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 103
Say , if it rul'd and govern'd right , And in defence of virtue's cause , Could there be such a thing as night ... Which , when the sun has left the skies , But souls serene , where wisdom dwells , Puts all things in a deep disguise ?
Say , if it rul'd and govern'd right , And in defence of virtue's cause , Could there be such a thing as night ... Which , when the sun has left the skies , But souls serene , where wisdom dwells , Puts all things in a deep disguise ?
Page 166
Great things are made , but sooner are undone . So that to us , no thing , no place is strange , Here have I seen the king , when great affairs While his fair bosom is the world's exchange . Gave leave to slacken and unbend his cares ...
Great things are made , but sooner are undone . So that to us , no thing , no place is strange , Here have I seen the king , when great affairs While his fair bosom is the world's exchange . Gave leave to slacken and unbend his cares ...
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From the first wherefore burns Of days , on them his love divine he fix'd , In mortal bosoms this unquenched hope , His admiration ; till in time complete , That breathes from day to day sublimer things , What he admir'd and lov'd ...
From the first wherefore burns Of days , on them his love divine he fix'd , In mortal bosoms this unquenched hope , His admiration ; till in time complete , That breathes from day to day sublimer things , What he admir'd and lov'd ...
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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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