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... scenes repair , Of shades the solitary guest ! Where , then , ah , where shall poverty reside , To ' scape the pressure of contiguous pride Why at her presence with such quickness flows The vital current ! REMARK . Why , when used as of ...
... scenes repair , Of shades the solitary guest ! Where , then , ah , where shall poverty reside , To ' scape the pressure of contiguous pride Why at her presence with such quickness flows The vital current ! REMARK . Why , when used as of ...
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... us at a blast ? - Can British Paradise no scenes afford To please ? Are sweet philosophy's enjoyments run Quite to the lees ? -- And has religion none ? Then you never knew the history of the young man COURSE OF READING . 51.
... us at a blast ? - Can British Paradise no scenes afford To please ? Are sweet philosophy's enjoyments run Quite to the lees ? -- And has religion none ? Then you never knew the history of the young man COURSE OF READING . 51.
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... scene of those dark ages ! The starless grave shall shine The portal of eternal day ! The might of the Gentile , unsmote by the sword , Hath melted , like snow , in the glance of the Lord ! Night the pall of gloom had thrown On Nature's ...
... scene of those dark ages ! The starless grave shall shine The portal of eternal day ! The might of the Gentile , unsmote by the sword , Hath melted , like snow , in the glance of the Lord ! Night the pall of gloom had thrown On Nature's ...
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... scene is this ! How beautiful it appears ! How he glares ! What an honorable testimony this from a vanquished adversary ! What a noble idea doth it give of that wonderful orator's action ! With what force , in particular , does he ...
... scene is this ! How beautiful it appears ! How he glares ! What an honorable testimony this from a vanquished adversary ! What a noble idea doth it give of that wonderful orator's action ! With what force , in particular , does he ...
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... scene like this . I perceive , conscript fathers ' , tha every look , that every eye , is fixed on me . Long since , Cataline ' ! ought the consul to have doomed thy life forfeit to thy country . As to the wealth , Mr. Speaker , which ...
... scene like this . I perceive , conscript fathers ' , tha every look , that every eye , is fixed on me . Long since , Cataline ' ! ought the consul to have doomed thy life forfeit to thy country . As to the wealth , Mr. Speaker , which ...
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adverbs alphabetical Balt beauty behold black crows blessed bosom breath Cæsar cause character Christ Christian close compound declarative compound sentence correlative words dead death decl definite interrogative diphthong doth double compact earth eternal Examples exclamation exclamatory expressed father fear feel finite verb give glory grave hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven honor hope human Iago imperfect indefinite indirect interrogative interrogation point interrogative sentences Jesus land liberty live look loose sentence Lord ment mind moral nations nature never noun o'er participle passion peace perfect loose preposition pronouns proposition relative pronouns rich scene semi-interrogative short simple single compact soul sound speak spirit tence thee thing third form thou thought tion triphthong truth unto verb virtue voice whole wisdom