Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... round her burn , And all the planets in their turn , Confirm the tidings as they roll , And spread the truth from pole to pole . What though in solemn silence all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ! What though nor real voice nor ...
... round her burn , And all the planets in their turn , Confirm the tidings as they roll , And spread the truth from pole to pole . What though in solemn silence all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ! What though nor real voice nor ...
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... round ; Lord ! What is Man , that in thy care His humble lot should find a share ; Or what the Son of Man , that Thou Thus to his wants thy ear shouldst bow ? His rank awhile , by thy decree , Th ' Angelic Tribes beneath them see , Till ...
... round ; Lord ! What is Man , that in thy care His humble lot should find a share ; Or what the Son of Man , that Thou Thus to his wants thy ear shouldst bow ? His rank awhile , by thy decree , Th ' Angelic Tribes beneath them see , Till ...
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... round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense and every heart is joy . Then comes thy glory in the Summer months , With light and heat refulgent . Then thy sun O'ercame the pilot's art . Yet then from all my griefs , O Lord , Thy mercy ...
... round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense and every heart is joy . Then comes thy glory in the Summer months , With light and heat refulgent . Then thy sun O'ercame the pilot's art . Yet then from all my griefs , O Lord , Thy mercy ...
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... round her throne the graceful arts appear , That boast the empire of the eye or ear . See favour'd first , and ... round . Let not this weak , unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw , And deal damnation round the land On each I judge ...
... round her throne the graceful arts appear , That boast the empire of the eye or ear . See favour'd first , and ... round . Let not this weak , unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw , And deal damnation round the land On each I judge ...
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... round my couch in grim ar- ray , [ torture , And stab my bleeding heart with two - edg'd Sense of past guilt , and dread of future woe . Far be the ghastly crew ! and in their stead Let cheerful Memory from her purest cells Lead forth a ...
... round my couch in grim ar- ray , [ torture , And stab my bleeding heart with two - edg'd Sense of past guilt , and dread of future woe . Far be the ghastly crew ! and in their stead Let cheerful Memory from her purest cells Lead forth a ...
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Common terms and phrases
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