Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most Approved Authors, Ancient and Modern. To which are Added, Some Biographical Sketches from the Earliest Ages of the World to Nearly the Present Time. Also, Extensive Scripture Lessons. ...Mahlon Day, 1827 - Anthologies |
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... possess'd , both pain us , what can please ? That which the Deity to please ordain'd , Time us'd . The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous effort , and an honest aim , At once he draws the sting of life and death ; He walks with ...
... possess'd , both pain us , what can please ? That which the Deity to please ordain'd , Time us'd . The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous effort , and an honest aim , At once he draws the sting of life and death ; He walks with ...
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... possess'd : why wish for more ; Wishing , of all employments , is the worst ; Philosophy's reverse ; and health's decay ! Were I as plump , as stall'd theology , Wishing would waste me to this shade again . Were as wealthy as a south ...
... possess'd : why wish for more ; Wishing , of all employments , is the worst ; Philosophy's reverse ; and health's decay ! Were I as plump , as stall'd theology , Wishing would waste me to this shade again . Were as wealthy as a south ...
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... Here , I have said , at least I should possess The poet's treasure , silence , and indulge The dreams of fancy , tranquil and secure . EXTRACTS FROM COWPER'S TASK . Vain thought ! the dweller EXTRACTS FROM COWPER'S TASK. ...
... Here , I have said , at least I should possess The poet's treasure , silence , and indulge The dreams of fancy , tranquil and secure . EXTRACTS FROM COWPER'S TASK . Vain thought ! the dweller EXTRACTS FROM COWPER'S TASK. ...
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... sublunary good , What could I wish , that I possess not here ? Health , leisure , means t ' improve it , friendship , peace , And constant occupation without care . And what they will not taste , must yet approve 66 EXTRACTS FROM.
... sublunary good , What could I wish , that I possess not here ? Health , leisure , means t ' improve it , friendship , peace , And constant occupation without care . And what they will not taste , must yet approve 66 EXTRACTS FROM.
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... possess ; and though my means may have been slender , I can say , with truth , that I have not per- mitted a single day to pass , without picking up some agreeable or useful observation . Nature is of unbounded extent , and I am a 126 ...
... possess ; and though my means may have been slender , I can say , with truth , that I have not per- mitted a single day to pass , without picking up some agreeable or useful observation . Nature is of unbounded extent , and I am a 126 ...
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Page 67 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 108 - Or aught thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 102 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 9 - Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...
Page 118 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 172 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 58 - I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain ; And plain in manner. Decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture. Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 54 - 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 99 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 57 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.