Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts, DD: With the Life of the Author
The fourth volume contains chiefly poet.cal compofitions, The Pialms of David, imitated in the Language of the New Tel'cament.' Hymns and Spaitual Songs, in Three Books.' A {hort Ellay towards the Improvement of Phil mody.' Divine Songs and Hymns, attempted in eafy Lan-v guage, for the Ufe of Children.' Horz Lyricae, ' poems, chie?y of the lyric kind, in three books reprinted in the Col leaion of the Englilh Poets, and inferted in our edition of Select Poets: The Preface contains an rnteref'ting account or his poetical Prudies, and an animated defence of facred poetry. 'reliqum juveniles, Thoughts in Profe and Verfe, on Na tural, Moral, and Divine Subjects? Remnants of Trme em ployed in Profe and Verfe, printed from his ms. The Art of Reading and Writing Englifh.'
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