The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse: From the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingBenjamin Olds, 1836 - 252 pages |
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Page 222 - cup run o'er; And, in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store. 10 Ten thousand thousand precious gifts, My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy. 11 Through ev'ry period of my life, < 12 When nature fails, and
Page 224 - SECTION VIII. A Morning Hymn. THESE are thy glorious works, parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wond'rous fair; thyself how wond'rous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lower works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and
Page 75 - him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widows heart to sing with joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame : I was a father to the poor ; and the cause which I knew not, I searched out.
Page 246 - Lives thro' all life, extends thro' all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns : To him no high, no low, no
Page 249 - Will rising wonders sing: 1 cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns : From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive silence, muse his praise. SECTION
Page 9 - not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice; lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. Ye mountains of Giiboa, let there be no dew nor rain upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty was
Page 219 - 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. Oh solitude ! where are the charms, That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell
Page 186 - 5 But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after show'rs ; Nor grateful ev'ning mild ; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or
Page 221 - 4 To all my weak complaints and cries, Thy mercy lent an ear, Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learn'd To form themselves in pray'r. 5 Unnumber'd comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestow'd, Before my infant heart conceiv'd From whom those comforts flow'd. 6 When in the slipp'ry paths of
Page 240 - Presume thy bolts to throw ; And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way ! 9 Save me alike from foolish pride, 10 Teach me to feel another's