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Page 47
O fie ! hold , hold , tears , And you , my sinews , grow not instant old , And cleave the gen'ral ear with horrid speech ... Make mad the guilty and appal the free , Ay , thou poor ghost , while memory holds a Confound the ignorant ...
O fie ! hold , hold , tears , And you , my sinews , grow not instant old , And cleave the gen'ral ear with horrid speech ... Make mad the guilty and appal the free , Ay , thou poor ghost , while memory holds a Confound the ignorant ...
Page 96
[ beard , Of that we hold an idol more than he ? That's done - as near as the extremest ends No , this thrice worthy and right valiant lord Of parallels ; as like as Vulcan and his wife : Must not so stale his palm , nobly acquirid ...
[ beard , Of that we hold an idol more than he ? That's done - as near as the extremest ends No , this thrice worthy and right valiant lord Of parallels ; as like as Vulcan and his wife : Must not so stale his palm , nobly acquirid ...
Page 357
Yet hold — though these plain folks traduce Not so Melpomene ; to nature true , their doxies , She holds her own great principle in view . Sure we have Eleonoras in the boxes ! She , from the first , when men her power conInhuman beaux ...
Yet hold — though these plain folks traduce Not so Melpomene ; to nature true , their doxies , She holds her own great principle in view . Sure we have Eleonoras in the boxes ! She , from the first , when men her power conInhuman beaux ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poetry Volume 6 of Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations; Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, James Gates Percival |
| Editor | Vicesimus Knox |
| Publisher | S. Walker, 1825 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Feb 2008 |
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