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The sanctimonious prude

Portrait of a pious man

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Cowper. 186
Young. 187

Thomson. 189

A paraphrase on the latter part of the sixth chapter of
St. Matthew

A paraphrase on Matthew vii. 12.

Miss Williams. 190

Charity: a paraphrase on 1 Cor. chap. xiii.

The twenty-fifth chapter of Job paraphrased

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Prior. 192

Pitt. 194

Pitt. 195

The song of Moses, in the fifteenth chapter of Exodus
paraphrased
One hundred and thirty-ninth psalm paraphrased. Pitt. 199
A summer's evening's meditation Mrs. Barbauld. 203

Piety; or, the vision

The hero's school of morality

A dialogue between the world, a pilgrim, and virtue.

Defects of conversation

Parnell. 206

Watts. 210

Sir J. Beaumont. 212

Cowper. 215

Spiritual freedom

Cowper. 232

To-morrow

Cotton, 235

On conscience

Young 237

Thoughts on time

Young. 238

Danger of procrastination

Young. 242

Moral reflections on comparing the seasons of day and

night

Young. 244

Instructive comparisons of human life

Young. 246

Lessons taught by the death of friends

Young. 249

Know thyself

Arbuthnot. 252

The vanity of human wishes: in imitation of the tenth

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ELEGANT EXTRACTS,

FROM THE

MOST EMINENT POETS.

BOOK II.

DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. PART II.

HYMN ON THE SEASONS.

THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these,
Are but the varied God. The rolling year
Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring
Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love.
Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm;
Echo the mountains round; the forest smiles;
And every sense and every heart is joy.
Then comes Thy glory in the Summer-months,
With light and heat refulgent. Then thy Sun
Shoots full perfection through the swelling year;
And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks:
And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve,
By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales.
Thy bounty shines-in Autumn unconfin'd,

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