The English Reader; Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best Writers ...: With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingJ.B. Baldwin, 1839 - 253 páginas |
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... kind . Damo- cles , intoxicated with pleasure , fancied himself amongst superior beings . But in the midst of all this happiness , as he lay indulging himself in state , he sees let down from the ceiling , exactly over his head , a ...
... kind . Damo- cles , intoxicated with pleasure , fancied himself amongst superior beings . But in the midst of all this happiness , as he lay indulging himself in state , he sees let down from the ceiling , exactly over his head , a ...
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... kind- ly influence on the soul of man , in respect of every being to whom he stands related . It extinguishes all murmur , repin- ing , and ingratitude , towards that Being who has allotted him his part to act in this world . It ...
... kind- ly influence on the soul of man , in respect of every being to whom he stands related . It extinguishes all murmur , repin- ing , and ingratitude , towards that Being who has allotted him his part to act in this world . It ...
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... kind of splendid poverty , and are perpetually wanting , because , instead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of life , they en- deavour to outvie one another in shadows and appearances . Men of sense have at all times beheld , with ...
... kind of splendid poverty , and are perpetually wanting , because , instead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of life , they en- deavour to outvie one another in shadows and appearances . Men of sense have at all times beheld , with ...
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... kind , or there is not . If not , then all good must be transient and un- certain ; and if so , an object of the lowest value , which can little deserve our attention or inquiry . But if there be a bet- ter good , such a good as we are ...
... kind , or there is not . If not , then all good must be transient and un- certain ; and if so , an object of the lowest value , which can little deserve our attention or inquiry . But if there be a bet- ter good , such a good as we are ...
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... kind ? Is every thing subservient to me , as though I had ordered all myself ? No- nothing like it - the farthest from it possible . The world pears not , then , orginally made for the private convenience f me alone ? —It does not . But ...
... kind ? Is every thing subservient to me , as though I had ordered all myself ? No- nothing like it - the farthest from it possible . The world pears not , then , orginally made for the private convenience f me alone ? —It does not . But ...
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Página 253 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Página 224 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 251 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Página 193 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Página 205 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 193 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 181 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 225 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye Mists and Exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, ' Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Página 183 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 252 - 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.