Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Youth, in Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2C. Dilly, 1791 - English poetry |
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Page 148
... Live above all , most infinitely wretched . Imena too - Nay then , avenging Heav'n Ifmena enters . Has vented all its rage . -O wretched maid ! Why doft thou come to fwell my raging grief ? Why add to forrows , and embitter woes ? Why ...
... Live above all , most infinitely wretched . Imena too - Nay then , avenging Heav'n Ifmena enters . Has vented all its rage . -O wretched maid ! Why doft thou come to fwell my raging grief ? Why add to forrows , and embitter woes ? Why ...
Page 253
... LIVE while you live , the Epicure will fay , And take the pleafure of the prefent day ? Live while you live , the facred preacher cries , And give to God each moment as it flies.- Lord , in my view let both united be ! I live in ...
... LIVE while you live , the Epicure will fay , And take the pleafure of the prefent day ? Live while you live , the facred preacher cries , And give to God each moment as it flies.- Lord , in my view let both united be ! I live in ...
Page 283
... live , and love . Be this eternity , he cry'd , And let no more be given ; Continue this , my lov'd fire - fide , I afk no other heaven . $ 411 . The Retrofpe & t of Life . RICHES , chance may take or give ; Beauty lives a day , and ...
... live , and love . Be this eternity , he cry'd , And let no more be given ; Continue this , my lov'd fire - fide , I afk no other heaven . $ 411 . The Retrofpe & t of Life . RICHES , chance may take or give ; Beauty lives a day , and ...
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