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And thus, if I the truth must tell, Does his work nally and wel Wink'd at our hero as he past:
Your house is nish'd, sir, at last; A narrow house-a house of clay your palace r another day. ..
NOT the erce tiger, breathing om his eyes
Terror and wrath-nor, on a burning soil,
The startled serpent springing om his coil, No-nor the bolt that cleaves the mountain's brow,
Nor the impetuous torrent's rushing rce,
That leaps the bounds and rushes om its course,
Vith deeper ar the shepherd's heart can bow, Or scare the shuddering ock more ight lly, Than conscience and its horrors harrow me! No-nor the ry of hell's deep abyss
Hath pow'r to in ict a sharper pang than this, Which sears and withers up my bosom now.
LESSON XX .
FRIO N DES ERTS.
MNITZER.
REMORSE.
(From Filicaja.)
PERVADE', v., to spread over. L. pervado,-per, and vado, I go, I spread.
GRANULA1TIONS, n., pieces broken small, like grains. F. granulations. See "Granite,'' p. 223.
MART, n., a place of public tra c. 3£art is a contraction of market, 28 _,