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 82
... vain , vain , vain ! all else : eternity ! A glorious , and a needful refuge that , From vile imprisonment in abject views . ' Tis immortality , ' tis that alone , Amidst life's pains , abasements , emptiness , The soul can comfort ...
... vain , vain , vain ! all else : eternity ! A glorious , and a needful refuge that , From vile imprisonment in abject views . ' Tis immortality , ' tis that alone , Amidst life's pains , abasements , emptiness , The soul can comfort ...
Page 106
... vain , Tied to this massy globe with magic chain . Now with swift thought I range from pole to The nightly mist , and thick descending dew , pole , Parting , unfolds the fields and vaulted blue . View worlds around their flaming centres ...
... vain , Tied to this massy globe with magic chain . Now with swift thought I range from pole to The nightly mist , and thick descending dew , pole , Parting , unfolds the fields and vaulted blue . View worlds around their flaming centres ...
Page 210
... vain , those soothing lays ye sung ? Children of Fancy ! yes , your song was vain On each soft air though rapt Attention hung , And Silence listen'd on the sleeping plain . The strains yet vibrate on my ravish'd ear , And still to smile ...
... vain , those soothing lays ye sung ? Children of Fancy ! yes , your song was vain On each soft air though rapt Attention hung , And Silence listen'd on the sleeping plain . The strains yet vibrate on my ravish'd ear , And still to smile ...
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