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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When , rising from the bed of death , While this immortal spark of heav'nly flame O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear , Distends my breast and animates my frame : I see my Maker face to face , To thee my ardent praises shall be borne 0 ...
When , rising from the bed of death , While this immortal spark of heav'nly flame O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear , Distends my breast and animates my frame : I see my Maker face to face , To thee my ardent praises shall be borne 0 ...
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Delighted oft through Nature's beauteous field | These to thee , my God , we owe , Has she ador'd thy wisdom bright reveald ; Source whence all our blessings flow ; Oft have her wishes aim'd the secret song , And for these my soul shall ...
Delighted oft through Nature's beauteous field | These to thee , my God , we owe , Has she ador'd thy wisdom bright reveald ; Source whence all our blessings flow ; Oft have her wishes aim'd the secret song , And for these my soul shall ...
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Alike the Armada's pride , or spoils of TrafalONE struggle more , and I am free Thy shores are empires , changed in all save thee[ they ? From pangs that rend my heart in twain ; One last long sigh to love and thee , Assyria , Greece ...
Alike the Armada's pride , or spoils of TrafalONE struggle more , and I am free Thy shores are empires , changed in all save thee[ they ? From pangs that rend my heart in twain ; One last long sigh to love and thee , Assyria , Greece ...
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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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