Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... sight ! Oh ! how his eyes stand out and stare full ghastly ! Whilst the distemper's rank and deadly venom Shoots like a burning arrow cross his bowels , And drinks his marrow up . Heard you that groan ? It was his last . See how the ...
... sight ! Oh ! how his eyes stand out and stare full ghastly ! Whilst the distemper's rank and deadly venom Shoots like a burning arrow cross his bowels , And drinks his marrow up . Heard you that groan ? It was his last . See how the ...
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... sight ! Her very eyes weep blood ; and every groan She heaves is big with horror : but the foe , Like a staunch murd'rer steady to his pur - Duty requires we calmly wait the summons , And wait th ' appointed hour , till they're re. voice ...
... sight ! Her very eyes weep blood ; and every groan She heaves is big with horror : but the foe , Like a staunch murd'rer steady to his pur - Duty requires we calmly wait the summons , And wait th ' appointed hour , till they're re. voice ...
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... sight . Here lie abash'd The great negotiators of the earth , And celebrated masters of the balance , Deep read in stratagems , and wiles of courts : Now vain their treaty - skill ; Death scorns to [ then Here the o'erloaded slave ...
... sight . Here lie abash'd The great negotiators of the earth , And celebrated masters of the balance , Deep read in stratagems , and wiles of courts : Now vain their treaty - skill ; Death scorns to [ then Here the o'erloaded slave ...
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... sight are wide ex- panded To let new glories in , the first fair fruits Of the fast - coming harvest ! Then ! O then ! Each earth - born joy grows vile , or disappears , Shrunk to a thing of nought . O how he longs To have his passport ...
... sight are wide ex- panded To let new glories in , the first fair fruits Of the fast - coming harvest ! Then ! O then ! Each earth - born joy grows vile , or disappears , Shrunk to a thing of nought . O how he longs To have his passport ...
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... sight , Darkness itself would kindle into light : Not the dark mansions of the silent grave , Nor darker hell , from his perception save ; What pow'r , alas ! thy footsteps can convey Beyond the reach of omnipresent day ? In his wide ...
... sight , Darkness itself would kindle into light : Not the dark mansions of the silent grave , Nor darker hell , from his perception save ; What pow'r , alas ! thy footsteps can convey Beyond the reach of omnipresent day ? In his wide ...
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