Solitary walks; to which are added the consolations of religion [N24695] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1216

Publication Date:

1774

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

N24695

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW120406480

Full Title:

SOLITARY WALKS: | TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THE | CONSOLATIONS OF RELIGION | IN THE | VIEWS OF DEATH AND LOSS OF FRIENDS, | A Funereal ADDRESS on the late | Rev. EDWARD HITCHING, B. D. | WITH | POETICAL MEDITATIONS, | WRITTEN AMONG THE TOMBS. | [Rule] | [Epigraph] | [Rule] LONDON: | Printed for W. OTRIDGE, behind the New Church, in the | Strand; J. BUCKLAND, No. 57, Pater-Noster-Row; G. | KEITH, Grace-Church-Street; KITCHIN and Co. No. 59, | Holborn-Hill; and S. CHANDLER, at Holborn-Bars. | MDCCLXXIV.

Epigraph:

'How blest the man! who sick of gaudy scenes, | Is led by choice to take his favourite walk | Amidst death's gloomy silent cypress shades, | To read his monuments, to weigh his dust, | Visit the vaults, and dwell among the tombs. DR. YOUNG | Disce vivere et memento mori.'

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Other matter:

Preface, pp.iii-vi Advertisement, 1p. Contents, 1p.

Related People

Author:

George Wright

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

To read the monuments to weigh my dust

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p.4

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

A dread eternity how surely mine

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p.5

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Christian is the highest style of man

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p.6

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

If you would have good servants be good masters

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p.9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The Mirror.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where heart meets heart reciprocally soft

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p.10

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Young

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Slowly advance towards the opening tomb

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p.12

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

That beam ethereal sullied and absorbed

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p.16

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Distrust and darkness of a future state

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p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

In death's adversity thy danger lies

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p.22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Man but dives to death

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p.23

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Stop gentle youth and view this clod

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pp.25-26

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Not attributed

First Line:

Be like a sentinel keep on your guard

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p.25

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Youth is not rich in time it may be poor

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p.27

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Improve the present moments as they fly

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p.29

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

I scarce can meet a monument but holds

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p.30

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Men may live fools but fools they cannot die

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p.34

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Here lies consigned to native dust a youth

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p.35

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The ways of providence are dark and intricate

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p.36

Poem Title:

Addison's Cato.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Life glides away Lorenzo like a brook

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p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

The thought of death indulge

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p.37

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Virtue alone is true nobility

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p.38

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Step. Juv.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What is the world to them

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p.39

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

I [i.e. Edward Hitchin]

Attributed To:

Edward Hitchin

First Line:

The morn | Waked by the circling hours with rosy hand

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p.43

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Learn to live well that thou mayst die so too

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p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Denham.

Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

Life's little stage is a small eminence

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p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

A moment's space a transient span

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p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Beyond the grave two states alone remain

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p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

And soon as man expert from time has found

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p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Thus earth receives what first it gave

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p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Man wants but little nor that little long

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p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Earth's highest station ends in here he lies

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p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Where is the dust that has not been alive

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p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Here a kind parent in death's dark abode

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p.48-9

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Then o then

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p.49

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Blair.

Attributed To:

Robert Blair

First Line:

Beneath those rugged elms that yew trees shade

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p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

the late ingenious Mr. Gray,

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

As some tall tower or lofty mountain's brow

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p.50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Young

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

As I am now so you must be

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p.52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What is this world

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p.52

Poem Title:

The Grave.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Their name their years spelt by the unlettered muse

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p.52

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

How populous how vital is the grave

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p.53

Poem Title:

Night Thoughts.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fond foolish man would fain those thoughts decline

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p.54

Poem Title:

Trapp's Four Last Things.

Attribution:

Trapp

Attributed To:

Joseph Trapp

First Line:

Death wounds to cure we fall we rise we reign

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p.55

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

O glorious hour o blessed abode

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p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

In steadfast hope of that glad day

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p.57

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In every storm thy safety to ensure

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p.57

Poem Title:

Trapp's Four Last Things.

Attribution:

Trapp

Attributed To:

Joseph Trapp

First Line:

Religion is all descending from the skies

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p.58

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

The late ingenious Dr. Young

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

This hour perhaps our friend is well

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p.60

Poem Title:

Hebrews ix. 27.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Religion providence an after state

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p.61

Poem Title:

Psalms xxiii. 4.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Reform my conduct mourn my follies past

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p.63

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The soul secured in her existence smiles

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p.63

Poem Title:

Addison's Cato.

Attribution:

Addison

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Let virtue prove your never fading bloom

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p.66

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

why shrinks the soul back on herself

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p.66

Poem Title:

Addison's Cato.

Attribution:

Addison

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Heaven gives the needful but neglected call

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Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Thy soul must leave its present house of clay

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p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Norris.

Attributed To:

John Norris

First Line:

Happy day that breaks our chain

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p.68

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Whilst yon pale empress of the night

Page No:

pp.69-72

Poem Title:

A Walk in a Country Church-Yard, by Moonlight; Taken from Parnell's Night-Piece on Death: With Alterations and Additions.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Praises on tombs are titles vainly spent

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p.70

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All men think all men mortal but themselves

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p.70

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

The boast of heraldry the pomp of power

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p.71

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

With joy the hind his daily labour done

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p.72

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Anonymous.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Through yonder ground I'll often stray

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pp.73-75

Poem Title:

The Grave Stript of it's Terrors; A Poem: By a Lady. With Alterations.

Attribution:

By a Lady.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My flesh shall slumber in the ground

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p.75

Poem Title:

I Corinthians xv.

Attribution:

Dr. Watts.

Attributed To:

Isaac Watts

First Line:

If God you own in all your ways

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p.103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In this small portrait all may see

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p.115

Poem Title:

An Original Painting; Or a Striking Likeness of One who truly lives unto the Lord. A Picture Drawn from the Sacred Writings; Which All should Endeavour to Resemble in Life and Conversation.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As all alone I slowly tread

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pp.121-132

Poem Title:

Poetical Meditations Among the Tombs. Written in Bunhill-Fields.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our birth is nothing but our death begun

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p.122

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Lorenzo read with me Narcissa's stone

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p.124

Poem Title:

Proverbs iii. 13, to the 18th verse.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids

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p.124

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Heart merit wanting mount we ever so high

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p.125

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Here will I rest and build my hopes

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p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The spring of life essential dwells in thee

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p.127

Poem Title:

Trapp's Four Last Things.

Attribution:

Trapp

Attributed To:

Joseph Trapp

First Line:

A pardon bought with blood with blood divine

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p.127

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Thrice happy youth thou now canst tell

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p.128

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

William Saville

Attributed To:

William Saville

First Line:

The wise and good however certain bliss

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p.129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Dr. Trapp.

Attributed To:

Joseph Trapp

First Line:

Those fear death least who think upon it most

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p.129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Trapp.

Attributed To:

Joseph Trapp

First Line:

Make then while yet you may your God your friend

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p.129

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pomfret.

Attributed To:

John Pomfret

First Line:

Since we can die but once and after death

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p.130

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Pomfret.

Attributed To:

John Pomfret

First Line:

All should be prophets to themselves foresee

Page No:

p.130

Poem Title:

Psalms lxxxix, 48.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

Lo now there does no place remain

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p.132

Poem Title:

Rev. xx. 14.

Attribution:

Pomfret.

Attributed To:

John Pomfret