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.
- 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
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