Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T133650] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 957
- Publication Date:
- 1798
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T133650
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB127553151
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - BOD
- Full Title:
- SELECT | LESSONS | IN | PROSE and VERSE, | FROM | VARIOUS AUTHORS, | DESIGNED FOR THE | [i]Improvememtn of Youth.[/i] | [rule] | TO WHICH ARE ADDED, | A Few ORIGINAL PIECES. | [rule] | The FIFTH EDITION, | With ADDITIONS. | [rule] | [i]TAMWORTH:[/i] | Printed and Sold by B. SHELTON. | M,DCC,XCVIII.
- Place of Publication:
- Tamworth
- Genres:
- Collection of religious verse and Collection of educational texts
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Bibliographic details:
- Half title: [ornamental rule] | SELECT | LESSONS | IN | PROSE and VERSE. | [ornamental rule]
- Comments:
- Contents: prose epigraph pp. 65-6; prose pp. 79-99, 105-116, 117-118, 133-135, 139-140
- Title:
- Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T119230] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1785
- ESTC No:
- T119230
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T147696] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1774
- ESTC No:
- T147696
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T78288] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1765
- ESTC No:
- T78288
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T78289] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1778
- ESTC No:
- T78289
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [N21758] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1798
- ESTC No:
- N21758
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T147647] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1798
- ESTC No:
- T147647
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- Benjamin Shelton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 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:
- Father of all in every age
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- Pope's Universal Prayer.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Ye nymphs of Solyma begin the song
- Page No:
- pp.7-10
- Poem Title:
- Messiah: A sacred Eclogue, compos'd of several Passages of Isaiah the Prophet. Written in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio's.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- The Knowledge of Futurity wisely concealed.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- O happiness our being's end and aim
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- On Happiness.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- But all our praises why should lords engross
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- The Man of Ross.
- 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:
- How rich the peacock what bright glories run
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- The Peacock.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- But fiercer still the lordly lion stalks
- Page No:
- pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- The Lion.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Survey the warlike horse didst thou invest
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- The War-Horse.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Go to the Nile and from its fruitful side
- Page No:
- pp.16-18
- Poem Title:
- The Leviathan.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Far in a wild unknown to public view
- Page No:
- pp.19-27
- Poem Title:
- The Hermit.
- Attribution:
- Parnel.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Parnell
- First Line:
- Of man's first disobedience and the fruit
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- Milton's Invocation.
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Hail holy light offspring of heaven first born
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- Hymn to Light.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- With solemn adoration down they cast
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- The sublime Homage of Angels.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Here finished he and all that he had made
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- The Creation finish'd and survey'd.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Two of far nobler shape erect and tall
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- Adam and Eve in Paradise.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- For man to tell how human life began
- Page No:
- pp.32-34
- Poem Title:
- Adam relates to the Angel Raphael his pleasing Amazement on the first Survey he took of himself.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- These are thy glorious works parent of good
- Page No:
- pp.34-36
- Poem Title:
- Adam and Eve's Morning Hymn.
- Attribution:
- Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- These as they change almighty father these
- Page No:
- pp.36-40
- Poem Title:
- Thomson's Hymn on the Creation.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Up springs the lark
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- The Symphony of the Spring.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- But yonder comes the powerful king of day
- Page No:
- pp.41-42
- Poem Title:
- Sun-Rising.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- White break the clouds away with quickened step
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- The Dawn of Summer's Day.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Informer of the planetary train
- Page No:
- pp.42-43
- Poem Title:
- Hymn to the Sun.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Falsely luxurious will not man awake
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- The Praise of the Morning: Or, The Sluggard Reproved.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Tis listening fear and dumb amazement all
- Page No:
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- A Storm of Thunder and Lightening.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- O thou by whose almighty nod the scale
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- A Prayer for the Prosperity of Great-Britain.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Tis done dread winter spreads his latest glooms
- Page No:
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- Moral Reflections on a future State.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- Father of light and life thou good supreme
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- A Prayer.
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- First Line:
- How poor how rich how abject how august
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- Man a Miracle to Himself.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- The ways of heaven are dark and intricate
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- The Darkness of Providence.
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- O thou great arbiter of life and death
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- A Prayer.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- It must be so Plato thou reasonest well
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul.
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Is there no hope the sick man said
- Page No:
- pp.50-52
- Poem Title:
- The Sick Man and the Angel.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Friendship like love is but a name
- Page No:
- pp.52-54
- Poem Title:
- The Hare and many Friends.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Death on a solemn night of state
- Page No:
- pp.54-56
- Poem Title:
- The Court of Death.
- Attribution:
- Gay.
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- Mylo forbear to call him blessed
- Page No:
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- False Greatness.
- Attribution:
- Watts.
- Attributed To:
- Isaac Watts
- First Line:
- How many thousands of my poorest subjects
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- A Speech of King Henry the Fourth, upon his receiving News in the Night, of the Rebellion of the Earl of Northumberland.
- Attribution:
- Shakespear.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- Farewell a long farewell to all my greatness
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- Cardinal Wolsey's Lamentation of his Fall.
- Attribution:
- Shakespear.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- How are thy servants blessed O lord
- Page No:
- pp.60-62
- Poem Title:
- Preservation by Land and Sea. A Divine Ode. Spectator.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When rising from the bed of death
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- Recovery from Sickness. A Divine Ode. Spectator.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here innocence and beauty lies whose breath
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph. Spectator.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Take holy earth all that my soul holds dear
- Page No:
- pp.63-64
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Mason. In Bristol Cathedral.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. Mr. W. Mason.
- Attributed To:
- William Mason
- First Line:
- Underneath this marble hearse
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke. Spectator.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Underneath this stone doth lie
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph
- Attribution:
- by Ben. Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- Kneller by heaven and not a master taught
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- On Sir Godfrey Kneller.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- The cloud capped towers the gorgeous palaces
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- The Inscription on Shakespear's Monument, Taken from his Works.
- Attribution:
- Shakespear.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- O charity divinely wise
- Page No:
- pp.66-67
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Charity.
- Attribution:
- By Miss H. More.
- Attributed To:
- Hannah More
- First Line:
- Let high birth triumph what can be more great
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- Virtue the only Nobility.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- What can be emptier than the chase of fame
- Page No:
- pp.68-69
- Poem Title:
- The Pursuit of Fame.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Ye vain desist from your erroneous strife
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- True Ambition.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- The love of gaming is the worst of ills
- Page No:
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- On Gaming.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- To whom can riches give repute or trust
- Page No:
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- Virtue constitutes true Happiness.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- O sacred solitude divine retreat
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- On Solitude.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- Pleasures are few and fewer we enjoy
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- On Criminal Pleasures.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- We smile at florists we despise their joy
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- The Florist Moraliz'd.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- If it be true celestial powers
- Page No:
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- The Fair Lady's Wish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stella and Flavia every hour
- Page No:
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- On the same. A Song
- Attribution:
- by Mr. Earl.
- Attributed To:
- Jabez Earle
- First Line:
- Let angel forms angelic truths maintain
- Page No:
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- The Real Beauty distinguished.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- First Line:
- From flower to flower with eager pains
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- On a Bee stifled in Honey.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When I revolve this evanescent state
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- The Mirrour.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sceptic whoever thou art who sayst the soul
- Page No:
- pp.72-73
- Poem Title:
- The Unreasonableness of denying a future State.
- Attribution:
- Glynn's Prize Poem on the Day of Judgment.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Glynn [later Clobery]
- First Line:
- Look round the world with what a partial hand
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- The grand Distinction betwixt the Virtuous and the Wicked reserved for another State.
- Attribution:
- Glynn.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Glynn [later Clobery]
- First Line:
- How shall the muse her numbers all too weak
- Page No:
- pp.75-78
- Poem Title:
- The End of the World.
- Attribution:
- Glynn.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Glynn [later Clobery]
- First Line:
- On that great day the solemn trump shall sound
- Page No:
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- The Great Tribunal.
- Attribution:
- Glynn.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Glynn [later Clobery]
- First Line:
- When God the new made world surveyed
- Page No:
- pp.88-89
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The hoary fool who many days
- Page No:
- p.99
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
- Page No:
- pp.100-104
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy, Written in a Country Church-Yard.
- Attribution:
- Grey.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- Eternity that boundless race
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Congreve.
- Attributed To:
- William Congreve
- First Line:
- Vital spark of heavenly flame
- Page No:
- pp.116-117
- Poem Title:
- The Dying Christian to his Soul.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah fleeting spirit wandering fire
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- The Emperor Adrian to his departing Soul.
- Attribution:
- Translated by Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Parent of good almighty god
- Page No:
- pp.119-121
- Poem Title:
- A Morning Song. Being an Imitation, in Metre, of Milton's Morning Hymn.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Father of all thou god alone
- Page No:
- pp.121-122
- Poem Title:
- The Lord's Prayer in Verse.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Pretty fluttering tuneful bird
- Page No:
- pp.122-123
- Poem Title:
- The Soaring Lark.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lovely blushing prickly rose
- Page No:
- pp.123-124
- Poem Title:
- The Fading Rose: Or, Sylvia instructed.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where am I now my head turns round
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- Waking out of a frightful Dream.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With rhymes obscene no more the glass pollute
- Page No:
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- Advice to obscene Writers on Glass.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The cloth removed the dinner done
- Page No:
- pp.126-127
- Poem Title:
- The Warning. A Fable. [From Easter Holidays, lately published]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Patron of all those luckless brains
- Page No:
- pp.128-129
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Apollo. On an Ink-Glass almost dried in the Sun.
- Attribution:
- [From Cowper's Poems, just published.]
- Attributed To:
- William Cowper
- First Line:
- Pity the sorrows of a poor old man
- Page No:
- pp.129-130
- Poem Title:
- The Beggar's Petition.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Soon as the sable veil is drawn
- Page No:
- pp.131-132
- Poem Title:
- The Water-Cress Girl.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade
- Page No:
- p.132
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on an Infant.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fixed in a neat though humble cot
- Page No:
- p.133
- Poem Title:
- The Happy Man.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Too much rest our genius dulls
- Page No:
- pp.135-136
- Poem Title:
- Lines written by the late King of Prussia, on the different Effects of Too-Much and Nothing.
- Attribution:
- King of Prussia
- Attributed To:
- King of Prussia Frederick II
- First Line:
- In thee sacred pleasures reside
- Page No:
- p.136
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet to Solitude.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Friendship thou balm to every bleeding wound
- Page No:
- p.137
- Poem Title:
- On Friendship.
- Attribution:
- By a Lady.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Yes these are the meadows the shrubs and the plains
- Page No:
- pp.137-138
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of a Young Lady. Imitated from Shenstone.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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