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]
- 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
- 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 [3rd ed] [39 parts] [T112124] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1752
- ESTC No:
- T112124
- 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 [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
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Robert Goadby
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- William Owen
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- A farmer once to London went
- Page No:
- pp.265-267
- Poem Title:
- The Farmer, A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mortals in vain ye hope to find
- Page No:
- p.268
- Poem Title:
- On Truth.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- God's vast existence never decays
- Page No:
- p.269
- Poem Title:
- On the Return of the New Year.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Soon as the morn salutes your eyes
- Page No:
- p.270
- Poem Title:
- Rules for Daily Practice.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As Cupid in Cythera's grove
- Page No:
- pp.272-273
- Poem Title:
- Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where through the meads fair Isis cuts her way
- Page No:
- pp.276-277
- Poem Title:
- The Young Moralist.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great father of the skies whose boundless sway
- Page No:
- pp.278-279
- Poem Title:
- A Prayer of Cleanthes, an Heathen Philosopher.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From those blest regions where the sun displays
- Page No:
- pp.279-280
- Poem Title:
- The Hymn of the three Eastern Magi, adoring our Saviour at his Nativity.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A miser on a scurvy tit
- Page No:
- p.284
- Poem Title:
- The Miser and the Hog, A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The things that make a virgin please
- Page No:
- pp.285-286
- Poem Title:
- The Virgin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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
- Page No:
- pp.293-295
- Poem Title:
- Searching after God.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Children to your creator god
- Page No:
- pp.295-296
- Poem Title:
- Remember your Creator, &c. Eccles.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With toilsome steps when I pursue
- Page No:
- p.305
- Poem Title:
- The Husbandman's Meditation in the Field.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I hate the man who builds his name
- Page No:
- pp.306-307
- Poem Title:
- The Poet and the Rose. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To thee my God I hourly sigh
- Page No:
- p.307
- Poem Title:
- An Hymn.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I come I come and joyfully obey
- Page No:
- p.325
- Poem Title:
- Thoughts of a dying Christian.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The prudent nymph whose cheeks disclose
- Page No:
- pp.326-327
- Poem Title:
- The Nightingale and Glow-worm, A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Not all that parent earth can give
- Page No:
- pp.327-328
- Poem Title:
- Seeking for Happiness.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Indulgent god whose bounteous care
- Page No:
- p.328
- Poem Title:
- An Evening Hymn.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If ye powers divine
- Page No:
- p.333
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Eternal wisdom thee we praise
- Page No:
- pp.337-339
- Poem Title:
- A Song to Creating Wisdom. In Five Parts.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- These are thy glorious works parent of good
- Page No:
- pp.339-341
- Poem Title:
- A Morning Hymn.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Old Chiron to his pupil thus began
- Page No:
- pp.353-358
- Poem Title:
- A Letter to Achilles, a young Grecian Prince, from his Tutor Chiron.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Earth has detained me prisoner long
- Page No:
- pp.369-372
- Poem Title:
- The Song of Angels above.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear Jesus when when shall it be
- Page No:
- pp.385-386
- Poem Title:
- A Hymn to Christ.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The lord my pasture shall prepare
- Page No:
- pp.386-387
- Poem Title:
- Psalm XXXIII. Paraphrased.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let that arithmetician come
- Page No:
- pp.387-388
- Poem Title:
- On Eternity.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas god that turned the rolling spheres
- Page No:
- pp.388-389
- Poem Title:
- But the Thunder of his Power who can understand? Job xxvi. 14.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When wilt thou speak and tell me thou art mine
- Page No:
- pp.403-404
- Poem Title:
- Aspiring after God.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Through all the various shifting scene
- Page No:
- pp.404-405
- Poem Title:
- Man's Dependence on his Creator.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I hate the face however fair
- Page No:
- pp.405-408
- Poem Title:
- The Goose and the Swans: A Fable. To an Affected Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Arise my soul survey the morn
- Page No:
- p.417
- Poem Title:
- An Ode on the Morning.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Is it not strange that every creature
- Page No:
- p.418
- Poem Title:
- Against Drunkenness.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The man who with undaunted toils
- Page No:
- pp.419-420
- Poem Title:
- The Elephant and the Bookseller, A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stay start not at that skeleton
- Page No:
- pp.433-435
- Poem Title:
- Upon the Sight of a Skeleton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet muse descend and bless the shade
- Page No:
- pp.435-436
- Poem Title:
- Meditation in a Grove.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How fond are men of rule and place
- Page No:
- pp.439-440
- Poem Title:
- The Lion and the Cub. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Atheists no more disown that god
- Page No:
- pp.449-451
- Poem Title:
- An Address to the Atheists.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When faint and sinking to the shades of death
- Page No:
- pp.451-452
- Poem Title:
- The dying Christian's Hope.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail ever pleasing solitude
- Page No:
- p.452
- Poem Title:
- Hymn on Solitude.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Serene as light is Myron's soul
- Page No:
- pp.465-467
- Poem Title:
- The Happy Man.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Adam our father and our head
- Page No:
- pp.467-469
- Poem Title:
- Jesus the only Saviour.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all the burdens man must bear
- Page No:
- pp.469-472
- Poem Title:
- Plutus, Cupid, and Time. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis done the darling idol I resign
- Page No:
- pp.472-474
- Poem Title:
- The Resignation.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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