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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... the tones of enotica and passion . The young reader should be careful to render his moquiation cor- rect and easy ; and , for this purpose , should form it upon the model of the most judicious and accurate speakers . peruse . INTRODUCTION .
... the tones of enotica and passion . The young reader should be careful to render his moquiation cor- rect and easy ; and , for this purpose , should form it upon the model of the most judicious and accurate speakers . peruse . INTRODUCTION .
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... passions and emotions . We shall , however , select one , which is extracted from the beautiful lamen- tation of David over Saul and Jonathan , and which will , in some degree , elucidate what has been said on this subject . " The ...
... passions and emotions . We shall , however , select one , which is extracted from the beautiful lamen- tation of David over Saul and Jonathan , and which will , in some degree , elucidate what has been said on this subject . " The ...
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... passions and emotions . " In reading , let all your tones of expression be borrowed from those of common speech , but , in some de- gree , more faintly characterised . Let those tones which signify any dis- agreeable passion of the mind ...
... passions and emotions . " In reading , let all your tones of expression be borrowed from those of common speech , but , in some de- gree , more faintly characterised . Let those tones which signify any dis- agreeable passion of the mind ...
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... passions , 145 7. On the proper state of our temper , with respect to one another , 146 8. Excellence of the Holy Scriptures , 148 9. Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings , pronounced by Christ on his disciples , in his ...
... passions , 145 7. On the proper state of our temper , with respect to one another , 146 8. Excellence of the Holy Scriptures , 148 9. Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings , pronounced by Christ on his disciples , in his ...
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... passions , can tell how far they may carry him . Tranquillity of mind is always most likely to be attained , when the business of the world is tempered with thoughtful and serious retreat . He who would act like a wise man , and build ...
... passions , can tell how far they may carry him . Tranquillity of mind is always most likely to be attained , when the business of the world is tempered with thoughtful and serious retreat . He who would act like a wise man , and build ...
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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.