Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... Truth's strong pinion borne , Had never languish'd in this shade forlorn . Yet thus imperfect form'd , thus blind and vain , Doom'd by long toil a glimpse of truth to gain ; Beyond its sphere shall human wisdom go , And boldly censure ...
... Truth's strong pinion borne , Had never languish'd in this shade forlorn . Yet thus imperfect form'd , thus blind and vain , Doom'd by long toil a glimpse of truth to gain ; Beyond its sphere shall human wisdom go , And boldly censure ...
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... truth ! to Nature's wisdom blind ! And all that she directs , or Heav'n design'd ! Behold her works in cities , plains , and groves , Or life that vegetates , and life that moves ! In due proportion , as each being stays In perfect life ...
... truth ! to Nature's wisdom blind ! And all that she directs , or Heav'n design'd ! Behold her works in cities , plains , and groves , Or life that vegetates , and life that moves ! In due proportion , as each being stays In perfect life ...
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... truth , enlarging truth and love ! Lost in their charms each mean attachment ends , And Taste and Knowledge thus are Virtue's friends . Thus nature deigns to sympathise with art , And leads the moral beauty to the heart : There , only ...
... truth , enlarging truth and love ! Lost in their charms each mean attachment ends , And Taste and Knowledge thus are Virtue's friends . Thus nature deigns to sympathise with art , And leads the moral beauty to the heart : There , only ...
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... truth ( enough for man to " Virtue alone is Happiness below . " [ know ) The only point where human bliss stands still , And takes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives , Is blest in what it takes ...
... truth ( enough for man to " Virtue alone is Happiness below . " [ know ) The only point where human bliss stands still , And takes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives , Is blest in what it takes ...
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... truth is clear , whatever is is right . ยง 21. Wisdom proclaiming a Providence to Man . OGILVIE . The cloud's thin ... truths by Heav'n reveal'd , my hand dis- play'd The plan fair - opening , where each nobler view , That swells th ...
... truth is clear , whatever is is right . ยง 21. Wisdom proclaiming a Providence to Man . OGILVIE . The cloud's thin ... truths by Heav'n reveal'd , my hand dis- play'd The plan fair - opening , where each nobler view , That swells th ...
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