Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 5S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Evin in the blaze of that tremendous day , Wisdom in outward beauty strikes the mind , Idolatry its impious rites could pay ! But outward beauty points a charm behind . Oh shame to thought ! -thy sacred throne in- What gives the ...
Evin in the blaze of that tremendous day , Wisdom in outward beauty strikes the mind , Idolatry its impious rites could pay ! But outward beauty points a charm behind . Oh shame to thought ! -thy sacred throne in- What gives the ...
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Let Nature judge Thou - sure must give one thought , and drop I saw hee young and fair ; pursu'd the chase one tear Of youth and beauty ; I another saw To her , whom love abandon'd to despair ; Fairer and younger ; yielding to the law ...
Let Nature judge Thou - sure must give one thought , and drop I saw hee young and fair ; pursu'd the chase one tear Of youth and beauty ; I another saw To her , whom love abandon'd to despair ; Fairer and younger ; yielding to the law ...
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With such a glow of beauty in his eyes , He was the last of all his race , and fled That it enforc'd me to bid sad farewell To haughty Genoa where the Dorias reigned : To all my empire : farewell sad I took , And hither came , A mighty ...
With such a glow of beauty in his eyes , He was the last of all his race , and fled That it enforc'd me to bid sad farewell To haughty Genoa where the Dorias reigned : To all my empire : farewell sad I took , And hither came , A mighty ...
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| Title | Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 5 Volume 5 of Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations, Vicesimus Knox Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, James Gates Percival |
| Compiled by | Vicesimus Knox |
| Publisher | S. Walker, 1826 |
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