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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... objects : to improve youth in the art of reading ; to meli orate their language and sentiments ; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue . The pieces selected , not only give exercise to a great ...
... objects : to improve youth in the art of reading ; to meli orate their language and sentiments ; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue . The pieces selected , not only give exercise to a great ...
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... objects of religion ' , no heart to ad- mire and adore the great Father of the universe ' , has reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his sensibility` . When ' , upon rational and sober inquiry ' , we have estab- lished our ...
... objects of religion ' , no heart to ad- mire and adore the great Father of the universe ' , has reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his sensibility` . When ' , upon rational and sober inquiry ' , we have estab- lished our ...
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... object on which it shines ; a censorious disposition ' , casts every character into the darkest shade it will bear` . Many men mistake the love ' , for the practice of virtue ' ; and are not so much good men ' , as the friends of ...
... object on which it shines ; a censorious disposition ' , casts every character into the darkest shade it will bear` . Many men mistake the love ' , for the practice of virtue ' ; and are not so much good men ' , as the friends of ...
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... object of his resentment . The palace of virtue has , in all ages ' , been represented as placed on the summit of a hill ; in the ascent of which , labour is requisite , and difficulties are to be surmounted` ; and where a conductor is ...
... object of his resentment . The palace of virtue has , in all ages ' , been represented as placed on the summit of a hill ; in the ascent of which , labour is requisite , and difficulties are to be surmounted` ; and where a conductor is ...
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... object of thought . Ábout what are we now busied` ? What is the ultimate scope of our present pursuits and cares` ? Can we justify them to ourselves ? Are they likely to produce any thing that will survive the moment , and bring forth ...
... object of thought . Ábout what are we now busied` ? What is the ultimate scope of our present pursuits and cares` ? Can we justify them to ourselves ? Are they likely to produce any thing that will survive the moment , and bring forth ...
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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.