New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection from the Most Eminent British Poets and Poetical Translators, Volume 1Richard Alfred Davenport C. and C. Whittingham, 1823 |
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... Flowers ..... Professor Richardson . 117 State of Man after Death Hurdis . 118 Immortality revealed by the Saviour ... Gisborne . 119 Vanity of Metaphysical Reasonings The Lessons taught by Nature Address to the Moon ..... On the Love ...
... Flowers ..... Professor Richardson . 117 State of Man after Death Hurdis . 118 Immortality revealed by the Saviour ... Gisborne . 119 Vanity of Metaphysical Reasonings The Lessons taught by Nature Address to the Moon ..... On the Love ...
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... flower - inwoven tresses torn [ mourn . The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets In consecrated earth , And on the holy hearth , [ plaint : The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight In urns , and altars round , A drear and dying ...
... flower - inwoven tresses torn [ mourn . The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets In consecrated earth , And on the holy hearth , [ plaint : The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight In urns , and altars round , A drear and dying ...
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... flower to sight or smell ! Behind this shadowing cloud , this mystic gloom , The Sharon rose , dyed in the blood of Heaven , The lily of the valley , white from stain , Bows the fair head , in loveliness declines , And , sweetly ...
... flower to sight or smell ! Behind this shadowing cloud , this mystic gloom , The Sharon rose , dyed in the blood of Heaven , The lily of the valley , white from stain , Bows the fair head , in loveliness declines , And , sweetly ...
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... flower : In thousand shapes and colours rise Thy painted wonders to our eyes ; While beasts and birds with labouring throats Teach us a God in thousand notes . The meanest pin in Nature's frame Marks out some letter of thy name . Where ...
... flower : In thousand shapes and colours rise Thy painted wonders to our eyes ; While beasts and birds with labouring throats Teach us a God in thousand notes . The meanest pin in Nature's frame Marks out some letter of thy name . Where ...
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... the little flowers , Warble the birds , exulting on the wing , [ sing . And all the wild wood notes the genial blessings Nor . + Called or named , High o'er his head was held a starry crown , 20 PART I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... the little flowers , Warble the birds , exulting on the wing , [ sing . And all the wild wood notes the genial blessings Nor . + Called or named , High o'er his head was held a starry crown , 20 PART I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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