Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... heart ? But thou canst read it there . Thy providence my life sustain'd , And all my wants redress'd , When in the silent womb I lay , And hung upon the breast . To all my weak complaints and cries Thy mercy lent an ear , Ere yet my ...
... heart ? But thou canst read it there . Thy providence my life sustain'd , And all my wants redress'd , When in the silent womb I lay , And hung upon the breast . To all my weak complaints and cries Thy mercy lent an ear , Ere yet my ...
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... heart , ยง 10. Another Hymn . ANON WHEN , rising from the bed of death . O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear , I see my Maker face to face , O ! how shall I appear ? If yet , while pardon may be found , And mercy may be sought , My heart ...
... heart , ยง 10. Another Hymn . ANON WHEN , rising from the bed of death . O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear , I see my Maker face to face , O ! how shall I appear ? If yet , while pardon may be found , And mercy may be sought , My heart ...
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... heart , As home he goes beneath the joyous moon . Ye that keep watch in heav'n , as earth asleep Unconscious lies , effuse your mildest beams , Ye constellations , while your angels strike , Amid the spangled sky , the silver lyre ...
... heart , As home he goes beneath the joyous moon . Ye that keep watch in heav'n , as earth asleep Unconscious lies , effuse your mildest beams , Ye constellations , while your angels strike , Amid the spangled sky , the silver lyre ...
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... heart : There , only there , that strong attraction lies , Which makes the soul , and bids her graces rise , Lives in those powers of harmony that bind Congenial hearts , and stretch from mind to mind : Glow'd in that warmth , that ...
... heart : There , only there , that strong attraction lies , Which makes the soul , and bids her graces rise , Lives in those powers of harmony that bind Congenial hearts , and stretch from mind to mind : Glow'd in that warmth , that ...
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... heart Anxious to please . O ! when my friend and In some thick wood have wander'd heedless on , Hid from the vulgar eye , and set us down Upon the sloping cowslip - covered bank , Where the pure limpid stream has slid along In grateful ...
... heart Anxious to please . O ! when my friend and In some thick wood have wander'd heedless on , Hid from the vulgar eye , and set us down Upon the sloping cowslip - covered bank , Where the pure limpid stream has slid along In grateful ...
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