The Poetical Works of Issac Watts, D. D, Vol. 5 of 7: Containing His Horælyricæ; In Three Books, Poems Chiefly of the Lyrick Kind, Sacred I. To ... To the Memory of the Dead (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Issac Watts, D. D, Vol. 5 of 7: Containing His Horælyricæ; In Three Books, Poems Chiefly of the Lyrick Kind, Sacred I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour, and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead

As in the conduc't of my fludies with regard to di vinity Lhave teufen to repent of nothing more than that l have not per ufed the Bible with more frequency, fo if i were to fet up for a poet with a defigu to ex ceed all the modern writers I would follow the ad vice of Rapin, and read the Prophets night and day. I am fore the compofures of the following book would have been filled wnh much greater fenfe, and appear ed with much more agreeable ornaments, had I de rived a larger portion from the Holy Scriptures.

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