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 pagina's |
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Pagina 20
... midst of his studied refinements , the volup- tuary languishes` . Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manners` ; and ' , by a constant train of humane attentions ' , studies to al- leviate the burden of common misery ...
... midst of his studied refinements , the volup- tuary languishes` . Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manners` ; and ' , by a constant train of humane attentions ' , studies to al- leviate the burden of common misery ...
Pagina 30
... midst of extravagance and riot , how little do they think of those scenes of sore distress ' , which are passing at that mo- ment throughout the world ' ; multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and children ...
... midst of extravagance and riot , how little do they think of those scenes of sore distress ' , which are passing at that mo- ment throughout the world ' ; multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and children ...
Pagina 32
... midst of all this happiness ' , as he lay indul- ging himself in state ' , he sees let down from the ceiling , ex- actly over his head ' , a glittering sword ' , hung by a single hair . The sight of impending destruction ' , put a ...
... midst of all this happiness ' , as he lay indul- ging himself in state ' , he sees let down from the ceiling , ex- actly over his head ' , a glittering sword ' , hung by a single hair . The sight of impending destruction ' , put a ...
Pagina 34
... midst of this gen- eral adulation ' , one person only stooped not to Haman ' . 3 This was Mordecai the Jew` ; who ' , knowing this Ama- lėkite to be an enemy to the people of God ' , and ' , with virtu- ous indignation , despising that ...
... midst of this gen- eral adulation ' , one person only stooped not to Haman ' . 3 This was Mordecai the Jew` ; who ' , knowing this Ama- lėkite to be an enemy to the people of God ' , and ' , with virtu- ous indignation , despising that ...
Pagina 54
... midst of con- fusion ' , bitter repentance seeks afterwards in vain to recall` . What was omitted to be done at its proper moment ' , arises to be the torment of some future season ' . 7 Manhood is disgraced by the consequences of ...
... midst of con- fusion ' , bitter repentance seeks afterwards in vain to recall` . What was omitted to be done at its proper moment ' , arises to be the torment of some future season ' . 7 Manhood is disgraced by the consequences of ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.