The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingCollins and Hannay, 1825 - 252 Seiten |
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... heart . The reader will perceive , that the Compiler has been solicitious to recom- mend to young persons , the perusal of the sacred Scriptures , by interspersing through his work some of the most beautiful and interesting passages of ...
... heart . The reader will perceive , that the Compiler has been solicitious to recom- mend to young persons , the perusal of the sacred Scriptures , by interspersing through his work some of the most beautiful and interesting passages of ...
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... heart . From our eagerness to grasp , we strangle and destroy pleasure . A temperate spirit , and moderate expectations , are excellent safeguards of the mind , in this uncertain and changing state . There is nothing , except simplicity ...
... heart . From our eagerness to grasp , we strangle and destroy pleasure . A temperate spirit , and moderate expectations , are excellent safeguards of the mind , in this uncertain and changing state . There is nothing , except simplicity ...
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... heart . They who have nothing to give , can often afford relief to others , by imparting what they feel . Our ignorance of what is to come , and of what is really good or evil , should correct anxiety about wordly success . The veil ...
... heart . They who have nothing to give , can often afford relief to others , by imparting what they feel . Our ignorance of what is to come , and of what is really good or evil , should correct anxiety about wordly success . The veil ...
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... heart to ad- mire and adore the great Father of the universe , has reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober enquiry , we have estab- lished our principles , let us not suffer them to ...
... heart to ad- mire and adore the great Father of the universe , has reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober enquiry , we have estab- lished our principles , let us not suffer them to ...
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... heart ; and , let me add , nothing except what flows from the heart , can ren- der even external manners truly pleasing , Virtue , to become either vigorous or useful , must be ha- bitually active : not breaking forth occasionally with ...
... heart ; and , let me add , nothing except what flows from the heart , can ren- der even external manners truly pleasing , Virtue , to become either vigorous or useful , must be ha- bitually active : not breaking forth occasionally with ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character Charybdis comfort death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father favour feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human indulge inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia pass passions pause peace perfect person pleasing pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias racter reading reign religion render rest rich rise Roman Roman citizen scene SECTION sense shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spect spirit tears temper tempest thee things thou art thought tion truth Tuning sweet vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Seite 226 - 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, 3 What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball! What tho' no real voice nor sound, Amid their radiant orbs be found ! In reason's
Seite 5 - of David over Saul and Jonathan, and which will, in some degree, elucidate what has been said on this subject. " The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high " places; how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath ; publish it not in " the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice ; lest the
Seite 232 - 4 Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the Solar Walk or Milky Way, Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and
Seite 173 - once, avails thee not; To whom related, or by whom begot: A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. Fame. All fame is foreign, but of true desert; . Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour, whole years outweighs Of stupid starers, and of
Seite 8 - pause may make the line sound somewhat unharmoniously; but the effect would be much worse, if the sense were sacrificed to the sound. For instance, in the following lines of Milton : " What in me is dark, " Illumine; what is low, raise and support. 1
Seite 79 - upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing with joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame: I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I knew not, I searched out.
Seite 114 - 2 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among my own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews, who knew me from the beginning, (if they would testify,) that after the straitest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand and am judged for the hope of
Seite 188 - neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after show'rs ; Nor grateful ev'ning mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Of
Seite 187 - Were sunk; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament. With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen,
Seite 124 - serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. For the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.