Methodism -- Poetry; Methodists -- England -- Poetry
But soft--my _Muse_! thy Breath recall--
Turn not _Religion_'s Milk to Gall!
Let not thy _Zeal_ within thee nurse
A _holy Rage_, or _pious Curse_!
Far other is the _heav'nly Plan_,
Which the _Redeemer_ gave to Man,
Who taught the World in Peace to live,
And e'en _our Enemies_ forgive!
Live then, _ye Wretches_! to declare,
How long _our God_ with Men _can bear_!
A living Monument to be
Of the _Almighty_'s Clemency!
Who still is good, altho' You preach
Yourselves almost 'bove _Mercy_'s reach;
And, tho' his goodness You resist,
Can even spare a _Methodist_.
F I N I S.
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK
MEMORIAL LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
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1948-1949
16. Henry Nevil Payne, _The Fatal Jealousie_ (1673).
17. Nicholas Rowe, _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William
Shakespear_ (1709).
18. Anonymous, "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III,
No. 10 (1719), and Aaron Hill, Preface to _The Creation_
(1720).
1949-1950
19. Susanna Centlivre, _The Busie Body_ (1709).
20. Lewis Theobald, _Preface to the Works of Shakespeare_ (1734).
22. Samuel Johnson, _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749), and two
_Rambler_ papers (1750).
23. John Dryden, _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681).
1951-1952
26. Charles Macklin, _The Man of the World_ (1792).
31. Thomas Gray, _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard_ (1751),
and _The Eton College Manuscript_.
1952-1953
41. Bernard Mandeville, _A Letter to Dion_ (1732).
1962-1963
98. Selected Hymns Taken Out of Mr. Herbert's _Temple_ (1697).
1964-1965
109. Sir William Temple, _An Essay Upon the Original and Nature
of Government_ (1680).
110. John Tutchin, _Selected Poems_ (1685-1700).
111. Anonymous, _Political Justice_ (1736).
112. Robert Dodsley, _An Essay on Fable_ (1764).
113. T. R., _An Essay Concerning Critical and Curious Learning_
(1698).
114. _Two Poems Against Pope_: Leonard Welsted, _One Epistle to
Mr. A. Pope_ (1730), and Anonymous, _The Blatant Beast_
(1742).
1965-1966
115. Daniel Defoe and others, _Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs.
Veal_.
116. Charles Macklin, _The Covent Garden Theatre_ (1752).
117. Sir Roger L'Estrange, _Citt and Bumpkin_ (1680).
118. Henry More, _Enthusiasmus Triumphatus_ (1662).
119. Thomas Traherne, _Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation_
(1717).
120. Bernard Mandeville, _Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables_
(1740).
1966-1967
123. Edmond Malone, _Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed
to Mr. Thomas Rowley_ (1782).
124. Anonymous, _The Female Wits_ (1704).
125. Anonymous, _The Scribleriad_ (1742). Lord Hervey, _The Difference
Between Verbal and Practical Virtue_ (1742).
1967-1968
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