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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Wild laughter , noise , and thoughtless joy , And leave us leisure to be good . These shall the fury passions tear , Light they disperse ; and with them go The vultures of the mind , The summer - friend , the flatt'ring foe ; Disdainful ...
Wild laughter , noise , and thoughtless joy , And leave us leisure to be good . These shall the fury passions tear , Light they disperse ; and with them go The vultures of the mind , The summer - friend , the flatt'ring foe ; Disdainful ...
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O'er yon long resounding plain And seals the nations ' awful doom : Slowly moves the solemn train ; He sees proud grandeur's meteor ray ; Wailing wild with shrieks of woe He yields to joy the festive day : O'er the bones that rest below ...
O'er yon long resounding plain And seals the nations ' awful doom : Slowly moves the solemn train ; He sees proud grandeur's meteor ray ; Wailing wild with shrieks of woe He yields to joy the festive day : O'er the bones that rest below ...
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Among the ruined temples there , Stupendous columns , and wild images And after many years , - for human things of more than man , where marble dæmons Change even like the ocean and the wind ,Her daughter was restored to Rosalind ...
Among the ruined temples there , Stupendous columns , and wild images And after many years , - for human things of more than man , where marble dæmons Change even like the ocean and the wind ,Her daughter was restored to Rosalind ...
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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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