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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Let us , Let wonder seize the heavenly train , Who shuts the scene of human woes . Pleas'd while they hear a mortal strain Beneath his shade So sweet , so like their own . Securely laid , The dead alone find true repose .
Let us , Let wonder seize the heavenly train , Who shuts the scene of human woes . Pleas'd while they hear a mortal strain Beneath his shade So sweet , so like their own . Securely laid , The dead alone find true repose .
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The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool , But times are alter'd : trade's unfeeling train The playful children just let loose from school , Usurp the land , and dispossess the swain ; The watch - dog's voice that bay'd the whisp'ring ...
The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool , But times are alter'd : trade's unfeeling train The playful children just let loose from school , Usurp the land , and dispossess the swain ; The watch - dog's voice that bay'd the whisp'ring ...
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She said ; and I , who much desir'd to know Who crown'd with laurel - wreaths in golden arOf whence she was , yet fearful how to break And who the knights in green , and what the My mind , adventur'd humbly thus to speak : train Madam ...
She said ; and I , who much desir'd to know Who crown'd with laurel - wreaths in golden arOf whence she was , yet fearful how to break And who the knights in green , and what the My mind , adventur'd humbly thus to speak : train Madam ...
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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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