From Martial ........ Cowley. .... Paradise Lost. Milton Deist Confuted ..... Character of a good Parson Do. The Hermit .... .... ..... Domestic Happiness..... Do.. ..... Dr. Cotton. ..... ..... MAXIMS, RULES OF LIFE, PIOUS AND .... .... ... MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. The Happy Man .... ... Lowth Page. . 387 On hearing the Church bells when confined On parting from a Gentle-J. H. G. The Seasons ...... By an American Lady 460 ... - - - - .... PREFACE. DO ALL THE GOOD YOU CAN, was my excellent father's charge to me his first-born son; and, conscious, as I am, of my hitherto imperfect compliance with this admirable injunction, and of my now weakened powers, the desire to fulfil it still remains, and has produced the present publication. For age and infirmities having nearly confined me to my house, I grew anxious to avoid the danger of becoming totally useless: and, a small collection of poems, moral and divine, having been given me when a boy by one of my school-fellows, (most of which I committed to memory,) it occurred to me, that by republishing these, I might afford to others the pleasure and comfort which I have myself derived from them during the course of my long life. And being informed that a ` |
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