Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 6S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 62
... Falling Greatness . Nay , then farewell ! [ greatness ; I have touch'd the highest point of all my And , from that full meridian of my glory , I haste now to my setting . I shall fall , Like a bright exhalation in the evening , And no ...
... Falling Greatness . Nay , then farewell ! [ greatness ; I have touch'd the highest point of all my And , from that full meridian of my glory , I haste now to my setting . I shall fall , Like a bright exhalation in the evening , And no ...
Page 148
... fall , And flew about his heels in wanton wise , Not t for speedy pace or manly exercise . The foe of life , that good envies to all , That secretly doth us procure to fall , Through guileful semblaunce which he makes He of this garden ...
... fall , And flew about his heels in wanton wise , Not t for speedy pace or manly exercise . The foe of life , that good envies to all , That secretly doth us procure to fall , Through guileful semblaunce which he makes He of this garden ...
Page 160
... fall , with difference discreet , Now soft , now loud , unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low ... falls away . " So passeth , in the passing of a day , Of mortal life the leaf , the bud , the flower , Nor more doth ...
... fall , with difference discreet , Now soft , now loud , unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low ... falls away . " So passeth , in the passing of a day , Of mortal life the leaf , the bud , the flower , Nor more doth ...
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