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 127
... Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit . And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit : As on the land while here the ocean gains , In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails , The solid pow'r ...
... Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit . And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit : As on the land while here the ocean gains , In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails , The solid pow'r ...
Page 145
... Nature to his hope has given , Behind the cloud - topt hill , an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd , Some happier island in the wat❜ry waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , All matter ...
... Nature to his hope has given , Behind the cloud - topt hill , an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd , Some happier island in the wat❜ry waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , All matter ...
Page 295
... nature's tendencies , oft o'erlooks ; And having found his instrument , forgets Or disregards , or , more presumptuous still , Denies the pow'r that wields it . God pro- claims His hot displeasure against foolish men That live an ...
... nature's tendencies , oft o'erlooks ; And having found his instrument , forgets Or disregards , or , more presumptuous still , Denies the pow'r that wields it . God pro- claims His hot displeasure against foolish men That live an ...
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