Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Youth, in Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2C. Dilly, 1791 - English poetry |
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Page 176
... feem'd.to entice ; His Joofer , garments to the ground did fall , And flew about his heels in wanton wife , Not fit for fpeedy pace or manly exercife . The foe of life , that good envies to all , That fecretly doth us procure to fall ...
... feem'd.to entice ; His Joofer , garments to the ground did fall , And flew about his heels in wanton wife , Not fit for fpeedy pace or manly exercife . The foe of life , that good envies to all , That fecretly doth us procure to fall ...
Page 179
... feem'd to tremble evermore , and quake ; All in a canvas thin he was bedight , And girded with a belt of twisted brake , Upon his head he wore an helmet light , Made of a dead man's fcull , that feem'd a gaftly fight . § 33. Defamation ...
... feem'd to tremble evermore , and quake ; All in a canvas thin he was bedight , And girded with a belt of twisted brake , Upon his head he wore an helmet light , Made of a dead man's fcull , that feem'd a gaftly fight . § 33. Defamation ...
Page 193
... feem'd Far off the flying fiend : at laft appear Hell - bounds , high reaching to the horrid roof , And thrice three - fold the gates ; three folds were brafs , Three iron , three of adamantine rock ; Impenetrable , impal'd with ...
... feem'd Far off the flying fiend : at laft appear Hell - bounds , high reaching to the horrid roof , And thrice three - fold the gates ; three folds were brafs , Three iron , three of adamantine rock ; Impenetrable , impal'd with ...
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