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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From Saturn's ring , I take my bolder flight , With what authority it gives its charge , Amid those sovereign glories of the skies , Remonstrating great truths in style sublime , Of independent , native lustre , proud ...
From Saturn's ring , I take my bolder flight , With what authority it gives its charge , Amid those sovereign glories of the skies , Remonstrating great truths in style sublime , Of independent , native lustre , proud ...
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The proud , to gain it , toils on toils endure ; Ye happy fields , unknown to noise and strife , The modest shun it but to make it sure . The kind rewarders of industrious life ; O'er globes and sceptres now on thronés it Ye shady woods ...
The proud , to gain it , toils on toils endure ; Ye happy fields , unknown to noise and strife , The modest shun it but to make it sure . The kind rewarders of industrious life ; O'er globes and sceptres now on thronés it Ye shady woods ...
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O'er yon long resounding plain And seals the nations ' awful doom : Slowly moves the solemn train ; He sees proud grandeur's meteor ray ; Wailing wild with shrieks of woe He yields to joy the festive day : O'er the bones that rest below ...
O'er yon long resounding plain And seals the nations ' awful doom : Slowly moves the solemn train ; He sees proud grandeur's meteor ray ; Wailing wild with shrieks of woe He yields to joy the festive day : O'er the bones that rest below ...
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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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