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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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RELIQUIÆ JUVENILES.

[My God, I love and I adore]

III.—TO DORIO. THE FIRST LYRIC HOUR.

IV.—THE HEBREW POET.

V.—THE THANKFUL PHILOSOPHER.

IX.—THE SACRED CONCERT OF PRAISE.

X.—THE WORLD A STRANGER TO GOD.

XIII.—THE MIDNIGHT ELEVATION.

XIV.—THE HONOURABLE MAGISTRATE.

XVIII—YOUTH AND DEATH

XIX.—BABYLON DESTROYED; OR, THE 137TH PSALM TRANSLATED.

XX.—AN EPITAPH ON BIGOTRY, TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, Which was written by the late pious and ingenious MR. JOHN REYNOLDS, And inserted in the Occasional Paper, Vol. III. Numb. 6 .

XXII.—AN HYMN TO CHRIST JESUS, THE ETERNAL LIFE.

XXIV—DAVID'S LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN;2 SAM i.19&c.

XXIX.—ON THE SIGHT OF QUEEN MARY, IN THE YEAR 1694.

XXX.—ON THE EFFIGIES OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GEORGE, LATE PRINCE OF DENMARK, AND LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN, MADE IN WAX, AND SEATED AT A BANQUET NEAR THE EFFIGIES OF HER LATE MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE.

[‘Words of eternal truth proclaim]

XXXV.—AGAINST LEWDNESS.

XXXVI.—AGAINST DRUNKENNESS.

XXXVIII.—PASSION AND REASON.

XLVI.—COWARDICE AND SELF-LOVE.

THOUGHTS AND MEDITATIONS IN A LONG SICKNESS.

[Hail, Hebrew psalmist king! Hail, happy hour!]

LIII.—AN ELEGY ON SOPHRONIA, WHO DIED OF THE SMALL-POX, 1711.

LIV.—AN ELEGY ON THE MUCH-LAMENTED DEATH OF MRS. ELIZABETH BURY, LATE WIFE OF THE REV. MR. SAMUEL BURY, OF BRISTOL, ANNEXED TO SOME MEMOIRS OF HER LIFE, DRAWN UP BY HIM; BUT COLLECTED OUT OF HER OWN PAPERS.

At the Death of that excellent Man Sir Thomas Abney.

Death and Heaven. In five Lyric Odes.

LXI.—ON THE CORONATION OF THEIR MAJESTIES KING GEORGE II. AND QUEEN CAROLINE. OCTOBER 11, 1727.

LXII.—A LOYAL WISH ON HER MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY, MARCH 1, COMMONLY CALLED ST. DAVID'S DAY.

LXIII.—PIETY IN A COURT. TO PHILOMELA.

1. A Rural Meditation.

2. A Penitential Thought.

3. A Midnight Hymn.

4. The dying Christian's Hope.

LXVI.—FRAGMENTS OF VERSE.

LXVII.—THE INSCRIPTIONS ON SEVERAL SMALL FRENCH PICTURES, TRANSLATED.

LXVIII.—INSCRIPTIONS ON DIALS.

LXVIII.—INSCRIPTIONS ON PORTRAITS.

Various Mottos for an Effigy.

LXX.—EPIGRAMS.

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LXXI.—EPITAPHS.

1. An Inscription on a Monumental Stone in Chessunt Church, in Hertfordshire. In Memory of Thomas Pickard, Esq. Citizen of London, who died suddenly, Jan. 29, A.D. 1719. Æt. 50.

2. On the Grave-stone of Mr. John May, a young Student in Divinity, who died after a lingering and painful Sickness, and was buried in Chessunt Church-yard, in Hertfordshire.

3. Written for a Grave-stone of a near Relation.

4. To the pious Memory of the Reverend Mr. Samuel Harvey of London, who died April 17, 1729. Æt. 30.

5. An Epitaph on the Reverend Mr. Matthew Clarke.

6. An Epitaph on the Reverend Mr. Edward Brodhurst.

LXXIV.—A DYING WORLD, AND A DURABLE HEAVEN.

[When death and everlasting things]

LXXV.—THE REWARDS OF POESY.

REMNANTS OF TIME EMPLOYED, IN PROSE AND VERSE;

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[When death and everlasting things]

I

When death and everlasting things
Approach and strike the sight,
The soul unfolds itself, and brings
Its hidden thoughts to light.

II

The silent christian speaks for God,
With courage owns his name,
And spreads the Saviour's grace abroad:
The zeal subdues the shame.

III

Lord, shall my soul again conceal
Her faith, if doth retire?
Shall shame subdue the lively zeal,
And quench th'ethereal fire?

IV

O may my thoughts for ever keep
The grave and heav'n in view,
Lest if my zeal and courage sleep,
My lips grow silent too!