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 80
The feeble wrap th ' athletic in his shroud ; A dreadful friend it is , a terror kind , And weeping fathers build their children's A Haming sword to guard the tree of life . tomb ; [ date ? By that unaw'd , man on each pique of pride ...
The feeble wrap th ' athletic in his shroud ; A dreadful friend it is , a terror kind , And weeping fathers build their children's A Haming sword to guard the tree of life . tomb ; [ date ? By that unaw'd , man on each pique of pride ...
Page 207
By kind illusions of the wondering sense ' Thou mak'st all nature beauty to his eye , Sweet , -0 sweet the warbling throng , Or music to his ear : well pleas'd he scans On the white emblossom'd spray ! The goodly prospect ; and with ...
By kind illusions of the wondering sense ' Thou mak'st all nature beauty to his eye , Sweet , -0 sweet the warbling throng , Or music to his ear : well pleas'd he scans On the white emblossom'd spray ! The goodly prospect ; and with ...
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The thrush Snatch'd through the verdant maze , the hur- And wood - lark , o'er the kind - contending throng Distracted wanders ; now the bowery walk Superior heard , run through the sweetest length Of covert close , where scarce a speck ...
The thrush Snatch'd through the verdant maze , the hur- And wood - lark , o'er the kind - contending throng Distracted wanders ; now the bowery walk Superior heard , run through the sweetest length Of covert close , where scarce a speck ...
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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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