Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil , or conceal'd , Disperse it , as now light dispels the dark . 3. Hymn on Gratitude . ADDISON . WHEN all thy mercies , O my God , My rising soul surveys ; Transported with ...
... give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil , or conceal'd , Disperse it , as now light dispels the dark . 3. Hymn on Gratitude . ADDISON . WHEN all thy mercies , O my God , My rising soul surveys ; Transported with ...
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... give each inquietude the slip , By stealing out of being when he pleas'd , And by what way ; whether by hemp or steel Death's thousand doors stand open . Who could force The ill pleas'd guest to sit out his full time , Or blame him if ...
... give each inquietude the slip , By stealing out of being when he pleas'd , And by what way ; whether by hemp or steel Death's thousand doors stand open . Who could force The ill pleas'd guest to sit out his full time , Or blame him if ...
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... give the model of this vast design ? What hand but thine adjust th ' amazing whole ? And bid consenting systems beauteous roll ! What hand but thine apply the solar light ? Ever bestowing , yet for ever bright ! What hand but thine the ...
... give the model of this vast design ? What hand but thine adjust th ' amazing whole ? And bid consenting systems beauteous roll ! What hand but thine apply the solar light ? Ever bestowing , yet for ever bright ! What hand but thine the ...
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... give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow - worm The poor petition spurn , Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn . If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave , By Nature's law design'd , Why was an independent ...
... give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow - worm The poor petition spurn , Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn . If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave , By Nature's law design'd , Why was an independent ...
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... give the taper shaft its wing , Er turn the polish'd quiver's mould , Or head the darts with temper'd gold . Amidst their toil and various care , Thus Hymen , with assuming air , Address'd the god : -Thou purblind chit , Of awkward and ...
... give the taper shaft its wing , Er turn the polish'd quiver's mould , Or head the darts with temper'd gold . Amidst their toil and various care , Thus Hymen , with assuming air , Address'd the god : -Thou purblind chit , Of awkward and ...
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