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 ReadingM. Bartgis, 1819 - 252 pagine |
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... happiness , we shall discompose the peace and order of our minds , and foment many hurtful passions . Here , then ... happiness : Your imagination roves in a land of shadows . Unreal forms deceive you . It is no more than a phantom , an ...
... happiness , we shall discompose the peace and order of our minds , and foment many hurtful passions . Here , then ... happiness : Your imagination roves in a land of shadows . Unreal forms deceive you . It is no more than a phantom , an ...
Pagina 181
... happiness , But happiness that shortly must expire . Can joy unbottom'd in reflection , stand ? And , in a tempest , can reflection live ? FRIENDSHIP . Can gold gain friendship ? Impudence of hope ! As well mere man an angel might beget ...
... happiness , But happiness that shortly must expire . Can joy unbottom'd in reflection , stand ? And , in a tempest , can reflection live ? FRIENDSHIP . Can gold gain friendship ? Impudence of hope ! As well mere man an angel might beget ...
Pagina 229
... happiness is happiness ? Take nature's path , and mad opinions leave ; All states can reach it , and all heads conceive ; Obvious her goods , in no extreme they dwell ; There needs but thinking right , and meaning well . And mourn our ...
... happiness is happiness ? Take nature's path , and mad opinions leave ; All states can reach it , and all heads conceive ; Obvious her goods , in no extreme they dwell ; There needs but thinking right , and meaning well . And mourn our ...
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Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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Antiparos appear attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comforts cusations dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil eyes fall father feel folly fortune Fundanus gentle give Greek language ground Haman hand happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia pass passions pause peace person pleasing pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride proper Pythias racter reading reason religion render rest rich rise ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smiles sorrow soul sound spirit temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words young youth