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 119
... land , by luxury betray'd , In nature's simplest charms at first array'd ; But , verging to decline , its splendors rise , Its vistas strike , its palaces surprise , [ land , While , scourg'd by famine from the smiling The mournful ...
... land , by luxury betray'd , In nature's simplest charms at first array'd ; But , verging to decline , its splendors rise , Its vistas strike , its palaces surprise , [ land , While , scourg'd by famine from the smiling The mournful ...
Page 291
... land the dismal rumor flies , And public mournings pacify the skies : The laureat tribe in servile verse relate , How virtue wars with persecuting fate ; With well - feign'd gratitude the pension'd band Refund the plunder of the beggar'd ...
... land the dismal rumor flies , And public mournings pacify the skies : The laureat tribe in servile verse relate , How virtue wars with persecuting fate ; With well - feign'd gratitude the pension'd band Refund the plunder of the beggar'd ...
Page 341
... land he seem'd to pour , The land , where Phœbus never frown'd be- fore ; But ere he sunk below Citharon's head , The cup of woe was quaff'd - the spirit fled ; The soul of him who scorn'd to fear or fly- Who lived and died , as none ...
... land he seem'd to pour , The land , where Phœbus never frown'd be- fore ; But ere he sunk below Citharon's head , The cup of woe was quaff'd - the spirit fled ; The soul of him who scorn'd to fear or fly- Who lived and died , as none ...
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