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 297
... flow'd ! Loft to the life you gave , your fon no more , And now adopted , who was doom'd before , New - born , I may a nobler Mother claim , But dare not whisper her immortal name ; Supremely lovely , and ferenely great ! Majestic ...
... flow'd ! Loft to the life you gave , your fon no more , And now adopted , who was doom'd before , New - born , I may a nobler Mother claim , But dare not whisper her immortal name ; Supremely lovely , and ferenely great ! Majestic ...
Page 311
... flow'r , If by the careless plough thou shalt be torn , And many Herods lie in wait each hour , To murder thee as foon as thou art born . Nay , force thy bud to blow , their tyrant breath Anticipating life to hasten death . $ 476 . Life ...
... flow'r , If by the careless plough thou shalt be torn , And many Herods lie in wait each hour , To murder thee as foon as thou art born . Nay , force thy bud to blow , their tyrant breath Anticipating life to hasten death . $ 476 . Life ...
Page 459
... flow , that composes the harmony of his verse ; in which he is very happy at the fame time that he appears very negligent . But this great mafter of poetic numbers was not without his faults , even in this very point in which he fo much ...
... flow , that composes the harmony of his verse ; in which he is very happy at the fame time that he appears very negligent . But this great mafter of poetic numbers was not without his faults , even in this very point in which he fo much ...
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