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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... Thou GOOD FATH SUPREME ! foul O teach me what is good . Teach me THYSELF ! Save me from folly , vanity , and vice ... thou belong not to the dawn , Sure pledge of day , that crown ' it the finiling morn With thy bright circlet , praise ...
... Thou GOOD FATH SUPREME ! foul O teach me what is good . Teach me THYSELF ! Save me from folly , vanity , and vice ... thou belong not to the dawn , Sure pledge of day , that crown ' it the finiling morn With thy bright circlet , praise ...
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... thou art still more fair , When in the Eaft its beams revive , To gild the fields of air . The fragrant , the ... Thou dazzling orb of liquid fire , The mighty chorus aid : Soon as grey ev'ning gilds the plain , Thou , moon , protract ...
... thou art still more fair , When in the Eaft its beams revive , To gild the fields of air . The fragrant , the ... Thou dazzling orb of liquid fire , The mighty chorus aid : Soon as grey ev'ning gilds the plain , Thou , moon , protract ...
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... Thou thofe thoughts canft My God , my King , attentive weigh , And hear , O hear me , when I pray . With earliest zeal , with wakeful care , To Thee my foul fhall pour its pray'r , Till heav'n's broad arch rings back the found , And ...
... Thou thofe thoughts canft My God , my King , attentive weigh , And hear , O hear me , when I pray . With earliest zeal , with wakeful care , To Thee my foul fhall pour its pray'r , Till heav'n's broad arch rings back the found , And ...
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... Thou canst ftrength upraife , And form their lifping tongues to praife : By these the vengeance - breathing Foe Thy mightier terrors taught to know , In mute aftonishment shall stand , And bow beneath thy conqu'ring hand . When , rapt ...
... Thou canst ftrength upraife , And form their lifping tongues to praife : By these the vengeance - breathing Foe Thy mightier terrors taught to know , In mute aftonishment shall stand , And bow beneath thy conqu'ring hand . When , rapt ...
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... Thou , Cheerfulnefs , by Heav'n defign'd To rule the pulfe that moves the mind , Whatever fretful paffion fprings , Whatever chance or nature brings To ftrain the tuneful poize within , And difarrange the fweet machine ; Thou , goddefs ...
... Thou , Cheerfulnefs , by Heav'n defign'd To rule the pulfe that moves the mind , Whatever fretful paffion fprings , Whatever chance or nature brings To ftrain the tuneful poize within , And difarrange the fweet machine ; Thou , goddefs ...
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