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 Reading |
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action affections appear attention beauty BLAIR blessing called cause character comfort common condition consider continued course danger death desire earth enjoy evil expression eyes fall father fear feel follow fortune give ground hand happiness heart heaven honour hope hour human interest kind king labours less light live look Lord mankind manner mark means mind misery nature never objects observe once ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfect person pleasing pleasure possession present principles proper raised reading reason reflection regard religion render rest rich rising scene seems sense shining soul sound spirit spring stand suffer sure temper thee things thou thought tion true truth turn virtue voice whole wisdom wise wish young youth
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Página 170 - 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.
Página 224 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Página 184 - The next, with dirges due in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne : — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 161 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Página 250 - With light and heat refulgent. Then Thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year : And oft Thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks : And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales.
Página 81 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Página 207 - There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
Página 195 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful' land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night. With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Página 222 - To all my weak complaints and cries Thy mercy lent an ear, Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learnt To form themselves in prayer. 5 Unnumber'd comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestow'd, Before my infant heart conceived From whom those comforts flow'd. 6 When in the slippery paths of youth With heedless steps I ran, Thine arm, unseen, convey'd me safe, And led me up to man.
Página 216 - Each passing hour sheds tribute from her wings ; And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure unreprov'd. Nor thence partakes Fresh pleasure only : for the attentive mind, By this harmonious action on her powers Becomes herself harmonious...
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| Título | 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 ... |
| Autor | Lindley Murray |
| Compilado por | Lindley Murray |
| Edición | 3 |
| Editor | Calvin Spaulding, 1819 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Princeton |
| Digitalizado | 26 Mar 2008 |
| Largo | 258 páginas |
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