The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...Samuel Etheridge, 1805 - 254 páginas |
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Página 181
... o'er th ' unbending corn , and fkimś along the main . FELLING TREES IN A WOOD : Loud founds the axe , redoubling strokes on ftrokes ; On all fides round the foreft hurls her oaks Headlong . Deep echoing groan the thickets brown ; Then ...
... o'er th ' unbending corn , and fkimś along the main . FELLING TREES IN A WOOD : Loud founds the axe , redoubling strokes on ftrokes ; On all fides round the foreft hurls her oaks Headlong . Deep echoing groan the thickets brown ; Then ...
Página 182
... O'er hills , o'er dales , o'er crags , o'er rocks they go . MOTIONS SLOW AND DIFFICULT . A needlefs Alexandrine ends the fong , That , like a wounded fnake , drags its flow length along . A ROCK TORN FROM THE BROW OF A MOUNTAIN Still ...
... O'er hills , o'er dales , o'er crags , o'er rocks they go . MOTIONS SLOW AND DIFFICULT . A needlefs Alexandrine ends the fong , That , like a wounded fnake , drags its flow length along . A ROCK TORN FROM THE BROW OF A MOUNTAIN Still ...
Página 185
... O'er death's dark gulf and all its horror hides ; Praise , the sweet exhalation of our joy , That joy exalts , and makes it fweeter ftill ; Pray'r ardent opens heav'n , lets down a ftream . Of glory , on the confecrated hour Of man in ...
... O'er death's dark gulf and all its horror hides ; Praise , the sweet exhalation of our joy , That joy exalts , and makes it fweeter ftill ; Pray'r ardent opens heav'n , lets down a ftream . Of glory , on the confecrated hour Of man in ...
Página 187
... o'er my temples drew Oblivion's veil , -The wat'ry deep , An object ftrange and new . Before me rofe : on the wide shore Obfervant as I ftood , The gathering storms around me roar , And heave the boiling flood . Near and more near the ...
... o'er my temples drew Oblivion's veil , -The wat'ry deep , An object ftrange and new . Before me rofe : on the wide shore Obfervant as I ftood , The gathering storms around me roar , And heave the boiling flood . Near and more near the ...
Página 188
... O'er fcenes of future ill ? Let faith fupprefs each rifing fear , Each anxious doubt exclude e ; Thy Maker's will has plac'd thee here , Á Maker wife and good ! He to ev'ry trial knows Its juft restraint to give ; Attentive to behold ...
... O'er fcenes of future ill ? Let faith fupprefs each rifing fear , Each anxious doubt exclude e ; Thy Maker's will has plac'd thee here , Á Maker wife and good ! He to ev'ry trial knows Its juft restraint to give ; Attentive to behold ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 244 - Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 53 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die: remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 199 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heav'n.
Página 76 - I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 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.
Página 162 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart ; For God now accepteth thy works.
Página 201 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 224 - 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.
Página 250 - The great directing mind of all ordains. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul ; That chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the Earth, as in th...
Página 251 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Página 221 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.