The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, for the Use of Schools in the United States, to which is Prefixed an Introduction on the Arts of Reading and SpeakingR. P. & C. Williams, 1815 - 204 sider |
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... souls . Com- miseration will never be excited by a smiling coun- tenance . To draw a tear , you must feel enough to shed one . And it is for this reason , your language must carry the marks of the passions you wish to communicate . This ...
... souls . Com- miseration will never be excited by a smiling coun- tenance . To draw a tear , you must feel enough to shed one . And it is for this reason , your language must carry the marks of the passions you wish to communicate . This ...
Side xxvii
... soul . Every passion whilst uttered with the tongue should , at the same time be painted in the face . There is often there more true eloquence than any words can express . By looks we are awed , charmed , incensed , softened , griev ed ...
... soul . Every passion whilst uttered with the tongue should , at the same time be painted in the face . There is often there more true eloquence than any words can express . By looks we are awed , charmed , incensed , softened , griev ed ...
Side 52
... is care and attention ; in children it is reverence and submission . In a word , it is the soul of social life , it is the un that enlivens and cheers the abodes of men . RELIGION AND MORALITY . Of all the dispositions and habits Charity ...
... is care and attention ; in children it is reverence and submission . In a word , it is the soul of social life , it is the un that enlivens and cheers the abodes of men . RELIGION AND MORALITY . Of all the dispositions and habits Charity ...
Side 65
... soul , as much as a demonstration ; and a description in Ho- mer has charmed more readers than a chapter in Ar- istotle . Besides , the pleasures of the imagination have this advantage , above those of the understanding , that they are ...
... soul , as much as a demonstration ; and a description in Ho- mer has charmed more readers than a chapter in Ar- istotle . Besides , the pleasures of the imagination have this advantage , above those of the understanding , that they are ...
Side 73
... souls on the cruel stars which presided at their birth , and aspersing the justice of the public opinion which : has sealed them : too often in the contortions and pangs of disappointed ambition , they cast a scowling eye over the world ...
... souls on the cruel stars which presided at their birth , and aspersing the justice of the public opinion which : has sealed them : too often in the contortions and pangs of disappointed ambition , they cast a scowling eye over the world ...
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Aaron Burr accent appear Arcot art of reading beauty behold Blennerhasset body bosom breath character charms Cicero clouds COLUMBIAN READER countenance death delightful dread earth eloquence emphasis emphatical English language expression fancy feel flames friends genius gesture give graceful grave habit Hamet hand happy harmony hast hath hearer heart heaven honor human human voice Hyder Ali imagination language light live look LORD CORNWALLIS mankind manner means ment mind misery moral motion MOUNT ETNA mountains nabob nation nature ness never o'er object occasion OTHELLO passions person PETRARCH phatical plain pleasure pronunciation proper racter reader or speaker reading or recitation religion Robert Boyle scene seems sentiments sion sloth smile sorrow soul speak spirit sublime syllable talents taste tempest thee thing thou thought thro tion tones truth utter virtue voice Warren Hastings whilst whole words
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Side 196 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year; And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks: And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales.
Side 137 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits ; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Side 198 - 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. When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Side 165 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Side 163 - Disaster'd stands; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain: Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray; Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves, and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt.
Side 149 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond...
Side 197 - As home he goes beneath the joyous Moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as Earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, ' Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. , Great source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On nature write with every beam his praise.
Side xvii - Who counsels best? who whispers, "Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place~
Side 137 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Side 195 - The Soul, of origin divine, GOD'S glorious image, freed from clay, In heaven's eternal sphere shall shine A star of day. " The SUN is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky ; The SOUL, immortal as its Sire, SHALL NEVER DIE.