The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingLincoln & Edmands, 1824 - 273 стор. |
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... equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizier , to which he invited all the ministers of pleasure , expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he imagined rich- es able to afford . Leisure soon made him weary of him- self , and he longed ...
... equal in sumptuousness to that of the vizier , to which he invited all the ministers of pleasure , expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he imagined rich- es able to afford . Leisure soon made him weary of him- self , and he longed ...
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... equal age of king Edward VI . she had received all her education with him , and seemed even to possess a greater facility in acquiring every part of manly and clas- sical literature . 4. She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and ...
... equal age of king Edward VI . she had received all her education with him , and seemed even to possess a greater facility in acquiring every part of manly and clas- sical literature . 4. She had attained a knowledge of the Roman and ...
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... equal and uninterrupted steadiness : for besides the di culties of the way , they were continually solicited to turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , passions and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with , they ...
... equal and uninterrupted steadiness : for besides the di culties of the way , they were continually solicited to turn aside , by a numerous crowd of appetites , passions and pleasures , whose importunity , when once complied with , they ...
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... present state , How much soever a person may suffer from injustice , he is always in hazard of suffer- ng more from the prosecution of revenge . The violence : of an enemy cannot inflict what is equal to the Chap . 3 . 55 Didactic Pieces .
... present state , How much soever a person may suffer from injustice , he is always in hazard of suffer- ng more from the prosecution of revenge . The violence : of an enemy cannot inflict what is equal to the Chap . 3 . 55 Didactic Pieces .
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... equal to the torment he creates to himself , by means of the fierce and desperate passions which he allows to range in his soul . 4. Those evil spirits who inhabit the regions of mise- ry , are represented as delighting in revenge and ...
... equal to the torment he creates to himself , by means of the fierce and desperate passions which he allows to range in his soul . 4. Those evil spirits who inhabit the regions of mise- ry , are represented as delighting in revenge and ...
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Сторінка 208 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Сторінка 219 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
Сторінка 17 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Сторінка 137 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Сторінка 96 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Сторінка 72 - Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Сторінка 108 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Сторінка 202 - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in .the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend.
Сторінка 281 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Сторінка 17 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...