The English Reader; Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best Writers ...: With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingJ.B. Baldwin, 1839 - 253 pages |
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... wise man is happ , when he gains his own approbation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superior emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determin- ed entirely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike ...
... wise man is happ , when he gains his own approbation ; the fool , when he gains that of others . " The superior emphasis , in reading as in speaking , must be determin- ed entirely by the sense of the passage , and always made alike ...
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... wise man , and build his house on the rock , and not on the sand , should contemplate hu man life , not only in the sunshine , but in the shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , tot ostentation and vanity direct the train of your ...
... wise man , and build his house on the rock , and not on the sand , should contemplate hu man life , not only in the sunshine , but in the shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , tot ostentation and vanity direct the train of your ...
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... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , are three things so very different , as rarely to coincrte . Man , in his highest earthly glory . is but a reed floating on the ...
... wise in our own eyes , to be wise in the opinion of the world , and to be wise in the sight of our Creator , are three things so very different , as rarely to coincrte . Man , in his highest earthly glory . is but a reed floating on the ...
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... wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an cnemy are deceitful . Open rebuke is better than secret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him . He that is slow to ...
... wise . Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an cnemy are deceitful . Open rebuke is better than secret love . Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him . He that is slow to ...
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... wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity and virtue ; and never to give ...
... wise and a good man , in the evil day , with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advantages which , in the worst of times , are always left to integrity and virtue ; and never to give ...
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Page 253 - 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.
Page 224 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 251 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 193 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 205 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 193 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 181 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 225 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye Mists and Exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, ' Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 183 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 252 - Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring ; Flings from the Sun direct the flaming day; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth ; And, as on earth this grateful change revolves. With transport touches all the springs of life.