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 136
... head , Two handmaids wait the throne ! alike in But diff'ring far in figure and in face . [ place , Here stood Ill - nature , like an ancient maid , Her wrinkled form in black and white array'd , With store of pray'rs for mornings ...
... head , Two handmaids wait the throne ! alike in But diff'ring far in figure and in face . [ place , Here stood Ill - nature , like an ancient maid , Her wrinkled form in black and white array'd , With store of pray'rs for mornings ...
Page 137
... head where late it grew , ) Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes , The glorious. ; That while my nostrils draw the vital air , This hand , which won it , shall for ever wear . He spoke , and speaking in proud triumph spread The ...
... head where late it grew , ) Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes , The glorious. ; That while my nostrils draw the vital air , This hand , which won it , shall for ever wear . He spoke , and speaking in proud triumph spread The ...
Page 213
... head , And fain her godlike sons would disunite By foreign gold , or by domestic spite ; But strives in vain to conquer or divide , Whom Nassau's arms defend and counsels guide . Fir'd with the name which I so oft have found The distant ...
... head , And fain her godlike sons would disunite By foreign gold , or by domestic spite ; But strives in vain to conquer or divide , Whom Nassau's arms defend and counsels guide . Fir'd with the name which I so oft have found The distant ...
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