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 246
With all our art and toil improv'd to pain ! The sun himself shall die , and ancient night Too happy they ! But wealth brought luxury , Again involve the desolate abyss , And luxury on sloth begot disease . Till the great father through ...
With all our art and toil improv'd to pain ! The sun himself shall die , and ancient night Too happy they ! But wealth brought luxury , Again involve the desolate abyss , And luxury on sloth begot disease . Till the great father through ...
Page 248
With incessant toil , O'erwhelm , or bury struggling under ground . 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 ...
With incessant toil , O'erwhelm , or bury struggling under ground . 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 ...
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The toil - strung Rush into blood , the sack of cities seek ; youth Unpierc'd , exulting in the widow's wail , [ cry . By the quick sense of music taught alone , The virgin's shriek , and th ' infant's trembling Leaps wildly graceful in ...
The toil - strung Rush into blood , the sack of cities seek ; youth Unpierc'd , exulting in the widow's wail , [ cry . By the quick sense of music taught alone , The virgin's shriek , and th ' infant's trembling Leaps wildly graceful in ...
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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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