Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Youth, in Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2C. Dilly, 1791 - English poetry |
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Page 183
... Fire . Ibid . $ 52 . LIKE as a fire , the which in hollow cave Hath long been under - kept and down fuppreft , With murmurous difdain doth inly rave , And grudge in fo ftreight prifon to be preft , At laft breakes forth with furious ...
... Fire . Ibid . $ 52 . LIKE as a fire , the which in hollow cave Hath long been under - kept and down fuppreft , With murmurous difdain doth inly rave , And grudge in fo ftreight prifon to be preft , At laft breakes forth with furious ...
Page 272
... fire's extinct , my forge decay'd , My vice is in the duft all laid ; My coal is spent , my iron gone , My nails are drove , my work is done . My fire - dry'd corpfe lies here at reft , My foul , fmoke - like , foars to be bleft . $ 338 ...
... fire's extinct , my forge decay'd , My vice is in the duft all laid ; My coal is spent , my iron gone , My nails are drove , my work is done . My fire - dry'd corpfe lies here at reft , My foul , fmoke - like , foars to be bleft . $ 338 ...
Page 297
... fire . Here ftands her confort , fore with anguifh preft , Grief in his eye , and terror in his breast . The Paphian Graces , fmit with anxious care , In filent forrow weep the waining fair . Eight funs , fucceffive , roll their fire ...
... fire . Here ftands her confort , fore with anguifh preft , Grief in his eye , and terror in his breast . The Paphian Graces , fmit with anxious care , In filent forrow weep the waining fair . Eight funs , fucceffive , roll their fire ...
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