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BEAUTIES

OF THE

POET S:

BEING A

COLLECTION

O F

MORAL AND SACRED POETRY,
From the moft eminent AUTHORS.

Compiled by the late Rev. THOS JANES,
Of BRISTOL.

"All men agree, that licentious Poems do of all writings fooneft
66 corrupt the heart: and why fhould we not be as univerfally
"perfuaded, that the grave and serious performances of fuch as write
"in the most engaging manner, by a kind of divine impulfe, muft be
"the most effectual perfuafives to goodness ?"
TATLER.

THE FOURTH

EDITION.

London:

PRINTED BY AND FOR STEPHEN COUCHMAN;

G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, E. NEWBERY, G. WILKIE,
T. VERNOR, J. PARSONS, DARTON AND
HARVEY, AND T. BOOSEY.

MDCC XCII.

Korland A. 171814.

TO

THE READER.

THE Editor of this little volume was a

person of confiderable literary abilities and
judgment: and had he not been taken to his
reward early in life, this production proves,
that mankind might have been much benefited
by his judicious labours. As a COLLECTION
it is inferior to none in the kingdom. And
as the compiler was juftly esteemed for his
piety and vivacity of fpirit, fo has he made
choice of thofe pieces that cannot fail, if duly
attended to, to inftil into the mind of the
reader, the love of virtue, and true religion;
abftracted from all illiberal ideas and pedantic
notions, which are only of man's invention.

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