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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... rise ; Crop the gay rofe's vermeil bloom , And waft its fpoils , a fweet perfume , In incenfe to the skies . Wake , all ye mountain tribes , and fing ; Ye plumy warblers of the spring , Harmonious anthems raile To him who thap'd your ...
... rise ; Crop the gay rofe's vermeil bloom , And waft its fpoils , a fweet perfume , In incenfe to the skies . Wake , all ye mountain tribes , and fing ; Ye plumy warblers of the spring , Harmonious anthems raile To him who thap'd your ...
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... rise , Wave in the starry vault , and emulate the skies . Here the wing'd crowd , that skim the yield- ing air , With artful toil their little domes prepare ; Here hatch their tender young , and nurfe the rifing care . Up the fteep hill ...
... rise , Wave in the starry vault , and emulate the skies . Here the wing'd crowd , that skim the yield- ing air , With artful toil their little domes prepare ; Here hatch their tender young , and nurfe the rifing care . Up the fteep hill ...
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... rising Sun fhall gild the morn , Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her filver horn ; But loft , diffolv'd in thy fuperior rays , One tide of glory , one unclouded blaze ( filine O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself thall Reveal'd , and God's ...
... rising Sun fhall gild the morn , Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her filver horn ; But loft , diffolv'd in thy fuperior rays , One tide of glory , one unclouded blaze ( filine O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself thall Reveal'd , and God's ...
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... rising flame : When , lo ! far off two female forms he ' spies ; Direct to him their steps they seem to bear ; Both large and tall , exceeding human fize ; Both , far exceeding human beauty , fair . Graceful , yet each with different ...
... rising flame : When , lo ! far off two female forms he ' spies ; Direct to him their steps they seem to bear ; Both large and tall , exceeding human fize ; Both , far exceeding human beauty , fair . Graceful , yet each with different ...
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... rise no more . ' Twas here Ambition kept her court , A phantom of gigantick port : The fav'rite , that fuftain'd her throne , Was Falfehood , by her vizard known ; Next stood Miftruft , with frequent sigh , Disorder'd look , and ...
... rise no more . ' Twas here Ambition kept her court , A phantom of gigantick port : The fav'rite , that fuftain'd her throne , Was Falfehood , by her vizard known ; Next stood Miftruft , with frequent sigh , Disorder'd look , and ...
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