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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... divine ? Since stones and waves their settled laws forego , [ flow ! Since seas can harden , and since rocks can On Sinai's top , the Muse with ardent wing The triumphs of Omnipotence would sing ! When o'er its airy brow thy cloud ...
... divine ? Since stones and waves their settled laws forego , [ flow ! Since seas can harden , and since rocks can On Sinai's top , the Muse with ardent wing The triumphs of Omnipotence would sing ! When o'er its airy brow thy cloud ...
Page 35
... divine , she soars to To Bethlem's plain , adoring , bend thy sight ! ( Where from the grave thou rais'd thy glorious |. friend , Thro ' life shall guard them , and in death at- With everlasting arms their cause embrace , And crown the ...
... divine , she soars to To Bethlem's plain , adoring , bend thy sight ! ( Where from the grave thou rais'd thy glorious |. friend , Thro ' life shall guard them , and in death at- With everlasting arms their cause embrace , And crown the ...
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... divine ; And , but for love divine , this moment lost , By fate resorb'd , and sunk in endless night . Man hard of heart to man ! of horrid things Most horrid ! ' Mid stupendous , highly strange ! Yet oft his courtesies are smoother ...
... divine ; And , but for love divine , this moment lost , By fate resorb'd , and sunk in endless night . Man hard of heart to man ! of horrid things Most horrid ! ' Mid stupendous , highly strange ! Yet oft his courtesies are smoother ...
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