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Author: Hervey, James, 1714-1758.
Title: The beauties of Hervey: or, Descriptive, picturesque and instructive passages, selected from the works of this deservedly admired author ... ; To which are added, Memoirs of the author's life and character; with an elegiac poem on his death. ; [Four lines of verse]
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Hervey, James, 1714-1758., G. W. Elegy on the late Reverend Mr. James Hervey, A.M.
[Wilmington, Del]: Printed for Robert Campbell, Philadelphia, by V. Bonsal, Wilmington,, 1796.
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Elegies.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N23116.0001.001
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
MEMOIRS OF THE LATE Rev. Mr. JAMES HERVEY, M. A. RECTOR OF WESTON-FAVELL, IN NORTH-AMTONSHIRE.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE Rev. Mr. JAMES HERVEY's LIFE, WITH HIS CHARACTER, RESPECTC BOTH HIS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CAPACITY.
THE BEAUTIES OF HERVEY. COLLOQUIAL BEAUTIES, EXTRACTED FROM THERON AND ASPASIO.
DESCRIPTIVE BEAUTIES.
A DESCRIPTION OF THERON'S EXTENSIVE GARDENS.
A DESCRIPTION OF AN ARBOUR AND CURI|OUS FOUNTAIN IN THERON'S GARDEN.
ANOTHER VIEW OF THERON'S PLEASURE GROUNDS AND HERMETICAL RETREAT, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF NOON.
THERON'S RURAL ELOPEMENT DESCRIBED.
THERON AND ASPASIO'S CONVERSATION ON THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE.
THERON'S MORAL SOLILOQUY ON THE BE|NEFITS OF RURAL SOLITUDE.
A DESCRIPTION OF CAMILLUS'S GARDENS, AND THE BEAUTIFUL PROSPECT FROM HIS SUMMER-HOUSE.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VARIOUS CHANGES OF NATURE, AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THE NATURAL, AS WELL AS MORAL WORLD.
THERON'S EVENING MEDITATIONS ON AS|PASIO'S DISCOURSE.
DESCRIPTION OF A COUNTRY CHURCH.
MORAL BEAUTIES: MEDITATIONS.
THE SEPULCHRE'S PERTINENT ADDRS TO MAN.
AN AFFECTING REPRESENTATION OF A DYING CHRISTIAN, WITH THE SORROW OF HIS FAMILY.
A LIVELY PICTURE OF A TENDER WIFE, MOURNING THE EXPECTED LOSS OF AN INDULGENT HUSBAND.
AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF A GOOD MAN IN THE VIEWS OF DEATH.
THE CHAMBERS OR THE TOMB POURTRAY|ED.
THE TOMB KNOWS NO DISTINCTIONS OF TITLES OR ESTATES.
IMPORTANT LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE TOMBS OF NOBLES.
THE BENEFITS OR FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD.
A PICTURESQUE DESCRIPTION OF A SUM|MER'S MORN.
SUN-RISING DESCRIBED.
THE USEFULNESS OF THE SUN ILLUS|TRATED.
A DESCRIPTION OF RURAL NATURE.
A FRUIT GARDEN AND AN ORCHARD IN THEIR SUMMER ARRAY
A KITCHEN GARDEN AND ITS PRODUCTS.
NATURE AND ART CONTRASTED.
FLOWRY BEAUTIES PLEASINGLY REPRE|SENTED.
THE GRAND CAUSE OF VEGETATION, AND THE GROWTH OF FRUITS AND FLOWERS.
TULIPS AND PINKS, EMBLEMS OF THE DIF|FERENCES AMONG CHRISTIANS.
FLOWERS POURTRAYED IN LIVELY CO|LOURS.
THE TIME, ORDER AND ADJUSTMENT OT FLOWERS, EVIDENCE THE CREATOR'S WISDOM.
AN ARGUMENT FOR CHRISTIAN RESIGNA|NATION.
A COMMENT ON THE BEAUTIES OF CREA|TION.
BUDDING FLOWERS EMBLEMATIC OF THE COVETOUS MAN.
ANTIDOTES AGAINST UNRULY PASSIONS.
IMPORTANT ADMONITIONS TO THE FAIR SEX.
CONSOLATIONS IN THE VIEWS OF DEATH.
A DESCRIPTION OF NOON.
BEES, CONTRASTED WITH BUTTERFLIES AND SPIDERS.
THE BEAUTIES OF A GARDEN.
THE EFFECTS OF HEAT AND COLD, WITH A REFERENCE TO THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD.
MEADOWS AND FIELDS DESCRIBED, WITH A RFFERENCE TO THE GREAT REDEEMER OF MANKIND.
PRECIOUS STONES DESCRIBED, WITH A RE|FERENCE TO THE GREAT CREATOR.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE SILK WORM.
THE HAPPINESS OF GLORIFIED SPIRITS.
EVENING THE TIME FOR REFLECTION.
A PLEASANT RURAL WALK DESCRIEED.
THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY AND PRO|PERTY.
A DESCRIPTION OF SUNSET.
THE APPEARANCE OF NATURE AFTER SUN|SET.
INTERESTING REFLECTIONS ON THE CLOSE OF DAY.
THE COOLNESS OF EVENING TWILIGHT, AND ITS BENEFITS.
THE ADVANTAGES OF SOLITUDE.
THE BENEFITS OF AFFLICTION.
DARKNESS AND LIGHT CONTRASTED.
THE WORKINGS OF FANCY IN SLEEP.
AN ADRES TO THE VOTARIES OF MIRTH.
THE FOLLY OF THE ADVOCATES FOR VICE AND SENSUALITY.
THE PROPER SPHERE OF REASON.
THE TENDENCY OF NOVELS, ROMANCES AND THEATRICAL AMUSEMENTS.
A VIEW OF RURAL NATURE BY MOON|LIGHT.
THE BENEFITS OF MOONLIGHT.
A WALK BY MOONLIGHT, WITH THE EF|FECTS OF NOCTURNAL DARKNESS ON RURAL SCENES.
A VIEW OF THE STARRY HEAVENS.
A DESCRIPTION OF A FROSTY NIGHT AND MORNING.
THE EFFECTS OF FROST ON NATURE, WITH MORAL REFLECTIONS.
FROSTY WINDS, AND THEIR BANEFUL IN|FLUENCES.
A SHOWER OF HAIL DESCRIBED.
DESCRIPTION OF A RAINBOW.
THE ONLY METHOD OF REFORMING SINNERS.
TOO TRUE A PICTURE OF THE PRECENT AGE.
CHRIST COMPARED TO RIVERS OF WATER.
THE SECURITY OF BELIEVERS IN JESUS.
THE DANGER OF COVETOUSNESS AND PRO|DIGALITY.
THE BENEFITS OF CHRIST'S REDEMPTION.
THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER, AND THE PRAC|TICE OF IT URGED ON ALL.
A TIMELY WARNING TO THOUGHTLESS SINNERS.
ALL THE PERFECTIONS OF DEITY HARMÒN|IZE IN THE CROSS OF CHRIST.
THE NATURE AND EFFECT OF FAITH IN JESUS.
THE HAPPY INFLUENCES OF THE LOVE OF GOD.
JESUS CHRIST WORTHY OF OUR HIGHEST REGARD.
THE HAPPINESS AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE SAINTS ABOVE.
THE CONTENTS OF THE BIBLE HELD OUT AND RECOMMENDED.
GOD'S METHOD OF DEALING WITH MAN.
THE BENEFITS OF ADVERSITY.
NATURE AND DIVINE REVELATION SOME|WHAT ALIKE.
THE LOVE OF GOD THE END OF ALL RE|LIGION.
THE WORKS OF REDEMPTION TOO GREAT FOR ANGELS.
THE WORK OF GOSPEL MINISTERS.
GOOD WORKS ABSOLUTELY INSUFFICIENT TO SAVE MANKIND.
ON THE Religious Education OF DAUGHTERS.
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AN ELEGY ON THE LATE REVEREND MR. JAMES HERVEY, A. M.