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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7 Were this order once confounded , I could not probably survive a moment ; so
absolutely do I depend on this common general welfare . What , then , have ) to
do , but to enlarge virtue into piety ? Not only honour and justice , and what I owe
...
7 Were this order once confounded , I could not probably survive a moment ; so
absolutely do I depend on this common general welfare . What , then , have ) to
do , but to enlarge virtue into piety ? Not only honour and justice , and what I owe
...
Сторінка 115
O sound once delightful to every Roman ear ! - O sacred privilege of Roman
citizenship ! - once sacred ! - - now trampled upon ! - But what then ! Is it come to
this ? Shall an inferiour magistrate , a governour , who holds his whole power of
the ...
O sound once delightful to every Roman ear ! - O sacred privilege of Roman
citizenship ! - once sacred ! - - now trampled upon ! - But what then ! Is it come to
this ? Shall an inferiour magistrate , a governour , who holds his whole power of
the ...
Сторінка 185
12 I heard : and lo ! at once controllid , The waves , in wild retreat , Back on
themselves reluctant roll ' d And , murm ' ring , left my feet . 13 Deeps , to
assembling deeps , in vain Once more the signal gave : The shores the rushing
weight ...
12 I heard : and lo ! at once controllid , The waves , in wild retreat , Back on
themselves reluctant roll ' d And , murm ' ring , left my feet . 13 Deeps , to
assembling deeps , in vain Once more the signal gave : The shores the rushing
weight ...
Сторінка 192
2 And lives the man , whose universal eye Has swept at once th ' unbounded
scheme of things , Mark ' d their dependence so , and firm accord , As with unfault
' ring accent to conclude That this availeth nought ? Has any seen The mighty ...
2 And lives the man , whose universal eye Has swept at once th ' unbounded
scheme of things , Mark ' d their dependence so , and firm accord , As with unfault
' ring accent to conclude That this availeth nought ? Has any seen The mighty ...
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... Nor misses once the track ; but presses on , Till , frrc ' d at last to the
tremendous verge , At once she sinks to everlasting ruin . - R . BLAIR . SECTION
IV . Elegy to pity . . HAIL , lovely pow ' r ! whose bosom heaves the sigh , When
fancy paints ...
... Nor misses once the track ; but presses on , Till , frrc ' d at last to the
tremendous verge , At once she sinks to everlasting ruin . - R . BLAIR . SECTION
IV . Elegy to pity . . HAIL , lovely pow ' r ! whose bosom heaves the sigh , When
fancy paints ...
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