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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry - Page 65
by Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1016 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth etfuse ation. Commerce is here honourable : I will act as a merchant, and you shall live as strangers, w letter 'd heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade,...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 7-8

British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the trinmph of a letter'd heart ; Should no Disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 7

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...Alimenti. Should reason guide thee with her brightest ray. And pour on misty doubt resistless day ; reversed for thee. Johnson. Vanity of Human Wishes. If I were to form a judgment from experience rather...
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The British Satirist: Comprising the Best Satires of the Most Celebrated ...

1831 - 790 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty tHy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on...claim the triumph of a letter'd heart ; Should no disease thy torpid reins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope not life from...
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Sacred Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Works of the Most Admired ...

Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on...claim the triumph of a letter'd heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope not life from...
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Juvenal

Juvenal - 1837 - 306 pages
...difficulty fright; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; 150 Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a letter'd heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope not life from...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 2

1840 - 378 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on...claim the triumph of a letter'd heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope not life from...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting novelty thy cell refrain, And sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should beauty blunt on...claim the triumph of a letter'd heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantom haunt thy shade ; Yet hope not life from...
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The gift book of English poetry

English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright ; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the trinmph of a lelter'd heart ; Should no Disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms...
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Notes and Queries

1896 - 664 pages
...Л HI of Entry newspaper tras first published. PX AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (8Ш S. ix. 109>— Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee : Doign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters to...
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