Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... breath , My Craufurd still shall claim the mournful song , So long remember'd and bewail'd so long . 13. The Universal Prayer . POPE . Deo Opt . Max . FATHER of All ! in ev'ry age , In ev'ry clime , ador'd , By Saint , by Savage , and ...
... breath , My Craufurd still shall claim the mournful song , So long remember'd and bewail'd so long . 13. The Universal Prayer . POPE . Deo Opt . Max . FATHER of All ! in ev'ry age , In ev'ry clime , ador'd , By Saint , by Savage , and ...
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... breath ? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust , Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this ... breathing morn , The swallow twitt'ring from the straw - built shed , The cock's shrill clarion , or the echoing ...
... breath ? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust , Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this ... breathing morn , The swallow twitt'ring from the straw - built shed , The cock's shrill clarion , or the echoing ...
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... breath of evening Zephyr , and as sweet , Were all his slumbers ; with the sun he rose , Alert and vigorous as He , to run [ strength His destin'd course . Thus nerv'd with giant He stem'd the tide of time , and stood the shock Of ages ...
... breath of evening Zephyr , and as sweet , Were all his slumbers ; with the sun he rose , Alert and vigorous as He , to run [ strength His destin'd course . Thus nerv'd with giant He stem'd the tide of time , and stood the shock Of ages ...
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... 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- To give the lungs full ...
... 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- To give the lungs full ...
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... breath'd The breath of life ; in his own image he Created thee , in the image of God Express ; and thou becam'st a living soul . ยง 20. Order and Subordination through all the Works of God . POPE . FAR as creation's ample range extends ...
... breath'd The breath of life ; in his own image he Created thee , in the image of God Express ; and thou becam'st a living soul . ยง 20. Order and Subordination through all the Works of God . POPE . FAR as creation's ample range extends ...
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