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 - 252 páginas |
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... fears , joy and sorrow , are ' , therefore , so blended in his life ' , as both to give room for worldly pursuits ' , and to recall , from time to time , the admonitions of conscience` . TIM SECTION IV . NIME once past ' , never returns ...
... fears , joy and sorrow , are ' , therefore , so blended in his life ' , as both to give room for worldly pursuits ' , and to recall , from time to time , the admonitions of conscience` . TIM SECTION IV . NIME once past ' , never returns ...
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... fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of conscience , and preserve the most quick and accurate sen- sibility to right and wrong . If ever your moral impressions begin to decay ' , and your natural abhorrence of guilt to les ...
... fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of conscience , and preserve the most quick and accurate sen- sibility to right and wrong . If ever your moral impressions begin to decay ' , and your natural abhorrence of guilt to les ...
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... fear , and ravage ' and expira DIC tion ' . All the horrors of darkness and solitude ' , surrounded shim : the winds roared in the woods ' , and the torrents tum- 1 GA bled from the hills` . 11 Thus forlorn` and distressed ' , he ...
... fear , and ravage ' and expira DIC tion ' . All the horrors of darkness and solitude ' , surrounded shim : the winds roared in the woods ' , and the torrents tum- 1 GA bled from the hills` . 11 Thus forlorn` and distressed ' , he ...
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... fear there is tor- ment , " how miserable must be his state ' , who ' , by living in perpetual jealousy , lives in perpetual dread ! 3 Looking upon himself to be surrounded with spies` , ene- mies ' , and designing men ' , he is a ...
... fear there is tor- ment , " how miserable must be his state ' , who ' , by living in perpetual jealousy , lives in perpetual dread ! 3 Looking upon himself to be surrounded with spies` , ene- mies ' , and designing men ' , he is a ...
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... fear they are not regarded by him . He is privy to all their thoughts , and to that anxiety of heart in particular , which is apt to trouble them on this occasion` ; for , as it is impossible he should overlook any of his crea- tures ...
... fear they are not regarded by him . He is privy to all their thoughts , and to that anxiety of heart in particular , which is apt to trouble them on this occasion` ; for , as it is impossible he should overlook any of his crea- tures ...
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Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray Bayle beauty behold BIDAH BLAIR blessing breast Caius Verres character cheer comfort death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil father fear feel folly fortune friendship gentle give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human indulge inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature nature's ness never noble Numidia o'er pain passions peace perfection persons pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate RULE scene SECTION sentence shade shining Sicily simple series smiles sorrow soul spirit spring sweet tal cloud tears temper tempest thee things thought tion truth Tuning sweet vanity vice virtue virtuous voice whole wisdom wise youth
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.