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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... Rise Chorus of Hebrew Females Hymn on the Fall of Jerusalem . .Milton . W. Thompson . Page 9 Watts . 15 ..Langhorne . 17 .W . Thompson . 18 Milman . 24 .Logan . 27 .Coleridge . 29 ..Coleridge . 31 Milman . 34 Milman . 37 Paraphrastic ...
... Rise Chorus of Hebrew Females Hymn on the Fall of Jerusalem . .Milton . W. Thompson . Page 9 Watts . 15 ..Langhorne . 17 .W . Thompson . 18 Milman . 24 .Logan . 27 .Coleridge . 29 ..Coleridge . 31 Milman . 34 Milman . 37 Paraphrastic ...
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... 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 sense can reach or fancy rove , From ...
... 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 sense can reach or fancy rove , From ...
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... rise ! To thee my humble voice I raise ; Forgive , while I presume to praise . Though thou this transient being gave , That shortly sinks into the grave ; Yet ' twas thy goodness still to give A being that can think and live ; In all ...
... rise ! To thee my humble voice I raise ; Forgive , while I presume to praise . Though thou this transient being gave , That shortly sinks into the grave ; Yet ' twas thy goodness still to give A being that can think and live ; In all ...
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... the faithful few . Then calmly , slowly didst thou rise Into thy native skies , Thy human form dissolved on high In its own radiancy . MILMAN . HYMN . BEHOLD ! the ' Ambassador divine , Descending 26 PART I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... the faithful few . Then calmly , slowly didst thou rise Into thy native skies , Thy human form dissolved on high In its own radiancy . MILMAN . HYMN . BEHOLD ! the ' Ambassador divine , Descending 26 PART I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... rise o'er all . And lo ! presaging thy approach , The heathen temples shake , And trembling in forsaken fanes , The fabled idols quake . ' I am Jehovah : I am One : My name shall now be known ; No idol shall usurp my praise , Nor mount ...
... rise o'er all . And lo ! presaging thy approach , The heathen temples shake , And trembling in forsaken fanes , The fabled idols quake . ' I am Jehovah : I am One : My name shall now be known ; No idol shall usurp my praise , Nor mount ...
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