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 151
... pity is my friend , and stops me fhort , For my unhappy rival . Poor Henriquez ! Seb . Art thou fo generous too , to pity him ! Nay , then I was unjust to love him better . Heie ht me ever hold the in my arms ; And all our quarrels be ...
... pity is my friend , and stops me fhort , For my unhappy rival . Poor Henriquez ! Seb . Art thou fo generous too , to pity him ! Nay , then I was unjust to love him better . Heie ht me ever hold the in my arms ; And all our quarrels be ...
Page 223
... Pity . COLLINS . Thou , the friend of man affign'd , With balmy hands his wounds to bind , And charm his frantic woe : When firft Diftrefs , with dagger keen , Broke forth to wafte his deftin'd scene , His wild unfated foe ! By Pelia's ...
... Pity . COLLINS . Thou , the friend of man affign'd , With balmy hands his wounds to bind , And charm his frantic woe : When firft Diftrefs , with dagger keen , Broke forth to wafte his deftin'd scene , His wild unfated foe ! By Pelia's ...
Page 231
... pity melts the Thus , generous Critic , as thy bard infpires , The fifter Arts fhali nurfe their drooping fires ; Each from his fcenes her stores alternate bring , Blend the fair tints , or wake the vocal string : Thofe Sybyl - leayes ...
... pity melts the Thus , generous Critic , as thy bard infpires , The fifter Arts fhali nurfe their drooping fires ; Each from his fcenes her stores alternate bring , Blend the fair tints , or wake the vocal string : Thofe Sybyl - leayes ...
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