The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers, Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read ...Bennett and Walton, 1812 - 392 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة x
... render every such performance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is , much more com- mon ; and requires the more to be guarded against , be- cause , when it has grown into a habit , INTRODUCTION .
... render every such performance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is , much more com- mon ; and requires the more to be guarded against , be- cause , when it has grown into a habit , INTRODUCTION .
الصفحة xi
... cause , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be corrected . To pronounce with a proper de- gree of slowness , and with full and clear articulation , is necessary to be studied by all , who wish to become ...
... cause , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be corrected . To pronounce with a proper de- gree of slowness , and with full and clear articulation , is necessary to be studied by all , who wish to become ...
الصفحة xix
... cause of monotony , by leading the reader to a similar tone at every stop , and a uniform cadence at every period . The primary use of points , is , to assist the reader in discern- ing the grammatical construction ; and it is only as a ...
... cause of monotony , by leading the reader to a similar tone at every stop , and a uniform cadence at every period . The primary use of points , is , to assist the reader in discern- ing the grammatical construction ; and it is only as a ...
الصفحة xxx
... causes , reproved , 251 · 253 254 11. Indignant sentiments on national prejudices and hatred ; and on slavery , CHAPTER IV . Descriptive Pieces . 256 257 258 · 259 . 260 261 262 · 264 . 266 SECT . 1. The morning in summer , 2. Rural ...
... causes , reproved , 251 · 253 254 11. Indignant sentiments on national prejudices and hatred ; and on slavery , CHAPTER IV . Descriptive Pieces . 256 257 258 · 259 . 260 261 262 · 264 . 266 SECT . 1. The morning in summer , 2. Rural ...
الصفحة 10
... causes of grief , we imagine ourselves miserable ? The evil lies in the state of our mind , not in our condition of for- tune ; and by no alteration of circumstances is likely to be remedied . When the love of unwarrantable pleasures ...
... causes of grief , we imagine ourselves miserable ? The evil lies in the state of our mind , not in our condition of for- tune ; and by no alteration of circumstances is likely to be remedied . When the love of unwarrantable pleasures ...
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الصفحة 277 - And nightly to the list'ning 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.
الصفحة 263 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
الصفحة 195 - 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.
الصفحة 228 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray 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...
الصفحة 294 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
الصفحة 228 - Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive; and the timely dew of sleep, Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines Our eyelids...
الصفحة 284 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
الصفحة xvii - THE 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 daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
الصفحة 240 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd evil, is no more : The storms of wint'ry time will quickly pass, And one unbounded spring encircle all — THOMSON, SECTION VIII.
الصفحة 223 - Had cheered the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp...