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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... plain , and finished the design ! " Where'er the pleasing search my thoughts pursue , Unbounded goodness rises to my view ; Nor does our world alone its influence share ; Exhaustless bounty and unwearied care Extends through all th ...
... plain , and finished the design ! " Where'er the pleasing search my thoughts pursue , Unbounded goodness rises to my view ; Nor does our world alone its influence share ; Exhaustless bounty and unwearied care Extends through all th ...
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... plain , Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train ; Before them Death , with shrieks , directs their way ! [ prey . What time ' tis sweet o'er fields of rice to stray , Or scent the breathing maize at setting day ; Amidst the maids of ...
... plain , Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train ; Before them Death , with shrieks , directs their way ! [ prey . What time ' tis sweet o'er fields of rice to stray , Or scent the breathing maize at setting day ; Amidst the maids of ...
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... plain . ยง 87. Isis . An Elegy . MASON . FAR from her hallow'd grot , where , mildly bright , ' Twas there great Cato's form first met his eye , In all the pomp of free - born majesty ; [ awe , My son , " he cried , " observe this mien ...
... plain . ยง 87. Isis . An Elegy . MASON . FAR from her hallow'd grot , where , mildly bright , ' Twas there great Cato's form first met his eye , In all the pomp of free - born majesty ; [ awe , My son , " he cried , " observe this mien ...
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