Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... arms to meet the smiling shade ! When Memory's call the mimic words obey , And wing the thought that falters on its way ; When wise experience her slow verdict draws , The sure effect exploring in the Cause , In Nature's rude , but not ...
... arms to meet the smiling shade ! When Memory's call the mimic words obey , And wing the thought that falters on its way ; When wise experience her slow verdict draws , The sure effect exploring in the Cause , In Nature's rude , but not ...
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... Arms in his cause . Ope fly the doors of Heav'n ; The fountains of the deep their barriers break , Above , below ... arm , And on the miscreants pours destruction down ; Who can abide his coming ? Who can bear His whole displeasure ? In ...
... Arms in his cause . Ope fly the doors of Heav'n ; The fountains of the deep their barriers break , Above , below ... arm , And on the miscreants pours destruction down ; Who can abide his coming ? Who can bear His whole displeasure ? In ...
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... arm sustains The keys of hell and death . The Grave , dread thing ! [ pall'd Men shiver when thou'rt nam'd : Nature ap ... arms , send back the sound Laden with heavier airs , from the low vaults , The mansions of the dead . Rous'd from ...
... arm sustains The keys of hell and death . The Grave , dread thing ! [ pall'd Men shiver when thou'rt nam'd : Nature ap ... arms , send back the sound Laden with heavier airs , from the low vaults , The mansions of the dead . Rous'd from ...
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... arm belabour'd , gasps for breath To want the rest ; now , like a storm that's Like a hard - hunted beast . How his great heart spent , [ vert . Beats thick ! his roomy chest by far too scant Lie hush'd , and meanly sneak behind thy co ...
... arm belabour'd , gasps for breath To want the rest ; now , like a storm that's Like a hard - hunted beast . How his great heart spent , [ vert . Beats thick ! his roomy chest by far too scant Lie hush'd , and meanly sneak behind thy co ...
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... arm impair'd Thro ' length of days ; and what he can he will ; His faithfulness stands bound to see it done . When the ... arms Shall rush with all the impatience of a man That's new come home , who , having long been absent , With haste ...
... arm impair'd Thro ' length of days ; and what he can he will ; His faithfulness stands bound to see it done . When the ... arms Shall rush with all the impatience of a man That's new come home , who , having long been absent , With haste ...
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