The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for ReadingF. Louis, 1804 - 376 pages |
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... blest , and die . The softest blush that nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour smiles thro ' heav'n When May's sweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones scorn The charmers of the plains ; That sun ...
... blest , and die . The softest blush that nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour smiles thro ' heav'n When May's sweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones scorn The charmers of the plains ; That sun ...
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... blest , creative love Still bade eternal Eden smile around . Heavy with instant fate her bosom heav'd Unwonted sighs ; and stealing oft a look Tow'rds the big gloom , on CELADON her Fell tearful , wetting her disorder'd check . In vain ...
... blest , creative love Still bade eternal Eden smile around . Heavy with instant fate her bosom heav'd Unwonted sighs ; and stealing oft a look Tow'rds the big gloom , on CELADON her Fell tearful , wetting her disorder'd check . In vain ...
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... blest ; The soul , uneasy and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , or hears him in the wind ; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as ...
... blest ; The soul , uneasy and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , or hears him in the wind ; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as ...
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... blest at thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; All chance , Direction , which thou canst not see ; All Discord , Harmony not ...
... blest at thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; All chance , Direction , which thou canst not see ; All Discord , Harmony not ...
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... blest abodes ; Fear made her Devils , and weak Hope her Gods ; Gods partial , changeful , passionate , unjust , Whose attributes were Rage , Revenge , or Lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive , And , form'd like tyrants ...
... blest abodes ; Fear made her Devils , and weak Hope her Gods ; Gods partial , changeful , passionate , unjust , Whose attributes were Rage , Revenge , or Lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive , And , form'd like tyrants ...
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