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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Página 17
... lost to virtue , lost to manly thought , Lost to the noble sallies of the soul ! p . 55 . Who think it solitude to be alone . Woes cluster ; rare are solitary woes ; They love a train , they tread each other's heel ; And will not the ...
... lost to virtue , lost to manly thought , Lost to the noble sallies of the soul ! p . 55 . Who think it solitude to be alone . Woes cluster ; rare are solitary woes ; They love a train , they tread each other's heel ; And will not the ...
Página 64
... lost In chase of fancied happiness still woo'd And never won . Dream after dream ensues ; And still they dream that they shall still succeed , And still are disappointed . Rings the world With the vain stir . I sum up half mankind , And ...
... lost In chase of fancied happiness still woo'd And never won . Dream after dream ensues ; And still they dream that they shall still succeed , And still are disappointed . Rings the world With the vain stir . I sum up half mankind , And ...
Página 65
... lost Much of her vigilant instinctive dread , Not needful here , beneath a roof like mine . Yes - thou may'st eat thy bread , and lick the hand That feeds thee ; thou may'st frolic on the floor At evening , and at night retire secure To ...
... lost Much of her vigilant instinctive dread , Not needful here , beneath a roof like mine . Yes - thou may'st eat thy bread , and lick the hand That feeds thee ; thou may'st frolic on the floor At evening , and at night retire secure To ...
Página 67
... lost its terrors , ere it reaches me ; Grieves , but alarms me not . I mourn the pride And av'rice that makes man a wolf to man ; Hear the faint echo of those brazen throats , By which he speaks the language of his heart , And sigh ...
... lost its terrors , ere it reaches me ; Grieves , but alarms me not . I mourn the pride And av'rice that makes man a wolf to man ; Hear the faint echo of those brazen throats , By which he speaks the language of his heart , And sigh ...
Página 71
... lost His ignorance and harmless manners too ! Man in society is like a flower Blown in its native bed : ' tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom , p . 145 . Shine out ; there only reach their proper use . p . 147 . But ...
... lost His ignorance and harmless manners too ! Man in society is like a flower Blown in its native bed : ' tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom , p . 145 . Shine out ; there only reach their proper use . p . 147 . But ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.