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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... face borrowing her light From him ; for other light she needed none In that aspect , and still that distance keeps Till night ; then in the east her turn she shines Revolv'd on Heaven's great axle , and her reign With thousand lesser ...
... face borrowing her light From him ; for other light she needed none In that aspect , and still that distance keeps Till night ; then in the east her turn she shines Revolv'd on Heaven's great axle , and her reign With thousand lesser ...
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... face of day . Reason confess'd , ( howe'er we may dispute ) Fix'd boundary ! discovers man from brute ; But , dim to us , exerts his fainter ray , Depress'd in matter , and allied to clay ; In forms superior kindles less confin'd ...
... face of day . Reason confess'd , ( howe'er we may dispute ) Fix'd boundary ! discovers man from brute ; But , dim to us , exerts his fainter ray , Depress'd in matter , and allied to clay ; In forms superior kindles less confin'd ...
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... face , And the rock trembled to its rooted base : Yet there thy majesty divine appear'd , There shone thy glory , and thy voice was heard ; Ev'n in the blaze of that tremendous day , Idolatry its impious rites could pay ! Oh , shame to ...
... face , And the rock trembled to its rooted base : Yet there thy majesty divine appear'd , There shone thy glory , and thy voice was heard ; Ev'n in the blaze of that tremendous day , Idolatry its impious rites could pay ! Oh , shame to ...
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... face . When lightnings through the air tremendous fly , Or the blue plague is loosen'd to destroy , Thy hand directs , or turns aside the stroke ; Thy word the fiend's commission can revoke . When subterraneous fires the surface heave ...
... face . When lightnings through the air tremendous fly , Or the blue plague is loosen'd to destroy , Thy hand directs , or turns aside the stroke ; Thy word the fiend's commission can revoke . When subterraneous fires the surface heave ...
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... face of day , Then at thy nod the phantoms pass away ; No traces left of all the busy scene , But that remembrance says- The things have been ! ' ' But , ' questions Doubt , whence sickly nature feels The ague - fits her face so oft ...
... face of day , Then at thy nod the phantoms pass away ; No traces left of all the busy scene , But that remembrance says- The things have been ! ' ' But , ' questions Doubt , whence sickly nature feels The ague - fits her face so oft ...
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Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 143 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.