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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... fears , joy and sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for wordly pursuits , and to recall , from tíme to time , the admonitions of conscience . SECTION IV . 1. TIME once past never returns : the moment ...
... fears , joy and sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for wordly pursuits , and to recall , from tíme to time , the admonitions of conscience . SECTION IV . 1. TIME once past never returns : the moment ...
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... fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of con- science ; and preserve the most quick and accurate sensibility to right and wrong . If ever your moral impressions begin to de- cay , and your natural abhorrence of guilt to ...
... fear . Listen with reverence to every reprehension of con- science ; and preserve the most quick and accurate sensibility to right and wrong . If ever your moral impressions begin to de- cay , and your natural abhorrence of guilt to ...
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... fear , and ravage and expiration . All the horrours of darkness and solitude surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and the torrents tambled from the hills . 11 Thus forlorn and distressed , he wandered through the wild ...
... fear , and ravage and expiration . All the horrours of darkness and solitude surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and the torrents tambled from the hills . 11 Thus forlorn and distressed , he wandered through the wild ...
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... fear , but labour , began to overcome him ; his breath grew short , and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate , when he beheld , through the bram- bles , the glimmer of a taper . 12. He ...
... fear , but labour , began to overcome him ; his breath grew short , and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate , when he beheld , through the bram- bles , the glimmer of a taper . 12. He ...
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... fear there is torment , " how mis- erable must be his state , who , by living in perpetual jealousy , lives in perpetual dread ! 3. Looking upon himself to be surrounded with spies , enemies , and designing men , he is a stranger to ...
... fear there is torment , " how mis- erable must be his state , who , by living in perpetual jealousy , lives in perpetual dread ! 3. Looking upon himself to be surrounded with spies , enemies , and designing men , he is a stranger to ...
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Page 163 - 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...
Page 189 - Lives on the labours of this lord of all. Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Page 82 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Page 183 - 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.
Page 183 - 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.
Page 179 - 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 179 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. 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.
Page 179 - 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.
Page 157 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Page 175 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.