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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... Heaven , T'illuminate the Earth , and rule the day In their vicissitude , and rule the night , And light from darkness to divide . First in his east the glorious lamp was seen , Regent of day , and all the horizon round Invested with ...
... Heaven , T'illuminate the Earth , and rule the day In their vicissitude , and rule the night , And light from darkness to divide . First in his east the glorious lamp was seen , Regent of day , and all the horizon round Invested with ...
Page 77
... heaven , with that inverted spear Mide groan the centre ; burst earth's marble ( A spear deep dipt in blood ! ) which pierc'd With pings , strange pangs ! deliver'd of her [ tear ; And open'd there a font for all mankind Hell howl'd ...
... heaven , with that inverted spear Mide groan the centre ; burst earth's marble ( A spear deep dipt in blood ! ) which pierc'd With pings , strange pangs ! deliver'd of her [ tear ; And open'd there a font for all mankind Hell howl'd ...
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... Heaven's first law ; and this con- fest , Some are , and must be , greater than the rest , More rich , more wise ; but who infers from hence [ sense . That such are happier , shocks all common Heaven to mankind impartial we confess , If ...
... Heaven's first law ; and this con- fest , Some are , and must be , greater than the rest , More rich , more wise ; but who infers from hence [ sense . That such are happier , shocks all common Heaven to mankind impartial we confess , If ...
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