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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Page 140
... Fame . POPE . IN that soft season , when descending show'rs Call forth the greens , and wake the rising flow'rs ; When op'ning buds salute the welcome day , And earth relenting feels the genial ray , As balmy sleep had charm'd my cares ...
... Fame . POPE . IN that soft season , when descending show'rs Call forth the greens , and wake the rising flow'rs ; When op'ning buds salute the welcome day , And earth relenting feels the genial ray , As balmy sleep had charm'd my cares ...
Page 142
Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons. For Fame they raise their voice , and tune the string : Here , like some furious prophet , Pindar rode , | With eyes on Fame for ever fix'd , they sing : And seem'd to labor with th ...
Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons. For Fame they raise their voice , and tune the string : Here , like some furious prophet , Pindar rode , | With eyes on Fame for ever fix'd , they sing : And seem'd to labor with th ...
Page 225
... fame Made bold Alphonsus his Creator blame , Empedocles hurl'd down the burning steep , And ( stronger still ! ) made Alexander weep . Nay it holds Delia from a second bed , Though her lov'd lord has four half months been dead . This ...
... fame Made bold Alphonsus his Creator blame , Empedocles hurl'd down the burning steep , And ( stronger still ! ) made Alexander weep . Nay it holds Delia from a second bed , Though her lov'd lord has four half months been dead . This ...
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