The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, 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 ReadingL.B. Clarke, 1827 - 252 sidor |
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... possession , is to be chiefly estimated ' , by the relief which it can bring us ' , in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions ...
... possession , is to be chiefly estimated ' , by the relief which it can bring us ' , in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions ...
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... possession , as violent anger . It overpowers reason ' ; confounds our ideas ; dis- torts the appearance , and blackens the colour of every ob- ject . By the storms which it raises within , and by the mis- chiefs which it occasions ...
... possession , as violent anger . It overpowers reason ' ; confounds our ideas ; dis- torts the appearance , and blackens the colour of every ob- ject . By the storms which it raises within , and by the mis- chiefs which it occasions ...
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... possession of our mind ' we may date ' , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity` . Every man has some darling passion ' , which generally Aut Part 1 affords the first introduction to vice . C 2 ( 29 a ) Chap . 1 . 29 Select ...
... possession of our mind ' we may date ' , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity` . Every man has some darling passion ' , which generally Aut Part 1 affords the first introduction to vice . C 2 ( 29 a ) Chap . 1 . 29 Select ...
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... possessed of strong vir- tue ' , could 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 ...
... possessed of strong vir- tue ' , could 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 ...
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... possessions can make the guilty mind happy . D ' IONYSIUS ' , the tyrant of Sicily ' , was far from being happy ... possession of all the honours and enjoyments ' which royalty could bestow . CICERO . SECTION II . Change of external ...
... possessions can make the guilty mind happy . D ' IONYSIUS ' , the tyrant of Sicily ' , was far from being happy ... possession of all the honours and enjoyments ' which royalty could bestow . CICERO . SECTION II . Change of external ...
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Sida 214 - Angels: for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in heaven, 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.
Sida 214 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth 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.
Sida 183 - Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
Sida 225 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Sida 220 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Sida 197 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
Sida 238 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Sida 239 - With light and heat refulgent. Then Thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year : And oft Thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks : And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales.
Sida 98 - Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life...
Sida 173 - 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.