Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry

Though the Book is divided into Four Parts, yet the formality of regular and
systematical arrangement of the component pieces, has not been strictly ob-
served. Such compilations as these have not unfrequently been called garlands
and nosegays: but in a garland or nosegay, who would place the tulips, the li
lies, the pinks, and the roses in separate compartments? In a disposition so arti-
ficial, their beauty and fragrance would be less pleasing than if they were care-
lessly mingled with all the ease and wildness of natural variety. I hope the
analogy will hold: if not, I must throw myself in this, as I do in all other cir-
cumstances of this Publication, upon my Reader's indulgence. I expect not
praise; but I confide in receiving pardon,

Perhaps the Reader will be the more inclined to extend it towards me, if I do
not weary him with apologies. I will then conclude my preface with the ideas
of Montaigne: I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have
" brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them.”

** In this Edition, as in the numerous preceding ones, great Improvements
have been made. The favourable Reception of the Book has indeed encouraged
the Editor to render it, in every new Impression, still more acceptable. But
several Poems are now added for the first time, and some Poematia, which were
never printed before. The Collection was originally formed for the use of
TUNBRIDGE SCHOOL; and a few School Exercises of Tunbridge Scholars have
been very sparingly inserted, with a View to encourage ingenuous Youth, who,
in that ancient Place of classical Education, devote themselves to Studies of use-
ful and polite Literature.

N Addrefs to the

Thomfon

Adam and Eve, in a Morning Hymn, all

upon all the Parts of the Creation to join with

them in extolling their common Maker Milton

Hymn, from the beginning of the 19th Pfalm ib.

Another Hymn

Hyma

Mrs. Rowe

Hymn, from Pfalm 148th

Palm 4th-Plaim 5th
Pfalm 6th-Pfalm 8th
Pfaim a3d-Pfalm 122d

ib.

Hymn to Cheerfulneís-The author being fick

Two Hymes

BOOK I. SACRED AND MORAL.

A Hymn on the Seafons

Hyma to Humanity

The 8th Pfalm tranflated.

Pfalm the 24th paraphrafed

Plaim 29th

Plaim 46th paraphrafed

Pfalm goth paraphrafed

Pfalm 144th paraphrafed

The goChapter of Job

The 25th Chapter of Job paraphrased

The Song of Moles in 15th Chapter of Exodus

An Addrefs to the Deity

A Summer Evening's Meditation

Hymn to Content

1 To Wisdom

paraphrafed

The 13th Plaim paraphrafed

of the 104th Plaim

An Hymn to the Supreme Being. An Imitation

The Enlargement of the Mind: Epiftle 1. to Ge-

Epistle 11. To William

neral Craufurd.

Langborne, M. A.

The Univerfal Prayer

Meffiah, a Sacred Eclogue

The Prize of Virtue

An Elegy, written in a Country Church-Yard

ib.

2 Defpondency. An Ole

2 The Frailty and Folly of Man

2A Paraphrafe on the latter Part of the Sixth

ib. 10

ib.

Happinels to be found in Virtue alone

Osthe Eternity of the Supreme Being

On the Immensity of the Supreme Being

On the Omn iclence of the Supreme Being

On the Power of the Supreme Being

On the Goodness of the Supreme Being

Oar to Wildom

Oa Human Life

Difcales are the Confequence of Intemperance ib.

Withes obtained often make men miferable

3 Chapter of St. Matthew

3 Songs of Praise

ib. 59

The Excellency of the Bible demonstrated

ib. 59

4 The All-feeing God

Solemn Thoughts concerning God and Death ib. 69

5 Heaven and Hell

ib.

7 Against Lying

8 Against Quarrelling and Fighting

8 Love between Brothers and Sifters

The Advantages of early Religion

The Danger of Delay

Ms. Barbauld

Examples of early Piety

11 Against Idlenef's and Mischief

Against Evil Company

Againft Pride in Clothes

Obedience to Parents

The Child's Complaint

A Morning and Evening Song

For the Lord's Day Morning

For the Lord's Day Evening

The Sluggard-Innocent Play

Pope 20 A Summer Evening

ib.

21 A Cradle Hymn

ib.

9 Against Scoffing and calling Names

9 Against Swearing and Curfing, and taking God's

ib. 59
ib. 60
ib. 60

ib.

ib. 61

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The Nunc Dimitis

The Benedicite paraphrafed

Blair 25 Chrift's Paffion: from a Greek Ode of Mr.

Pope 31

Mafters, formerly of New College

Smart 32 A Funeral Hymn

ib. 33 Veni Creator Spiritus, paraphrafed Dryden 68

ib. 34 On True Nobility

Dryden's Juvenal 69

ib. 36 A Night Piece

Ms Carter 69

ib 37 Ode to Melancholy

ib. 69

Mifs Carter 38 Written at Midnight in a Thunder Storm ib. 70

Ogilvie 39 The Vanity of Human Withes

Johnson 70

Elegy on the Death of Lady Coventry.

Ogilvie 40 Elegy to a young Nobleman leaving the Unive..ity
Boyfe 41
The Day of Judgment: a Seatonian Prize-Poem The Choice of Hercules: from the Greek of
Dr. Glynn 49