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 ...Samuel Mills, 1817 - 288 pages |
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... scenes of heart- felt satisfaction succeed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent intention appear every where around us ! What a profusion of beauty and ornament is poured forth on the face of nature ! What ...
... scenes of heart- felt satisfaction succeed uninterruptedly to one another ! How many clear marks of benevolent intention appear every where around us ! What a profusion of beauty and ornament is poured forth on the face of nature ! What ...
Page 46
... scenes of sore distress which are passing at that mo ment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and the children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for thats ...
... scenes of sore distress which are passing at that mo ment throughout the world ; multitudes struggling for a poor subsistence , to support the wife and the children whom they love , and who look up to them with eager eyes for thats ...
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... scene , where their affections would be forever united ; and where death , disappointments , and mis- fortunes , could no longer have access to them , or disturb their eternal felicity . It had been intended to execute the lady Jane and ...
... scene , where their affections would be forever united ; and where death , disappointments , and mis- fortunes , could no longer have access to them , or disturb their eternal felicity . It had been intended to execute the lady Jane and ...
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... scenes of nature , on which the eye rests with pleasure- Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms of human talsehood , deceit and treacht ry , resen bles the traveller in the wilderness ...
... scenes of nature , on which the eye rests with pleasure- Whereas the suspicious man , having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms of human talsehood , deceit and treacht ry , resen bles the traveller in the wilderness ...
Page 83
... through it . The galaxy ap- peared in the most beautiful white . To complete the scene , the full moon rose , at length , in that cloaded majesty , which Milton takes notice of ; and opened to the eye THE ENGLISH READER . 83.
... through it . The galaxy ap- peared in the most beautiful white . To complete the scene , the full moon rose , at length , in that cloaded majesty , which Milton takes notice of ; and opened to the eye THE ENGLISH READER . 83.
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affected Altamont ancholy Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres Catana character comforts dark death delight DEMOCRITUS Dioclesian distress divine dread EARL OF STRAFFORD earth enjoyment ev'ry evil father fear feel folly fortune friendship gentle give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honor hope human innocence Jugurtha king king Agrippa labors live look mankind Micipsa mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble lord Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace persons philosopher pity pleasure possess pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest riches rise Roman ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer tears temper tempest thee things thou art thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice whole wisdom wise words youth
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Page 246 - Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ; Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 248 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 187 - 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.
Page 119 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Page 223 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Page 251 - With friendship, peace, and contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep retir'd distress. How many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting anguish. Thought fond man Of these, and all the thousand nameless ills, That one incessant struggle render life, One scene of toil, of suffering, and of fate...
Page 84 - Were the soul separate from the body, and with one glance of thought should start beyond the bounds of the creation, should it for millions of years continue its progress through infinite space with the same activity, it would still find itself within the embrace of its Creator, and encompassed round with the immensity of the Godhead. Whilst we are in the body he is not less present with us because he is concealed from us. " O that I knew where I might find him!
Page 96 - The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it*: and can there be a thought so transporting, as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to him, who is not only the standard of perfection but of happiness ! L.
Page xxii - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 236 - Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.