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 31
... Pow'r self - deriv'd , and from himself he reigns ! If , alter'd by constraint , we could suppose , That God his fix'd stability should lose ; How startles reason at a thought so strange ! What pow'r can force Omnipotence to change ? If ...
... Pow'r self - deriv'd , and from himself he reigns ! If , alter'd by constraint , we could suppose , That God his fix'd stability should lose ; How startles reason at a thought so strange ! What pow'r can force Omnipotence to change ? If ...
Page 67
... Pow'r may perhaps protect his rest . To pow'r he rose ; again the Sprite Besets him morning , noon , and night ; Talks of ambition's tott'ring seat , How envy persecutes the great ; Of rival hate , of treach'rous friends , And what ...
... Pow'r may perhaps protect his rest . To pow'r he rose ; again the Sprite Besets him morning , noon , and night ; Talks of ambition's tott'ring seat , How envy persecutes the great ; Of rival hate , of treach'rous friends , And what ...
Page 177
... pow'r to punish ere they prove ; [ press , And teaching more , in one explaining page , For Gods and godlike kings their cares ex - Than all the double meanings of the stage . Still to defend their servants in distress . Oh , that my pow'r ...
... pow'r to punish ere they prove ; [ press , And teaching more , in one explaining page , For Gods and godlike kings their cares ex - Than all the double meanings of the stage . Still to defend their servants in distress . Oh , that my pow'r ...
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