Introduction to the English Reader: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Calculated to Improve the Younger Classes of Learners, in Reading : and to Inbue Their Minds with the Love of Virtue. With Rules and Observations for Assisting Children to Read with ProprietyB.F. Lewis, 1813 - 214 sidor |
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animal Arachne ARTABANES beauty behold BENJAMIN F birds blessings bosom breast brother CANUTE Catharina cheerful colour cries daugh delight Demetrius Divine Providence Domat earth endeavour enjoy Euphronius ev'ry eyes father faults favours flowers fortune fruit gentle give gratitude ground hand happiness Hast thou hear heart Heav'n heav'nly heaven honour instruction kind king labour Lamb live Livonia look looking-glass Lord louis-d'or Lucetta manner Marcus Aurelius master Melissa mind morning mother negro woman ness nest never night nosegay o'er OFFA Ouran-Outang parents peace PERCIVAL perly Perrin PIECES Pigalle pity pleasure poor pow'r praise quadrupeds reader replied rest rich rise ROBBER rose SECT SECTION VII slavery slaves sleep Socrates sorrows soul stranger stream sweet tears tender Tetuan thee thing thought Thracian tion tree TUTOR virtue voice walk WILLIAM wings words young youth
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Sida 183 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. . What is this absorbs me quite ! Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul!
Sida 182 - And an immortal crown. 2 A cloud of witnesses around Hold thee in full survey ; Forget the steps already trod, And onward urge thy way.
Sida 131 - If good we plant not, vice will fill the place ; And rankest weeds the richest soils deface.
Sida 154 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; • Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too. But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise ; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
Sida 167 - THESE Emmets, how little they are in our eyes! We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies, Without our regard or concern : Yet, as wise as we are, if we went to their school, There's many a sluggard and many a fool Some lessons of wisdom might learn.
Sida 147 - Thou know'st that twice a day I have brought thee in this can Fresh water from the brook, as clear as ever ran ; And twice in the day, when the ground is wet with dew, I bring thee draughts of milk, warm milk it is and new.
Sida 189 - Can, more than day's enlivening bloom, Still every fond and vain desire, And calmer, purer thoughts inspire ; From earth the pensive spirit free, And lead the softened heart to thee.
Sida 73 - I have seen man in the pride of his strength ; his cheeks glowed with beauty ; his limbs were full of activity ; he leaped ; he walked ; he ran ; he rejoiced in that he was more excellent than those — I returned, he lay stiff and cold on the bare ground ; his feet could no longer move, nor his hands stretch themselves...
Sida 93 - I counted fifteen church steeples; and I saw several gentlemen's houses peeping out from the midst of green woods and plantations; and I could trace the windings of the river all along the low grounds, till it was lost behind a ridge of hills.
Sida 186 - My thoughts, before they are my own, Are to my God distinctly known ; He knows the words I mean to speak Ere from my opening lips they break. 3 Within thy circling power I stand; On every side I find thy hand; Awake, asleep, at home, abroad, I am surrounded still with God.