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 Seiten |
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... 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 desires , are the ...
... 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 desires , are the ...
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... peace and repose , would be strangers to human life . Injuries retaliated accord- ing to the exorbitant measure which passion prescribes , would excite resentment in return . The injured person would become the injurer ; and thus wrongs ...
... peace and repose , would be strangers to human life . Injuries retaliated accord- ing to the exorbitant measure which passion prescribes , would excite resentment in return . The injured person would become the injurer ; and thus wrongs ...
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... peace . Prudence di- rects his intercourse with the world ; but no black suspicions haunt his hours of rest . Accustomed to view the cha- racters of his neighbours in the most favourable light , he is like one who dwells amidst those ...
... peace . Prudence di- rects his intercourse with the world ; but no black suspicions haunt his hours of rest . Accustomed to view the cha- racters of his neighbours in the most favourable light , he is like one who dwells amidst those ...
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... peace which is often unknown at courts . The gratifications of nature , which are always the most satisfactory , are possess- ed by him to their full extent ; and if he be a stranger to the refined pleasures of the wealthy , he is ...
... peace which is often unknown at courts . The gratifications of nature , which are always the most satisfactory , are possess- ed by him to their full extent ; and if he be a stranger to the refined pleasures of the wealthy , he is ...
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... peace which it will certainly bring ? If others have behaved improperly , let us leave them to their own folly , without be- coming the victim of their caprice , and punishing ourselves on their account . - Patience , in this exercise ...
... peace which it will certainly bring ? If others have behaved improperly , let us leave them to their own folly , without be- coming the victim of their caprice , and punishing ourselves on their account . - Patience , in this exercise ...
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affections Alexander Selkirk Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comfort death desire distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evils eyes father feel folly fortune friendship gentle give Greek language ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven HERACLITUS honour hope human Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord lord Guilford Dudley mankind Micipsa midst mind misery mountain nature never Numidia o'er objects Ortogrul ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfection persons philosopher pleasing pleasure possess pow'r praise present pride proper Pythias racters reason religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION sense sentiments shade shine Sicily smiling sorrow soul sound spirit suffer tal cloud temper tempest thee things thought tion truth vanity vice virtue voice whole wisdom wise wish youth
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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.