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 154
... turn with violence pursu❜d , Nor more a storm her hate than gratitude : To that each passion turns or soon or late ; Love , if it makes her yield , must make her hate ; Superiors ? death ! and equals ? what a curse ! But an inferior ...
... turn with violence pursu❜d , Nor more a storm her hate than gratitude : To that each passion turns or soon or late ; Love , if it makes her yield , must make her hate ; Superiors ? death ! and equals ? what a curse ! But an inferior ...
Page 232
... Turns out the stars , and Newton is a sot . To turn ; she never took the height Of Saturn , yet is ever in the right ; She strikes each point with native force of mind , While puzzled learning blunders far behind . Graceful to sight ...
... Turns out the stars , and Newton is a sot . To turn ; she never took the height Of Saturn , yet is ever in the right ; She strikes each point with native force of mind , While puzzled learning blunders far behind . Graceful to sight ...
Page 314
... turn'd The cheerful haunt of men , unless escap'd From the doom'd house , where matchless hor- ror reigns , Shut up by ... turns , in solitary pangs They fall , unblest , untended , and unmourn'd . Thus o'er the prostrate city black ...
... turn'd The cheerful haunt of men , unless escap'd From the doom'd house , where matchless hor- ror reigns , Shut up by ... turns , in solitary pangs They fall , unblest , untended , and unmourn'd . Thus o'er the prostrate city black ...
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