The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry ...Atwood & Brown, 1837 - 263 pages |
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... allowed to come under their notice , but such as are perfectly innocent ; and if , on all pro- per occasions , they were encouraged to peruse those which tend to inspire a due reverence for virtue , and an abhorrence of vice , as well ...
... allowed to come under their notice , but such as are perfectly innocent ; and if , on all pro- per occasions , they were encouraged to peruse those which tend to inspire a due reverence for virtue , and an abhorrence of vice , as well ...
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... allowed to fall . It may easily be gathered at the intervals of the period , when the voice is suspended only for a moment ; and , by this management , one may always have a sufficient stock for carrying on the longest sentence ...
... allowed to fall . It may easily be gathered at the intervals of the period , when the voice is suspended only for a moment ; and , by this management , one may always have a sufficient stock for carrying on the longest sentence ...
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... allowed to amuse young persons , to engross their time , and to stir up their passions ; the day of ruin , -let them take heed , and beware ! the day of irrecoverable ruin begins to draw nigh . Fortune is squandered ; health is bro- ken ...
... allowed to amuse young persons , to engross their time , and to stir up their passions ; the day of ruin , -let them take heed , and beware ! the day of irrecoverable ruin begins to draw nigh . Fortune is squandered ; health is bro- ken ...
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... allowed to extend its influence too far , it corrupts the whole character , and produces guilt , dis grace , and misery . To be entirely destitute of it , is a defect . To be governed by it , is depravity . The proper adjustment of the ...
... allowed to extend its influence too far , it corrupts the whole character , and produces guilt , dis grace , and misery . To be entirely destitute of it , is a defect . To be governed by it , is depravity . The proper adjustment of the ...
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... allowed to enjoy ; on the small difference which the diversity of fortune makes on that scanty proportion ; it is surprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among ...
... allowed to enjoy ; on the small difference which the diversity of fortune makes on that scanty proportion ; it is surprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among ...
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Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerning character cheer comfort consider creatures dark death delight Dioclesian divine dread earth enjoy enjoyments envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father favour folly fortune Fundanus give Greek language ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven honour hope human indulge Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord lord Guilford Dudley mankind Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna mountain nature never numbers Numidia o'er objects Ortogrul ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfect person pleasing pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias racter reason religion render resignation rest rich rise scene SECTION sense shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit tal cloud temper tempest thee things thou thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise wish youth
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Page 240 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 256 - 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.
Page 240 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 234 - 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 186 - The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Page 125 - I also did in Jerusalem ; and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them...
Page 226 - As thus the snows arise; and foul, and fierce, All Winter drives along the darkened air; In his own loose-revolving fields, the swain Disaster'd stands; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain : Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild ; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray; Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home ; the thoughts of home...
Page 188 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Page 254 - Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives thro' all life, extends thro' all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, A9 the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 192 - Had cheer'd the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangu'd him thus, right eloquent— Did you admire my lamp...