The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected 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 ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263 ページ |
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... danger arising from future intercourse with the world . The Author has endeavoured to relieve the grave and serious parts of his collection , by the occasional admission of pieces which amuse as well as instruct . If , however , any of ...
... danger arising from future intercourse with the world . The Author has endeavoured to relieve the grave and serious parts of his collection , by the occasional admission of pieces which amuse as well as instruct . If , however , any of ...
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... dangers which spring from our passions . F age , and every station they beset ; from youth to grey and from the peasant to the prince . Riches and pleasures are the chief temptations to criminal deeds . Yet those riches , when obtained ...
... dangers which spring from our passions . F age , and every station they beset ; from youth to grey and from the peasant to the prince . Riches and pleasures are the chief temptations to criminal deeds . Yet those riches , when obtained ...
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... danger . Abhor the thought of acquiring any advantage by his prejudice . Man , always prosperous , would be giddy and insolent ; always afflicted would be sullen or despondent . Hopes and fears , joy and sorrow , are , therefore , so ...
... danger . Abhor the thought of acquiring any advantage by his prejudice . Man , always prosperous , would be giddy and insolent ; always afflicted would be sullen or despondent . Hopes and fears , joy and sorrow , are , therefore , so ...
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... danger of being 100 much attached to it , how entirely would it have seduced our affections , if no troubles had been mingled with its pleas ures . In seasons of distress or difficulty , to abandon ourselves to dejection , carries no ...
... danger of being 100 much attached to it , how entirely would it have seduced our affections , if no troubles had been mingled with its pleas ures . In seasons of distress or difficulty , to abandon ourselves to dejection , carries no ...
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... dangerous situation ; and earnestly entreats the king to to his former humble condition , having no desire longer a happiness so terrible . Badevice , Dionysius intimated to Damocles , how Pale was in the midst of all his treasures ...
... dangerous situation ; and earnestly entreats the king to to his former humble condition , having no desire longer a happiness so terrible . Badevice , Dionysius intimated to Damocles , how Pale was in the midst of all his treasures ...
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225 ページ - 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.
237 ページ - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
231 ページ - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : 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.
194 ページ - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
226 ページ - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
184 ページ - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
28 ページ - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
28 ページ - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
199 ページ - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
78 ページ - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.