The English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect ... with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingJames I. Cutler & Company, 1827 - 252 sivua |
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Sivu 19
... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing inaxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . TH SECTION III . HE desire of improvement , discovers Chap . 1 . 19 Select Sentences , & c ...
... reflection which has long since passed into a proverb , and been ranked among the standing inaxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . TH SECTION III . HE desire of improvement , discovers Chap . 1 . 19 Select Sentences , & c ...
Sivu 31
... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicis- situdes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world , facts plainly ...
... reflection . In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicis- situdes of worldly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the vanity of the world , facts plainly ...
Sivu 35
... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion cre- ates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment , can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ...
... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion cre- ates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when , in the height of it , a single disappointment , can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ...
Sivu 39
... reflections ! 5 They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons ...
... reflections ! 5 They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons ...
Sivu 44
... reflecting , the air grew blacker , and a clap of thunder broke his meditation , 10 He now resolved to do what yet remained in his pow- er , to tread back the ground which he had passed , and try to find sonte issue where the wood might ...
... reflecting , the air grew blacker , and a clap of thunder broke his meditation , 10 He now resolved to do what yet remained in his pow- er , to tread back the ground which he had passed , and try to find sonte issue where the wood might ...
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affections Alexander Selkirk Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing breath Caius Verres comfort death degree delight Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emotions emphasis enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune friendship give grave accent ground happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human imitative powers inflection Jugurtha king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery nature nature's ness never Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace perfect persons pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich riety rising Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smiles sorrow soul sound spirit spirited command sweet temper tempest thee things thou thought tion tones truth utter virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Sivu 218 - Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, 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.
Sivu 78 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Sivu 200 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Sivu 224 - 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.
Sivu 242 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Sivu 178 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Sivu 193 - Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes.
Sivu 230 - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Sivu 217 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Sivu 244 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy.