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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... dark , Illumine ; what is low , raise and support . the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the third syllable , which , in reading , ought to be made accordingly ; though , the melody only were to be ...
... dark , Illumine ; what is low , raise and support . the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the third syllable , which , in reading , ought to be made accordingly ; though , the melody only were to be ...
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... degrees into a melancholy languor , which was tinged with deeper and deeper gloom , as they glided down the stream of Insignificance , a dark Ε and sluggish water , which is curled by no breeze Chap . 2 . 49 Narrative Pieces .
... degrees into a melancholy languor , which was tinged with deeper and deeper gloom , as they glided down the stream of Insignificance , a dark Ε and sluggish water , which is curled by no breeze Chap . 2 . 49 Narrative Pieces .
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... darkness and solitude surrounded him the winds roared in the woods ; and the torrents tum- bled from the hills . ; Thus forlorn and distressed , he wandered through the wild , without knowing whither he was going , or whether he was ...
... darkness and solitude surrounded him the winds roared in the woods ; and the torrents tum- bled from the hills . ; Thus forlorn and distressed , he wandered through the wild , without knowing whither he was going , or whether he was ...
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... darkness of old age begins to invade us , and disease and anxiety obstruct our way . We then look back upon our lives with horror , with sorrow , with repen tance ; and wish , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ...
... darkness of old age begins to invade us , and disease and anxiety obstruct our way . We then look back upon our lives with horror , with sorrow , with repen tance ; and wish , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ...
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... dark and dreary waste , through which there does not issue a single ray of comfort . Every delusive prospect of ambition is now at an end ; long experience of mankind , an experience very different from what the open and generous soul ...
... dark and dreary waste , through which there does not issue a single ray of comfort . Every delusive prospect of ambition is now at an end ; long experience of mankind , an experience very different from what the open and generous soul ...
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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.