Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 стор. An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... crags were concealed under water , and the tops covered with herbage , on which Ease spread couches of repose ; and with shades , where Pleasure warbled the song of invitation . Within sight of these rocks , all who sailed on the ocean ...
... crags were concealed under water , and the tops covered with herbage , on which Ease spread couches of repose ; and with shades , where Pleasure warbled the song of invitation . Within sight of these rocks , all who sailed on the ocean ...
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