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 97
... give him to my latest hour ! Let me my length of life employ To give my soul's enjoyment joy . His love let mutual love excite , Turn all my cares to his delight ; And ev'ry needless blessing spare , Wherein my darling wants a share ...
... give him to my latest hour ! Let me my length of life employ To give my soul's enjoyment joy . His love let mutual love excite , Turn all my cares to his delight ; And ev'ry needless blessing spare , Wherein my darling wants a share ...
Page 162
... give the things you never care for . A wise man always is or should Be mighty ready to do good ; But makes a diff'rence in his thought Betwixt a guinea and a groat . Now this I'll say ; you'll find in me A safe companion , and a free ...
... give the things you never care for . A wise man always is or should Be mighty ready to do good ; But makes a diff'rence in his thought Betwixt a guinea and a groat . Now this I'll say ; you'll find in me A safe companion , and a free ...
Page 167
... give themselves away , And e'en that pow'r that should deny betray . ' Who gives constrain'd , but his own fear reviles ; 26 Not thank'd , but scorn'd ; nor are they gifts , but spoils . " [ hold , Thus kings , by grasping more than ...
... give themselves away , And e'en that pow'r that should deny betray . ' Who gives constrain'd , but his own fear reviles ; 26 Not thank'd , but scorn'd ; nor are they gifts , but spoils . " [ hold , Thus kings , by grasping more than ...
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