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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... , and the fruit " Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste " Brought death into the world , and all our wo , ” kt . " Sing heavenly Muse ! " Supposing that originally other beings , besides men , had viii INTRODUCTION .
... , and the fruit " Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste " Brought death into the world , and all our wo , ” kt . " Sing heavenly Muse ! " Supposing that originally other beings , besides men , had viii INTRODUCTION .
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... death into the world , " & c . But if we were to suppose that mankind knew there was such an evil as death in other regions , though the place they inhabited had been free from it till their transgression , the line would run thus ...
... death into the world , " & c . But if we were to suppose that mankind knew there was such an evil as death in other regions , though the place they inhabited had been free from it till their transgression , the line would run thus ...
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... death ' , nor life ; nor angels ' , nor principalities ' , nor powers ; nor things present , nor things to come ; nor height , nor depth ; nor any other creature ' , shall be able to separate us from the love of God . " The reader who ...
... death ' , nor life ; nor angels ' , nor principalities ' , nor powers ; nor things present , nor things to come ; nor height , nor depth ; nor any other creature ' , shall be able to separate us from the love of God . " The reader who ...
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... death of an amiable young woman , 136 139 ib . 4. On Discretion , 140 5. On the government of our thoughts , 143 6. On the evils which flow from unrestrained passions , 7. On the proper state of our temper , with respect to one another ...
... death of an amiable young woman , 136 139 ib . 4. On Discretion , 140 5. On the government of our thoughts , 143 6. On the evils which flow from unrestrained passions , 7. On the proper state of our temper , with respect to one another ...
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... death , 198 200 CHAPTER III . Didactic Pieces . SECT . 1. The vanity of wealth , 202 3. On pride , 2. Nothing formed in vain , 4. Cruelty to brutes censured , 203 ib . 204 5. A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chapter of Matthew ...
... death , 198 200 CHAPTER III . Didactic Pieces . SECT . 1. The vanity of wealth , 202 3. On pride , 2. Nothing formed in vain , 4. Cruelty to brutes censured , 203 ib . 204 5. A paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chapter of Matthew ...
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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.