The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...Lincoln and Edmands, 1815 - 264 pages |
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... scenes of nature , on which the eye refts with pleasure . Whereas the fufpicious man , having his imagination filled with all the fhocking forms of human falfehood , deceit and treachery , resembles the traveller in the wilderness , who ...
... scenes of nature , on which the eye refts with pleasure . Whereas the fufpicious man , having his imagination filled with all the fhocking forms of human falfehood , deceit and treachery , resembles the traveller in the wilderness , who ...
Page 73
... scene , the full moon rofe , at length , in that clouded majesty , which Milton takes notice of ; and open- ed to the eye a new picture of nature , which was more finely fhaded , and difpofed among fofter lights than that which the fun ...
... scene , the full moon rofe , at length , in that clouded majesty , which Milton takes notice of ; and open- ed to the eye a new picture of nature , which was more finely fhaded , and difpofed among fofter lights than that which the fun ...
Page 81
... scenes of mischief and violence , which fill the world , let man be- hold , with fhame , the picture of his vices , his ignorance , and folly . Let him be humbled by the mortifying view of his own perverfenefs : but let not his " heart ...
... scenes of mischief and violence , which fill the world , let man be- hold , with fhame , the picture of his vices , his ignorance , and folly . Let him be humbled by the mortifying view of his own perverfenefs : but let not his " heart ...
Page 90
... scene . The whole roof hung with folid icicles tranfparent as glafs , yet folid as marble . The eye could fcarcely reach the lofty and noble ceiling ; the fides were regularly formed with fpars ; and the whole prefented the idea of a ...
... scene . The whole roof hung with folid icicles tranfparent as glafs , yet folid as marble . The eye could fcarcely reach the lofty and noble ceiling ; the fides were regularly formed with fpars ; and the whole prefented the idea of a ...
Page 111
... Scene . THE fad evening before the death of the noble youth , whofe laft hours fuggefted the moft solemn and awful re- flection , I was with him . No one was prefent , but his phy- fician , and an intimate whom he loved , and whom he ...
... Scene . THE fad evening before the death of the noble youth , whofe laft hours fuggefted the moft solemn and awful re- flection , I was with him . No one was prefent , but his phy- fician , and an intimate whom he loved , and whom he ...
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Page 229 - 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 241 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 208 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 211 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Page 190 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Page 255 - 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. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Page 226 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 176 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart ; For God now accepteth thy works.
Page 225 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 130 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come...