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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... Death of a Bulfinch 517 To - morrow On Lord Cobham's Gardens To a Child five years old To Mifs Lucy Fortescue To Mr. Weft , at Wickham Various Extracts from More Extracts from SONGS , Ballads , & c . PROLOGUES and Epilogues CONCLUSION ...
... Death of a Bulfinch 517 To - morrow On Lord Cobham's Gardens To a Child five years old To Mifs Lucy Fortescue To Mr. Weft , at Wickham Various Extracts from More Extracts from SONGS , Ballads , & c . PROLOGUES and Epilogues CONCLUSION ...
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... death ! Nature's immortal , immaterial fun ! Whofe all - prolific beam late call'd me forth From darkness , teeming darkness , where I lay The worm's inferior , and in rank beneath The duft I tread on , high to bear my brow ; To drink ...
... death ! Nature's immortal , immaterial fun ! Whofe all - prolific beam late call'd me forth From darkness , teeming darkness , where I lay The worm's inferior , and in rank beneath The duft I tread on , high to bear my brow ; To drink ...
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... death in diftant worlds The glorious theme renew . When nature fails , and day and night Divide thy works no more , My ever grateful heart , O Lord , Thy mercy fhall adore . Through all eternity to Thee A joyful fong I'll raise , For O ...
... death in diftant worlds The glorious theme renew . When nature fails , and day and night Divide thy works no more , My ever grateful heart , O Lord , Thy mercy fhall adore . Through all eternity to Thee A joyful fong I'll raise , For O ...
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... death , if death must be my doom , Shall join my foul to thee . § 11. Another Hymn . ΑΝΟΝ , WHEN rifing from the bed of death , O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear , I fee my Maker face to face , O ! how fhall I appear ! If yet , while ...
... death , if death must be my doom , Shall join my foul to thee . § 11. Another Hymn . ΑΝΟΝ , WHEN rifing from the bed of death , O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear , I fee my Maker face to face , O ! how fhall I appear ! If yet , while ...
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... death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart , once pregnant with celeftial fire : Hands , that the rod ... Death . PORTEUS , BP . of LONDON . FRIE RIEND to the wretch whom every friend for fakes , I woo thee , DEATH ! in ...
... death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart , once pregnant with celeftial fire : Hands , that the rod ... Death . PORTEUS , BP . of LONDON . FRIE RIEND to the wretch whom every friend for fakes , I woo thee , DEATH ! in ...
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