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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... peace , 2-15 13. Ode to adversity , ib . 14. The Creation required to praise its Author 247 15. The universal prayer , 249 16. Conscience , 250 17. On an infant , 251 18. The cuckoo , ران 19. Day . A pastoral in three parts , 20. The ...
... peace , 2-15 13. Ode to adversity , ib . 14. The Creation required to praise its Author 247 15. The universal prayer , 249 16. Conscience , 250 17. On an infant , 251 18. The cuckoo , ران 19. Day . A pastoral in three parts , 20. The ...
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... peace and safety ; without any particular or uncommon evils to afflict our condition ; what more can we reasonably look for in this vain and uncertain world ? How little can the greatest prosperity add to such a state ? Will any future ...
... peace and safety ; without any particular or uncommon evils to afflict our condition ; what more can we reasonably look for in this vain and uncertain world ? How little can the greatest prosperity add to such a state ? Will any future ...
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... peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to- gether in unity ! It is like precious ointment : Like the dew of Hermon , and the dew that descended upon the moun- tains of Zion . The sluggard will not plough by reason ...
... peace . How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to- gether in unity ! It is like precious ointment : Like the dew of Hermon , and the dew that descended upon the moun- tains of Zion . The sluggard will not plough by reason ...
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... peace will be impaired . But it any , which has the taint of guilt , take early possession of our mind , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion , which generally af fords the ...
... peace will be impaired . But it any , which has the taint of guilt , take early possession of our mind , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tranquillity . Every man has some darling passion , which generally af fords the ...
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... peace , and smile at the impotent . assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced de- sires , are the ...
... peace , and smile at the impotent . assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced de- sires , are the ...
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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.