Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... scene of things ; the Promis'd Seed Trampling upon the Serpent's humbled crest ; Death of his sting disarm'd ; and ... scenes Of midnight revel and tumultuous mirth , Where in th ' intoxicating draught conceal'd , Or couch'd beneath the ...
... scene of things ; the Promis'd Seed Trampling upon the Serpent's humbled crest ; Death of his sting disarm'd ; and ... scenes Of midnight revel and tumultuous mirth , Where in th ' intoxicating draught conceal'd , Or couch'd beneath the ...
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... scene , though sense averts its eye , Nor stops the wondrous process to descry ; Yet juster thought the mystic change pursues , And with delight Almighty Wisdom views ! The brute , the vegetable world surveys , Sees life subsisting ev'n ...
... scene , though sense averts its eye , Nor stops the wondrous process to descry ; Yet juster thought the mystic change pursues , And with delight Almighty Wisdom views ! The brute , the vegetable world surveys , Sees life subsisting ev'n ...
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... scene ; Next , Summer's hand , that spreads the sylvan [ crown'd , Then , Autumn , with her yellow harvests And trembling Winter close the annual round . The vegetable tribes observant trace , From the tall cedar to the creeping grass ...
... scene ; Next , Summer's hand , that spreads the sylvan [ crown'd , Then , Autumn , with her yellow harvests And trembling Winter close the annual round . The vegetable tribes observant trace , From the tall cedar to the creeping grass ...
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... scene , The earth all verdant , and the air serene ! Its precious freight the guardian ark display'd , While Noah grateful adoration paid ! Beholding in the many tinctur'd bow The promise of a safer world below . When wild ambition rear ...
... scene , The earth all verdant , and the air serene ! Its precious freight the guardian ark display'd , While Noah grateful adoration paid ! Beholding in the many tinctur'd bow The promise of a safer world below . When wild ambition rear ...
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... scene , As the mild dove her silver plumes displays , So sheds thy mercy its distinguish'd rays . This led , Creator mild , thy gracious hand , When formless Chaos heard thy high com- mand ; [ review'd , When , pleas'd , the eye thy ...
... scene , As the mild dove her silver plumes displays , So sheds thy mercy its distinguish'd rays . This led , Creator mild , thy gracious hand , When formless Chaos heard thy high com- mand ; [ review'd , When , pleas'd , the eye thy ...
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