Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... shade Made vocal by my song , and taught his praise . Hail , universal lord ! be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil , or conceal'd , Disperse it , as now light dispels the dark . 3. Hymn ...
... shade Made vocal by my song , and taught his praise . Hail , universal lord ! be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil , or conceal'd , Disperse it , as now light dispels the dark . 3. Hymn ...
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... Shade , unperceiv'd , so softening into shade ; That , as they still succeed , they ravish still . But wandering oft , with rude inconscious gaze , Man marks not Thee , marks not the mighty hand care . the same , Ally'd more nearly in ...
... Shade , unperceiv'd , so softening into shade ; That , as they still succeed , they ravish still . But wandering oft , with rude inconscious gaze , Man marks not Thee , marks not the mighty hand care . the same , Ally'd more nearly in ...
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... shade with a religious awe ! And ye , whose bolder note is heard afar , Who shake th ' astonish'd world , lift high to heav'n Th ' impetuous song , and say from whom you rage . His praise , ye brooks , attune , ye trembling rills ; And ...
... shade with a religious awe ! And ye , whose bolder note is heard afar , Who shake th ' astonish'd world , lift high to heav'n Th ' impetuous song , and say from whom you rage . His praise , ye brooks , attune , ye trembling rills ; And ...
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... shade . Perceptive powers we hold from Heav'n's de- cree , Alike to knowledge as to virtue free ; In both a liberal agency we bear , The moral here , the intellectual there ; And hence in both an equal joy is known , The conscious ...
... shade . Perceptive powers we hold from Heav'n's de- cree , Alike to knowledge as to virtue free ; In both a liberal agency we bear , The moral here , the intellectual there ; And hence in both an equal joy is known , The conscious ...
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... shades , The dreams of Pindus and the Aonian maids , Delight no more . - O Thou my voice inspire , Who touch'd ... shade . All crimes shall cease , and ancient fraud shall fail , Returning Justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er ...
... shades , The dreams of Pindus and the Aonian maids , Delight no more . - O Thou my voice inspire , Who touch'd ... shade . All crimes shall cease , and ancient fraud shall fail , Returning Justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er ...
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