Selections from the British Poets: Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to ...

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Review of Life crowned with Mercies, Joseph Addison,

The Goodness of Providence,

Ditto,

Morality in the Fields,

Ditto,

The Creation,

Isaac Watts,

Song to Creative Wisdom,

Ditto,

A Hymn to Contentment,

Thomas Parnell,

The Man whose Thoughts are not of this

World,

Edward Young,

An Address to the Deity,

Ditto,

The Death of a Good Man an Incentive to

Virtue, .

Ditto,

Restoration of Jerusalem,

Alexander Pope,

A Lesson of Thankfulness.

Ditto,

Universal Beneficence of Providence,

Ditto,

The Dying Christian to his Soul,

Ditto,

A Thought on Eternity,

John Gay,

Death,

Robert Blair,

A Hymn on the Seasons,

James Thomson,

Dependence on Providence,

Ditto,

Resignation to the Will of Heaven,

Samuel Johnson,

Hymn,

John Hawkesworth,

The Providence of God,

James Merrick,

Aspirations after the Infinite,

Mark Akenside,

Dependence on Providence,

Nathaniel Cotton,

On Recovering from a Dangerous Illness, Christopher Smart,

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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS,

Gratitude to God, .

William Cowper,

Religion not adverse to Pleasure,

All Creatures called on to praise God, John Ogilvie,

Eternal Providence,

John Langhorne,

An Address to the Deity,

Anna Letitia Barbauld, 91

Benevolence and Compassion,

Ditto,

93

Incentive to Early Rising,

Hannah More,

94

The Complaint of Nature,

John Logan,

95

Resignation,

Thomas Chatterton, 98

Wisdom comes too late in oid Age, George Crabbe,

The Sabbath as a Day of Rest,

Little Children brought to Jesus,

Ditto,

102

Solitude,

Robert Bloomfield, 103

The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn,

William Wordsworth,

Jehovah the Provider, :

Ditto,

Hymn of the Hebrew Maid,

Sir Walter Scott, 105

The Visible Creation,

Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of

Chamouni,

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 109

Child's Evening Prayer,

Ditto,

112

CHild's Hymn for the Close of the Week,. James Hogg,

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God the only Comforter,

The Turf shall be my Fragrant Shrine,

Ditto,

The Glory of God in Creation,

Ditto,

121

Hymn on the Creation,

Heaven Transcendently Glorious,

123

Funeral Hymn,

Ditto,

A Hymn for Family Worship,

Henry Kirke White,

The Christian's Progress,

Ditto,

125

The Destruction of Sennacherib's Host at

The Home of the Spirit,

The Three Tabernacles,

Herbert Knowles, . 134

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 137

Reflections on Flowers,

Ditto,

The Omnipresence of the Deity,

Past Present--Future,

Mary Anne Browne, 155

Teaching froņ the Stars,

If I lose Thee, I'm lost,

Reflections on Retiring to Rest,

Jeremy Bentham,

The Green Pastures,

Mrs. Duncan,

This is not your Rest,

Ditto,

168

I am the Way, and 'the Truth, and the

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Gerhard,

171

Thanksgiving Song,

C. and Fred. Stolberg,

The Days of Creation,

Krummacher,

Heavenward,

Schmolek,

Burial Hymn,

Ditto,

The Alpine Horn,

Penny Magazine,

180

Blessed are they that have not seen, and

yet have believed,

Anonymous,

181

Hymn of the Moravian Nuns at the Con-

secration of Pulaski's Banner,

H.Wadsworth Longfellow, 182

Flowers,

Ditto,

183

Hymn of Nature,

William Ó. Peabody, 185

The Autumn Evening,

Ditto,

187

Feats of Death,

Lucretia Maria Davidson, 188

Consolations of Religion to the Poor, James Gates Percival,

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There is a Tongue in every Leaf,

The Body and the Soul,

The Sailor's Evening Prayer,

Watchman, what of the Night?

Hymn for Saturday Evening,

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS,

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The Means to attain Happy Life,

..Howard, Eari of Surrey, 20:

The Favour of Princes,

Ditto,

207

The Seven Ages of Man,

Flattery and Friendship,

Neglected Opportunity,

Ditto,

Farewell to the Vanities of the World, Sir Henry Wotton, 210

The Dignity of Man,

Sir John Davies,

The Character of True Valour,

Ben Jonson,

Advice to a Reckless Youth,

Ditto,

Instability of Human Greatness,

Phineas Fletcher,

The Condition of Kings Human,

Philip Massinger, . 215

Consolation of Early Death,

Beaumont and Fletcher, 215

Paraphrase of Lines on the Tombs in

Westminster Abbey,

Francis Beaumont,

216

Allegorical Figures of Ambition and Vain-

". Lady Elizabeth Carew, . 22L

Glory,

John Milton,

222

Temperance, or the Cheap Physician, Richard Crashaw,

Reflections on Human Life,

Matthew Prior,

226

Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul, Joseph Addison,

227

Earth and Heaven,

Isaac Watts,

The Emptiness of Riches,

Edward Young,

Retirement of Country Life,

Knowledge Progressive,

Ditto,

234

Advantages of Adversity,

Health promoted by Exercise,

John Armstrong,

237

Fate of Poverty in London,

Samuel Johnson, 239

The Vanity of Human Wishes,

Ditto,

That Philosophy which stops at Secondary

Life and Immortality,

James Beattie,

248

Hope beyond the Grave,

Ditto,

249

The Good alone are Great,

Humble and unnoticed Virtue,

Ditto,

Virtue and Happiness in the Country, Michael Bruce,

252

The Delights of Virtue,

Sun-diaí in a Churchyard,

William Lisle Bowles, 257

Recollections of Youth,

Ditto,

260

Instinctive Genius and Diligence,

Robert Bloomfield, 263

The Yew-tree Seat,

William Wordsworth, 264

Education of the Poor the Dutyof the State, Ditto,

265

The Field of the World,

James Montgomery, 266

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 270

Love, Hope,

and Patience in Education

Benefits of Affliction,

Hope Triumphant in Death,

Instability of'Affection,

Henry Kirke White, 281

On Time,

Ditto,

282

Instability of Human Glory,

Moral Reflections on a Human Skull,

Active Christian Benevolence the Source

of Sublime and Lasting Happiness, Carlos Wilcox,

289

Children,

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 291

Amelioration and the Future, Man's Noble

Jeremiah Holme Wiffen, 294

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Blessings of Instruction,

Dr. Bowring,

The Charities of the Poor,

Richd. Monckton Milnes, 298

The Worth of Hours,

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Ditto,

299

Moralizing,

D. M. Moir,

300

The Water-Drinker,

Edward Johnson,

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The Pleasures of Benevolence,

William H. Drummond, 3

The Benevolence of the Good Man extends

even to the Inferior Animals,

The City Child's Complaint,

Mrs. E. Hawkshaw, . 31

The Little Teacher,

Samuel W. Partridge, 3)

Let not the Sun go down upon your Wrath, Bernard Barton,

The Unregarded Toils of the Poor,

Mary Howitt,

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The Child and the Dew.drops,

J. E. Carpenter,

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The Child and the Stars,

The Poor Man's Grave,

A Child's First Impression of a Star, Nathaniel P. Willis, 327

The Lapse of Time,

William Cullen Bryant, 32

Wishes and Realities,

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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS,

335

THE WORKS OF NATURE.

The Study and Beauties of the Works of

Love of Nature implanted in Man by the

Almighty,

Ditto,

343

God the Author of Nature,

Ditto,

345

The Christian's Enjoyment of the Works of

Nature,

Ditto,

346

The Lover of Nature's Works,

James Hurdis,

346

The Presence of the Deity in the Works of

Nature,

James Grahame,

The Study of Nature,

William Wordsworth, 348

Influence of Natural'objects,

Ditto,

Apostrophe to Nature,

Allan Cunningham,

The Gladness of Nature,

William Cullen Bryant, 352

The Study of Nature,

Martin F. Tupper, . 353

BEAUTIES AND ENJOYMENTS OF THE COUNTRY,

Contentment,

Alexander Pope,

355

Happiness of a Country Life,

James Thomson,

Picture of a Village Life,

Oliver Goldsmith,

Town and Country Life,

Rural Ra es,

Ebenezer Eliot,

The Family Excursion,

Ditto,

The Town Child and Country Child, : Alan Cunningham, 363

The Mother's Call,

Ditto,

Female Picture of’a Country Life, Joanna Baillie, 367

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