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 ReadingPublished and sold by C. Morse, 1840 - 263 страници |
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... beauty , and harmony of delivery consist . The limits of this Introduction do not admit of examples , to illustrate the variety of tones belonging to the different passions and emotions . We shall , however , select one , which is ...
... beauty , and harmony of delivery consist . The limits of this Introduction do not admit of examples , to illustrate the variety of tones belonging to the different passions and emotions . We shall , however , select one , which is ...
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... beauty on expression , and is so necessary to be studied by the young reader , that we shall insert a few more examples to induce him to pay greater attention to the subject . In these instances , all the in flections are not marked ...
... beauty on expression , and is so necessary to be studied by the young reader , that we shall insert a few more examples to induce him to pay greater attention to the subject . In these instances , all the in flections are not marked ...
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... taste ; prevent the practice of reading without attention to the subject ; and establish a habit of readily discovering the meaning force , and beauty , of very sentence they peruse PART I. PIECES IN PROSE . CHAPTER I. Select Sentences.
... taste ; prevent the practice of reading without attention to the subject ; and establish a habit of readily discovering the meaning force , and beauty , of very sentence they peruse PART I. PIECES IN PROSE . CHAPTER I. Select Sentences.
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... beauty and ornament is poured forth on the face of nature ' What a magnificent spectacle presented to the view of man ! Wha supply contrived for his wants ! What a variety of obje set before him , to gratify his senses , to. hap . 1 . 31 ...
... beauty and ornament is poured forth on the face of nature ' What a magnificent spectacle presented to the view of man ! Wha supply contrived for his wants ! What a variety of obje set before him , to gratify his senses , to. hap . 1 . 31 ...
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... beauty were ordered to attend his table , and to obey his commands with the utmost readiness , and the most profound submission . Fragrant ointments , chaplets of flowers , and rich perfumes , were added to the entertainment . The table ...
... beauty were ordered to attend his table , and to obey his commands with the utmost readiness , and the most profound submission . Fragrant ointments , chaplets of flowers , and rich perfumes , were added to the entertainment . The table ...
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Страница 126 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Страница 207 - 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.
Страница 255 - 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.
Страница 204 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Страница 255 - tis nought to me : Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where HE vital breathes there must be joy.
Страница 232 - 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. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
Страница 254 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Страница 195 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Страница 196 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...
Страница 217 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.