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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... less manifest , is not less mighty . Survey the magnet's sympathetic love That woos the yielding needle ; contemplate Th ' attractive amber's power , invisible Ev'n to the mental eye ; or when the blow Sent from th ' electric sphere ...
... less manifest , is not less mighty . Survey the magnet's sympathetic love That woos the yielding needle ; contemplate Th ' attractive amber's power , invisible Ev'n to the mental eye ; or when the blow Sent from th ' electric sphere ...
Page 86
... less than sha- dow ? A nothing less than nothing ? To have been , And not to be , is lower than unborn . Art thou ambitious ? why then make the worm Thine equal ? runs thy taste of pleasure high ? Why patronise sure death of every joy ...
... less than sha- dow ? A nothing less than nothing ? To have been , And not to be , is lower than unborn . Art thou ambitious ? why then make the worm Thine equal ? runs thy taste of pleasure high ? Why patronise sure death of every joy ...
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... less noisy and less guilty fame , Fair Virtue's silent train : supreme of these Here ever shines the godlike Socrates ; He whom ungrateful Athens could expel , At all times just , but when he sign'd the shell ; Here his abode the martyr ...
... less noisy and less guilty fame , Fair Virtue's silent train : supreme of these Here ever shines the godlike Socrates ; He whom ungrateful Athens could expel , At all times just , but when he sign'd the shell ; Here his abode the martyr ...
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An Address to the Deity | 1 |
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Epistle to William Langhorne M | 52 |
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