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
... live . How frail is beauty ! Ah , how vain , And how short - liv'd those glories are , That vex our nights and days with pain , And break our hearts with care ! In dust we no distinction see , Such Helen is ; such , Myra , thou must be ...
... live . How frail is beauty ! Ah , how vain , And how short - liv'd those glories are , That vex our nights and days with pain , And break our hearts with care ! In dust we no distinction see , Such Helen is ; such , Myra , thou must be ...
Page 88
... lives as such ; whose heart , full bent on heav'n , Leans all that way his bias to the stars . The world's dark shades , in ... live . 117. Picture of a Good Man . WITH aspect mild , and elevated eye , Behold him seated on a mount serene ...
... lives as such ; whose heart , full bent on heav'n , Leans all that way his bias to the stars . The world's dark shades , in ... live . 117. Picture of a Good Man . WITH aspect mild , and elevated eye , Behold him seated on a mount serene ...
Page 295
... live an atheist life ; involves the heaven In tempests ; quits his grasp upon the winds , And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery bile upon the skin , And putrefy the breath of blooming health . He calls for famine ...
... live an atheist life ; involves the heaven In tempests ; quits his grasp upon the winds , And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery bile upon the skin , And putrefy the breath of blooming health . He calls for famine ...
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