The English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect ... with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingJames I. Cutler & Company, 1827 - 252 sider |
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Side 6
... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
... less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us ...
Side 10
... less degrees of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it : but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on ...
... less degrees of importance of the words upon which it operates ; and there may be very properly some variety in the use of it : but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on ...
Side 23
... less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his vir- tue ? What ...
... less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his temper , and finally oversets his vir- tue ? What ...
Side 24
... less . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons en- vied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their persons , fortunes , and dignities , I ...
... less . If envious people were to ask themselves , whether they would exchange their entire situations with the persons en- vied , ( I mean their minds , passions , notions , as well as their persons , fortunes , and dignities , I ...
Side 31
... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsatisfactory as it is , its pleasures are still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have been , had it yielded us more complete enjoyment ...
... less , it could not answer the purpose of salutary discipline . Unsatisfactory as it is , its pleasures are still too apt to corrupt our hearts . How fatal then must the consequences have been , had it yielded us more complete enjoyment ...
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Side 218 - Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. 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.
Side 78 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Side 200 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Side 224 - 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.
Side 242 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Side 178 - 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.
Side 193 - Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes.
Side 230 - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Side 217 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Side 244 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy.