The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers, Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read ...Bennett and Walton, 1812 - Всего страниц: 392 |
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... turn aside from the world and commune with himself in retirement , will , some- times at least , hear the truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those ...
... turn aside from the world and commune with himself in retirement , will , some- times at least , hear the truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those ...
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... turning day ! With what a lustre does it gild even the small habitation , where this placid intercourse dwells ! where such scenes of heartfelt satisfaction suc- ceed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent ...
... turning day ! With what a lustre does it gild even the small habitation , where this placid intercourse dwells ! where such scenes of heartfelt satisfaction suc- ceed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent ...
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... turn thine eye on the opposite mountain . " Ortogrul looked , and saw a tor- rent tumbling down the rocks , roaring with the noise of thunder , and scattering its foam on the impending woods . " Now , " said his father , " behold the ...
... turn thine eye on the opposite mountain . " Ortogrul looked , and saw a tor- rent tumbling down the rocks , roaring with the noise of thunder , and scattering its foam on the impending woods . " Now , " said his father , " behold the ...
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... turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , passions , and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with , they became less and less able to resist ; and though they often returned to the path , the asperities of the road ...
... turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , passions , and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with , they became less and less able to resist ; and though they often returned to the path , the asperities of the road ...
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... turn their feet out of the path , but contented herself with retarding their progress : and the purpose she could not force them to abandon , she persuaded them to delay . Her touch had a power like that of the torpedo , which withered ...
... turn their feet out of the path , but contented herself with retarding their progress : and the purpose she could not force them to abandon , she persuaded them to delay . Her touch had a power like that of the torpedo , which withered ...
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Стр. 277 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Стр. 263 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Стр. 195 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Стр. 228 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Стр. 294 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
Стр. 228 - Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive; and the timely dew of sleep, Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines Our eyelids...
Стр. 284 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Стр. xvii - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Стр. 240 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd evil, is no more : The storms of wint'ry time will quickly pass, And one unbounded spring encircle all — THOMSON, SECTION VIII.
Стр. 223 - Had cheered the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp...