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Page 176 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 81 - Had risen, or heaved his head ; but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs; That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation...
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| Title | The invisible enemy; or, The mines of Wielitska, a Polish legendary romance The invisible enemy; or, The mines of Wielitska, a Polish legendary romance, Thomas Pike Lathy |
| Author | Thomas Pike Lathy |
| Published | 1806 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jan 18, 2007 |
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