A Collection of One Hundred Pieces of English Literature: Fifty in Prose and Fifty in Verse : Accompanied with a Variety of Notes for the Use of the Inhabitants of the Netherlands, Volume 1Nayler en Company, 1830 |
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Page 9
... Trembling , hoping , lingering , flying- Oh the pain , the bliss of dying ! Cease , fond Nature , cease thy strife , And let me languish into Life . Hark ! they whisper- angels say , Sister spirit , come away ! ' What is this absorbs me ...
... Trembling , hoping , lingering , flying- Oh the pain , the bliss of dying ! Cease , fond Nature , cease thy strife , And let me languish into Life . Hark ! they whisper- angels say , Sister spirit , come away ! ' What is this absorbs me ...
Page 39
... Trembling , pale , and agonizing , While you mourned the vision gone , Bright the Morning - Star arising Opened heaven , from whence it shone . Thither all your wishes bending , Rose in ecstacy sublime ; Thither all your hopes ascending ...
... Trembling , pale , and agonizing , While you mourned the vision gone , Bright the Morning - Star arising Opened heaven , from whence it shone . Thither all your wishes bending , Rose in ecstacy sublime ; Thither all your hopes ascending ...
Page 59
... trembling in her eye " Too daring prince ! ah , whither dost thou run ? Ah , too forgetful of thy wife and son ! And thinkest thou not how wretched we shall be ? A widow I , a helpless orphan he !; For sure such courage length of life ...
... trembling in her eye " Too daring prince ! ah , whither dost thou run ? Ah , too forgetful of thy wife and son ! And thinkest thou not how wretched we shall be ? A widow I , a helpless orphan he !; For sure such courage length of life ...
Page 61
... trembling , weeping , captive led In Argive looms our battles to design , And woes , of which so large a part was thine ! To bear the victor's hard commands , or bring The weight of waters from Hyperia's spring . There , while you groan ...
... trembling , weeping , captive led In Argive looms our battles to design , And woes , of which so large a part was thine ! To bear the victor's hard commands , or bring The weight of waters from Hyperia's spring . There , while you groan ...
Page 84
... trembling heart ! Nor let thy confidence depart ! The thorns once formed a crown- Which He who trod this way before Upon his sacred forehead bore , That thou mightst tread them down . What , though the night succeed to day , Should this ...
... trembling heart ! Nor let thy confidence depart ! The thorns once formed a crown- Which He who trod this way before Upon his sacred forehead bore , That thou mightst tread them down . What , though the night succeed to day , Should this ...
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