Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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... state were allured to the land of learning by the fong of the Mufe ; and they would perhaps have never entered it , if their preceptors had forbidden them to lend an ear . Of fo much confequence is the ftudy of Poetry in youth to the ...
... state were allured to the land of learning by the fong of the Mufe ; and they would perhaps have never entered it , if their preceptors had forbidden them to lend an ear . Of fo much confequence is the ftudy of Poetry in youth to the ...
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... State Man's Immortality proved by Nature Night VII.Difcontent - - 141 Reafon 159 341 Man 160 142 Death 160 142 Reflections on Sleep 160 142 142 Addrefs to the Trinity ! Conclufion 160 161 143 Solitude Young 161 143 The Day of Judgment ...
... State Man's Immortality proved by Nature Night VII.Difcontent - - 141 Reafon 159 341 Man 160 142 Death 160 142 Reflections on Sleep 160 142 142 Addrefs to the Trinity ! Conclufion 160 161 143 Solitude Young 161 143 The Day of Judgment ...
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... State - The Winter Nofegay Boadicea , an Ode - Heroifm ib . 781 ib . 782 Art above Nature The Crocked Sixpence The Copper Farthing The Shool - Boy . By the Rev. Mr. Maurice , Autumn . An Ode Winter . An Ode An Evening CONTENT Sy.
... State - The Winter Nofegay Boadicea , an Ode - Heroifm ib . 781 ib . 782 Art above Nature The Crocked Sixpence The Copper Farthing The Shool - Boy . By the Rev. Mr. Maurice , Autumn . An Ode Winter . An Ode An Evening CONTENT Sy.
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... state , Through the fequefter'd vale of rural life , The venerable Patriarch guilelefs held The tenour of his way ; Labour prepar'd His fimple fare , and Temp'rance rul'd his board . Tir'd with his daily toil , at early eve He funk to ...
... state , Through the fequefter'd vale of rural life , The venerable Patriarch guilelefs held The tenour of his way ; Labour prepar'd His fimple fare , and Temp'rance rul'd his board . Tir'd with his daily toil , at early eve He funk to ...
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... state ! [ on , But feel the well - plum'd hearfe comes nodding Stately and flow ; and properly attended By the whole ... states of half their people , and gave up To want the reft ; now , like a ftorm that's fpent , Lie hufh'd , and ...
... state ! [ on , But feel the well - plum'd hearfe comes nodding Stately and flow ; and properly attended By the whole ... states of half their people , and gave up To want the reft ; now , like a ftorm that's fpent , Lie hufh'd , and ...
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