Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... human sight deny'd . Immortal King ! through Earth's wide frame , How great thy honor , praise , and name ! 7. Psalm 23d . MERRICK . Lo , my shepherd's hand divine ! Want shall never more be mine . In a pasture fair and large He shall ...
... human sight deny'd . Immortal King ! through Earth's wide frame , How great thy honor , praise , and name ! 7. Psalm 23d . MERRICK . Lo , my shepherd's hand divine ! Want shall never more be mine . In a pasture fair and large He shall ...
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... human bliss stands still , And takes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives , Is blest in what it takes , and what it gives ; The joy unequal'd if its end it gain , And , if it lose , attended with no ...
... human bliss stands still , And takes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives , Is blest in what it takes , and what it gives ; The joy unequal'd if its end it gain , And , if it lose , attended with no ...
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... human tongue , new - tun'd , shall Praises more worthy the Eternal Ear . [ give Yet what we can , we ought ; -and therefore Thou , Purge Thou my heart , Omnipotent and good ! Purge Thou my heart with hyssop , lest , like Cain , Recal ...
... human tongue , new - tun'd , shall Praises more worthy the Eternal Ear . [ give Yet what we can , we ought ; -and therefore Thou , Purge Thou my heart , Omnipotent and good ! Purge Thou my heart with hyssop , lest , like Cain , Recal ...
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... human art , And mortal strength how vain ! while under- neath Triumphs his mining vengeance in th ' uproar Of shatter'd towers , riven rocks , and moun- tains , With clamor inconceivable uptorn , [ fires And hurl'd adown th ' abyss ...
... human art , And mortal strength how vain ! while under- neath Triumphs his mining vengeance in th ' uproar Of shatter'd towers , riven rocks , and moun- tains , With clamor inconceivable uptorn , [ fires And hurl'd adown th ' abyss ...
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... human pain ! Heal'd by his touch does mineral health con- And dark affliction at his potent rod , [ tain ; Withdraws its cloud , and brightens into good . Thus human justice ( far as man can go ) For private safety strikes the dubious ...
... human pain ! Heal'd by his touch does mineral health con- And dark affliction at his potent rod , [ tain ; Withdraws its cloud , and brightens into good . Thus human justice ( far as man can go ) For private safety strikes the dubious ...
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