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 ; 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 էջ |
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... mind , will scarcely be deemed superfluous , if the writer make his compilation instructive and interesting , and sufficiently dis- tinct from others . The present work , as the title expresses , aims at the attainment of three objects ...
... mind , will scarcely be deemed superfluous , if the writer make his compilation instructive and interesting , and sufficiently dis- tinct from others . The present work , as the title expresses , aims at the attainment of three objects ...
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... minds . † The Compiler has been careful to avoid every expression and sen . timent , that might gratifiy a corrupt mind , or , in the least degree , offend the eye or ear of innocence . This he conceives to be pecu- liarly incumbent on ...
... minds . † The Compiler has been careful to avoid every expression and sen . timent , that might gratifiy a corrupt mind , or , in the least degree , offend the eye or ear of innocence . This he conceives to be pecu- liarly incumbent on ...
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... mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activi- ty , emotion , or agitation , from the different effects which those ideas produce in the speaker . Now the end of such communication being not merely to lay open the ...
... mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activi- ty , emotion , or agitation , from the different effects which those ideas produce in the speaker . Now the end of such communication being not merely to lay open the ...
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... mind , be still more faint than those which indicate agreeable emotions ; and , on all occa- sions , preserve yourselves from being so far affected with the subject , as to be able to proceed through it with that easy and masterly man ...
... mind , be still more faint than those which indicate agreeable emotions ; and , on all occa- sions , preserve yourselves from being so far affected with the subject , as to be able to proceed through it with that easy and masterly man ...
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... mind , and given loose rein to his desires and 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 ...
... mind , and given loose rein to his desires and 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 ...
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerns character comforts daugh death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er oper countenance ourselves pain passions pause peace persons pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich riety rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Էջ 225 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, 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.
Էջ 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Էջ 231 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : 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.
Էջ 194 - 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...
Էջ 226 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Էջ 184 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Էջ 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Էջ 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Էջ 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Էջ 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.