Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations, Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons: Originally Compiled by the Rev. Vicesimus Knos ...Samuel Walker, 1826 |
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... eyes dition may have robbed of the hap- were very painful ; but now I am piness and the very support of their happy in the recovery of my eyes , beings ; having now lost their main- and have no pain or uneasiness but tenance and friend ...
... eyes dition may have robbed of the hap- were very painful ; but now I am piness and the very support of their happy in the recovery of my eyes , beings ; having now lost their main- and have no pain or uneasiness but tenance and friend ...
Page 53
... eyes drink the rivers performed by one who has no com- as they flow . If every human being fort for himself ; nor to comply with upon earth could think for one quar- an impertinent ceremony , which in ter of an hour , as I have done for ...
... eyes drink the rivers performed by one who has no com- as they flow . If every human being fort for himself ; nor to comply with upon earth could think for one quar- an impertinent ceremony , which in ter of an hour , as I have done for ...
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... eyes with those me , the glories of our Pantheon rush- delicious tears , which , beneath the ing on my recollection , my heart beat contemplation of virtues that emulate like a love - sick girl's , on the sight what we conceive of Deity ...
... eyes with those me , the glories of our Pantheon rush- delicious tears , which , beneath the ing on my recollection , my heart beat contemplation of virtues that emulate like a love - sick girl's , on the sight what we conceive of Deity ...
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From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
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