Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... seen , they cannot but love , ere themselves be aware , as if they took a medicine of cherries . " Thus Poetry , by the gentle , yet certain method of allurement , leads both to learning and to virtue . I conclude , therefore , that ...
... seen , they cannot but love , ere themselves be aware , as if they took a medicine of cherries . " Thus Poetry , by the gentle , yet certain method of allurement , leads both to learning and to virtue . I conclude , therefore , that ...
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... seen him at the peep of dawn , Brushing with hasty steps the dews away , To meet the sun upon the upland lawn : There at the foot of yonder nodding beech , That wreaths its old fantastic roots so high , His listless length at noon ...
... seen him at the peep of dawn , Brushing with hasty steps the dews away , To meet the sun upon the upland lawn : There at the foot of yonder nodding beech , That wreaths its old fantastic roots so high , His listless length at noon ...
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... seen , upon a summer's even , Fast by a riv'let's brink a youngster play ! How wishfully he looks to stem the tide ! This moment resolute , next unresolv'd , At last he dips his foot ; but as he dips His fears redouble , and he runs ...
... seen , upon a summer's even , Fast by a riv'let's brink a youngster play ! How wishfully he looks to stem the tide ! This moment resolute , next unresolv'd , At last he dips his foot ; but as he dips His fears redouble , and he runs ...
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... seen in all and all in God . I read his awful name emblazon'd high With golden letters on th ' illumin'd sky . Nor less the mystic characters I see Wrought in each flow'r , inscrib'd on ev'ry tree : In ev'ry leaf that trembles to the ...
... seen in all and all in God . I read his awful name emblazon'd high With golden letters on th ' illumin'd sky . Nor less the mystic characters I see Wrought in each flow'r , inscrib'd on ev'ry tree : In ev'ry leaf that trembles to the ...
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... seen yon weary winter - sun Twice forty times return ; And every time has added proofs That man was made to mourn . ' O man ! while in thy early years How prodigal of time ! Mis - spending all thy precious hours , Thy glorious youthful ...
... seen yon weary winter - sun Twice forty times return ; And every time has added proofs That man was made to mourn . ' O man ! while in thy early years How prodigal of time ! Mis - spending all thy precious hours , Thy glorious youthful ...
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