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 ; 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 ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263 стор. |
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... exactly to the degree of infernal feeling . It is chiefly in the proper use of these tones , that the life , spirit , beauty , and harmony of de livery consist . The limits of this Introduction do not admit of examples INTRODUCTION . xi.
... exactly to the degree of infernal feeling . It is chiefly in the proper use of these tones , that the life , spirit , beauty , and harmony of de livery consist . The limits of this Introduction do not admit of examples INTRODUCTION . xi.
Сторінка xii
... 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 daugh ters of the uncircumcised ...
... 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 daugh ters of the uncircumcised ...
Сторінка xiv
... beauty on expression , and is so necessary to be studied by the young reader , that we shall insert a few more examples , to induce him to pay greater attention to the subject . In these instan- ces , all the inflections are not marked ...
... beauty on expression , and is so necessary to be studied by the young reader , that we shall insert a few more examples , to induce him to pay greater attention to the subject . In these instan- ces , all the inflections are not marked ...
Сторінка xvi
... of reading without attention to the subject ; and establish habit of readily discovering the meaning , force , and beauty , of every sentence they peruse . PART I. PIECES IN PROSE . CHAPTER 1 . SELECT xvi INTRODUCTION .
... of reading without attention to the subject ; and establish habit of readily discovering the meaning , force , and beauty , of every sentence they peruse . PART I. PIECES IN PROSE . CHAPTER 1 . SELECT xvi INTRODUCTION .
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... beauty and ent is poured forth on the face of nature ! What a gnificent spectacle presented to the view of man ! What ply contrived for his wants ! What a variety of objects before him , to gratify his senses , to employ his under ...
... beauty and ent is poured forth on the face of nature ! What a gnificent spectacle presented to the view of man ! What ply contrived for his wants ! What a variety of objects before him , to gratify his senses , to employ his under ...
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Сторінка 225 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Сторінка 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Сторінка 231 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening 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, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Сторінка 194 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Сторінка 226 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Сторінка 184 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Сторінка 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Сторінка 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Сторінка 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Сторінка 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.