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... grace.- The storm still continues , and the poor old man is forced along the open heath , to take shelter in a wretched hovel . There the poet has laid new incidents , to stamp fresh terror on the imagination , by lodging Edgar in it ...
... grace.- The storm still continues , and the poor old man is forced along the open heath , to take shelter in a wretched hovel . There the poet has laid new incidents , to stamp fresh terror on the imagination , by lodging Edgar in it ...
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... grace wherein we stand , and rejoice in hope of the glory of God . And not only so , but we glory in tribulations also , knowing that tribulation worketh patience ; and patience , experience ; and experience , hope ; and hope maketh not ...
... grace wherein we stand , and rejoice in hope of the glory of God . And not only so , but we glory in tribulations also , knowing that tribulation worketh patience ; and patience , experience ; and experience , hope ; and hope maketh not ...
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... grace . So the words of Edipus in Sophocles ; * -Oh ! nuptials , nuptials ! You first produc'd , and since our fatal birth Have mix'd our blood , and all our race confounded , Blended in horrid and incestuous bonds ! See ! fathers ...
... grace . So the words of Edipus in Sophocles ; * -Oh ! nuptials , nuptials ! You first produc'd , and since our fatal birth Have mix'd our blood , and all our race confounded , Blended in horrid and incestuous bonds ! See ! fathers ...
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... grace to his encomium . So that inimi- table passage of Herodotus ; † " The goddess afflicted those Scythians , who had sacrilegi- ously pillaged her temple with the female disease . " Xenophon . Cyropæd . lib . 1 . + Herod . l . 1. c ...
... grace to his encomium . So that inimi- table passage of Herodotus ; † " The goddess afflicted those Scythians , who had sacrilegi- ously pillaged her temple with the female disease . " Xenophon . Cyropæd . lib . 1 . + Herod . l . 1. c ...
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... grace : Thus o'er the dying lamp , th ' unsteady flame Hangs quiv'ring to a point ; leaps off by fits , And falls again , as loath to quit its hold . I have ventured to give these instances of the beauty and strength of Images taken ...
... grace : Thus o'er the dying lamp , th ' unsteady flame Hangs quiv'ring to a point ; leaps off by fits , And falls again , as loath to quit its hold . I have ventured to give these instances of the beauty and strength of Images taken ...
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