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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... Death . Death , tho ' de- Was yet a distant ill , by feeble arm [ nounc'd , Of age , his sole support , led slowly on . Not then , as since , the short - liv'd sons of men Flock'd to his realms in countless multitudes ; Scarce in the ...
... Death . Death , tho ' de- Was yet a distant ill , by feeble arm [ nounc'd , Of age , his sole support , led slowly on . Not then , as since , the short - liv'd sons of men Flock'd to his realms in countless multitudes ; Scarce in the ...
Page 77
... death ; Nor that , unless his death can justify Relenting guilt in heaven's indulgent sight . Not such as this ; not such as nature makes ; A midnight , nature shudder'd to behold ; A midnight new , from her Creator's frown ! Sun ...
... death ; Nor that , unless his death can justify Relenting guilt in heaven's indulgent sight . Not such as this ; not such as nature makes ; A midnight , nature shudder'd to behold ; A midnight new , from her Creator's frown ! Sun ...
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... death ! Death of that death I fearless once survey'd , When horror universal shall descend , And heaven's dark concave urn all human race , On that enormous unrefunding tomb , How just this verse ! this monumental sigh ! Beneath the ...
... death ! Death of that death I fearless once survey'd , When horror universal shall descend , And heaven's dark concave urn all human race , On that enormous unrefunding tomb , How just this verse ! this monumental sigh ! Beneath the ...
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An Address to the Deity | 1 |
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Epistle to William Langhorne M | 52 |
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