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... ev'ry change , both mine and yours . Safety consists not in escape From dangers of a frightful shape ; An earthquake may be hid to spare The man that's strangled by a hair . Fate steals along with silent tread , Found oft'nest in what ...
... ev'ry change , both mine and yours . Safety consists not in escape From dangers of a frightful shape ; An earthquake may be hid to spare The man that's strangled by a hair . Fate steals along with silent tread , Found oft'nest in what ...
Page 226
... ev'ry grove Is melody ? Solitude . * O sacred solitude ; divine retreat ! Choice of the prudent ! envy of the great ! By thy pure stream , or in thy waving shade , We court fair wisdom , that celestial maid : The genuine offspring of ...
... ev'ry grove Is melody ? Solitude . * O sacred solitude ; divine retreat ! Choice of the prudent ! envy of the great ! By thy pure stream , or in thy waving shade , We court fair wisdom , that celestial maid : The genuine offspring of ...
Page 231
... Ev'n so , luxurious men , unheeding , pass An idle summer life , in fortune's shine , A season's glitter ! Thus they ... ry friend partakes my store , And want goes smiling from my door . Will forty shillings warm the breast Of ...
... Ev'n so , luxurious men , unheeding , pass An idle summer life , in fortune's shine , A season's glitter ! Thus they ... ry friend partakes my store , And want goes smiling from my door . Will forty shillings warm the breast Of ...
Page 235
... ev'ry wave . 8. What hope , or whither to retreat ! Each nerve at once unstrung ; Chill fear had fetter'd fast my feet , And chain'd my speechless tongue . 9 I felt my heart within me die ; When sudden to mine ear A voice , descending ...
... ev'ry wave . 8. What hope , or whither to retreat ! Each nerve at once unstrung ; Chill fear had fetter'd fast my feet , And chain'd my speechless tongue . 9 I felt my heart within me die ; When sudden to mine ear A voice , descending ...
Page 236
... ev'ry trial knows Its just restraint to give ; Attentive to behold thy hy woes , And faithful to relieve . 18. Then why thus heavy , O my soul ! Say why , distrustful still , Thy thoughts with vain impatience roll O'er scenes of future ...
... ev'ry trial knows Its just restraint to give ; Attentive to behold thy hy woes , And faithful to relieve . 18. Then why thus heavy , O my soul ! Say why , distrustful still , Thy thoughts with vain impatience roll O'er scenes of future ...
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Abdalonymus Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres Calabria cheer comforts dark daugh de-ja death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth ENGLISH READER enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil father fear feel folly fortune gentle give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human Jugurtha kind king labour live look Lord mankind Masinissa melan ment mercy Micipsa midst mind misery nature nature's ness never niscienced noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions peace person philosopher pleasure possession pow'r praise pride prince proper publick Pythias religion rest rich rise Roman Roman Senate scene SECTION sense shade shining Sicily Sidon smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring superiour sweet temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth Tuning sweet vice virtue voice whole wisdom wise youth
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Page 269 - Angels: for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 251 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 102 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Page 265 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends , — do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 211 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Page 293 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit, in this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one Disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page ii - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ;" and also to an act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an act, entitled,' An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned...
Page 280 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 289 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
Page 281 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...