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... Faire - Difcoueries and Fowle - Over throwes Of Salvages , much Cwvillizd by thee Beft fhew thy Spirit and to it Glory Wyn So thou art Braße without but Golde within . The next few years witnessed an astonishing amount of roving.
... Faire - Difcoueries and Fowle - Over throwes Of Salvages , much Cwvillizd by thee Beft fhew thy Spirit and to it Glory Wyn So thou art Braße without but Golde within . The next few years witnessed an astonishing amount of roving.
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... thou- sand ; but it was no part of his genius to drive shrewd bargains . But the time had now come for him to open a new vein . In 1826 , at the invitation of Alexander H. Everett , United States Minister at Madrid , he went to the ...
... thou- sand ; but it was no part of his genius to drive shrewd bargains . But the time had now come for him to open a new vein . In 1826 , at the invitation of Alexander H. Everett , United States Minister at Madrid , he went to the ...
Page 135
... thou Shalt not , as wont , o'erlook , is all I have To offer at thy grave - this- and the hope To copy thy example , and to leave A name of which the wretched shall not think As of an enemy's , whom they forgive As all forgive the dead ...
... thou Shalt not , as wont , o'erlook , is all I have To offer at thy grave - this- and the hope To copy thy example , and to leave A name of which the wretched shall not think As of an enemy's , whom they forgive As all forgive the dead ...
Page 139
... thou pursue Thy solitary way ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast , - The desert and illimitable air , - Lone wandering , but not lost . He who , from zone to zone , Guides through the boundless sky ...
... thou pursue Thy solitary way ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast , - The desert and illimitable air , - Lone wandering , but not lost . He who , from zone to zone , Guides through the boundless sky ...
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... thou given me ; once in thy fair prime , Fresh from the fields of youth , when first we met , And all the blossoms of that hopeful time Clustered and glowed where'er thy steps were set . And now , in thy ripe autumn , once again Given ...
... thou given me ; once in thy fair prime , Fresh from the fields of youth , when first we met , And all the blossoms of that hopeful time Clustered and glowed where'er thy steps were set . And now , in thy ripe autumn , once again Given ...
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