Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 672
... fear ; while Milo has lost a fine field for displaying his valour , the in- terest that supported his cleation , and a perpetual source of glory . Accordingly , Milo's election to the consulate , which could never have been hurt while ...
... fear ; while Milo has lost a fine field for displaying his valour , the in- terest that supported his cleation , and a perpetual source of glory . Accordingly , Milo's election to the consulate , which could never have been hurt while ...
Page 904
... fear ; for fear being an apprehenfion of pain of death , it operates in a manner that refembles actual pain . Whatever there- fore is terrible with regard to fight , is fub- lime too , whether this caufe of terror be endued with ...
... fear ; for fear being an apprehenfion of pain of death , it operates in a manner that refembles actual pain . Whatever there- fore is terrible with regard to fight , is fub- lime too , whether this caufe of terror be endued with ...
Page 990
... fear of falling , laid myfelf at full length upon the handkerchief , with the remainder of which he lapped me up to the head for farther fecurity , and in this manner carried me home to his house . There he called bis wife , and fhewed ...
... fear of falling , laid myfelf at full length upon the handkerchief , with the remainder of which he lapped me up to the head for farther fecurity , and in this manner carried me home to his house . There he called bis wife , and fhewed ...
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