Elegant Extracts in Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Young PersonsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1816 - 1064 pages |
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... flame , Portending instant wreck to nature's frame , Pleas'd in the scene , he mocks , with conscious pride , The volley'd lightning , and the surging tide ; And while the wrathful elements engage , Foments with horrid sport the ...
... flame , Portending instant wreck to nature's frame , Pleas'd in the scene , he mocks , with conscious pride , The volley'd lightning , and the surging tide ; And while the wrathful elements engage , Foments with horrid sport the ...
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... flame increases each , That , as they still succeed , they ravish still . In one united ardor rise to heav'n . But ... Flames on th ' Atlantic isles , ' tis nought to me : Since God is ever present , ever felt , In the void waste as in ...
... flame increases each , That , as they still succeed , they ravish still . In one united ardor rise to heav'n . But ... Flames on th ' Atlantic isles , ' tis nought to me : Since God is ever present , ever felt , In the void waste as in ...
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... flame . Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife , Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life , They kept the noiseless tenor of their way . Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect , Some ...
... flame . Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife , Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life , They kept the noiseless tenor of their way . Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect , Some ...
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... flame ? For this was thy fair image Stampt on his soul in godlike lineaments ? For this dominion giv'n him absolute O'er all thy works , only that he might reign Supreme in woe ? From the blest source of Good , Could Pain and Death ...
... flame ? For this was thy fair image Stampt on his soul in godlike lineaments ? For this dominion giv'n him absolute O'er all thy works , only that he might reign Supreme in woe ? From the blest source of Good , Could Pain and Death ...
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... flame would join , But the vast distance mocks the fond design . If he , Almighty ! whose decree is fate , Could , to display his pow'r , subvert his state ; Bid from his plastic hand , a greater rise , Produce a master , and resign his ...
... flame would join , But the vast distance mocks the fond design . If he , Almighty ! whose decree is fate , Could , to display his pow'r , subvert his state ; Bid from his plastic hand , a greater rise , Produce a master , and resign his ...
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