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 56
... hours as they fly . They are marked down for useful purposes , and their memory re- mains . Whereas those hours fleet by the man of confusion like a shadow . His days and years are either blanks , of which he has no remembrance , or ...
... hours as they fly . They are marked down for useful purposes , and their memory re- mains . Whereas those hours fleet by the man of confusion like a shadow . His days and years are either blanks , of which he has no remembrance , or ...
Page 226
... hour I best may choose to hail thy power , And court thy gentle sway ! When autumn , friendly to the muse , Shall thy own modest tints diffuse , . And shed thy milder day ? 9. When Eve , her dewy star beneath , Thy balmy spirit loves to ...
... hour I best may choose to hail thy power , And court thy gentle sway ! When autumn , friendly to the muse , Shall thy own modest tints diffuse , . And shed thy milder day ? 9. When Eve , her dewy star beneath , Thy balmy spirit loves to ...
Page 233
... hours employs ; No noisy neighbour enters here , No intermeddling stranger near , To spoil our heart - felt joys . 3. If solid happiness we prize , Within our breast this jewel lies , And they are fools who roam : The world has nothing ...
... hours employs ; No noisy neighbour enters here , No intermeddling stranger near , To spoil our heart - felt joys . 3. If solid happiness we prize , Within our breast this jewel lies , And they are fools who roam : The world has nothing ...
Contents
Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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