A Tour Through England: Described in a Series of Letters, from a Young Gentleman to His Sister. With Copper PlatesTabart and Company at their Juvenile and School Library, No. 157, New Bond-Street, 1806 - England - 200 pages |
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Page 127 - With gentle female tenderness combin'd, Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song, the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong ; Her form, each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind, was Virtue by the Graces dress'd*.
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Page 161 - Hail, awful scenes, that calm the troubled breast, And woo the weary to profound repose ! Can Passion's wildest uproar lay to rest, And whisper comfort to the man of woes ! Here Innocence may wander, safe from foes, And Contemplation soar on seraph wings. O Solitude ! the man who thee foregoes, When lucre lures him, or ambition stings, Shall never know the source whence real grandeur springs.
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Page 168 - And Margaret my feare. That I spent, that I had : That I gave, that I have ; That I left, that I lost. AD 1579. — ' Quoth Robertas Byrks, who in this world did reign threescore years and seven, and yet lived not one.
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| Title | A Tour Through England: Described in a Series of Letters, from a Young Gentleman to His Sister. With Copper Plates |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Tabart and Company at their Juvenile and School Library, No. 157, New Bond-Street, 1806 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 8 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 200 pages |
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