Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons ; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in ProseVicesimus Knox T. Longman, 1796 - 1008 páginas |
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... these have not unfrequently been called garlands and nofegays : but in a garland or nofegay , who would place the tulips , the lilies , the pinks , and the roses in feparate compartments ? In fo artificial a difpofition , their beauty ...
... these have not unfrequently been called garlands and nofegays : but in a garland or nofegay , who would place the tulips , the lilies , the pinks , and the roses in feparate compartments ? In fo artificial a difpofition , their beauty ...
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... these fiery pains Tear the frail texture of my veins ; While winter's voice , that forms around , And yon deep death - bell's groaning found Renew my mind's oppreffive gloom , Till starting horror thakes the room . Is there in nature no ...
... these fiery pains Tear the frail texture of my veins ; While winter's voice , that forms around , And yon deep death - bell's groaning found Renew my mind's oppreffive gloom , Till starting horror thakes the room . Is there in nature no ...
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... THESE , as they change , Almighty Father , these Are but the varied God . The rolling year Is full of Thee . Forth in the pleafing Spring Thy beauty walks , thy tenderness and love . Wide flush the fields ; the foftening air is balm ...
... THESE , as they change , Almighty Father , these Are but the varied God . The rolling year Is full of Thee . Forth in the pleafing Spring Thy beauty walks , thy tenderness and love . Wide flush the fields ; the foftening air is balm ...
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... these fapient drones may Of men that liv'd two thousand years ago : [ know , Such human monsters if the world c'er knew , As ancient verfe , and ancient story drew ! If to one object , fyftem , scene confin'd , The fure effect is ...
... these fapient drones may Of men that liv'd two thousand years ago : [ know , Such human monsters if the world c'er knew , As ancient verfe , and ancient story drew ! If to one object , fyftem , scene confin'd , The fure effect is ...
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... these the fault , If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raife , Where thro ' the long - drawn ifle and fretted vault , The pealing anthem fwells the note of praise . Can ftoried urn , or animated bust , Back to its manfion call the ...
... these the fault , If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raife , Where thro ' the long - drawn ifle and fretted vault , The pealing anthem fwells the note of praise . Can ftoried urn , or animated bust , Back to its manfion call the ...
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Página 242 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
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