The English Reader; Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best Writers ...: With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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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 , f 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 , f 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 P and sluggish water , which is curled by no breeze Chip . 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 P and sluggish water , which is curled by no breeze Chip . 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 ...
Page 53
... 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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Page 253 - 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.
Page 224 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 251 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 193 - 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.
Page 205 - 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.
Page 193 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 181 - 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.
Page 225 - 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 183 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 252 - Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring ; Flings from the Sun direct the flaming day; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth ; And, as on earth this grateful change revolves. With transport touches all the springs of life.