Elegant Extracts: Being a Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral and Entertaining Passages from the Most Eminent Prose Writers, Nide 2Sharpe and Hailes, 1812 |
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... fate ; How here , how there , the tides of fortune roll ; How soon impending death concludes the whole ; Compose thy mind , and , free from anxious strife BOOK III . 21 DIDACTIC PIECES . 1 The golden verses of Pythagoras.
... fate ; How here , how there , the tides of fortune roll ; How soon impending death concludes the whole ; Compose thy mind , and , free from anxious strife BOOK III . 21 DIDACTIC PIECES . 1 The golden verses of Pythagoras.
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... were the Fates more kind , Our narrow luxuries would soon grow stale . Were these exhaustless , Nature would grow sick , And , cloy'd with pleasure , squeamishly complain That all 24 BOOK III . ELEGANT EXTRACTS . Lessons of wisdom.
... were the Fates more kind , Our narrow luxuries would soon grow stale . Were these exhaustless , Nature would grow sick , And , cloy'd with pleasure , squeamishly complain That all 24 BOOK III . ELEGANT EXTRACTS . Lessons of wisdom.
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... soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most By budding ills , that ask a prudent hand , To check them . But alas ! none sooner shoots , If unrestrain❜d , into luxuriant growth , Than cruelty , most dev'lish of them all . Mercy to him , that ...
... soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most By budding ills , that ask a prudent hand , To check them . But alas ! none sooner shoots , If unrestrain❜d , into luxuriant growth , Than cruelty , most dev'lish of them all . Mercy to him , that ...
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... Lank , open , spent , at each unfolding pore Suck'd in the poison , as it rose decay'd , Livid , and weak , from Pleasure's loose embrace . Soon o'er each withering cheek the baleful pow'r Had spread BOOK III . 45 DIDACTIC PIECES .
... Lank , open , spent , at each unfolding pore Suck'd in the poison , as it rose decay'd , Livid , and weak , from Pleasure's loose embrace . Soon o'er each withering cheek the baleful pow'r Had spread BOOK III . 45 DIDACTIC PIECES .
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... Soon o'er each withering cheek the baleful pow'r Had spread unseen her life - consuming stain : Nor knew th ' exulting youth , who quaff'd elate The draught delicious , that untimely frost Lurk'd by the springs of life ; and secret ...
... Soon o'er each withering cheek the baleful pow'r Had spread unseen her life - consuming stain : Nor knew th ' exulting youth , who quaff'd elate The draught delicious , that untimely frost Lurk'd by the springs of life ; and secret ...
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