Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... stand upon , yet will be contented to be delighted , which is all the good fellow Poet seems to promise , —and so steal to see the form of goodness ; which , seen , they cannot but love , ere themselves be aware , as if they took a ...
... stand upon , yet will be contented to be delighted , which is all the good fellow Poet seems to promise , —and so steal to see the form of goodness ; which , seen , they cannot but love , ere themselves be aware , as if they took a ...
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... stand , And bow beneath thy conquering hand . When , rapt in thought , with wakeful eye I view the wonders of the sky , Whose frame thy fingers o'er our head In rich magnificence have spread ; The silent Moon , with waxing horn , Along ...
... stand , And bow beneath thy conquering hand . When , rapt in thought , with wakeful eye I view the wonders of the sky , Whose frame thy fingers o'er our head In rich magnificence have spread ; The silent Moon , with waxing horn , Along ...
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... stands , Where the tall mountain looks o'er distant lands , All round her throne the graceful arts appear , That boast ... stand , And the pen falls - falls from my trembling hand ; E'en death's dim shadow seeks to hide , in vain , That ...
... stands , Where the tall mountain looks o'er distant lands , All round her throne the graceful arts appear , That boast ... stand , And the pen falls - falls from my trembling hand ; E'en death's dim shadow seeks to hide , in vain , That ...
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... stand his dread Ministers Foremost Old Age , his natural ally And firmest friend ; next him Diseases thick , A motley train ; Fever , with cheek of fire ; And half a clay - clod lump ; joint - tort'ring Gout , Consumption wan ; Palsy ...
... stand his dread Ministers Foremost Old Age , his natural ally And firmest friend ; next him Diseases thick , A motley train ; Fever , with cheek of fire ; And half a clay - clod lump ; joint - tort'ring Gout , Consumption wan ; Palsy ...
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... stand ; but if too far He launches forth beyond discretion's mark , Sudden the tempest scowls , the surges roar , Blot his fair day , and plunge him in the deep . O sad but sure mischance ! O happier far To lie like gallant Howe ' midst ...
... stand ; but if too far He launches forth beyond discretion's mark , Sudden the tempest scowls , the surges roar , Blot his fair day , and plunge him in the deep . O sad but sure mischance ! O happier far To lie like gallant Howe ' midst ...
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