The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers, Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read ...Bennett and Walton, 1812 - 392 עמודים |
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עמוד 9
... live well to - day ( says Martial , ) will be less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his ...
... live well to - day ( says Martial , ) will be less qualified to live well to - morrow . Can we esteem that man prosperous , who is raised to a situation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his principles , disorders his ...
עמוד 21
... live- ly , and hope is ardent . Looking forward to the year now beginning , they are ready to promise themselves much , from the foundations of prosperity which they have laid ; from the friendships and connexions which they have ...
... live- ly , and hope is ardent . Looking forward to the year now beginning , they are ready to promise themselves much , from the foundations of prosperity which they have laid ; from the friendships and connexions which they have ...
עמוד 48
... live in perpetual hostility with our fel- lows . This is , for the sake of living , to deprive our- selves of the comfort of life . The man of candour en- joys his situation , whatever it is , with cheerfulness and peace . Prudence ...
... live in perpetual hostility with our fel- lows . This is , for the sake of living , to deprive our- selves of the comfort of life . The man of candour en- joys his situation , whatever it is , with cheerfulness and peace . Prudence ...
עמוד 53
... live to God and his own soul , and at the same time attend to all the lawful interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and pro- vides for the future . He catches and arrests the hours as they fly . They are marked ...
... live to God and his own soul , and at the same time attend to all the lawful interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and pro- vides for the future . He catches and arrests the hours as they fly . They are marked ...
עמוד 57
... have more wealth than they know how to enjoy . Persons of a higher rank live in a kind of splendid poverty ; and are perpetually wants ing , because , instead of acquiescing in the solid Chap . 3 . 57 Didactic Pieces .
... have more wealth than they know how to enjoy . Persons of a higher rank live in a kind of splendid poverty ; and are perpetually wants ing , because , instead of acquiescing in the solid Chap . 3 . 57 Didactic Pieces .
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
affections Antiparos appeared Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness beautiful beautiful plains behold blessing Caius Verres character comfort consider dark death DEMOCRITUS desire DIONYSIUS distress Divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil father folly fortune friendship gentle give Greek language ground happiness Hazael heart heaven HERACLITUS honour hope human infinite innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord Lord Guilford Dudley mankind ment Micipsa midst mind misery mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er objects Ortogrul ourselves pain Paros pass passions peace perfection persons philosopher pleasure possession pow'r present pride prince proper Pythias racter reason religion render rest rich rise rusals scene sense sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul spirit suffer temper thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice violence virtue voice whole wisdom wise wish youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 277 - And nightly to the list'ning 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.
עמוד 263 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
עמוד 195 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
עמוד 228 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
עמוד 294 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
עמוד 228 - Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive; and the timely dew of sleep, Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines Our eyelids...
עמוד 284 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored 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...
עמוד xvii - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
עמוד 240 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd evil, is no more : The storms of wint'ry time will quickly pass, And one unbounded spring encircle all — THOMSON, SECTION VIII.
עמוד 223 - Had cheered the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp...