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Select lessons in verse and prose from various authors designed for the improvement of youth [T78290]

DMI number:
1560
Publication Date:
1783
Volume Number:
1 of 1
ESTC number:
T78290
EEBO/ECCO link:
N/A
Shelfmark:
BL ch.780/109
Full Title:
SELECT | LESSONS | IN | PROSE and VERSE, | FROM | VARIOUS AUTHORS | DESIGNED FOR THE | Improvement of YOUTH. | TO WHICH ARE ADDED, | A Few ORIGINAL PIECES. | [double rule] | By [i]J. N.[/i] | [rule] | The FOURTH EDITION | [triple rule] | BRISTOL: | Printed by G. and W. ROUTH, No. 18, Bridge-Street. | M DCC LXXXIII.
Place of Publication:
Bristol
Genres:
Collection including prose
Format:
Octavo
Pagination:
[2], [3]-144.
Comments:
The 4th edition.
Related People
Printer:
G. Routh
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Printed by G. and W. ROUTH, no. 18, Bridge-Street.
Printer:
W Routh
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Printed by G. and W. ROUTH, no. 18, Bridge-Street.
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's
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 the several Passages of Isaiah the Prophet.
Attribution:
Written in imitation of Virgil's Pollio.
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 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.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's
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:
With solemn adoration down they cast
Page No:
pp.34-35
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.35-36
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.36-37
Poem Title:
The Creation finished and survey'd.
Attribution:
Milton.
Attributed To:
John Milton
First Line:
For man to tell how human life began
Page No:
pp.37-39
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.40-41
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's
Attributed To:
James Thomson
First Line:
Up springs the lark
Page No:
pp.46-47
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.47-48
Poem Title:
Sun-Rising.
Attribution:
Thomson.
Attributed To:
James Thomson
First Line:
White break the clouds away with quickened step
Page No:
p.47
Poem Title:
The Dawn of a Summer's Day.
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:
Falsely luxurious will not man awake
Page No:
pp.50-51
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.51-52
Poem Title:
A Storm of Thunder and Lightning.
Attribution:
Thomson.
Attributed To:
James Thomson
First Line:
O thou by whose almighty nod the scale
Page No:
pp.52-53
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:
p.56
Poem Title:
A Prayer.
Attribution:
Young.
Attributed To:
Edward Young
First Line:
It must be so Plato thou reasonest well
Page No:
p.57
Poem Title:
Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul.
Attribution:
Addison.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
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.58-59
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.59-62
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.62-64
Poem Title:
The Court of Death.
Attribution:
Gay.
Attributed To:
John Gay
First Line:
Mylo forbear to call him blessed
Page No:
pp.64-65
Poem Title:
False Greatness.
Attribution:
Watts.
Attributed To:
Isaac Watts
First Line:
How many thousands of my poorest subjects
Page No:
pp.66-67
Poem Title:
A Speech of king Henry the fourth, upon his receiving News in the Night, of the Earl of Northumberland.
Attribution:
Shakespear.
Attributed To:
William Shakespeare
First Line:
Farewell a long farewell to all my greatness
Page No:
pp.67-69
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.69-70
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.71
Poem Title:
Recovery from Sickness. A Divine Ode.
Attribution:
Spectator.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here innocence and beauty lies whose breath
Page No:
p.72
Poem Title:
An Epitaph.
Attribution:
Spectator.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Take holy earth all that my soul holds dear
Page No:
p.72
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.73
Poem Title:
On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke.
Attribution:
Spectator.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Underneath this stone doth lie
Page No:
p.73
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.73
Poem Title:
On Sir Godfrey Kneller.
Attribution:
Pope.
Attributed To:
Alexander Pope
First Line:
The cloud capped towers the gorgeous palaces
Page No:
p.75
Poem Title:
The Inscription on Shakespear's Monument, taken from his Works.
Attribution:
taken from [Shakespear's] Works
Attributed To:
William Shakespeare
First Line:
O charity divinely wise
Page No:
pp.75-77
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.77
Poem Title:
Virtue the only Nobility.
Attribution:
Young.
Attributed To:
Edward Young
First Line:
Ye vain desist from your erroneous strife
Page No:
pp.77-78
Poem Title:
True Ambition.
Attribution:
Young.
Attributed To:
Edward Young
First Line:
What can be emptier than the chase of fame
Page No:
p.78
Poem Title:
The Pursuit of Fame.
Attribution:
Young.
Attributed To:
Edward Young
First Line:
To whom can riches give repute or trust
Page No:
pp.78-79
Poem Title:
Virtue constitutes true Happiness.
Attribution:
Pope.
Attributed To:
Alexander Pope
First Line:
Pleasures are few and fewer we enjoy
Page No:
p.79
Poem Title:
On Criminal Pleasures.
Attribution:
Young.
Attributed To:
Edward Young
First Line:
The love of gaming is the worst of ills
Page No:
p.79
Poem Title:
On Gaming.
Attribution:
Young.
Attributed To:
Edward Young
First Line:
Let angel forms angelic truths maintain
Page No:
pp.80-81
Poem Title:
The Real Beauty distinguished.
Attribution:
Young.
Attributed To:
Edward Young
First Line:
O sacred solitude divine retreat
Page No:
p.80
Poem Title:
On Solitude.
Attribution:
Young.
Attributed To:
Edward Young
First Line:
We smile at florists we despise their joy
Page No:
p.80
Poem Title:
The Florist moraliz'd.
Attribution:
Young.
Attributed To:
Edward Young
First Line:
If it be true celestial powers
Page No:
pp.81-82
Poem Title:
The Fair Lady's Wish.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Stella and Flavia every hour
Page No:
p.81
Poem Title:
On the Same. A Song
Attribution:
by Mr. Earl.
Attributed To:
Jabez Earle
First Line:
From flower to flower with eager pains
Page No:
p.82
Poem Title:
On a Bee stifled in Honey.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
When I revolve this evanescent state
Page No:
p.82
Poem Title:
The Mirrour.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Sceptic whoever thou art who sayst the soul
Page No:
p.83
Poem Title:
The Unreasonableness of denying a future State. Glynn's Prize Poem on the Day of Judgement.
Attribution:
Glynn's
Attributed To:
Robert Glynn [later Clobery]
First Line:
Look round the world with what a partial hand
Page No:
pp.84-85
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:
On that great day the solemn trump shall sound
Page No:
pp.85-86
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.86-89
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.99-100
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The curfeu tolls the knell of parting day
Page No:
pp.112-117
Poem Title:
An Elegy written in a Country Church Yard.
Attribution:
Grey.
Attributed To:
Thomas Gray
First Line:
The hoary fool who many days
Page No:
p.112
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Prior.
Attributed To:
Matthew Prior
First Line:
Eternity that boundless race
Page No:
p.121
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Congreve.
Attributed To:
William Congreve
First Line:
Vital spark of heavenly flame
Page No:
pp.129-130
Poem Title:
The Dying Christian to his Soul.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Ah fleeting spirit wandering fire
Page No:
p.129
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.131-134
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.134
Poem Title:
The Lord's Prayer in Verse.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Pretty fluttering tuneful bird
Page No:
pp.134-135
Poem Title:
The Soaring Lark.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Lovely blushing prickly rose
Page No:
pp.136-137
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.137-138
Poem Title:
Waking out of a frightful Dream.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Long had proud Nimrod's stately city stood
Page No:
pp.138-140
Poem Title:
A Paraphrase on the seven first Verses of the Prophecy of Nahum. Published in the New Universal Magazine, for Oct. 1752.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
With rhymes obscene no more the glass pollute
Page No:
p.138
Poem Title:
Advice to obscene Writers on Glass.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
What joy possessed the chosen seed
Page No:
pp.140-144
Poem Title:
The Song of Moses.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed