Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... wild , Reflection springs , and Reason is her child . On her fair stock the blooming scion grows , And brighter through revolving seasons blows . All beauteous flower ! immortal shalt thou shine When dim with age yon golden orbs decline ...
... wild , Reflection springs , and Reason is her child . On her fair stock the blooming scion grows , And brighter through revolving seasons blows . All beauteous flower ! immortal shalt thou shine When dim with age yon golden orbs decline ...
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... wild ; Swoln Dropsy ; panting Asthma ; Apoplex Full - gorg'd . There too the Pestilence that walks In darkness , and the Sickness that destroys At broad noon - day . These , and a thousand Horrid to tell , attentive wait ; and , when ...
... wild ; Swoln Dropsy ; panting Asthma ; Apoplex Full - gorg'd . There too the Pestilence that walks In darkness , and the Sickness that destroys At broad noon - day . These , and a thousand Horrid to tell , attentive wait ; and , when ...
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... wild , And surging waves , as mountains , to assault Heaven's height , and with the centre mix the pole . [ peace , ' ' Silence , ye troubled Waves , and thou Deep , Said then th ' Omnific Word ; ' your discord end ! ' Nor staid ; but ...
... wild , And surging waves , as mountains , to assault Heaven's height , and with the centre mix the pole . [ peace , ' ' Silence , ye troubled Waves , and thou Deep , Said then th ' Omnific Word ; ' your discord end ! ' Nor staid ; but ...
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... wild , this false conclusion flow , That nothing raised this beauteous All below ! When from disclosing darkness splendor breaks , Associate atoms move , and matter speaks , When non - existence bursts its close disguise , How blind are ...
... wild , this false conclusion flow , That nothing raised this beauteous All below ! When from disclosing darkness splendor breaks , Associate atoms move , and matter speaks , When non - existence bursts its close disguise , How blind are ...
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... wild sceptic his attention throw To the broad horizon , or earth below ; He finds thy soft impression touch his breast , He feels the God , and owns him unconfest : Should the stray pilgrim , tir'd of sands and skies , In Libya's waste ...
... wild sceptic his attention throw To the broad horizon , or earth below ; He finds thy soft impression touch his breast , He feels the God , and owns him unconfest : Should the stray pilgrim , tir'd of sands and skies , In Libya's waste ...
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