Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 6S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 54
... dead ; Not he , which says the dead is not alive . Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell , Remember'd knolling a departing friend . Greater Griefs destroy ...
... dead ; Not he , which says the dead is not alive . Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell , Remember'd knolling a departing friend . Greater Griefs destroy ...
Page 211
... dead Oh ! lift me as a wave , a leaf , a cloud Thou , from whose unseen presence the leaves I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed : Are driven , like ghosts from an enchanter flee - A heavy weight of hours has chained and bow- ing ...
... dead Oh ! lift me as a wave , a leaf , a cloud Thou , from whose unseen presence the leaves I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed : Are driven , like ghosts from an enchanter flee - A heavy weight of hours has chained and bow- ing ...
Page 329
... dead of night , A bell was heard to ring , And , shrieking at her window thrice , A raven flapp'd his wing . Too well the love - lorn maiden knew The solemn boding sound , And thus in dying words bespoke The virgins weeping round : " I ...
... dead of night , A bell was heard to ring , And , shrieking at her window thrice , A raven flapp'd his wing . Too well the love - lorn maiden knew The solemn boding sound , And thus in dying words bespoke The virgins weeping round : " I ...
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