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 ReadingEvert Duyckinck, 1810 - 231 էջ |
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Էջ 37
... equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizer , to which he invited all the ministers of pleasure , expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford . Leis- ure soon made him weary of himself , and he longed ...
... equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizer , to which he invited all the ministers of pleasure , expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford . Leis- ure soon made him weary of himself , and he longed ...
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... equal age with king Edward v1 , she had received all her education with him , and seemed even to possess a greater facility in ac- quiring every part of manly and classical literature . She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and ...
... equal age with king Edward v1 , she had received all her education with him , and seemed even to possess a greater facility in ac- quiring every part of manly and classical literature . She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and ...
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... equal and uninterrupted steadiness ; for , beside the difficulties of the way , they were continually solicited to turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , passsions , and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with ...
... equal and uninterrupted steadiness ; for , beside the difficulties of the way , they were continually solicited to turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , passsions , and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with ...
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... equal to the torment he creates to himself by means of the fierce and desparate passions which he allows to rage in his soul . Those evil spirits who inhabit the regions of misery , are represented as delighting in revenge and cruelty ...
... equal to the torment he creates to himself by means of the fierce and desparate passions which he allows to rage in his soul . Those evil spirits who inhabit the regions of misery , are represented as delighting in revenge and cruelty ...
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... equal nor imi- tate . Upon being informed by him that the place was full of these beautiful incrustations , I ventured in once more with him , about fifty paces , anxiously and cautiously descending , by a steep and dangerous way ...
... equal nor imi- tate . Upon being informed by him that the place was full of these beautiful incrustations , I ventured in once more with him , about fifty paces , anxiously and cautiously descending , by a steep and dangerous way ...
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ADHERBAL ANTIPAROS appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cendant character cheer comforts dark death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune gentle give ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha king labours LADY JANE GREY live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet tears temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Էջ 225 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Էջ 202 - 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.
Էջ 178 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Էջ 238 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Էջ 219 - Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ;— Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain...
Էջ 189 - 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...
Էջ 118 - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews. Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Էջ 185 - He spied far off upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent :
Էջ 238 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Էջ 248 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.