Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... soon her secret path Is mark'd with desolation ; heaps on heaps Promiscuous drop . No friend , no refuge , near ; All , all , is false and treacherous around ; All that they touch , or taste , or breathe , is Death . [ fail But ah ...
... soon her secret path Is mark'd with desolation ; heaps on heaps Promiscuous drop . No friend , no refuge , near ; All , all , is false and treacherous around ; All that they touch , or taste , or breathe , is Death . [ fail But ah ...
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... Soon , very soon , thy firmest footing fails ; And down thou dropp'st into that darksome place , Where nor device nor knowledge ever came . Here the tongue - warrior lies ! disabled now , Disarm'd , dishonor'd , like a wretch that's And ...
... Soon , very soon , thy firmest footing fails ; And down thou dropp'st into that darksome place , Where nor device nor knowledge ever came . Here the tongue - warrior lies ! disabled now , Disarm'd , dishonor'd , like a wretch that's And ...
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... soon blow o'er , thinking to mend our- selves By boldly vent'ring on a world unknown , And plunging headlong in the dark ; ' tis mad ; No frenzy half so desperate as this . Tell us , ye dead ! will none of you in pity To those you left ...
... soon blow o'er , thinking to mend our- selves By boldly vent'ring on a world unknown , And plunging headlong in the dark ; ' tis mad ; No frenzy half so desperate as this . Tell us , ye dead ! will none of you in pity To those you left ...
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... soon retook Those spoils his voluntary yielding lent , ( Sure pledge of our releasement from thy thrall ! ) Twice twenty days he sojourn'd here on earth , And show'd himself alive to chosen witnesses By proofs so strong , that the most ...
... soon retook Those spoils his voluntary yielding lent , ( Sure pledge of our releasement from thy thrall ! ) Twice twenty days he sojourn'd here on earth , And show'd himself alive to chosen witnesses By proofs so strong , that the most ...
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... soon would universal order cease ! How soon would discord harmony displace ! Eternal schemes maintain eternal fight , Nor yield , supported by eternal might ; Where each would uncontroll'd his aim pursue , The links dissever , or the ...
... soon would universal order cease ! How soon would discord harmony displace ! Eternal schemes maintain eternal fight , Nor yield , supported by eternal might ; Where each would uncontroll'd his aim pursue , The links dissever , or the ...
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