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 91
... proud to praise . Divine instructor ! thy first volume , this , For man's perusal ; all in capitals ! In moon and stars ( heaven's golden alphabet ! ) Emblaz'd to seize the sight : who runs , may read ; Who reads , can understand ...
... proud to praise . Divine instructor ! thy first volume , this , For man's perusal ; all in capitals ! In moon and stars ( heaven's golden alphabet ! ) Emblaz'd to seize the sight : who runs , may read ; Who reads , can understand ...
Page 224
... proud , to gain it , toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it but to make it sure . O'er globes and sceptres now ... proud ? the pimp is proud to see So many like himself in high degree : The whore is proud her beauties are the dread ...
... proud , to gain it , toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it but to make it sure . O'er globes and sceptres now ... proud ? the pimp is proud to see So many like himself in high degree : The whore is proud her beauties are the dread ...
Page 286
... proud tow'rs with ample sway , Beheld the trembling swains obey , And wrought the glorious deed that swell'd the trump of Fame . III . 1 . But why o'er these indulge the bursting sigh ? Feels not each shrub the tempest's pow'r ? Rocks ...
... proud tow'rs with ample sway , Beheld the trembling swains obey , And wrought the glorious deed that swell'd the trump of Fame . III . 1 . But why o'er these indulge the bursting sigh ? Feels not each shrub the tempest's pow'r ? Rocks ...
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