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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for ... - Page 62
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...folly, not to scorn a fool; And scarce in human wisdom to do more. S. All promise is poor dilatory man ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay ; Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and re-resofves,...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...ourselves ; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspeets himself ie moon eomplain Of sueh as, wandering near her seeret bowe ehides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry

Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...ourselves ; and only wishj As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty, chines his infamous delay ; Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of '.thought,...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...ourselves ; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Kno'ws it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to Resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and reresotves,...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves;...
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Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most ...

Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...ourselves ; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise : At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves ; and re-resolves...
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English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. , ' .i At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay; Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; . t. In all the magnanimity of thought, ;-. Resolves, and re-resolves,...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...ourselves ; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty, chides his infamous delay ; Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and re-resolres,...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...ourselves ; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; . At fifty, chides kis infamous delay.; O 2 Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought,...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves;...
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