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 45
... fire doth warm And ' gainst these potent follies arm , Doth soberly disdain All these fond human mysteries , As the deceitful and unwise Distempers of our brain . He , as a burden , bears his clay , Yet vainly throws it not away On ev ...
... fire doth warm And ' gainst these potent follies arm , Doth soberly disdain All these fond human mysteries , As the deceitful and unwise Distempers of our brain . He , as a burden , bears his clay , Yet vainly throws it not away On ev ...
Page 126
... fire The mild and gen'rous breast ? CHORUS . Love's purer flames the gods approve ; The gods and Brutus bend to love ; Brutus for absent Portia sighs , And sterner Cassius melts at Junia's eyes . What is loose love ? a transient gust ...
... fire The mild and gen'rous breast ? CHORUS . Love's purer flames the gods approve ; The gods and Brutus bend to love ; Brutus for absent Portia sighs , And sterner Cassius melts at Junia's eyes . What is loose love ? a transient gust ...
Page 215
... fire The. way , Bare all the roots , and on their fibres prey ; Too late the plant bewails his foolish pride , And sinks , untimely , in the whelming tide . But why repine ? Does life deserve my Or real pains , or those which fancy raise ...
... fire The. way , Bare all the roots , and on their fibres prey ; Too late the plant bewails his foolish pride , And sinks , untimely , in the whelming tide . But why repine ? Does life deserve my Or real pains , or those which fancy raise ...
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