Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... Heaven open'd wide Her ever - during gates , harmonious sound On golden hinges moving , to let forth The King of Glory , in his powerful Word And Spirit , coming to create new worlds . On heavenly ground they stood ; and from the shore ...
... Heaven open'd wide Her ever - during gates , harmonious sound On golden hinges moving , to let forth The King of Glory , in his powerful Word And Spirit , coming to create new worlds . On heavenly ground they stood ; and from the shore ...
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... Heaven created , thus the Earth , This said , he form'd thee , Adam ; thee , O Matter unform'd and void : darkness profound Cover'd the abyss ; but on the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread , And vital virtue ...
... Heaven created , thus the Earth , This said , he form'd thee , Adam ; thee , O Matter unform'd and void : darkness profound Cover'd the abyss ; but on the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread , And vital virtue ...
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... heaven- Arise , ye tenants of the silent grave , Awake incorruptible , and arise . " " Tis then , nor sooner , that the restless mind Shall find itself at home ; and like the ark , Fix'd on the mountain top , shall look aloft O'er the ...
... heaven- Arise , ye tenants of the silent grave , Awake incorruptible , and arise . " " Tis then , nor sooner , that the restless mind Shall find itself at home ; and like the ark , Fix'd on the mountain top , shall look aloft O'er the ...
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... Heaven , cherubic forms , And forms seraphic , with their silver trump And golden lyres attend : - " For thou art holy , For thou art one , th ' Eternal , who alone Exerts all goodness , and transcends all praise ! " ยง 23. On the ...
... Heaven , cherubic forms , And forms seraphic , with their silver trump And golden lyres attend : - " For thou art holy , For thou art one , th ' Eternal , who alone Exerts all goodness , and transcends all praise ! " ยง 23. On the ...
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... heaven , lifts high its beamy horns , Impatient for the night , and seems to push Her brother down the sky . Fair Venus shines , Ev'n in the eye of day ; with sweetest beam Propitious shines , and shakes a trembling flood Of soften'd ...
... heaven , lifts high its beamy horns , Impatient for the night , and seems to push Her brother down the sky . Fair Venus shines , Ev'n in the eye of day ; with sweetest beam Propitious shines , and shakes a trembling flood Of soften'd ...
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