face however fair

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pp.405-408

Poem Title:

The Goose and the Swans: A Fable. To an Affected Lady.

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First Line:

Arise my soul survey the morn

Page No:

p.417

Poem Title:

An Ode on the Morning.

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First Line:

Is it not strange that every creature

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p.418

Poem Title:

Against Drunkenness.

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First Line:

The man who with undaunted toils

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pp.419-420

Poem Title:

The Elephant and the Bookseller, A Fable.

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First Line:

Stay start not at that skeleton

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pp.433-435

Poem Title:

Upon the Sight of a Skeleton.

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First Line:

Sweet muse descend and bless the shade

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pp.435-436

Poem Title:

Meditation in a Grove.

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First Line:

How fond are men of rule and place

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pp.439-440

Poem Title:

The Lion and the Cub. A Fable.

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First Line:

Atheists no more disown that god

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pp.449-451

Poem Title:

An Address to the Atheists.

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First Line:

When faint and sinking to the shades of death

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pp.451-452

Poem Title:

The dying Christian's Hope.

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First Line:

Hail ever pleasing solitude

Page No:

p.452

Poem Title:

Hymn on Solitude.

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First Line:

Serene as light is Myron's soul

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pp.465-467

Poem Title:

The Happy Man.

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First Line:

Adam our father and our head

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pp.467-469

Poem Title:

Jesus the only Saviour.

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First Line:

Of all the burdens man must bear

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pp.469-472

Poem Title:

Plutus, Cupid, and Time. A Fable.

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First Line:

Tis done the darling idol I resign

Page No:

pp.472-474

Poem Title:

The Resignation.

Attribution:

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