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 99
For custom turns fatigue to ease , Awe - struck , the much - admiring crowd And , taught by virtue , pain can please . Before the virgin vision bow'd ; At length the toilsome journey o'er , Gaz'd with an ever - new delight , And near ...
For custom turns fatigue to ease , Awe - struck , the much - admiring crowd And , taught by virtue , pain can please . Before the virgin vision bow'd ; At length the toilsome journey o'er , Gaz'd with an ever - new delight , And near ...
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The Pain arising from virtuous Emu- When rooted from the base , heroic states tions attended with Pleasure . AKENSIDE . Mourn in the dust , and tremble at the frown Of curs d Ambition ; when the pious band BEHOLD the ways Of youths that ...
The Pain arising from virtuous Emu- When rooted from the base , heroic states tions attended with Pleasure . AKENSIDE . Mourn in the dust , and tremble at the frown Of curs d Ambition ; when the pious band BEHOLD the ways Of youths that ...
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Desperate of ease , impatient of their pain , Not all a monarch's luxury the woes They toss'd from side to side . In vain the Can counterpoise of that most wretched man , stream Whose nights are shaken with the frantic Ran full and ...
Desperate of ease , impatient of their pain , Not all a monarch's luxury the woes They toss'd from side to side . In vain the Can counterpoise of that most wretched man , stream Whose nights are shaken with the frantic Ran full and ...
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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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