Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most Approved Authors, Ancient and Modern. To which are Added, Some Biographical Sketches from the Earliest Ages of the World to Nearly the Present Time. Also, Extensive Scripture Lessons. ...Mahlon Day, 1827 |
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الصفحة 7
... rise against our peace . By nature's law , what may be , may be now : There's no prerogative in human hours . p . 25 . In human hearts what bolder thought can rise , Than YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS .
... rise against our peace . By nature's law , what may be , may be now : There's no prerogative in human hours . p . 25 . In human hearts what bolder thought can rise , Than YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS .
الصفحة 8
... rise , Than man's presumption on to - morrow's dawn ? Where is to - morrow ? in another world . For numbers this is certain ; the reverse Is sure to none ; and yet on this perhaps , This peradventure , infamous for lies , As on a rock ...
... rise , Than man's presumption on to - morrow's dawn ? Where is to - morrow ? in another world . For numbers this is certain ; the reverse Is sure to none ; and yet on this perhaps , This peradventure , infamous for lies , As on a rock ...
الصفحة 16
... rising in his soul ; As crystal clear ; and smiling , as they rise ! Here nectar flows ; it sparkles in our sight ; Rich to the taste and genuine from the heart . * * Like birds , whose beauties languish . half conceal'd , Till ...
... rising in his soul ; As crystal clear ; and smiling , as they rise ! Here nectar flows ; it sparkles in our sight ; Rich to the taste and genuine from the heart . * * Like birds , whose beauties languish . half conceal'd , Till ...
الصفحة 17
... A previous blast foretells the rising storm ; O'erwhelming turrets threaten ere they fall ; Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue ; VOL . I. 2 * Earth trembles ere her yawning jaws devour ; And smoke YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS . 17.
... A previous blast foretells the rising storm ; O'erwhelming turrets threaten ere they fall ; Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue ; VOL . I. 2 * Earth trembles ere her yawning jaws devour ; And smoke YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS . 17.
الصفحة 24
... rising , as in number less , Inestimable quite his final Hour . * * Behold the inexorable hour at hand ! Behold th ' inexorable hour forgot ! And to forget it , the chief aim of life , Tho ' well to ponder it , is life's chief end . p ...
... rising , as in number less , Inestimable quite his final Hour . * * Behold the inexorable hour at hand ! Behold th ' inexorable hour forgot ! And to forget it , the chief aim of life , Tho ' well to ponder it , is life's chief end . p ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
animals Art thou beauty Behold blessings blest bliss charming group charms cure death delight Descartes divine dreams earth employed eternal ev'ry fear feeble feel felicity Finland fool form'd frequently Gauls gives Greenland hand happiness HARVARD COLLEGE heart heav'n honours hope hour human immortal labour land life's live Louis XIV man's mankind means mind miserable moral nature nature's Nero never o'er once ourselves pain passions peace plant pleasure plebian poor pow'r praise pride quadruped racter reason religion render replied repose rest rich Samaritan scene scorn sentiment shade shine sigh smiles Socrates soul spleen storm sublime sublunary taste teach tears tempest thee thine thing thou thought tion toil tree treme truth Turenne vice virtue virtuous wisdom wise wish worlds unknown wretched
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 67 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
الصفحة 108 - Or aught thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
الصفحة 102 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
الصفحة 9 - Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...
الصفحة 118 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
الصفحة 172 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
الصفحة 58 - I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain ; And plain in manner. Decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture. Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
الصفحة 54 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
الصفحة 99 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
الصفحة 57 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.