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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... mind ? find , And trace each science that exalts the mind . " Thou self - appointed lord of all below ! Ambitious man , how little dost thou know ? For once let Fancy's towering thoughts sub- side , Look on thy birth , and mortify thy ...
... mind ? find , And trace each science that exalts the mind . " Thou self - appointed lord of all below ! Ambitious man , how little dost thou know ? For once let Fancy's towering thoughts sub- side , Look on thy birth , and mortify thy ...
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... Mind ! The reason of its form might so demand , As man presume to question his dispose From whom the power he thus abuses flows Here point , fair Muse ! the worship God re quires , The soul inflam'd with chaste and holy fires ? Where ...
... Mind ! The reason of its form might so demand , As man presume to question his dispose From whom the power he thus abuses flows Here point , fair Muse ! the worship God re quires , The soul inflam'd with chaste and holy fires ? Where ...
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... mind survey'd The dubious path of life : before him lay , Here virtue's rough ascent , there pleasure's flow'ry way . Much did the view divide his wav'ring mind ; Now glow'd his breast with gen'rous thirst of fame ; Now love of ease to ...
... mind survey'd The dubious path of life : before him lay , Here virtue's rough ascent , there pleasure's flow'ry way . Much did the view divide his wav'ring mind ; Now glow'd his breast with gen'rous thirst of fame ; Now love of ease to ...
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