The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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... favour of Hea- ven . Temperance , by fortifying the mind and body , leads to happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends gene- rally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more ...
... favour of Hea- ven . Temperance , by fortifying the mind and body , leads to happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends gene- rally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more ...
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... favour of his credulous sovereign , he obtained a decree to be sent forth , that against a certain day , all the Jews throughout the Persian dominions should be put to the sword . 5 Meanwhile , confident of success , and blind to ...
... favour of his credulous sovereign , he obtained a decree to be sent forth , that against a certain day , all the Jews throughout the Persian dominions should be put to the sword . 5 Meanwhile , confident of success , and blind to ...
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... favour by dishonourable means . But the sinner has forfeited every privilege of this nature . 2 His passions and habits render him an absolute depend- ant on the world , and the world's favour ; on the uncertain goods of fortune , and ...
... favour by dishonourable means . But the sinner has forfeited every privilege of this nature . 2 His passions and habits render him an absolute depend- ant on the world , and the world's favour ; on the uncertain goods of fortune , and ...
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... favours with ease and modesty . It is unassuming in opinion , and temperate in zeal . It contends not eagerly about trifles ; slow to contradict , and still slower to blame ; but prompt to allay dissention , and restore peace . 11 It ...
... favours with ease and modesty . It is unassuming in opinion , and temperate in zeal . It contends not eagerly about trifles ; slow to contradict , and still slower to blame ; but prompt to allay dissention , and restore peace . 11 It ...
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... favour with God and man , When overseer of Potiphar's house , his fidelity was proved by strong temptations , which he honourably resisted . 2 When thrown into prison by the artifices of a false wo- man , his integrity and prudence soon ...
... favour with God and man , When overseer of Potiphar's house , his fidelity was proved by strong temptations , which he honourably resisted . 2 When thrown into prison by the artifices of a false wo- man , his integrity and prudence soon ...
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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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Page 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
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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,
Page 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.