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 ; 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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able actions affections appear attention beauty blessing called character common conduct consider continued course dark death desire earth emphasis enjoy equal evil eyes fall father fear feel fortune give greater ground hand happiness heart heaven honour hope hour human kind king labour less light live look Lord mankind manner mark means mind nature never night objects observe once ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfection persons pleasing pleasure possess praise present proper raise reading reason regard render rest rich rising scene seemed sense sentence shining soul sound speak spirit spring stand suffer temper thee things thou thought tion tones true truth virtue voice whole wisdom wise wish young youth
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Strana 225 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Strana 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Strana 231 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening 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, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Strana 194 - 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...
Strana 226 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Strana 184 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "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.
Strana 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Strana 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Strana 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Strana 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
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| Názov | 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 ; 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 |
| Vydavateľ | Darius Clark, 1821 |
| Zdroj originálu: | Newyorská verejná knižnica |
| Digitalizované | 21. sep. 2006 |
| Dĺžka | 264 strán (strany) |
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