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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Page 40
... Hath many circles yet to run ; Who wifely with the pilot's chart , To fteer thro life th ' unfteady heart ; And , all the thoughtful voyage past , To gain a happy port at laft : Attend a Seer's inftructive fong , For moral truths to ...
... Hath many circles yet to run ; Who wifely with the pilot's chart , To fteer thro life th ' unfteady heart ; And , all the thoughtful voyage past , To gain a happy port at laft : Attend a Seer's inftructive fong , For moral truths to ...
Page 53
... hath fhown The virtue worthy of a throne . Heav'n gives you pow'r above the rest , Like Heav'n to fuccour the diftreft . The cafe is plain , the monarch faid ; Falfe glory hath my youth milled , For beafts of prey , a servile train ...
... hath fhown The virtue worthy of a throne . Heav'n gives you pow'r above the rest , Like Heav'n to fuccour the diftreft . The cafe is plain , the monarch faid ; Falfe glory hath my youth milled , For beafts of prey , a servile train ...
Page 55
... hath weight and confequence , The flatt'rer all his art displays : He who hath power , is fure of praise , A Fox ftept forth before the reft , And thus the fervile throng addreft ; How vaft his talents , born to rule , And train'd in ...
... hath weight and confequence , The flatt'rer all his art displays : He who hath power , is fure of praise , A Fox ftept forth before the reft , And thus the fervile throng addreft ; How vaft his talents , born to rule , And train'd in ...
Page 61
... hath robb'd your face ? When thus the fop , with fmiles of fcorn : Are beards by civil nations worn ? Ev'n Mofcovites have mow'd their chins . Shall we , like formal Capuchins , Stubborn in pride , retain the mode , And bear about the ...
... hath robb'd your face ? When thus the fop , with fmiles of fcorn : Are beards by civil nations worn ? Ev'n Mofcovites have mow'd their chins . Shall we , like formal Capuchins , Stubborn in pride , retain the mode , And bear about the ...
Page 63
... Hath let my debtor rot in jail , For want of good fufficient bail ; If I by writ , or bond , or deed , Reduc'd a family to need , My will hath made the world amends ; My hope on charity depends . When I am number'd with the dead , And ...
... Hath let my debtor rot in jail , For want of good fufficient bail ; If I by writ , or bond , or deed , Reduc'd a family to need , My will hath made the world amends ; My hope on charity depends . When I am number'd with the dead , And ...
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