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 77
... hath much prevail'd on your condition , I fhould not know you , Brutus . Dear my lord , Make me acquainted with your caule of grief . Calpburnia to Cæfar , on the Prodigies feen the Night before his Death . Cal . I never stood on ...
... hath much prevail'd on your condition , I fhould not know you , Brutus . Dear my lord , Make me acquainted with your caule of grief . Calpburnia to Cæfar , on the Prodigies feen the Night before his Death . Cal . I never stood on ...
Page 85
... hath made them drunk , hath made me bold ; [ -Hark ! peace ! What hath quench'd them , hath given me fire . It was the owl that fhriek'd , the fatal bell - inan , Which gives the stern'ft good - night - he is about it- The doors are ...
... hath made them drunk , hath made me bold ; [ -Hark ! peace ! What hath quench'd them , hath given me fire . It was the owl that fhriek'd , the fatal bell - inan , Which gives the stern'ft good - night - he is about it- The doors are ...
Page 172
... hath miffed the right way , The further he doth go , the further he doth tray . Then do no further go , no further tray , But here lie down , and to thy reft betake , Th ' ill to prevent , that life enfuen may : For , what hath life ...
... hath miffed the right way , The further he doth go , the further he doth tray . Then do no further go , no further tray , But here lie down , and to thy reft betake , Th ' ill to prevent , that life enfuen may : For , what hath life ...
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