Elegant Extracts in Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons |
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... dread abode , ( There they alike in trembling hope repose ) The bosom of his Father and his God . § 25. Death . Dr. Porteus , Bp . of London . FRIEND to the wretch whom every friend forsakes , I woo thee , Death ! In fancy's fairy paths ...
... dread abode , ( There they alike in trembling hope repose ) The bosom of his Father and his God . § 25. Death . Dr. Porteus , Bp . of London . FRIEND to the wretch whom every friend forsakes , I woo thee , Death ! In fancy's fairy paths ...
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... dread of future woe . Far be the ghastly crew ! And in their stead Let cheerful Memory from her purest cells Lead forth a goodly train of Virtues fair , Cherish'd in earliest youth , now paying back With tenfold usury the pious care ...
... dread of future woe . Far be the ghastly crew ! And in their stead Let cheerful Memory from her purest cells Lead forth a goodly train of Virtues fair , Cherish'd in earliest youth , now paying back With tenfold usury the pious care ...
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... dread moment , how the frantic soul Raves round the walls of her clay tenement , Runs to each avenue , and shrieks for help , But shrieks in vain ! how wishfully she looks On all she's leaving , now no longer hers ! A little longer ...
... dread moment , how the frantic soul Raves round the walls of her clay tenement , Runs to each avenue , and shrieks for help , But shrieks in vain ! how wishfully she looks On all she's leaving , now no longer hers ! A little longer ...
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... dread brink , Unapprehensive ; when for aught we know , The very first swoln surge shall sweep us in . Think we , or think we not , time hurries on With a resistless unremitting stream , Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief ...
... dread brink , Unapprehensive ; when for aught we know , The very first swoln surge shall sweep us in . Think we , or think we not , time hurries on With a resistless unremitting stream , Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief ...
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... dread blow is struck . But hold ! I've gone too far ; too much dis- cover'd Disabled quite , and jaded with pursuing . Heaven's portals wide expand to let him in ; Nor are his friends shut out : as some great prince Not for himself ...
... dread blow is struck . But hold ! I've gone too far ; too much dis- cover'd Disabled quite , and jaded with pursuing . Heaven's portals wide expand to let him in ; Nor are his friends shut out : as some great prince Not for himself ...
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æther arms art thou beauty behold beneath blessings blest bliss blood bloom breast breath bright charms chyle courser crowd dæmon death deep delight divine dread e'en earth eternal ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fear fire fix'd flame flow'rs fool form'd gen'rous glory grace grove hand happy heart heaven honor hope hour immortal Jebusites kings light lord lov'd lyre maid mind mortal Muse nature nature's ne'er night numbers Nut-Brown Maid nymph o'er once pain passion peace plain pleas'd pleasure poison'd pow'r praise pride proud rage rapture reign rills rise round sacred scene sense shade shine sigh skies smile soft song soul spleen stream sweet tears tempest Thalestris thee Theseus thine thou thought throne toil tow'ring train trembling truth Twas vale vex'd virtue voice wild wind wings wise wretch youth