Sequel to the English Reader : Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry: Designed to Improve the Highest Class of Learners in Reading, to Establish a Taste for Just and Accurate Composition, and to Promote the Interests of Piety and VirtueCollins & Company, 1817 - 364 páginas |
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... sweet and refreshing sleep , from which I used to rise with new health , cheerfulness , and vi- gour , I dreamed of splendid habits and a numerous retinue , of gardens , palaces , feasting , and pleasures ; and waked only to regret the ...
... sweet and refreshing sleep , from which I used to rise with new health , cheerfulness , and vi- gour , I dreamed of splendid habits and a numerous retinue , of gardens , palaces , feasting , and pleasures ; and waked only to regret the ...
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... sweet , as those which weariness invited d ; and no time so well enjoyed , as that in which diligence is expecting its reward . I remembered these enjoy- ments with regret ; and while I was sighing in the midst of superfluities , which ...
... sweet , as those which weariness invited d ; and no time so well enjoyed , as that in which diligence is expecting its reward . I remembered these enjoy- ments with regret ; and while I was sighing in the midst of superfluities , which ...
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... sweet ; to thy content also will be added stability , when it depends not upon that which is possess- ed upon earth , but upon that which is expected in heaven . " Hassan , upon whose mind the angel of instruction impressed the counsel ...
... sweet ; to thy content also will be added stability , when it depends not upon that which is possess- ed upon earth , but upon that which is expected in heaven . " Hassan , upon whose mind the angel of instruction impressed the counsel ...
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... sweet odours of all kinds were abundantly scattered over the new work , and the way was strewed with myrtle . At the same time Xerxes poured out libations into the sea ; and turning his face towards the East , worshipped that bright ...
... sweet odours of all kinds were abundantly scattered over the new work , and the way was strewed with myrtle . At the same time Xerxes poured out libations into the sea ; and turning his face towards the East , worshipped that bright ...
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... sweet serenity of conscious virtue and as for me , if I carry back to Rome the hopes of an approaching peace , an assurance of thy being reconciled to thy country , with what transports of joy shall I be received ! In what honour , in ...
... sweet serenity of conscious virtue and as for me , if I carry back to Rome the hopes of an approaching peace , an assurance of thy being reconciled to thy country , with what transports of joy shall I be received ! In what honour , in ...
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