Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 5S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 112
... ne'er recal From that abyss again . " The days , the years , the ages , Descending down to night , Can never , never be redeem'd Back to the gates of light . dark " So man departs the living scene , To night's perpetual gloom ; The ...
... ne'er recal From that abyss again . " The days , the years , the ages , Descending down to night , Can never , never be redeem'd Back to the gates of light . dark " So man departs the living scene , To night's perpetual gloom ; The ...
Page 129
... ne'er con- And the first clouds and mountains seem the " Then build a new , or act it on a plain . " But , those attain'd , we tremble to survey The growing labors of the lengthen'd way ; Th ' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring ...
... ne'er con- And the first clouds and mountains seem the " Then build a new , or act it on a plain . " But , those attain'd , we tremble to survey The growing labors of the lengthen'd way ; Th ' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring ...
Page 279
... ne'er had been belov'd ; As if unconscious of poetic fire , I ne'er had touch'd the trembling lyre ; As if my niggard hand ne'er dealt relief , Nor my heart melted at another's grief . Yet , while this weary life shall last , While yet ...
... ne'er had been belov'd ; As if unconscious of poetic fire , I ne'er had touch'd the trembling lyre ; As if my niggard hand ne'er dealt relief , Nor my heart melted at another's grief . Yet , while this weary life shall last , While yet ...
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