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 Reading |
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... enjoyed ; and remember , that eve- ry moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction . And let him who proposes his own happi- ness reflect , that while he forms his purpose , the day rolls on , and " the night ...
... enjoyed ; and remember , that eve- ry moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction . And let him who proposes his own happi- ness reflect , that while he forms his purpose , the day rolls on , and " the night ...
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... enjoy , ) yet , if it mitigates the evils which necessarily belong to our state , it may justly be said to give " rest to them who labour and are heavy laden . " What a smiling aspect does the love of parents and chil- dren , of ...
... enjoy , ) yet , if it mitigates the evils which necessarily belong to our state , it may justly be said to give " rest to them who labour and are heavy laden . " What a smiling aspect does the love of parents and chil- dren , of ...
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... enjoy ; on the small difference which the diversity of fortune makes on that scanty proportion ; it is surprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among Christians ...
... enjoy ; on the small difference which the diversity of fortune makes on that scanty proportion ; it is surprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among Christians ...
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... enjoy itself in peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced ...
... enjoy itself in peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced ...
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... enjoy any longer a happiness so terrible . By this device , Dionysius intimated to Damocles , how miserable he was in the midst of all his treasures ; and in pos- session of all the honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow ...
... enjoy any longer a happiness so terrible . By this device , Dionysius intimated to Damocles , how miserable he was in the midst of all his treasures ; and in pos- session of all the honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow ...
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Page 228 - 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.
Page 255 - 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.
Page 240 - 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.
Page 186 - 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.
Page 209 - 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.
Page 197 - 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...
Page 228 - 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...
Page 247 - 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!
Page 256 - 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.
Page 209 - 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.