Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 122
... most induftrioufly conceal , we ufually publish , when we have drank to excefs . The man is then clearly feen , with all the ill nature and bad qualities , from which his behaviour , in his cooler hours , had induced his most intimate ...
... most induftrioufly conceal , we ufually publish , when we have drank to excefs . The man is then clearly feen , with all the ill nature and bad qualities , from which his behaviour , in his cooler hours , had induced his most intimate ...
Page 222
... most ancient , fo the most exact ftory of the world , the propagation of men , and the di perfing of families into the feveral parts of the earth . And though this book were written in feveral ages and places , by feveral perfons ; yet ...
... most ancient , fo the most exact ftory of the world , the propagation of men , and the di perfing of families into the feveral parts of the earth . And though this book were written in feveral ages and places , by feveral perfons ; yet ...
Page 352
... most earnest longings after im- mortality - Do not all other views and defires feem mean and trifling , when com- pared with this ? And does not your in- moft heart refolve , that this fhall be the chief and conftant object of its ...
... most earnest longings after im- mortality - Do not all other views and defires feem mean and trifling , when com- pared with this ? And does not your in- moft heart refolve , that this fhall be the chief and conftant object of its ...
Contents
Tevion of Mr Allegory Spectator | 1 |
The Canal and the Brook | 11 |
On Goodbreeding | 17 |
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