Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... earth with falling showers , Rising or falling still advance his praise . His praise , ye Winds , that from four quarters blow , Speak , ye who best can tell , ye sons of light , Angels ; for ye behold him , and with songs And choral ...
... earth with falling showers , Rising or falling still advance his praise . His praise , ye Winds , that from four quarters blow , Speak , ye who best can tell , ye sons of light , Angels ; for ye behold him , and with songs And choral ...
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... Earth's wide frame How great thy honor , praise , and name ! Whose reign o'er distant worlds extends , Whose glory , heav'n's vast height transcends . From infants thou canst strength upraise , And form their lisping tongues to praise ...
... Earth's wide frame How great thy honor , praise , and name ! Whose reign o'er distant worlds extends , Whose glory , heav'n's vast height transcends . From infants thou canst strength upraise , And form their lisping tongues to praise ...
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... earth , and air , the boundless ravage mourn , And all their hosts to native dust return . But when again thy glory is displayed , Reviv'd creation lifts her cheerful head ; New rising forms thy potent smiles obey , And life rekindles ...
... earth , and air , the boundless ravage mourn , And all their hosts to native dust return . But when again thy glory is displayed , Reviv'd creation lifts her cheerful head ; New rising forms thy potent smiles obey , And life rekindles ...
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... earth this grateful change revolves , With transport touches all the springs of life . Nature attend ! join every living soul Beneath the spacious temple of the sky , In adoration join ; and ardent raise One general song ! To him ye ...
... earth this grateful change revolves , With transport touches all the springs of life . Nature attend ! join every living soul Beneath the spacious temple of the sky , In adoration join ; and ardent raise One general song ! To him ye ...
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... earth , A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown , Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth , And Melancholy mark'd him for her own . Large was his bounty , and his soul sincere , Heav'n did a recompense as largely send ; He gave to ...
... earth , A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown , Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth , And Melancholy mark'd him for her own . Large was his bounty , and his soul sincere , Heav'n did a recompense as largely send ; He gave to ...
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Common terms and phrases
beauty behold beneath bless blest bliss bosom breast breath bright charms clouds courser dark death deep delight divine dread e'en earth eternal Ev'n ev'ry fair fame fate fear fire fix'd flame flow'rs fool glory glow grace grave hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven hour immortal Jebusites king light live lord LORD BYRON lov'd lyre maid mind mortal mourn Muse nature nature's ne'er night Nut-Brown Maid nymph o'er pain passion peace pleas'd pleasure pow'r praise pride rapture rills rise round sacred Samian wine scene seem'd seraphic shade shine shore sigh sight skies sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit stream sweet sylphs tears tempest Thalestris thee thine thou thought throne toil trembling truth Twas virtue voice waves wild wind wings wise wretch young Benjie youth