DEWATTS.

Engraved by Trotter fivm an original Picture in the poffion of Money Newington.
London Printed for John Bell British Library Strand May 171782.

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BELL'S EDITION

The POETS of GREAT BRITAIN

COMPLETE FROM
CHAUCER to CHURCHILL.

WATTS'S PSALMS
Invain the Rebel feeks to and
In Judgment with the ions race.

London Printed for John Bell British Library Strand June o

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ISAAC WATTS, D. D.

IN SEVEN VOLUMES,

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

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Say, human Seraph! whence that charming force,
That flame, that foul, which animates each line,
And how it runs with fuch a graceful eafe,

Loaded with pond'rous fenfe-We are here told,
When life its narrow round of years hath roll'd,
What 't is employs the blefs'd, what makes their blifs;
Songs fuch as WATTS's are, and love like his.

Sov'reign of Sacred Verfe! accept the lays

Of a young bard that dares attempt thy praife.---
No vulgar themes thy pious Mufe engage,
No fcenes of luft pollute thy facred page:
You in majeftick numbers mount the skies,
And meet defcending angels as you rife,

Whofe juft applaufes charm the crowded groves,
And Addifon thy tuneful fong app veg.
Soft harmony and manly vippur jo`n'

To form the beauties of each rightly ine,
For ev'ry grace of ev'ry Mufe is thine.

GROVE.

BRITANNICUS.

VOL. I.

EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Prefs, BY THE MARTINS.
Anne 1782.