Elegant Extracts: Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for Improvement of Youth, in Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing, and in the Conduct of LifeJames Moore, 1789 - 720 pages |
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... ftill new praise . Ye mifts and exhalations that now rife From hill or fteaming lake , dufky or gray , Till the fun paint your fleecy skirts with gold , In honour to the world's great Author rife ! Whether to deck with clouds th ...
... ftill new praise . Ye mifts and exhalations that now rife From hill or fteaming lake , dufky or gray , Till the fun paint your fleecy skirts with gold , In honour to the world's great Author rife ! Whether to deck with clouds th ...
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... ftill , The fouleft ftain and scandal of our nature Peace its ten thousands . In th ' embattled plain Tho ' Death exults , and claps his raven wings , Yet reigns he not ev'n there fo abfolute , So merciless , as in yon frantic scenes Of ...
... ftill , The fouleft ftain and scandal of our nature Peace its ten thousands . In th ' embattled plain Tho ' Death exults , and claps his raven wings , Yet reigns he not ev'n there fo abfolute , So merciless , as in yon frantic scenes Of ...
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... ftill the thinks She fees him , and indulging the fond thought , Clings yet more clofely to the fenfelefs turf , Nor heeds the paffenger who looks that way . Invidious Grave ! how dost thou rend in funder | Like a staunch murd'rer ...
... ftill the thinks She fees him , and indulging the fond thought , Clings yet more clofely to the fenfelefs turf , Nor heeds the paffenger who looks that way . Invidious Grave ! how dost thou rend in funder | Like a staunch murd'rer ...
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... ftill more fair . Pleafure corrected with an awful fear ; [ fpire More mild , appear'd : yet fuch as might in- Majeftically fweet , and amiably fevere . The other dame feem'd ev'n of fairer hue ; But bold her mien , unguarded rov'd her ...
... ftill more fair . Pleafure corrected with an awful fear ; [ fpire More mild , appear'd : yet fuch as might in- Majeftically fweet , and amiably fevere . The other dame feem'd ev'n of fairer hue ; But bold her mien , unguarded rov'd her ...
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... ftill , nor anxious thoughts employ , Diftruft embitters present joy ; On God for all events depend ; You cannot want when God's your friend . Weigh well your part , and do your best ; Leave to your Maker all the rest . The Hand , which ...
... ftill , nor anxious thoughts employ , Diftruft embitters present joy ; On God for all events depend ; You cannot want when God's your friend . Weigh well your part , and do your best ; Leave to your Maker all the rest . The Hand , which ...
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