Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 5S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 39
... ev'ry diff'rent sphere , Are equal all , for all are nothing here . All Nature faints beneath the mighty name , Which Nature's works , thro ' all her parts , pro- claim . I feel that name my inmost thoughts control , And breathe an ...
... ev'ry diff'rent sphere , Are equal all , for all are nothing here . All Nature faints beneath the mighty name , Which Nature's works , thro ' all her parts , pro- claim . I feel that name my inmost thoughts control , And breathe an ...
Page 49
... ev'ry glance on human kind ; How just that scorn ere yet thy voice declare , Search ev'ry state , and canvass ev'ry pray'r . ‡ Unnumber'd suppliants crowd Preferment's gate , vain . Athirst for wealth , and burning to be great ...
... ev'ry glance on human kind ; How just that scorn ere yet thy voice declare , Search ev'ry state , and canvass ev'ry pray'r . ‡ Unnumber'd suppliants crowd Preferment's gate , vain . Athirst for wealth , and burning to be great ...
Page 65
... ev'ry thing attend , And men your talents shall commend . I knew the great . Observe me right ; So shall you grow like man polite . He spoke , and bow'd . With mutt'ring jaws The wond'ring circle grinn'd applause . Now warm with malice ...
... ev'ry thing attend , And men your talents shall commend . I knew the great . Observe me right ; So shall you grow like man polite . He spoke , and bow'd . With mutt'ring jaws The wond'ring circle grinn'd applause . Now warm with malice ...
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