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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 sider |
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Side xvi
... sorrow and lamentation ; there- fore the note is low . The next contains a spirited command , and should be pronounced much higher . The other sentence , in which he makes a pathetic ad- dress to the mountains where his friends had been ...
... sorrow and lamentation ; there- fore the note is low . The next contains a spirited command , and should be pronounced much higher . The other sentence , in which he makes a pathetic ad- dress to the mountains where his friends had been ...
Side 5
... sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for worldly pursuits , and to recall , from time to time , the admo . nitions of conscience . SECTION IV . TIME once past never returns ; the moment which is lost ...
... sorrow , are , therefore , so blended in his life , as both to give room for worldly pursuits , and to recall , from time to time , the admo . nitions of conscience . SECTION IV . TIME once past never returns ; the moment which is lost ...
Side 7
... sorrow . It ought , therefore , to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund ...
... sorrow . It ought , therefore , to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund ...
Side 12
... sorrows . Would they look with a more impartial eye on the world , they would see themselves surrounded with sufferers ; and find that they are only drinking out of that mixed cup which Providence has prepared for all . " I will restore ...
... sorrows . Would they look with a more impartial eye on the world , they would see themselves surrounded with sufferers ; and find that they are only drinking out of that mixed cup which Providence has prepared for all . " I will restore ...
Side 13
... sorrows , is universally experienced , and almost universally confessed - But let us not attend only to mournful truths ; if we look impartially about us , we shall find that every day has likewise its pleasures and its joys . We should ...
... sorrows , is universally experienced , and almost universally confessed - But let us not attend only to mournful truths ; if we look impartially about us , we shall find that every day has likewise its pleasures and its joys . We should ...
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amidst Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessings Caius Verres character cheerful comforts dark death Democritus Descartes Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune give Greek language ground happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind ment mercy Micipsa mind misery Mount Etna mountain nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION SECTION VI sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet temper tempest tence thee things thou thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Side 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.