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; to 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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... appears to be and what flatters most , is always farthest from reality . There are voices which sing around them ; but whose strains allure to ruin . There is a banquet spread , where poison is in every dish . There is a couch which ...
... appears to be and what flatters most , is always farthest from reality . There are voices which sing around them ; but whose strains allure to ruin . There is a banquet spread , where poison is in every dish . There is a couch which ...
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... appears ( to use the simile of Longinus ) like the sun in his evening de- clination he remits his splendour , but ... appear every where around us ! What a profusion of beauty and ornament is poured forth on the face of nature ! What ...
... appears ( to use the simile of Longinus ) like the sun in his evening de- clination he remits his splendour , but ... appear every where around us ! What a profusion of beauty and ornament is poured forth on the face of nature ! What ...
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... appear un- der the form of venial weaknesses ; and are indulged , in the beginning , with scrupulousness and reserve . But , by longer practice , these restraints weaken , and the power of habit grows . One vice brings in another to its ...
... appear un- der the form of venial weaknesses ; and are indulged , in the beginning , with scrupulousness and reserve . But , by longer practice , these restraints weaken , and the power of habit grows . One vice brings in another to its ...
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... appears to have been one of the princes , or chief men of the Syrian court . Charged with rich gifts from the king , he presents himself before the prophet ; and accosts him in terms of the highest respect . During the conférence which ...
... appears to have been one of the princes , or chief men of the Syrian court . Charged with rich gifts from the king , he presents himself before the prophet ; and accosts him in terms of the highest respect . During the conférence which ...
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... appears , from what is re- corded of him , to have been a very wicked minister . Raised to greatness without merit , he employed his power solely for the gratification of his passions . As the honours which he possessed were next to ...
... appears , from what is re- corded of him , to have been a very wicked minister . Raised to greatness without merit , he employed his power solely for the gratification of his passions . As the honours which he possessed were next to ...
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228 ページ - 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.
255 ページ - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
240 ページ - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
186 ページ - 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.
209 ページ - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
197 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...
228 ページ - 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. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's Great Author rise...
247 ページ - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
256 ページ - Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring : Flings from the sun direct the flaming day ; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth ; And, as on earth the grateful change revolves, With transport touches all the springs of life.
209 ページ - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.