Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... Morning Hymn , call upon all the Parts of the Creation to join with them in extolling their common Maker . MILTON ... morn Sure pledge of day , that crown'st the smiling With every plant in sign of worship wave . VOL . V. Nos . 67 ...
... Morning Hymn , call upon all the Parts of the Creation to join with them in extolling their common Maker . MILTON ... morn Sure pledge of day , that crown'st the smiling With every plant in sign of worship wave . VOL . V. Nos . 67 ...
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... morn ! Oh spring to light , auspicious Babe , be born ! See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring , With all the incense of the breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance , See nodding forests on the mountains dance ...
... morn ! Oh spring to light , auspicious Babe , be born ! See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring , With all the incense of the breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance , See nodding forests on the mountains dance ...
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... morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill , Along the heath , and near his fav'rite tree : Another came ; nor yet beside the rill , Nor up the lawn , nor at the wood was he ; The next , with dirges due , in sad array , Slow thro ' the ...
... morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill , Along the heath , and near his fav'rite tree : Another came ; nor yet beside the rill , Nor up the lawn , nor at the wood was he ; The next , with dirges due , in sad array , Slow thro ' the ...
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... morn ; bright glows the vernal sky. Then fled her new - born lustre , then began Heav'ns cheerful face to low'r , then vapours choak'd The troubled air , and form'd a veil of clouds To hide the willing Sun. The earth , convuls'd With ...
... morn ; bright glows the vernal sky. Then fled her new - born lustre , then began Heav'ns cheerful face to low'r , then vapours choak'd The troubled air , and form'd a veil of clouds To hide the willing Sun. The earth , convuls'd With ...
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... morn ; bright glows the vernal sky , | Th ' astonish'd Earth , and from his looks throws Hope swells his sails , and passion steers his Unutterable horror and dismay . course , Safe glides his little bark along the shore Where virtue ...
... morn ; bright glows the vernal sky , | Th ' astonish'd Earth , and from his looks throws Hope swells his sails , and passion steers his Unutterable horror and dismay . course , Safe glides his little bark along the shore Where virtue ...
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