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Page 129 - The King is mad; how stiff is my vile sense, That I stand up and have ingenious feeling Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract; » So should my thoughts be severed from my griefs, And woes by wrong imaginations lose The knowledge of themselves.
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Page 275 - There is not one who has not hung Enraptured, on the Voice of Praise. " The timid child, at that soft voice, Lifts for a moment's space the eye ; It bids the fluttering heart rejoice, And stays the step prepared to fly...
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Page 266 - I wish,'' said the elder traveller, "I had it in my power to repay your kindness, but I am poor." " I know what it is to be a stranger in a strange land, myself," replied Graaffe, " but I wish you knew how to pray to God, and He would provide for your wants.
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Page 34 - The same, distinguished by their sex alone : Hers the mild lustre of the blooming morn, And his the radiance of the risen day. They loved : but such their guileless passion was, As in the dawn of time informed the heart Of innocence, and undissembling truth. 'Twas friendship, heightened by the mutual wish, The enchanting hope, and sympathetic glow, Beamed from the mutual eye.
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