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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... Art thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industrious , peaceable and contented . Art thou wealthy ? -Show thy- self beneficent and charitable , condescending and humane . Though religion removes not all the evils of life ; though it ...
... Art thou poor ? -Show thyself active and industrious , peaceable and contented . Art thou wealthy ? -Show thy- self beneficent and charitable , condescending and humane . Though religion removes not all the evils of life ; though it ...
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... thy daughter again to life , " said an eastern sage to a prince who grieved immoderately for the loss of a beloved child , " provided thou art able to engrave on her tomb , the names of three persons who have never mourned . ” The ...
... thy daughter again to life , " said an eastern sage to a prince who grieved immoderately for the loss of a beloved child , " provided thou art able to engrave on her tomb , the names of three persons who have never mourned . ” The ...
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... thy condition , who art doomed to the perpetual torments of unsatisfied desire ; and who hast no amusement in thy power , that can withhold thee from thy own reflections !, 5 They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdom ...
... thy condition , who art doomed to the perpetual torments of unsatisfied desire ; and who hast no amusement in thy power , that can withhold thee from thy own reflections !, 5 They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdom ...
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... thou wish for sudden affluence , that may pour upon thee like the moun- tain torrent ; or for a slow and gradual ... art of praise was tried , and every source of adulatory fiction was exhausted . 11 Ortogrul heard his flatterers without ...
... thou wish for sudden affluence , that may pour upon thee like the moun- tain torrent ; or for a slow and gradual ... art of praise was tried , and every source of adulatory fiction was exhausted . 11 Ortogrul heard his flatterers without ...
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... thou canst bear with no instances of unreasonable behaviour , withdraw thyself from the world . Thou art no longer fit to live in it . Leave the intercourse of men . Ke- treat to the mountain , and the desert ; or shut thyself up in a ...
... thou canst bear with no instances of unreasonable behaviour , withdraw thyself from the world . Thou art no longer fit to live in it . Leave the intercourse of men . Ke- treat to the mountain , and the desert ; or shut thyself up in a ...
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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.