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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... ev'ry face , And fear in ev'ry heart , The ftorm was laid , the winds retir'd , Obedient to thy will ; The sea , that roar'd at thy command , At thy command was still . In midit of dangers , fears , and deaths , Thy goodness I'll adore ...
... ev'ry face , And fear in ev'ry heart , The ftorm was laid , the winds retir'd , Obedient to thy will ; The sea , that roar'd at thy command , At thy command was still . In midit of dangers , fears , and deaths , Thy goodness I'll adore ...
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... ev'ry age , In ev'ry clime , ador'd , ' By Saint , by Savage and by Sage , Thou Great First Cause , least understood , Jehovah , Jove , or Lord ! Who all my fenfe confin'd To know but this , that Thou art good , And that myself am blind ...
... ev'ry age , In ev'ry clime , ador'd , ' By Saint , by Savage and by Sage , Thou Great First Cause , least understood , Jehovah , Jove , or Lord ! Who all my fenfe confin'd To know but this , that Thou art good , And that myself am blind ...
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... ev'ry face he wipes off ev'ry tear . In adamantine chains fhall Death be bound , And hell's grim tyrant feel th ' eternal wound . As the good fhepherd tends his fleecy care , Seeks fresheft pati ure and the pureft air , Explores the ...
... ev'ry face he wipes off ev'ry tear . In adamantine chains fhall Death be bound , And hell's grim tyrant feel th ' eternal wound . As the good fhepherd tends his fleecy care , Seeks fresheft pati ure and the pureft air , Explores the ...
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... ev'ry note ; The eglantine imell'd fweeter , and the rofe Affum'd a dye more deep ; whilst ev'ry flower Vied with its fellow - plant in luxury Of drefs . O ! then the longest fuminer's day Seem'd too , too much in hafte : ftill the full ...
... ev'ry note ; The eglantine imell'd fweeter , and the rofe Affum'd a dye more deep ; whilst ev'ry flower Vied with its fellow - plant in luxury Of drefs . O ! then the longest fuminer's day Seem'd too , too much in hafte : ftill the full ...
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... ev'ry thing most perfect in its kind . Bleffed , thrice blefed days ! but ah , how short ! Blefs'd as the pleafing dreams of holy men , But fugitive , like those , and quickly gone . O flipp'ry state of things ! What fudden turns , What ...
... ev'ry thing most perfect in its kind . Bleffed , thrice blefed days ! but ah , how short ! Blefs'd as the pleafing dreams of holy men , But fugitive , like those , and quickly gone . O flipp'ry state of things ! What fudden turns , What ...
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