Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 685
... earth a place more worthy the refidence of fuch virtue , than that which gave it birth ? On you , on you I call , ye heroes , who have loft fo much blood in the fervice of your country ; to you , ye centurions , ye foldiers , I appeal ...
... earth a place more worthy the refidence of fuch virtue , than that which gave it birth ? On you , on you I call , ye heroes , who have loft fo much blood in the fervice of your country ; to you , ye centurions , ye foldiers , I appeal ...
Page 890
... earth were confumed , and its fpontaneous produce deftroyed , without any provifion for a future fupply or fucceffion . It therefore became necef . fary to purfue fome regular method of pro- viding a conftant fubfiftence ; and this ne ...
... earth were confumed , and its fpontaneous produce deftroyed , without any provifion for a future fupply or fucceffion . It therefore became necef . fary to purfue fome regular method of pro- viding a conftant fubfiftence ; and this ne ...
Page 917
... earth , and obferves the laws by which they are go- delightful . In fair weather , when my heart is cheered , and I feel that exaltation of fpi- rits which refults from light and warmth , joined with a beautiful profpect of nature , I ...
... earth , and obferves the laws by which they are go- delightful . In fair weather , when my heart is cheered , and I feel that exaltation of fpi- rits which refults from light and warmth , joined with a beautiful profpect of nature , I ...
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