Elegant Extracts: Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for Improvement of Youth, in Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing, and in the Conduct of Life |
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... breath'd the fluid air . Ye angels , catch the thrilling found ! While all th ' adoring thrones around His boundiefs mercy fing Let ev'ry lift'ning faint above Wake all the tuneful foul of love , And touch the tweetest string . Join ...
... breath'd the fluid air . Ye angels , catch the thrilling found ! While all th ' adoring thrones around His boundiefs mercy fing Let ev'ry lift'ning faint above Wake all the tuneful foul of love , And touch the tweetest string . Join ...
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... breath perfumes you , and whofe pen- cil paints . And his unfuffering kingdom yet will come . Ye woodlands all awake : a boundless fong , But from the groves ! and when the restless Expiring , lays the warbling would asleep , [ day ...
... breath perfumes you , and whofe pen- cil paints . And his unfuffering kingdom yet will come . Ye woodlands all awake : a boundless fong , But from the groves ! and when the restless Expiring , lays the warbling would asleep , [ day ...
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... breath ; O lead me wherefoe'er I go , Thro ' this day's life or death . This day , be bread and peace my lot ; All elfe beneath the fun Thou know't if heft beftow'd or not , And let thy will be done . To To Thee , whose temple is all ...
... breath ; O lead me wherefoe'er I go , Thro ' this day's life or death . This day , be bread and peace my lot ; All elfe beneath the fun Thou know't if heft beftow'd or not , And let thy will be done . To To Thee , whose temple is all ...
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... breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent duft , Or Flattr'y foothe the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart , once pregnant with celeftial fire : Hands , that the rod of empire might have Or ...
... breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent duft , Or Flattr'y foothe the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart , once pregnant with celeftial fire : Hands , that the rod of empire might have Or ...
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... Breath divine kindled within his breast The vital flame ? For this was thy fair image Stampt on his foul in godlike lineaments ? For this dominion giv'n him abfolute O'er all thy works , only that he might reign Supreme in woe ? From ...
... Breath divine kindled within his breast The vital flame ? For this was thy fair image Stampt on his foul in godlike lineaments ? For this dominion giv'n him abfolute O'er all thy works , only that he might reign Supreme in woe ? From ...
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