Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... spread ; The silent Moon , with waxing horn , Along th ' ethereal region borne ; The stars with vivid lustre crown'd , That nightly walk their destin'd round ; Lord ! What is Man , that in thy care His humble lot should find a share ...
... spread ; The silent Moon , with waxing horn , Along th ' ethereal region borne ; The stars with vivid lustre crown'd , That nightly walk their destin'd round ; Lord ! What is Man , that in thy care His humble lot should find a share ...
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... spread , and flourish in eternal day . O ! with what art , my friend , what early care , Should wisdom cultivate a plant so fair ! How should her eye the rip'ning mind revise , And blast the buds of folly as they rise ! How should her ...
... spread , and flourish in eternal day . O ! with what art , my friend , what early care , Should wisdom cultivate a plant so fair ! How should her eye the rip'ning mind revise , And blast the buds of folly as they rise ! How should her ...
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... spread shoulders ! scorn That haunts and dogs them like an injur'd ghost Implacable . Here , too , the petty tyrant , Whose scant domains geographer ne'er notic'd , And , well for neighb'ring grounds , of arm as Who fix'd his iron ...
... spread shoulders ! scorn That haunts and dogs them like an injur'd ghost Implacable . Here , too , the petty tyrant , Whose scant domains geographer ne'er notic'd , And , well for neighb'ring grounds , of arm as Who fix'd his iron ...
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... spread , This chaos of mankind . O great man - eater ! Whose ev'ry day is carnival ; not sated yet Unheard of epicure ! without a fellow ! The veriest gluttons do not always cram ; Some intervals of abstinence are sought To edge the ...
... spread , This chaos of mankind . O great man - eater ! Whose ev'ry day is carnival ; not sated yet Unheard of epicure ! without a fellow ! The veriest gluttons do not always cram ; Some intervals of abstinence are sought To edge the ...
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... spread ; Then join the general chorus of all worlds , And let the song of Charity begin In strains seraphic , and melodious prayer . " O all - sufficient , all beneficent , Thou God of Goodness and of Glory , hear ! Thou , who to lowest ...
... spread ; Then join the general chorus of all worlds , And let the song of Charity begin In strains seraphic , and melodious prayer . " O all - sufficient , all beneficent , Thou God of Goodness and of Glory , hear ! Thou , who to lowest ...
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