The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie1827 |
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... live for me . " " No , Clara , it were vain to tell What omens urge this sad farewell To happiness and thee ; Yet will I snatch the vain relief Of sympathy and kindred fear ; Our joys are made for all , but grief Is sacred to ...
... live for me . " " No , Clara , it were vain to tell What omens urge this sad farewell To happiness and thee ; Yet will I snatch the vain relief Of sympathy and kindred fear ; Our joys are made for all , but grief Is sacred to ...
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... live that soaring name ,, Embalmed in a nation's fame . Where better can those limbs repose ? ' Twas here he broke his country's foes . I'll see , with a sublime delight , His grave the trophy of the fight ,, And there lay down , in ...
... live that soaring name ,, Embalmed in a nation's fame . Where better can those limbs repose ? ' Twas here he broke his country's foes . I'll see , with a sublime delight , His grave the trophy of the fight ,, And there lay down , in ...
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... lives now , how many lives should you think Time had ? think Time had ? For my part , I should give him a triple proportion of both vitality and muscular strength , if we may reason from analogy ; for no one has effectually been able to ...
... lives now , how many lives should you think Time had ? think Time had ? For my part , I should give him a triple proportion of both vitality and muscular strength , if we may reason from analogy ; for no one has effectually been able to ...
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... live ? Could he crouch to a despot's yoke ? No sooner seek to bend the oak ! Him saw the tyrant ; him he knew To freedom and his country true : : He knew him proof against each wile , Each NO . II . ] 59 THE ETON MISCELLANY . ON THE ...
... live ? Could he crouch to a despot's yoke ? No sooner seek to bend the oak ! Him saw the tyrant ; him he knew To freedom and his country true : : He knew him proof against each wile , Each NO . II . ] 59 THE ETON MISCELLANY . ON THE ...
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... live unrewarded , and die unknown . Every man , indeed , thinks his own pretensions to literary honours unques- tionable , and himself entitled by merit to every laurel which fame has to bestow ; but however gratifying it may be to ...
... live unrewarded , and die unknown . Every man , indeed , thinks his own pretensions to literary honours unques- tionable , and himself entitled by merit to every laurel which fame has to bestow ; but however gratifying it may be to ...
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