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 138
Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair ; A sudden star , it shot through liquid air , The doubtful beam long nods from side to And drew behind a radiant trail of hair . side ; Not Berenice's Locks first rose so bright , At length ...
Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair ; A sudden star , it shot through liquid air , The doubtful beam long nods from side to And drew behind a radiant trail of hair . side ; Not Berenice's Locks first rose so bright , At length ...
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be great who will ; Nor by yon fountain's side , Search for peace with all your skill ; Nor where its waters glide Open wide the lofty door , Along the valley , can she now be found : Seek her on the marble floor : In all the wide ...
be great who will ; Nor by yon fountain's side , Search for peace with all your skill ; Nor where its waters glide Open wide the lofty door , Along the valley , can she now be found : Seek her on the marble floor : In all the wide ...
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She stooped her by the runnel's side , “ Avoid thee , Fiend ! -with cruel hand , But in abhorrence backward drew , Shake not the dying sinner's sand ! For , oozing from the mountain's side , O look , my son , upon yon sign Where raged ...
She stooped her by the runnel's side , “ Avoid thee , Fiend ! -with cruel hand , But in abhorrence backward drew , Shake not the dying sinner's sand ! For , oozing from the mountain's side , O look , my son , upon yon sign Where raged ...
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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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