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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Sivu 5
... stand up , and smile to see , How long their shadow's grown : Alas ! how vain their fancies be , To think that shape their own ! Thus mingled still with wealth and state , Croesus himself can never know ; His true dimensions and his ...
... stand up , and smile to see , How long their shadow's grown : Alas ! how vain their fancies be , To think that shape their own ! Thus mingled still with wealth and state , Croesus himself can never know ; His true dimensions and his ...
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... stands still , And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives , Is bless'd in what it takes and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd , if its end it gain , And , if it lose , attended with no pain ...
... stands still , And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives , Is bless'd in what it takes and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd , if its end it gain , And , if it lose , attended with no pain ...
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... stand stern before her throne , And guard ( so Jove commands ) the sacred place : Who seeks her must the mighty cost sustain , And pay the price of fame - labour , and care , pain . and ' Wouldst thou engage the gods ' peculiar care ? O ...
... stand stern before her throne , And guard ( so Jove commands ) the sacred place : Who seeks her must the mighty cost sustain , And pay the price of fame - labour , and care , pain . and ' Wouldst thou engage the gods ' peculiar care ? O ...
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... stands secure from harms , Nor can misfortune wound , whom virtue arms . In common converse , thou wilt often find Some to improve , and some to taint the mind ; Grateful to that a due observance pay ; Beware lest this entice thy ...
... stands secure from harms , Nor can misfortune wound , whom virtue arms . In common converse , thou wilt often find Some to improve , and some to taint the mind ; Grateful to that a due observance pay ; Beware lest this entice thy ...
Sivu 23
... stand unveil'd before thy eyes . Of beings the whole system thou shalt see , Rang'd as they are in beauteous harmony ; Whilst all depend from one superior cause , And nature works obedient to her laws . Hence , as thou labour'st with ...
... stand unveil'd before thy eyes . Of beings the whole system thou shalt see , Rang'd as they are in beauteous harmony ; Whilst all depend from one superior cause , And nature works obedient to her laws . Hence , as thou labour'st with ...
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beauty behold beneath birds bless'd blessing bliss bloom bosom breast breath bright Celadon charms clouds courser cries Croesus dear delight doth envy ev'n fair faithless fame fancy fate fear flies flowers fool gentle glory glow gold grace Grongar Hill grove hand happiness heart Heaven hill honour hour Jove labour light looking-glass lyre maid matchless mind mourn Muse Nature Nature's ne'er never night nymph o'er pain passion peace Philomela plain Plato pleas'd pleasure PLUTUS poison'd pow'r praise pride rais'd rapture rise scene seem'd sense shade shine sighs sight sing sire skies smile soft song soul spleen spring strain stream swain sweet tears tempest tender Theana thee thine things thou thought Tis green toil trembling Twas vale virtue Virtue's voice ween wild wind wing wise wood wretch youth