Sequel to the English Reader, Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry: Designed to Improve the Highest Class of Learners in Reading, to Establish a Taste for Just and Accurate Composition, and to Promote the Interest of Piety and VirtueCollins & Company, 1818 - 299 páginas |
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... born to mourn and to be wretched . This is the condition of all below the stars ; and whoever endeavours to oppose it , acts in contradiction to the will of heaven . Fly then from the fatal enchantments of youth and social delight , and ...
... born to mourn and to be wretched . This is the condition of all below the stars ; and whoever endeavours to oppose it , acts in contradiction to the will of heaven . Fly then from the fatal enchantments of youth and social delight , and ...
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... born of creation , And only less than He who marks their track , And guides their fiery wheels . Here must I stop , Or is there aught beyond ? What hand unseen Impels me onward , thro ' the glowing orbs Of habitable nature , far remote ...
... born of creation , And only less than He who marks their track , And guides their fiery wheels . Here must I stop , Or is there aught beyond ? What hand unseen Impels me onward , thro ' the glowing orbs Of habitable nature , far remote ...
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... born , with courtiers bred , Who thought e'en gold might come a day too late ; Nor on his subtle death - bed plann'd his scheme For future vacancies in church , or state ; Some avocation deeming it — to die ; Unbit by rage canine of ...
... born , with courtiers bred , Who thought e'en gold might come a day too late ; Nor on his subtle death - bed plann'd his scheme For future vacancies in church , or state ; Some avocation deeming it — to die ; Unbit by rage canine of ...
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... born , and bred on high , To crown the fav'rites of the sky , With more of happiness below , Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither , oh whither art thou fled , To lay thy meek contented head ? What happy region dost thou please To ...
... born , and bred on high , To crown the fav'rites of the sky , With more of happiness below , Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither , oh whither art thou fled , To lay thy meek contented head ? What happy region dost thou please To ...
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... born to blush unseen , And waste its sweetness or the desert air . Some village Hampden , that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell guiltless of his ...
... born to blush unseen , And waste its sweetness or the desert air . Some village Hampden , that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell guiltless of his ...
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