Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... eyes : He roars ; the desert trembles wide around , And repercussive hills repeat the sound . Now orient gems the ... eyes ; For them thou open'st thy exhaustless store , Till the capacious wish can grasp no more . But , if one moment ...
... eyes : He roars ; the desert trembles wide around , And repercussive hills repeat the sound . Now orient gems the ... eyes ; For them thou open'st thy exhaustless store , Till the capacious wish can grasp no more . But , if one moment ...
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... eyes ! [ phemes , While goodness , theme divine , she soars to To Bethlem's plain , adoring , bend thy sight ... eye , Beseech the obstinate , he would not die ! Amazing tenderness - amazing most , The soul on whom such mercy should be ...
... eyes ! [ phemes , While goodness , theme divine , she soars to To Bethlem's plain , adoring , bend thy sight ... eye , Beseech the obstinate , he would not die ! Amazing tenderness - amazing most , The soul on whom such mercy should be ...
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... eyes of heaven Awake , quick kindling o'er the face of ether One boundless blaze ; ten thousand trembling fires , And dancing lustres , where the unsteady eye , Restless and dazzled , wanders unconfin'd O'er all this field of glories ...
... eyes of heaven Awake , quick kindling o'er the face of ether One boundless blaze ; ten thousand trembling fires , And dancing lustres , where the unsteady eye , Restless and dazzled , wanders unconfin'd O'er all this field of glories ...
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... eyes Contract those wonders of the skies , And seek no higher sphere . The wand'ring pilot sweats to find The causes that produce the wind Still gazing on the pole : The politician scorns all art , But what doth pride and pow'r impart ...
... eyes Contract those wonders of the skies , And seek no higher sphere . The wand'ring pilot sweats to find The causes that produce the wind Still gazing on the pole : The politician scorns all art , But what doth pride and pow'r impart ...
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... eyes , Unlocks his gold , and counts it till he dies . But grant , the virtues of a temp'rate prime Blest with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay , And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose ...
... eyes , Unlocks his gold , and counts it till he dies . But grant , the virtues of a temp'rate prime Blest with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay , And glides in modest innocence away ; Whose ...
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