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 152
... passion : there , alone , The wild are constant , and the cunning known ; The fool consistent , and the false sincere ; Priests , princes , women , no dissemblers here . This clew once found , unravels all the rest ; The prospect clears ...
... passion : there , alone , The wild are constant , and the cunning known ; The fool consistent , and the false sincere ; Priests , princes , women , no dissemblers here . This clew once found , unravels all the rest ; The prospect clears ...
Page 153
... passion strong in death : Such in those moments , as in all the past , " Oh , save my country , Heaven ! " shall be your last . EPISTLE II . To a Lady . Of the Characters of Women . NOTHING So true as what you once let fall , " Most ...
... passion strong in death : Such in those moments , as in all the past , " Oh , save my country , Heaven ! " shall be your last . EPISTLE II . To a Lady . Of the Characters of Women . NOTHING So true as what you once let fall , " Most ...
Page 201
... passion thus to man pos'd , Recoil at length where concave all behind , The internal surface on each glassy orb Repels their forward passage into air ; That thence direct they seek the radiant goal From which their course began ; and ...
... passion thus to man pos'd , Recoil at length where concave all behind , The internal surface on each glassy orb Repels their forward passage into air ; That thence direct they seek the radiant goal From which their course began ; and ...
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