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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... savour , Who yet in works of a minuter mould And all Eternity shall be their spring . Is not less manifest , is not less mighty . Then shall the gates and everlasting doors , Survey the magnet's sympathetic love At which the King of ...
... savour , Who yet in works of a minuter mould And all Eternity shall be their spring . Is not less manifest , is not less mighty . Then shall the gates and everlasting doors , Survey the magnet's sympathetic love At which the King of ...
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And art thou then a shadow ? less than sha- And scorn this wretched spot , they leave so dow ? Eternity's vast ocean lays before thee ; A nothing ? less than nothing ? To have been , Give thy mind sea - room ; keep it wide of earth ...
And art thou then a shadow ? less than sha- And scorn this wretched spot , they leave so dow ? Eternity's vast ocean lays before thee ; A nothing ? less than nothing ? To have been , Give thy mind sea - room ; keep it wide of earth ...
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Whose brow was wrinkled o'er by care ; Triumphant to the goal return'd , A great economist was she , With nobler thirst his bosom burn'd ; Nor less laborious than the Bee ; And now along th ' indented plain By pensive parents often ...
Whose brow was wrinkled o'er by care ; Triumphant to the goal return'd , A great economist was she , With nobler thirst his bosom burn'd ; Nor less laborious than the Bee ; And now along th ' indented plain By pensive parents often ...
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Contents
Sacred and Moral | 1 |
Sect | 21 |
Adam and Eve in a Morning Hymn 39 The Rose | 44 |
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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 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 29 Mar 2012 |
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