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 122
... kind than they ? Tears still are mine , and those I need not spare , Love but demands what else were shed in prayer ; No happier task these faded eyes pursue ; To read and weep is all they now can do . Then share thy pain , allow that ...
... kind than they ? Tears still are mine , and those I need not spare , Love but demands what else were shed in prayer ; No happier task these faded eyes pursue ; To read and weep is all they now can do . Then share thy pain , allow that ...
Page 124
... kind , ordain A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain ; Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose ; No pulse that riots , and no blood that glows . Still as the sea , ere winds were taught to blow , ven . Or moving spirit bade the ...
... kind , ordain A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain ; Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose ; No pulse that riots , and no blood that glows . Still as the sea , ere winds were taught to blow , ven . Or moving spirit bade the ...
Page 309
... kind - contending throng Superior heard , run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy , and purposes , in thought Elate , to make her night excel their day . The black - bird whistles from ...
... kind - contending throng Superior heard , run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy , and purposes , in thought Elate , to make her night excel their day . The black - bird whistles from ...
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An Address to the Deity | 1 |
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Epistle to William Langhorne M | 52 |
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