The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry ...Atwood & Brown, 1837 - 263 páginas |
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... turn aside from the world , and commune with himself in retirement , will , sometimes at least , hear the truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those ...
... turn aside from the world , and commune with himself in retirement , will , sometimes at least , hear the truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructer will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those ...
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... turn , but to point out a remarkable change , which was to take place in his condition ; " The Lord hath shown me , that thou shalt be king over Syria . " In course of time , all that had been predicted came to pass . Hazael ascended ...
... turn , but to point out a remarkable change , which was to take place in his condition ; " The Lord hath shown me , that thou shalt be king over Syria . " In course of time , all that had been predicted came to pass . Hazael ascended ...
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... the old man , " I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ; turn thine eye on the opposite mountain . " Ortogrul looked , and saw torrent tumbling down the rocks , roaring with the noise of 46 Pari 1 . The English Reader .
... the old man , " I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ; turn thine eye on the opposite mountain . " Ortogrul looked , and saw torrent tumbling down the rocks , roaring with the noise of 46 Pari 1 . The English Reader .
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... turn aside , by a numerous crowd of Appetites , Passions , and Pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with , they became less and less able to resist and though they often returned to the path , the asperities of the road ...
... turn aside , by a numerous crowd of Appetites , Passions , and Pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with , they became less and less able to resist and though they often returned to the path , the asperities of the road ...
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... turn our eyes upon the gardens of plea- sure . We approach them with scruple and hesitation ; we enter them , but enter timorous and trembling ; and always . hope to pass through them without losing the road of virtue , which , for a ...
... turn our eyes upon the gardens of plea- sure . We approach them with scruple and hesitation ; we enter them , but enter timorous and trembling ; and always . hope to pass through them without losing the road of virtue , which , for a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerning character cheer comfort consider creatures dark death delight Dioclesian divine dread earth enjoy enjoyments envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father favour folly fortune Fundanus give Greek language ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven honour hope human indulge Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord lord Guilford Dudley mankind Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna mountain nature never numbers Numidia o'er objects Ortogrul ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfect person pleasing pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias racter reason religion render resignation rest rich rise scene SECTION sense shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit tal cloud temper tempest thee things thou thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise wish youth
Pasajes populares
Página 240 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 256 - Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring ; Flings from the Sun direct the flaming day ; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth ; And, as on earth this grateful change revolves. With transport touches all the springs of life.
Página 240 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Página 234 - 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.
Página 186 - The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Página 125 - I also did in Jerusalem ; and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them...
Página 226 - As thus the snows arise; and foul, and fierce, All Winter drives along the darkened air; In his own loose-revolving fields, the swain Disaster'd stands; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain : Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild ; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray; Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home ; the thoughts of home...
Página 188 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Página 254 - Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives thro' all life, extends thro' all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, A9 the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 192 - Had cheer'd the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangu'd him thus, right eloquent— Did you admire my lamp...