Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... things which were : There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead . The wind is up : hark ! how it howls ! Me- thinks Till now , I never heard a sound so dreary : Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird [ aisles Rook'd in ...
... things which were : There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead . The wind is up : hark ! how it howls ! Me- thinks Till now , I never heard a sound so dreary : Doors creak , and windows clap , and night's foul bird [ aisles Rook'd in ...
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... thing most perfect in its kind . Blessed , thrice blessed days ! but ah , how short ! Bless'd as the pleasing dreams of holy men , But fugitive , like those , and quickly gone . O slippery state of things ! What sudden turns , What ...
... thing most perfect in its kind . Blessed , thrice blessed days ! but ah , how short ! Bless'd as the pleasing dreams of holy men , But fugitive , like those , and quickly gone . O slippery state of things ! What sudden turns , What ...
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... things to like : the rest to several place Disparted , and between spun out the air ; And Earth self - balanc'd on ... thing that creeps the ground . ' Dust of the ground , and in thy nostrils breath'd The breath of life ; in his own ...
... things to like : the rest to several place Disparted , and between spun out the air ; And Earth self - balanc'd on ... thing that creeps the ground . ' Dust of the ground , and in thy nostrils breath'd The breath of life ; in his own ...
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... things as great , Thy word the fiend's commission can revoke As vain to cavil at the ways of fate , When subterraneous fires the surface heave , To ask why prosp'rous vice so oft succeeds , And towns are buried in the yawning grave ...
... things as great , Thy word the fiend's commission can revoke As vain to cavil at the ways of fate , When subterraneous fires the surface heave , To ask why prosp'rous vice so oft succeeds , And towns are buried in the yawning grave ...
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... things above ) [ prove , High as we may we lift our reason up , By faith directed , and confirm'd by hope ; Yet are we able only to survey Dawnings of beams , and promises of day . Heaven's fuller effluence mocks our dazzled sight ...
... things above ) [ prove , High as we may we lift our reason up , By faith directed , and confirm'd by hope ; Yet are we able only to survey Dawnings of beams , and promises of day . Heaven's fuller effluence mocks our dazzled sight ...
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