The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Prose. II. Poetick Numbers ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Verse. Being the Third Part of a Columbian Exercise ... an Easy and Systematical Method of Teaching of Learning the English Language |
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Strana 15
... And follow still where Fortune leads the way ; Or , if no basis bear my rising name But the fall'n ruins of another's fame ;Then , teach me , Heaven , to scorn the guilty bays ; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise .
... And follow still where Fortune leads the way ; Or , if no basis bear my rising name But the fall'n ruins of another's fame ;Then , teach me , Heaven , to scorn the guilty bays ; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise .
Strana 25
Emulation , when founded on virtue , and limited to her bounds , will perform deeds that will be praised in heaven . Death can never prematurely happen to a good man : whenever it takes place , it is the close of his sufferings ...
Emulation , when founded on virtue , and limited to her bounds , will perform deeds that will be praised in heaven . Death can never prematurely happen to a good man : whenever it takes place , it is the close of his sufferings ...
Strana 29
He that has descried his own failings , and resolved on amendment , has examined himself in a mirror sent from Heaven ; and looks forward through a medium which will lead him thither . II . Nothing is more unmanerly , than to reflect on ...
He that has descried his own failings , and resolved on amendment , has examined himself in a mirror sent from Heaven ; and looks forward through a medium which will lead him thither . II . Nothing is more unmanerly , than to reflect on ...
Strana 54
DEAR Sensibility source inexhausted of all that is precious in our joys , or costly in our sorrows ! thou chainest the martyr down upon his bed of straw , and it is thou who liftest him up to heaven . Eternal fountain of our feelings !
DEAR Sensibility source inexhausted of all that is precious in our joys , or costly in our sorrows ! thou chainest the martyr down upon his bed of straw , and it is thou who liftest him up to heaven . Eternal fountain of our feelings !
Strana 55
Gracious Heaven ! grant me but health , thou great Bestower of it , and give me but this fair goddess as my companion ; and shower down thy mitres , if it seem good unto thy di vine providence , upon those heads , which are aching for ...
Gracious Heaven ! grant me but health , thou great Bestower of it , and give me but this fair goddess as my companion ; and shower down thy mitres , if it seem good unto thy di vine providence , upon those heads , which are aching for ...
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Strana 184 - I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. [Laying his Hand on his Sword. Thus am I doubly arm'd : my death and life, My bane and antidote are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end ; But this informs me I shall never die. The soul, secur'd in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck...
Strana 192 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled Heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Th' unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale ; And nightly, to the...
Strana 96 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Strana 174 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Strana 61 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down — shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. — He gave a deep sigh — I saw the iron enter into his soul — I burst into tears — I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn...
Strana 180 - To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Strana 173 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Strana 51 - At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them. Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed.
Strana 170 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Strana 61 - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; — he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time ; — nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ! — His children ! — But here my heart began to bleed ; and I was forced to go on with another part...