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THE
WORKS
OF THE
ENGLISH POETS,
FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER;
INCLUDING THE
SERIES EDITED,
WITH
PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL,
BY DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON:
C. WHITTINGHAM, Printer,
Goswell Street, London.
CONTENTS.
VOL. XIII.
POEMS OF WATTS.
Page
T HE Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ......
1 Recommendatory Verses..................
Preface....................
HORÆ LYRICÆ. IN THREE BOOKS.
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BOOK I.
SACRED TO DEVOTION AND PIETY,
Worshipping with Fear ...............
Asking Leave to sing ....
Divine Judgments ...
Earth and Heaven ..
Felicity above
God's Dominion and Decrees .........
Self-Consecration............
The Creator and Creatures.....
The Nativity of Christ ........
God Glorious and Sinners saved.
The humble Inquiry. A French Sonnet, imi-
tated.
The Penitent pardoned u ....
A Hymn of Praise for three great Salvations
The Incomprehensible..
Death and Eternity .......
A Sight of Heaven in Sickness ....
The universal Hallelujah.
The Atheist's Mistake.
The Law given at Sinai
Remember your Creator, &c. Ecclus. xiii ...
Sun, Moon, and Stars, praise ye the Lord ...
The welcome Messenger ...........................
Sincere Praise .............................**
True Learning ..................................****
True Wisdom ........................................
A Song to Creating Wisdom .....................
God's absolute Dominion .........
Condescending Grace. In Imitation of the
114th Psalm ....................................
The Infinite ....... ..................................
Confession and Pardon .........................."
Young Men and Maidens, old Men and Babes,
praise ye the Lord, Psalm cxlviii. 12...... ..
Flying Powl, and creeping Things, praise ye
the Lord, Psalm cxlviii. 10 ................
The Comparison and Complaint................
God Supreme and Self-sufficient ...............
Jesus the only Saviour.....
3 Looking upward ..........
9 Christ dying, rising, and reigning
The God of Thunder .....
The Day of Judgment, an Ode. Attempted in
English Sapphics........ The Song of Angel's above........ Fire, Air, Earth, and Sea, praise ye the Lord. The Farewell ..........
God only known to Himself ....
Pardon and Sanctification
Sovereignty and Grace
The Law and Gospel ....
Seeking a divine Calm in a restless World.
Casimire, Book iii. Ode xxviii.....
Happy Frailty ........
Launching into Eternity.........
A Prospect of the Resurrection.
Ad Dominum nostum et Servatorem Jesum
Christum. Oda ...
Sui-ipsius Increpatio, Epigramma ...........,
Excitatio Cordis Cælum versus Breathing towards the heavenly Country.
Casimire, Book i. Ode xix. imitated .........
26 The hundredth Epigram of Casimir. On Saint
Ardalio, who from a Stage-Player became a
Christian, and suffered Martyrdom .........
1 On the Protestant Church at Montpelier de-
molished, two Latin Epigrams Englished ...
Two happy Rivals, Devotion and the Muse ...
The Hazard of loving the Creatures ............
Desiring to love Christ
| The Heart given away ...........................
Meditation in a Grove...........
The Fairest and the only Beloved .
Mutual Love stronger than Death.........
A Sight of Christ...............
Love on a Cross and a Throne .............
A preparatory Thought for the Lord's Supper.
Converse with Christ ..........
Grace shining and Nature fainting................
Love to Christ, present or absent ...............
The Absence of Christ ............................
Desiring his Descent to Earth.
ib. | Ascending to him in Heaven .....
ib. The Presence of God worth dying for: or, the
34 Death of Moses ............
ib. Long for his Return .................