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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 pages |
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... o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . Felling trees in a wood . Loud sounds the axe , redoubling strokes on strokes ; On all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong , Deep echoing groan the thickets brown ; Then ...
... o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . Felling trees in a wood . Loud sounds the axe , redoubling strokes on strokes ; On all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong , Deep echoing groan the thickets brown ; Then ...
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... O'er hills , o'er dales , o'er crags , o'er rocks they go . Motion slow and difficult : A needless Alexandrine ends the song , 1 That , like a wounded suake , drags its slow length along . A rock torn from the brow of a mountain . Still ...
... O'er hills , o'er dales , o'er crags , o'er rocks they go . Motion slow and difficult : A needless Alexandrine ends the song , 1 That , like a wounded suake , drags its slow length along . A rock torn from the brow of a mountain . Still ...
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... O'er death's dark gulf and all its horror hides ; Praise , the sweet exhalation of our joy , That joy exalts , and makes it sweeter still ; Pray'r ardent opens heav'n , lets down a stream Of glory , on the consecrated hour Of man in ...
... O'er death's dark gulf and all its horror hides ; Praise , the sweet exhalation of our joy , That joy exalts , and makes it sweeter still ; Pray'r ardent opens heav'n , lets down a stream Of glory , on the consecrated hour Of man in ...
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... o'er my temples drew Oblivion's veil . - The wat'ry deep , An object strange and new , Before me rose : on the wide shore Observant as I stood , The gath'ring storms around me roar , And heave the boiling flood . Near and more near the ...
... o'er my temples drew Oblivion's veil . - The wat'ry deep , An object strange and new , Before me rose : on the wide shore Observant as I stood , The gath'ring storms around me roar , And heave the boiling flood . Near and more near the ...
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... Ö'er ' er scenes of future ill ? Let faith suppress each rising fear , Eah anxious doubt exclude ; Thy Maker's will has plac'd thee here , A Maker wise and good ! He to thy ev'ry trial knows Its just restraint to give ; Attentive to ...
... Ö'er ' er scenes of future ill ? Let faith suppress each rising fear , Eah anxious doubt exclude ; Thy Maker's will has plac'd thee here , A Maker wise and good ! He to thy ev'ry trial knows Its just restraint to give ; Attentive to ...
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Page 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.