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 |
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... look , And tender in address , as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men . In man or woman , but far most in man , And most of all in man that ministers And serves the Altar , in my soul I loath All affectation . ' Tis my ...
... look , And tender in address , as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men . In man or woman , but far most in man , And most of all in man that ministers And serves the Altar , in my soul I loath All affectation . ' Tis my ...
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... looks of lean And craving poverty ; and in the bow Respectful of the smutch'd artificer ; Is oft too welcome , and may much disturb The bias of the purpose . How much more , Pour'd forth by beauty splendid and polite , In language soft ...
... looks of lean And craving poverty ; and in the bow Respectful of the smutch'd artificer ; Is oft too welcome , and may much disturb The bias of the purpose . How much more , Pour'd forth by beauty splendid and polite , In language soft ...
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... look'd for now , the fault must be his own . Such youths of spirit , and that spirit too , Ye nurs'ries of our boys , we owe to you ! Though from ourselves the mischief more proceeds , For public schools ' tis public folly feeds . The ...
... look'd for now , the fault must be his own . Such youths of spirit , and that spirit too , Ye nurs'ries of our boys , we owe to you ! Though from ourselves the mischief more proceeds , For public schools ' tis public folly feeds . The ...
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... look on him , whose very voice in tone Just echoes thine , whose features are thine own , And stroke his polish'd cheek of purest red , And lay thine hand upon his flaxen head , And say , my boy , th ' unwelcome hour is come , When thou ...
... look on him , whose very voice in tone Just echoes thine , whose features are thine own , And stroke his polish'd cheek of purest red , And lay thine hand upon his flaxen head , And say , my boy , th ' unwelcome hour is come , When thou ...
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... look around for night ; Night is far off ; and hotter hours approach . Thrice happy he who on the sunless side Of a romantic mountain , forest crown'd , Beneath the whole collected shade reclines : Or in the gelid caverns . woodbine ...
... look around for night ; Night is far off ; and hotter hours approach . Thrice happy he who on the sunless side Of a romantic mountain , forest crown'd , Beneath the whole collected shade reclines : Or in the gelid caverns . woodbine ...
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animals Art thou beauty Behold blessings blest bliss charming group charms cure death delight Descartes divine dreams earth employed eternal ev'ry fear feeble feel felicity Finland fool form'd frequently Gauls gives Greenland hand happiness HARVARD COLLEGE heart heav'n honours hope hour human immortal labour land life's live Louis XIV man's mankind means mind miserable moral nature nature's Nero never o'er once ourselves pain passions peace plant pleasure plebian poor pow'r praise pride quadruped racter reason religion render replied repose rest rich Samaritan scene scorn sentiment shade shine sigh smiles Socrates soul spleen storm sublime sublunary taste teach tears tempest thee thine thing thou thought tion toil tree treme truth Turenne vice virtue virtuous wisdom wise wish worlds unknown wretched
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.