The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry ...Atwood & Brown, 1837 - 263 pages |
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... blessings , pronounced by Christ on his disciples , in his sermon on the mount , 10. Schemes of life often illusory , Page . · 128 132 136 139 ih . 140 143 · 145 146 148 149 150 11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility , 12. On the ...
... blessings , pronounced by Christ on his disciples , in his sermon on the mount , 10. Schemes of life often illusory , Page . · 128 132 136 139 ih . 140 143 · 145 146 148 149 150 11. The pleasures of virtuous sensibility , 12. On the ...
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... blessings in disguise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to ...
... blessings in disguise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature , and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to ...
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... blessings to the world , sunk down , in the end , to be the burden and nuisance of society ! The most common propensity of mankind , is , to store futu- rity with whatever is agreeable to them ; especially in those periods of life ...
... blessings to the world , sunk down , in the end , to be the burden and nuisance of society ! The most common propensity of mankind , is , to store futu- rity with whatever is agreeable to them ; especially in those periods of life ...
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... bless the hermit in his cell . I have a temple in every heart that owns my influence ; and to him that wishes for me , I am already present . Science may raise thee to eminence ; but I alone can guide thee to felicity ! " speaking , I ...
... bless the hermit in his cell . I have a temple in every heart that owns my influence ; and to him that wishes for me , I am already present . Science may raise thee to eminence ; but I alone can guide thee to felicity ! " speaking , I ...
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... blessing , to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though , it must be confessed , there are , even in these parts , several poor uninstructed persons , who are but little above the inhabitants of ...
... blessing , to be born in those parts of the world where wisdom and knowledge flourish ; though , it must be confessed , there are , even in these parts , several poor uninstructed persons , who are but little above the inhabitants of ...
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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...