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Brotherton Collection23
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Watts, Isaac23
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)5
[Bible]5
Hullah, John2
Hullah, John (1812-1884)2
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)2
Bach, Johann Sebastian2
Farrant, Richard (1580)2
Watts, Hor. Lyr. L.1 P.821
Watts, Hor. Lyr. L.2, P.224, 171 (?)1

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Title: Psalm XV. Religion & justice, goodness, & truth, or the duties to God, or

the qualities of a Christian

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 1719 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 15

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Title: Psalm CXXXIX. God is everywhere

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 1719 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 139. Lacks stanzas 7 and 8.

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Title: Psalm XXIII. God our sheepherd

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: [Bible]

Date(s): 1719 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Religious poem in praise of God as mankind's protector, comforter and guide,

paraphrasing Psalm 23. At end, "Great Forster's, 26th February 1740/1".

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Title: The happy pair

Author: Watts, Isaac

Date(s): 1701

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: Defining the basis of a truly happy marriage as being mutual friendship,

kindness and love. Lacks two stanzas. At end, "26th February 1740/1".

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: Dr Watts

Date(s): 1715 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 53

Contents: The first stanza of Watts's "Innocent play", here included in Coles's prose

autobiography

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Call to remembrance : full anthem for S.A.T.B

Farrant, Richard (1580); Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Watts, Isaac (1674-1748); Hullah, John (1812-1884)

[between 1856 and 1863]

For 4 voices (SATB) and keyboard instrument. Bach chorale harmonisation not in BWV. Caption title. With: From all that dwell below the skies : hymn for S. A. T. B. / from Bach's "371 vierstimmig...

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Call to remembrance : full anthem for S.A.T.B

Farrant, Richard (1580); Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Watts, Isaac (1674-1748); Hullah, John (1812-1884)

[between 1856 and 1863]

For 4 voices (SATB) and keyboard instrument. Bach chorale harmonisation not in BWV. Caption title. With: From all that dwell below the skies : hymn for S. A. T. B. / from Bach's "371 vierstimmig...

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Title: The Last Judgment. Psalm's the 50.

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: Doctor Watts; [Bible]

Date(s): 1719 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem on the Day of Judgement, paraphrasing Psalm 50

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Title: The Last Judgment

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: [Doctor Watts]; [Bible]

Date(s): 1719 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem on the Day of Judgement, paraphrasing Psalm 50

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Holograph letter from Isaac Watts, with related material.

Watts, Isaac

1725-1826

Comprises 1 autograph letter from Isaac Watts to an unnamed clergyman dated 15 March 1725/6 with an extended postscript dated 16 March, concerning certain criticisms by the addressee of various featur...

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: Watts Hor. Lyr.

Date(s): 1709 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 59

Contents: On the flight of Urania, muse of poetry; the first stanza of Isaac Watts's

"The adventurous muse", from the 2nd edition of "Horae Lyricae", II, here used

as epigraph to Joseph Mitchell's "The transport" (BCMSV 2353).

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Title: The day of judgment

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: Watts, Hor. Lyr. l.1 p.82

Date(s): 1706 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 61

Contents: Religious poem, comparing the Day of Judgement to a storm at

sea, and imagining in detail its terrors for the guilty

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