The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingL.B. Clarke, 1827 - Всего страниц: 252 |
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... mankind more generally agreed` . The appearances of our security , are frequently deceitful` . When our sky seems most settled and serene ' , in some un- observed quarter ' , gathers the little black cloud ' , in which the tempest ...
... mankind more generally agreed` . The appearances of our security , are frequently deceitful` . When our sky seems most settled and serene ' , in some un- observed quarter ' , gathers the little black cloud ' , in which the tempest ...
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... mankind ' , is ' , to store fu- turity with whatever is agreeable to them ; especially in those periods of life , when imagination is lively ' , and hope is ar- dent . Looking forward to the year now beginning , they are ready to ...
... mankind ' , is ' , to store fu- turity with whatever is agreeable to them ; especially in those periods of life , when imagination is lively ' , and hope is ar- dent . Looking forward to the year now beginning , they are ready to ...
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... mankind ' , we shall find that ' , in every age ' , they who have been respected as worthy , or admired as great , have been distinguished for this virtue . 6 Revenge dwells in little minds . A noble and magnan- imous spirit , is always ...
... mankind ' , we shall find that ' , in every age ' , they who have been respected as worthy , or admired as great , have been distinguished for this virtue . 6 Revenge dwells in little minds . A noble and magnan- imous spirit , is always ...
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... mankind ' , an experience very different from what the open and generous soul of youth had fondly dreamt of ' , has rendered the heart almost inaccessible to new friendships . The principal sources of activity , are taken away ' , when ...
... mankind ' , an experience very different from what the open and generous soul of youth had fondly dreamt of ' , has rendered the heart almost inaccessible to new friendships . The principal sources of activity , are taken away ' , when ...
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... mankind ' ; and not endeavour to deprive them of what habiť , at least , if they will not allow it to be nature ' , has made necessary to their morals , and to their happiness . 5 It might be expected , thats humanity would prevent them ...
... mankind ' ; and not endeavour to deprive them of what habiť , at least , if they will not allow it to be nature ' , has made necessary to their morals , and to their happiness . 5 It might be expected , thats humanity would prevent them ...
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Стр. 214 - Angels: for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Стр. 214 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Стр. 183 - 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; Silence was pleased. Now...
Стр. 225 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Стр. 220 - 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. 197 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
Стр. 238 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Стр. 239 - With light and heat refulgent. Then Thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year : And oft Thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks : And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales.
Стр. 98 - Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life...
Стр. 173 - The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.