Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent Poets. : Volume I[-VI] ...Kirk & Mercein, 22, Wall-Street., 1817 |
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... lies ; In whose adjusting mind the whole is wrought . Whose form is spirit , and whose essence thought ; Are truths inscrib'd by wisdom's brightest ray , In characters that gild the face of day . Reason confess'd , ( howe'er we may ...
... lies ; In whose adjusting mind the whole is wrought . Whose form is spirit , and whose essence thought ; Are truths inscrib'd by wisdom's brightest ray , In characters that gild the face of day . Reason confess'd , ( howe'er we may ...
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... lie : Systems enclos'd in his perception roll , Whose all - informing mind directs the whole : Lodg'd in his grasp , their certain ways they know ; Plac'd in that sight from whence can nothing go . On Earth his footstool fix'd , in Heav ...
... lie : Systems enclos'd in his perception roll , Whose all - informing mind directs the whole : Lodg'd in his grasp , their certain ways they know ; Plac'd in that sight from whence can nothing go . On Earth his footstool fix'd , in Heav ...
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... lie , And nature sicken to the thoughtful eye . Even the weak embryo , ere to life it breaks , From his high pow'r its slender texture takes ; While in his book the various parts enroll'd , Increasing , own eternal Wisdom's mould . Nor ...
... lie , And nature sicken to the thoughtful eye . Even the weak embryo , ere to life it breaks , From his high pow'r its slender texture takes ; While in his book the various parts enroll'd , Increasing , own eternal Wisdom's mould . Nor ...
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... that threatens o'er the flood ; And say , are these the wild effects of chance ? Oh , strange effect of reas'ning ignorance ! Nor pow'r alone confess'd in grandeur lies , The glittering 20 BOOK 1 : ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... that threatens o'er the flood ; And say , are these the wild effects of chance ? Oh , strange effect of reas'ning ignorance ! Nor pow'r alone confess'd in grandeur lies , The glittering 20 BOOK 1 : ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... lies , The glittering planet or the painted skies : Equal the elephant's or emmet's dress The wisdom of Omnipotence confess ; Equal the cumbrous whale's enormous mass , With the small insect in the crowded grass ; The mite that gambols ...
... lies , The glittering planet or the painted skies : Equal the elephant's or emmet's dress The wisdom of Omnipotence confess ; Equal the cumbrous whale's enormous mass , With the small insect in the crowded grass ; The mite that gambols ...
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adore Almighty angels beam behold beneath bids birth bless bless'd bliss boundless breast breath bright brute celestial cloud dark death deep divine doth dread dust earth eternal ev'n ev'ry exalted fair fate fear fire fix'd flame glorious glory grave happy hast heart Heav'n heavenly hope human immortal Justice King light Lord lyre Manichæan mercy mind monsters drink mortal Muse nature Nature's ne'er night nought o'er Omnipotence pain peace poison'd pow'r praise pride rage reason reigns rise rising universe roll round ruling angels sacred sapience SATIRE OF JUVENAL scene seraph shade shalt shine sight silver plumes sing skies smiles Soame Jenyns song soul springs stream sweet tempest thee thine thou thought throne Thy hand toil tongue trembling truth universal store vex'd virtue voice whence wild wings Wisdom wise wretch
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الصفحة 239 - tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
الصفحة 41 - 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...
الصفحة 252 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
الصفحة 257 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
الصفحة 3 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
الصفحة 37 - Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. On superior...
الصفحة 258 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
الصفحة 143 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee.
الصفحة 272 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
الصفحة 144 - tis nought to me, Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.