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 132
... soft transition , we repair From earthly vehicles to these of air . Think not , when woman's transient breath is That all her vanities at once are dead ; [ fled , Succeeding vanities she still regards , To one man's treat , but for ...
... soft transition , we repair From earthly vehicles to these of air . Think not , when woman's transient breath is That all her vanities at once are dead ; [ fled , Succeeding vanities she still regards , To one man's treat , but for ...
Page 238
... soft - breathing in 641. Hymn on Solitude . THOMSON . HAIL , mildly - pleasing Solitude , Companion of the wise and good ; But from whose holy piercing eye The herd of fools and villains fly . Oh ! how I love with thee to walk , And ...
... soft - breathing in 641. Hymn on Solitude . THOMSON . HAIL , mildly - pleasing Solitude , Companion of the wise and good ; But from whose holy piercing eye The herd of fools and villains fly . Oh ! how I love with thee to walk , And ...
Page 309
... soft air , the busy nations fly , Cling to the bud , and , with inserted tube , Suck its pure essence , its ethereal soul ; And oft , with bolder wing , they soaring dare The purple heath , or where the wild thyme grows , And yellow ...
... soft air , the busy nations fly , Cling to the bud , and , with inserted tube , Suck its pure essence , its ethereal soul ; And oft , with bolder wing , they soaring dare The purple heath , or where the wild thyme grows , And yellow ...
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