The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to 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 ReadingLincoln & Edmands, 1824 - 264 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 85
Page xx
... young persons , CHAPTER IX . Promiscuous Pieces . SECT . 1. Earthquake at Calabria , in the year 1638 , 2. Letter from Pliny to Geminius , 3. Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus , on the death of an amiable young woman , 4. On Discretion ...
... young persons , CHAPTER IX . Promiscuous Pieces . SECT . 1. Earthquake at Calabria , in the year 1638 , 2. Letter from Pliny to Geminius , 3. Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus , on the death of an amiable young woman , 4. On Discretion ...
Page 105
... young man , or young woman , of blooming form and pro- mising hopes , laid in an untimely grave While the funeral is attended by a numerous unconcerned company , who are discoursing to one another about the news of the day , or the ...
... young man , or young woman , of blooming form and pro- mising hopes , laid in an untimely grave While the funeral is attended by a numerous unconcerned company , who are discoursing to one another about the news of the day , or the ...
Page 139
... young woman . I WRITE this under the utmost oppression of sorrow : the youngest daughter of my friend Fundanus is dead ! Never surely was there a more agreeable , and more amiable young person ; or one who better deserved to have ...
... young woman . I WRITE this under the utmost oppression of sorrow : the youngest daughter of my friend Fundanus is dead ! Never surely was there a more agreeable , and more amiable young person ; or one who better deserved to have ...
Contents
Select Sentences and Paragraphs | 23 |
The misfortunes of men mostly chargeable on them | 37 |
No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind | 39 |
53 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing cæsura Caius Verres cerning character cheer comfort consider danger death Dioclesian distress Divine dread earth enjoy enjoyments ev'ry evil eyes father feel felicity folly fortune Fundanus give Greek language ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human indulge Jugurtha kind king labour lence live look Lord lord Guilford Dudley mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery Moux nature never noble numbers Numidia o'er objects observe Ortogrul ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfect person pleasing pleasures possession pow'r present prince proper Pythias racter reading reason religion render rest rich rising scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit tal cloud temper tempest thee things thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise wish words youth