The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D. ::

The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D.

Containing, besides his Sermons, and Essays on miscellaneous subjects, several additional pieces, Selected from his Manuscripts by the Rev. Dr. Jennings, and the Rev. Dr. Doddridge, in 1753: to which are prefixed, memoirs of the life of the author, compiled by the Rev. George Burder. In six volumes

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

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VOL. IV.

HORÆ LYRICÆ.

ON READING DR. WATTS'S POEMS SACRED TO PIETY AND DEVOTION.

TO DR. WATTS, On his Poems sacred to Devotion.

TO DR. WATTS, On reading his Horæ Lyricæ.

TO DR. WATTS, On his Divine Poems.

TO DR. WATTS, On the Fifth Edition of his Horæ Lyricæ.

BOOK I. SACRED TO DEVOTION AND PIETY.

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BOOK II. SACRED TO VIRTUE, HONOUR AND FRIENDSHIP.

TO HER MAJESTY.

PALINODIA.

TO JOHN LOCKE, ESQ.

TO JOHN SHUTE, ESQ. (NOW LORD BARRINGTON.)

TO MR. WILLIAM NOKES.

TO NATHANIEL GOULD, ESQ. (NOW SIR NATHANIEL GOULD.)

TO DR. THOMAS GIBSON.

False Greatness.

TO SARISSA.

TO MR. T. BRADBURY.

Strict Religion very rare.

TO MR. C. AND S. FLEETWOOD.

TO WILLIAM BLACKBOURN, ESQ.

True Monarchy.

True Courage.

TO THE MUCH HONOURED MR. THOMAS ROWE, THE DIRECTOR OF MY YOUTHFUL STUDIES.

TO THE REV. MR. BENONI ROWE.

TO THE REV. MR. JOHN HOWE.

The Disappointment and Relief.

The Hero's School of Morality.

Freedom.

On Mr. Locke's Annotations upon several Parts of the New Testament, left behind him at his Death.

True Riches.

The Adventurous Muse.

TO MR. NICHOLAS CLARK.

The Afflictions of a Friend.

The Reverse; or, the Comforts of a Friend.

TO THE RIGHT HON. JOHN LORD CUTS, At the Siege of Namur.

Burning several Poems of Ovid, Martial, Oldham, Dryden, &c.

TO MRS. B. BENDISH.

Few Happy Matches.

TO DAVID POLHILL, ESQ.

The celebrated Victory of the Poles over Osman, the Turkish Emperor, in the Dacian Battle.

The Indian Philosopher.

The happy Man.

TO DAVID POLHILL, ESQ.

To the Discontented and Unquiet.

TO JOHN HARTOPP, ESQ. (NOW SIR JOHN HARTOPP, BART.)

TO THOMAS GUNSTON, ESQ.

TO JOHN HARTOPP, ESQ. (NOW SIR JOHN HARTOPP, BART.)

TO MITIO, MY FRIEND.

ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, Just after Mr. Dryden. 1700.

AN EPIGRAM OF MARTIAL TO CIRINUS.

TO MRS. SINGER. (NOW MRS. ROWE.)

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BOOK III. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.

RELIQUIÆ JUVENILES.

REMNANTS OF TIME EMPLOYED, IN PROSE AND VERSE;

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TO JOHN LOCKE, ESQ.

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Angels are made of heav'nly things,
And light and love our souls compose,
Their bliss within their bosom springs,
Within their bosom flows.
But narrow minds still make pretence
To search the coasts of flesh and sense,
And fetch diviner pleasures thence.
Men are a-kin to ethereal forms,
But they bely their nobler birth,
Debase their honour down to earth,
And claim a share with worms.

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He that has treasures of his own
May leave the cottage or the throne,
May quit the globe, and dwell alone
Within his spacious mind.
Locke hath a soul wide as the sea,
Calm as the night, bright as the day,
There may his vast ideas play,
Nor feel a thought confin'd.

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TO JOHN LOCKE, ESQ.

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