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 73
... proud ; For grief is proud , and makes the owner ftout . Conftance to Auftria . O Lymoges , O Auftria ! thou doft shame That bloody fpoil : thou flave , thou wretch , thou coward , Thou little valiant , great in villainy ! Thou ever ...
... proud ; For grief is proud , and makes the owner ftout . Conftance to Auftria . O Lymoges , O Auftria ! thou doft shame That bloody fpoil : thou flave , thou wretch , thou coward , Thou little valiant , great in villainy ! Thou ever ...
Page 106
... proud man , as I hate the engendering of toads . " Neft . Yet he loves himself : is ' t not strange ? Uly . Achilles will not to the field to - morrow . Aga . What's his excufe ? Uly . He doth rely on none ; But carries on the ftream of ...
... proud man , as I hate the engendering of toads . " Neft . Yet he loves himself : is ' t not strange ? Uly . Achilles will not to the field to - morrow . Aga . What's his excufe ? Uly . He doth rely on none ; But carries on the ftream of ...
Page 178
... proud fpoyle of that fame dolorous Faire dame he might behold in perfect kind ; Which feen he much rejoyceth in his cruel mind . Of which full proud , himself up - rearing hye , Ile looked round about with fterne difdaine ; And did ...
... proud fpoyle of that fame dolorous Faire dame he might behold in perfect kind ; Which feen he much rejoyceth in his cruel mind . Of which full proud , himself up - rearing hye , Ile looked round about with fterne difdaine ; And did ...
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