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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 páginas |
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... Heav'n gives us friends to bless the present scene ; Resumes them to prepare us for the next . All evils natural are moral goods ; All discipline , indulgence , on the whole . Present blessings undervalued . Like birds , whose beauties ...
... Heav'n gives us friends to bless the present scene ; Resumes them to prepare us for the next . All evils natural are moral goods ; All discipline , indulgence , on the whole . Present blessings undervalued . Like birds , whose beauties ...
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... Heav'n did a recompense as largely send ; He gave to misʼry all he had — a tear ; [ friend . He gain'd from Heav'n [ ' twas all he wish'd ] a No farther seek his merits to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode ...
... Heav'n did a recompense as largely send ; He gave to misʼry all he had — a tear ; [ friend . He gain'd from Heav'n [ ' twas all he wish'd ] a No farther seek his merits to disclose , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode ...
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... Heav'n ; a happiness , That , even above the soiles and frowns of fate , Exalts great nature's favourites : a wealth That ne'er encumbers ; nor to basser hands Can be transferr'd . It is the only good Man justly boasts of , or can call ...
... Heav'n ; a happiness , That , even above the soiles and frowns of fate , Exalts great nature's favourites : a wealth That ne'er encumbers ; nor to basser hands Can be transferr'd . It is the only good Man justly boasts of , or can call ...
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... heav'n , her starry train : But neither breath of morn , when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful'land ; nor herb , fruit , flow'r Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after showr's ; Nor grateful ...
... heav'n , her starry train : But neither breath of morn , when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful'land ; nor herb , fruit , flow'r Glist'ring with dew ; nor fragrance after showr's ; Nor grateful ...
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... heav'n , ” ? Thus talking , hand in hand alone they pass'd On to their blissful bow'r.- There arrived both stood , Both turu'd ; and under open sky ador'd The God that made both sky , air , earth , and heav'n , Which they beheld , the ...
... heav'n , ” ? Thus talking , hand in hand alone they pass'd On to their blissful bow'r.- There arrived both stood , Both turu'd ; and under open sky ador'd The God that made both sky , air , earth , and heav'n , Which they beheld , the ...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse from the Best Writers ... Lindley Murray Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 181 - 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.