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Page 72
... TRUE AND FALSE COMFORTS O God , whose favourable eye The sin - sick soul revives , Holy and heavenly is the joy Thy shining presence gives . Not such as hypocrites suppose , Who with a graceless heart Taste not of thee , but drink a ...
... TRUE AND FALSE COMFORTS O God , whose favourable eye The sin - sick soul revives , Holy and heavenly is the joy Thy shining presence gives . Not such as hypocrites suppose , Who with a graceless heart Taste not of thee , but drink a ...
Page 272
... True , we have lost an empire - let it pass . True , we may thank the perfidy of France That picked the jewel out of England's crown , With all the cunning of an envious shrew . And let that pass , - ' twas but a trick of state ; A ...
... True , we have lost an empire - let it pass . True , we may thank the perfidy of France That picked the jewel out of England's crown , With all the cunning of an envious shrew . And let that pass , - ' twas but a trick of state ; A ...
Page 570
... true the Parthian horseman sped , " Behind him killed , and conquered as he fled : " Less true the expert Cydonian , and less true " The youth whose shaft his latent Procris slew . " Vanquished by me see huge Orion bend , " By me ...
... true the Parthian horseman sped , " Behind him killed , and conquered as he fled : " Less true the expert Cydonian , and less true " The youth whose shaft his latent Procris slew . " Vanquished by me see huge Orion bend , " By me ...
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