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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Page 10
... smiling aspect does the love of parents and children , of brothers and sisters , of friends and rela- tions , give to every surrounding object , and every re- turning day ! With what a lustre does it gild even the smallest habitation ...
... smiling aspect does the love of parents and children , of brothers and sisters , of friends and rela- tions , give to every surrounding object , and every re- turning day ! With what a lustre does it gild even the smallest habitation ...
Page 14
... smile , and every object shines with the gloss of novelty ; let us beware of the seducing appearances which surround us ; and recollect what others have suffered from the power of headstrong desire . If we allow any passion , even ...
... smile , and every object shines with the gloss of novelty ; let us beware of the seducing appearances which surround us ; and recollect what others have suffered from the power of headstrong desire . If we allow any passion , even ...
Page 15
... smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced desires , are the instruments of ...
... smile at the impotent assaults of fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty passions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced desires , are the instruments of ...
Page 39
... smiles , while his heart throbs within from appre- hension of secret treachery . Hence fretfulness and ill - humour , disgust at the world , and all the painful sensations of an irritated and embittered mind . So numerous and great are ...
... smiles , while his heart throbs within from appre- hension of secret treachery . Hence fretfulness and ill - humour , disgust at the world , and all the painful sensations of an irritated and embittered mind . So numerous and great are ...
Page 46
... smiling . Within , it con- ceals toil , and trouble , and deadly sorrow . For vice poisons human happiness in the spring , by introducing disorder into the heart . Those passions which it seems to indulge , it only feeds with imperfect ...
... smiling . Within , it con- ceals toil , and trouble , and deadly sorrow . For vice poisons human happiness in the spring , by introducing disorder into the heart . Those passions which it seems to indulge , it only feeds with imperfect ...
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Page 181 - 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.