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 ReadingJohn Montgomery, 1827 - 264 pagini |
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Pagina 21
... live well to - day , ( says Martial , ) will be less qualified to live well to - morrow . 3. Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situa- tion which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his princi- ples ...
... live well to - day , ( says Martial , ) will be less qualified to live well to - morrow . 3. Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situa- tion which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his princi- ples ...
Pagina 43
... live in perpetual hostility with our fellows . 5. This is , for the sake of living , to deprive ourselves of the comfort of life . The man of candour enjoys his situation , what- ever it is , with cheerfulness and peace . Prudence ...
... live in perpetual hostility with our fellows . 5. This is , for the sake of living , to deprive ourselves of the comfort of life . The man of candour enjoys his situation , what- ever it is , with cheerfulness and peace . Prudence ...
Pagina 46
... live to God and his own soul , and at the same time attend to all the lawful interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and provides for the future . 9. He catches and arrests the hours as they fly . They are marked ...
... live to God and his own soul , and at the same time attend to all the lawful interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and provides for the future . 9. He catches and arrests the hours as they fly . They are marked ...
Pagina 49
... live in a kind of splendid poverty ; and are perpetually wanting , because , instead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of life , they endeavour to outvie one another in shadows and appearances . Men of sense have at all times beheld ...
... live in a kind of splendid poverty ; and are perpetually wanting , because , instead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of life , they endeavour to outvie one another in shadows and appearances . Men of sense have at all times beheld ...
Pagina 52
... live in it . Leave the intercourse of men . Retreat to the mountain , and the desert ; or shut thyself up in a cell . For here , in the midst of society , offences must come . 6. We might as well expect , when we behold a calm atmos ...
... live in it . Leave the intercourse of men . Retreat to the mountain , and the desert ; or shut thyself up in a cell . For here , in the midst of society , offences must come . 6. We might as well expect , when we behold a calm atmos ...
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Pagina 163 - 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...
Pagina 189 - Lives on the labours of this lord of all. Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Pagina 82 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Pagina 183 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, •And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Pagina 183 - 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.
Pagina 179 - 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...
Pagina 179 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Pagina 179 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth 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.
Pagina 157 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Pagina 175 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.