Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 5-6Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... glowing breast . Here rising boughs , adorn'd with summer's pride , Project their waving umbrage o'er the tide ... glow , And heav'n above diffuses heav'n below . Erect and tall here mountain cedars rise , Wave in the starry vault ...
... glowing breast . Here rising boughs , adorn'd with summer's pride , Project their waving umbrage o'er the tide ... glow , And heav'n above diffuses heav'n below . Erect and tall here mountain cedars rise , Wave in the starry vault ...
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... glow . While this immortal spark of heav'nly flame Distends my breast and animates my frame : To thee my ardent praises shall be borne On the first breeze that wakes the blushing morn : The latest star shall hear the pleasing sound ...
... glow . While this immortal spark of heav'nly flame Distends my breast and animates my frame : To thee my ardent praises shall be borne On the first breeze that wakes the blushing morn : The latest star shall hear the pleasing sound ...
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... glow . See heav'n its sparkling portals wide display , And break upon thee in a flood of day . No more the rising sun shall gild the morn , Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her silver horn , But lost , dissolv'd in thy superior rays , One tide ...
... glow . See heav'n its sparkling portals wide display , And break upon thee in a flood of day . No more the rising sun shall gild the morn , Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her silver horn , But lost , dissolv'd in thy superior rays , One tide ...
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... glow - worm to the golden sun . Nor shall the verdant valleys then remain Safe in their meek submission ; they the debt Of nature and of justice too must pay . Yet I must weep for you , ye rival fair , Arno and Andalusia ; but for thee ...
... glow - worm to the golden sun . Nor shall the verdant valleys then remain Safe in their meek submission ; they the debt Of nature and of justice too must pay . Yet I must weep for you , ye rival fair , Arno and Andalusia ; but for thee ...
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... glow . O thrice - illustrious ! were it not for Thee , Those pansies , that reclining from the bank View thro ' th ' immaculate pellucid stream Their portraiture in the inverted heav'n , Might as well change their triple boast , the ...
... glow . O thrice - illustrious ! were it not for Thee , Those pansies , that reclining from the bank View thro ' th ' immaculate pellucid stream Their portraiture in the inverted heav'n , Might as well change their triple boast , the ...
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