Poems, Odes, Prologues, and Epilogues, Spoken on Public Occasions at Reading School: To which is Added Some Account of the Rev. Mr. Benwell, and Rev. Dr. ButtJ. Nichols and Son ... Sold by Messrs. Richardson, J. Pridden, and other booksellers., 1804 - 264 sider |
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Poems, Odes, Prologues and Epilogues Spoken on Public Occasions at Reading ... Richard Valpy Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1804 |
Poems, Odes, Prologues, and Epilogues, Spoken on Public Occasions at Reading ... Richard Valpy Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2008 |
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Side i - When all these employments are well conquered, then will the choice histories, heroic poems, and Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument, with all the famous political orations, offer themselves; which if they were not only read, but some of them got by memory, and solemnly pronounced with right accent and grace, as might be taught, would endue them even with the spirit and vigor of Demosthenes or Cicero, Euripides or Sophocles.
Side 35 - These are the studies wherein our noble and our gentle youth ought to bestow their time in a disciplinary way from twelve to one-and-twenty, unless they rely more upon their ancestors dead than upon themselves living.
Side 218 - He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time: For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked.
Side 35 - In which methodical course, it is so supposed they must proceed by the steady pace of learning onward, as at convenient times for memory's sake to retire back into the middle ward, and sometimes into the rear of what they have been taught, until they have confirmed and solidly united the whole body of their perfected knowledge, like the last embattling of a Roman legion.
Side 156 - The victor's spoil, o'erwhelm'd beneath the tide ; And wild Arabia's desultory bands, The fight surveying from the neighbouring lands, With shouts of triumph hail the conquering host, And Albion's fame illumines Egypt's coast. Ah ! gallant heroes! in this glorious strife, Who...
Side 217 - Memory of this amiable and excellent young man, is prefixed to the chancel of Caversham church, near Reading, and does merely justice to the many valuable qualifications of him whose virtues and graces it records : — " Near this Chancel are deposited The Remains of the REV. WILLIAM BENWELL, Late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, Who died of a contagious fever, the consequence of his charitable endeavours to relieve and comfort the inhabitants of the village in which he resided. From early youth...
Side 184 - The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, 5 vols.
Side 157 - O'er the blue wave, that shrouds th' illustrious dead, Her amaranthine wreaths shall Glory shed ; Angelic strains shall chant your blest decease, And Seraphs hymn...
Side 167 - Isis' waters flow, And, distant Faringdon, thy humbler brow; Each manly bosom, kindling with delight, Proud to appear in George's...
Side 156 - An atheist warrior with gigantic pride, The armies of the LIVING GOD defied; BRITANNIA'S sons the threat with horror hear, And fearing heaven, disclaim all other fear ; By valour fired — by gallant NELSON led, Free to the winds their red-cross banners spread. In vain the...