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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... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a peculiar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
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... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often blessings in disguise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise . In ...
... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often blessings in disguise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise . In ...
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... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have estab- lished our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we ...
... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober inquiry , we have estab- lished our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we ...
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... retirement , will , sometimes at least , hear the truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice , and waken within the heart those latent suggestions , which the 20 Part 1 The English Reader .
... retirement , will , sometimes at least , hear the truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice , and waken within the heart those latent suggestions , which the 20 Part 1 The English Reader .
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... truth . " L'Estrange , in his Fables , tells us that a number of frolic- some boys were one day watching frogs , at the side of a pond ; and that , as any of them put their heads above the water , they pelted them down again with stones ...
... truth . " L'Estrange , in his Fables , tells us that a number of frolic- some boys were one day watching frogs , at the side of a pond ; and that , as any of them put their heads above the water , they pelted them down again with stones ...
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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.