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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... night , or takes his stand O'er some new - open'd grave ; and , strange to By glimm'ring thro ' thy low - brow'd misty Evanishes at crowing of the cock ! [ tell ! Furr'd round with mouldy damps , and ropy The new - made widow , too , I ...
... night , or takes his stand O'er some new - open'd grave ; and , strange to By glimm'ring thro ' thy low - brow'd misty Evanishes at crowing of the cock ! [ tell ! Furr'd round with mouldy damps , and ropy The new - made widow , too , I ...
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... Night ! Yet more I wish ; say , gentle Night ! whose beams Give us a new creation , and present The world's great picture , soften'd to the sight ; Say , thou , whose mild dominion's silver key Unlocks our hemisphere , and sets to view ...
... Night ! Yet more I wish ; say , gentle Night ! whose beams Give us a new creation , and present The world's great picture , soften'd to the sight ; Say , thou , whose mild dominion's silver key Unlocks our hemisphere , and sets to view ...
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... night Excites to take a nobler flight : With saints and angels to explore The wonders of creating pow'r ; And lifts on contemplation's wings Above the sphere of mortal things . Walk forth , and tread those dewy plains Where night in ...
... night Excites to take a nobler flight : With saints and angels to explore The wonders of creating pow'r ; And lifts on contemplation's wings Above the sphere of mortal things . Walk forth , and tread those dewy plains Where night in ...
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