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" Seem'd heaven itself, till one suggestion rose; That vice should triumph, virtue vice obey, This sprung some doubt of Providence's sway: His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost. "
A Sequel to the Diversions of Purley: Containing an Essay on English Verbs ... - Page 27
by John Barclay (of Calcots.) - 1826 - 170 pages
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost: along, Nor idle mingle in the noisy throng: Lur'd by the silver hilt, amid the swarm, The subtle coloura glow: But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And...
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Gesta Romanorum, Volume 1

1824 - 558 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul was lost : So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast, Down bend the banks, the trees depending grow, And skies beneath with answering colours...
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Gesta Romanorum, or, Entertaining moral stories tr. with ..., Volume 1

Romani - 1824 - 548 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul was lost : So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast, Down bend the banks, the trees depending grow, And skies beneath with answering colours...
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Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the ..., Volume 1

Charles Swan - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern - 1824 - 596 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul was lost: So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast, Down bend the banks, the trees depending grow, And skies beneath with answering colours...
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Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the ..., Volume 1

Charles Swan - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern - 1824 - 566 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul was lost : So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast, Down bend the banks, the trees depending grow, Arid skies beneath with answering colours...
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Gesta Romanorum: Or, Entertaining Moral Stories ... Translated ..., Volume 1

Wynnard Hooper - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - 1824 - 552 pages
...Providence's sway : His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul was lost : So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast, Down bend the banks, the trees depending grow, And skies beneath with answering colours...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...tenour of his soul is lost : So when a ftt:ooth expanse reeeives imprest Calm nature's image on it's ʀ @ eolours glow : But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling eireles eurl on every side, And...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...wal'ry breast, Down bend the banks ; the trees, depending grow ; And skies, beneath, with answ'ring colours glow ; But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl en ev'ry side ; And glimm'ring fragments of a broken sun, Banks, svas, and skies, in thick disorder...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...Providence's sway: His hopes bo more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost. So when a smooth expanse receives imprest Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast, Down bend the banks, the trees depending grow-, And skies beneath with answering colours...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 3

Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1827 - 414 pages
..."Thus when a smooth expanse receives imprest '• Calm nature's image on its wat'ry breast, " Dawn tend the banks, the trees depending grow, " And skies beneath with answering colours glow." In that fine line, too, of Gray, " Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap." • With what...
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