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 pagini |
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Pagina 15
... rising and the falling inflection of voice ; as will be seen in this example : " Moderate exercise` , and habitual temperance ' , strength . n the constitution . " As the suspending pause may be thus attended with both the rising and ...
... rising and the falling inflection of voice ; as will be seen in this example : " Moderate exercise` , and habitual temperance ' , strength . n the constitution . " As the suspending pause may be thus attended with both the rising and ...
Pagina 16
... rising , the second the falling in flection : : as , " Does his conduct support discipline ' , or destroy it ? " The rising and falling inflections must not be confounded with em phasis . Though they may often coincide , they are , in ...
... rising , the second the falling in flection : : as , " Does his conduct support discipline ' , or destroy it ? " The rising and falling inflections must not be confounded with em phasis . Though they may often coincide , they are , in ...
Pagina 41
... rising also in guilt ; till at last he completed that whole character of iniquity , which he once detested . SECTION III . Haman ; or , the misery of pride . BLAIR . AHASUERUS , who is supposed to be the prince known among the Greek ...
... rising also in guilt ; till at last he completed that whole character of iniquity , which he once detested . SECTION III . Haman ; or , the misery of pride . BLAIR . AHASUERUS , who is supposed to be the prince known among the Greek ...
Pagina 48
... rising to their view ; and the summit of the highest they could before discern seemed but the foot of another , till the mountain at length appeared to lose itself in the clouds . As I was gazing on these things with astonishment , a ...
... rising to their view ; and the summit of the highest they could before discern seemed but the foot of another , till the mountain at length appeared to lose itself in the clouds . As I was gazing on these things with astonishment , a ...
Pagina 50
... vigorous with rest : he was animated with hope ; he was incited by desire ; he walked swiftly forward over the vallies , and saw the hills gradually rising before him . As he passed along , 50 Part 1 . The English Redder .
... vigorous with rest : he was animated with hope ; he was incited by desire ; he walked swiftly forward over the vallies , and saw the hills gradually rising before him . As he passed along , 50 Part 1 . The English Redder .
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ages offended Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character cheerful comfort consider death desire distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy ev'ry evil father feel folly fortune gentle give Greek language ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven honour hope human indulge Jugurtha king labours live look Lord lord Guilford Dudley mankind Micipsa midst mind misery mountain multitude nature never Numidia o'er objects Ortogrul ourselves pain passions pause peace persons philosopher pleasing pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise Roger Ascham scene SECTION sense sentiments shade shine Sicily smiling sorrow soul sound spirit storm of passion suffer temper tempest thee things thought tion truth vanity vice violent virtue voice wisdom wise wish youth
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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?
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 196 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...
Pagina 217 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.