Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 5Samuel Walker, 1826 - English literature |
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Page 53
... breath [ to bear ; There , if ambition , pestilent and pale , Or luxury should taint their vernal glow ; If cold self - interest , with her chilling gale , Should blast th ' unfolding blossoms ere they [ blow ; If mimic hues , by art or ...
... breath [ to bear ; There , if ambition , pestilent and pale , Or luxury should taint their vernal glow ; If cold self - interest , with her chilling gale , Should blast th ' unfolding blossoms ere they [ blow ; If mimic hues , by art or ...
Page 108
... breath her song impels , How full the tuneful current swells . Let Melancholy's plaintive tongue Instruct the nightly strains of Y ———— ; * Alcæus and Sappho . But thine was Homer's ancient might , And thine victorious Pindar's flight ...
... breath her song impels , How full the tuneful current swells . Let Melancholy's plaintive tongue Instruct the nightly strains of Y ———— ; * Alcæus and Sappho . But thine was Homer's ancient might , And thine victorious Pindar's flight ...
Page 344
... breath hath blown , His soft and summer breath , whose tender Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour . All things are here of him ; from the black pines , [ roar Which are his shade on high , and the loud Of torrents ...
... breath hath blown , His soft and summer breath , whose tender Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour . All things are here of him ; from the black pines , [ roar Which are his shade on high , and the loud Of torrents ...
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