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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... shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and vanity , direct the train of your pursuits . To maintain a steady and unbroken mind , amidst all the shocks of the world , marks a great and noble spirit . Patience , by ...
... shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and vanity , direct the train of your pursuits . To maintain a steady and unbroken mind , amidst all the shocks of the world , marks a great and noble spirit . Patience , by ...
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... shade it will bear . Many men mistake the love , for the practice , of vir- tue ; and are not so much good men , as the friends of goodness . Genuine virtue has a language that speaks to every heart throughout the world . It is a ...
... shade it will bear . Many men mistake the love , for the practice , of vir- tue ; and are not so much good men , as the friends of goodness . Genuine virtue has a language that speaks to every heart throughout the world . It is a ...
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... He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country , in search of some one that might teach him to grow rich ; and as he stood on the top of a hill , shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his Chap . 2 . 31 Narrative Pieces ,
... He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country , in search of some one that might teach him to grow rich ; and as he stood on the top of a hill , shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his Chap . 2 . 31 Narrative Pieces ,
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... shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his steps , his father appeared on a sudden standing before him . " Ortogrul , " said the old man , “ I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ; turn thine eye on the opposite ...
... shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his steps , his father appeared on a sudden standing before him . " Ortogrul , " said the old man , “ I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ; turn thine eye on the opposite ...
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... shaded with laurels and other ever - greens , and the effulgence which beamed from the face of Science seemed to ... shades of evening stretched over the land- scape . I hastened homeward ; and resigned the night to silence and ...
... shaded with laurels and other ever - greens , and the effulgence which beamed from the face of Science seemed to ... shades of evening stretched over the land- scape . I hastened homeward ; and resigned the night to silence and ...
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affections Antiparos appeared Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness beautiful beautiful plains behold blessing Caius Verres character comfort consider dark death DEMOCRITUS desire DIONYSIUS distress Divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil father folly fortune friendship gentle give Greek language ground happiness Hazael heart heaven HERACLITUS honour hope human infinite innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord Lord Guilford Dudley mankind ment Micipsa midst mind misery mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er objects Ortogrul ourselves pain Paros pass passions peace perfection persons philosopher pleasure possession pow'r present pride prince proper Pythias racter reason religion render rest rich rise rusals scene sense sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul spirit suffer temper thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice violence virtue voice whole wisdom wise wish youth
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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...