The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers : Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve Their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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Page 145
... o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . Felling trees in a wood . Loud sounds the axe , redoubling strokes on strokes ; On all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong . Deep echoing groan the thickets brown ; Then ...
... o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . Felling trees in a wood . Loud sounds the axe , redoubling strokes on strokes ; On all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong . Deep echoing groan the thickets brown ; Then ...
Page 146
... O'er hills , o'er dales , o'er crags , o'er rocks they go . Motion slow and difficult . A needless Alexandrine ends the song , That , like a wounded snake , drags its slow length along .. A rock torn from the brow of a mountain . Still ...
... O'er hills , o'er dales , o'er crags , o'er rocks they go . Motion slow and difficult . A needless Alexandrine ends the song , That , like a wounded snake , drags its slow length along .. A rock torn from the brow of a mountain . Still ...
Page 148
... O'er death's dark gulf , and all its horrour hides ; Praise , the sweet exhalation of our joy , That joy exalts , and makes it sweeter still ; Pray'r ardent opens heaven , lets down a stream Of glory , on the consecrated hour Of man in ...
... O'er death's dark gulf , and all its horrour hides ; Praise , the sweet exhalation of our joy , That joy exalts , and makes it sweeter still ; Pray'r ardent opens heaven , lets down a stream Of glory , on the consecrated hour Of man in ...
Page 150
... o'er my temples drew Oblivion's veil . - The wat'ry deep , An object strange and new , 6. Before me rose : on the wide shore Observant as I stood , The gathering storms around me roar And heave the boiling flood . 7. Near and more near ...
... o'er my temples drew Oblivion's veil . - The wat'ry deep , An object strange and new , 6. Before me rose : on the wide shore Observant as I stood , The gathering storms around me roar And heave the boiling flood . 7. Near and more near ...
Page 151
... O'er scenes of future ill ? 16. Let faith suppress each rising fear , Each anxious doubt exclude : Thy Maker's will has plac'd thee here , A Maker wise and good ! 17. He to thy ev'ry trial knows Its just restraint to give ; Attentive to ...
... O'er scenes of future ill ? 16. Let faith suppress each rising fear , Each anxious doubt exclude : Thy Maker's will has plac'd thee here , A Maker wise and good ! 17. He to thy ev'ry trial knows Its just restraint to give ; Attentive to ...
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Page 163 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Page 189 - Lives on the labours of this lord of all. Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Page 82 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Page 183 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, •And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 183 - Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : 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.
Page 179 - 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 179 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 179 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth 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.
Page 157 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Page 175 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.