Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T78288] [ecco]

DMI number:

944

Publication Date:

1765

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T78288

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115023076

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BL

Full Title:

SELECT | LESSONS | IN | PROSE and VERSE, | FROM | VARIOUS AUTHORS, | DESIGNED FOR THE | Improvement of [i]Youth.[/i] | TO WHICH ARE ADDED, | A Few ORIGINAL PIECES. | [rule] | By [i]J. N.[/i] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]BRISTOL:[/i] | Printed by S. FARLEY, in [i]Castle-Green[/i]. | M DCC LXV.

Place of Publication:

Bristol

Genres:

Collection of religious verse and Collection of educational texts

Format:

Octavo

Comments:

Contents: prose inscription p. 72; prose pp. 79-115.

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Printer:

Sarah Farley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

The spacious firmament on high

Page No:

pp.3-4

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.4-5

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.5-7

Poem Title:

Hymn on Gratitude.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Father of all in every age

Page No:

pp.7-9

Poem Title:

Pope's Universal Prayer.

Attribution:

Pope

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Ye nymphs of Solyma begin the song

Page No:

pp.9-13

Poem Title:

Messiah. A sacred Eclogue, compos'd of several Passages of Isaiah the Prophet. Written in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate

Page No:

p.13

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.14-15

Poem Title:

On Happiness.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

But all our praises why should lords engross

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

The Man of Ross.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

All are but parts of one stupendous whole

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

The Omnipotence 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.18

Poem Title:

The Peacock.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Survey the warlike horse didst thou invest

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

The War-Horse.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

But fiercer still the lordly lion stalks

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

The Lion.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Go to the Nile and from its fruitful side

Page No:

pp.19-22

Poem Title:

The Leviathan.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Far in a wild unknown to public view

Page No:

pp.22-31

Poem Title:

The Hermit.

Attribution:

Parnel.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

Of man's first disobedience and the fruit

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

Milton's Invocation.

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Hail holy light offspring of heaven first born

Page No:

pp.32-34

Poem Title:

Hymn to Light.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

No sooner had the almighty ceased but all

Page No:

pp.34-36

Poem Title:

The sublime Homage of Angels.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Two of far nobler shape erect and tall

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

Adam and Eve in Paradise.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Here finished he and all that he had made

Page No:

pp.37-38

Poem Title:

The Creation finish'd and survey'd.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

So spake the godlike power and thus our sire

Page No:

pp.38-40

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.40-42

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.42-46

Poem Title:

Thomson's Hymn on the Creation

Attribution:

Thomson

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

When now no more the alternate twins are fired

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

The Dawn of a Summer's-Day

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

But yonder comes the powerful king of day

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

Sun-Rising.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Informer of the planetary train

Page No:

pp.48-50

Poem Title:

Hymn to the Sun.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Behold slow settling over the lurid grove

Page No:

pp.50-52

Poem Title:

A Storm of Thunder of Lightning.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

O thou by whose almighty nod the scale

Page No:

p.53

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.53-55

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.55

Poem Title:

A Prayer.

Attribution:

Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

How poor how rich how abject how august

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

Man a Miracle to himself.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

O thou great arbiter of life and death

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

A Prayer.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

It must be so Plato thou reasonest well

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

The Darkness of Providence.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Is there no hope the sick man said

Page No:

pp.58-60

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.60-62

Poem Title:

The Hare and many Friends.

Attribution:

Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Mylo forbear to call him blessed

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

False Greatness.

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

How many thousands of my poorest subjects

Page No:

pp.64-65

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.65-67

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.67-68

Poem Title:

Preservation by Land and by Sea. A Divine Ode. Spectator.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When rising from the bed of death

Page No:

p.69

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.70

Poem Title:

An Epitaph. Spectator.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Underneath this marble hearse

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke. Spectator.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Underneath this stone doth lie

Page No:

p.70

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.71

Poem Title:

On Sir Godfrey Kneller.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

The cloud capped towers the gorgeous palaces

Page No:

p.72

Poem Title:

The Inscription on Shakespear's Monument, taken from his Works.

Attribution:

Shakespear

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Sceptic whoever thou art who sayst the soul

Page No:

p.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.74-75

Poem Title:

The Grand Distinction betwixt the Vertuous and the Wicked reserved for another State.

Attribution:

Glynn.

Attributed To:

Robert Glynn [later Clobery]

First Line:

On that great day the solemn trump shall sound

Page No:

pp.75-76

Poem Title:

The Great Tribunal.

Attribution:

Glynn.

Attributed To:

Robert Glynn [later Clobery]

First Line:

How shall the muse her numbers all too weak

Page No:

pp.76-79

Poem Title:

The End of the World.

Attribution:

Glynn.

Attributed To:

Robert Glynn [later Clobery]

First Line:

When God the new made world surveyed

Page No:

p.91

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The hoary fool who many days

Page No:

p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Eternity that boundless race

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Parent of good almighty god

Page No:

pp.115-118

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:

p.118

Poem Title:

The Lord's Prayer in Verse.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pretty fluttering tuneful bird

Page No:

pp.119-120

Poem Title:

The Soaring Lark.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lovely blushing prickly rose

Page No:

pp.120-121

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.121-122

Poem Title:

Waking from a frightful Dream.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With rhymes obscene no more the glass pollute

Page No:

p.122

Poem Title:

Advice to obscene Writers on Glass.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Long had proud Nimrod's stately city stood

Page No:

p.123

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on the seven first Verses of the Prophecy of Nahum. Publish'd in the New Universal Magazine, for Oct. 1752.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What joy possessed the chosen seed

Page No:

pp.125-128

Poem Title:

The Song of Moses.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed