Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent Poets. : Volume I[-VI] ...Kirk & Mercein, 22, Wall-Street., 1817 |
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... assign'd , As proper means to propagate the kind , As just the structure , and as wise the plan , As in this lord of all - debating man ! Hence , reas'ning creature , thy distinction find , Nor 24 BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... assign'd , As proper means to propagate the kind , As just the structure , and as wise the plan , As in this lord of all - debating man ! Hence , reas'ning creature , thy distinction find , Nor 24 BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... kind assent to give , When dying he looks down to bid thee live ? Perverse , wilt thou reject the proffer'd good , Bought with his life , and streaming in his blood , Whose virtue can thy deepest crimes efface , Re - heal thy nature ...
... kind assent to give , When dying he looks down to bid thee live ? Perverse , wilt thou reject the proffer'd good , Bought with his life , and streaming in his blood , Whose virtue can thy deepest crimes efface , Re - heal thy nature ...
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... kind , this due degree Of blindness , weakness , Heaven bestows on thee . Submit - In this or any other sphere , Secure to be as bless'd as thou canst bear ; Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r Or in the natal or the mortal hour ...
... kind , this due degree Of blindness , weakness , Heaven bestows on thee . Submit - In this or any other sphere , Secure to be as bless'd as thou canst bear ; Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r Or in the natal or the mortal hour ...
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... kind ? Astonishing beyond astonishment ? Heav'n our reward - for heav'n enjoy'd below . Couldst thou persuade me the next life could fait Our ardent wishes , how should I pour out My bleeding heart in anguish , new as deep ! Oh ! with ...
... kind ? Astonishing beyond astonishment ? Heav'n our reward - for heav'n enjoy'd below . Couldst thou persuade me the next life could fait Our ardent wishes , how should I pour out My bleeding heart in anguish , new as deep ! Oh ! with ...
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... kind ! -0 wondrous friendship this ! Welcome , good herald ! —to announce our bliss . Dr. Harrington . MEDITATION ON DEATH . ENOUGH , enough , my soul , of worldly noise , Of airy pomps , and fleeting joys ; What doth this busy world ...
... kind ! -0 wondrous friendship this ! Welcome , good herald ! —to announce our bliss . Dr. Harrington . MEDITATION ON DEATH . ENOUGH , enough , my soul , of worldly noise , Of airy pomps , and fleeting joys ; What doth this busy world ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adore Almighty angels beam behold beneath bids birth bless bless'd bliss boundless breast breath bright brute celestial cloud dark death deep divine doth dread dust earth eternal ev'n ev'ry exalted fair fate fear fire fix'd flame glorious glory grave happy hast heart Heav'n heavenly hope human immortal Justice King light Lord lyre Manichæan mercy mind monsters drink mortal Muse nature Nature's ne'er night nought o'er Omnipotence pain peace poison'd pow'r praise pride rage reason reigns rise rising universe roll round ruling angels sacred sapience SATIRE OF JUVENAL scene seraph shade shalt shine sight silver plumes sing skies smiles Soame Jenyns song soul springs stream sweet tempest thee thine thou thought throne Thy hand toil tongue trembling truth universal store vex'd virtue voice whence wild wings Wisdom wise wretch
Pasajes populares
Página 239 - tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 41 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 252 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Página 257 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Página 3 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Página 37 - Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. On superior...
Página 258 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Página 143 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee.
Página 272 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Página 144 - tis nought to me, Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.