The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, for the Use of Schools in the United States, to which is Prefixed an Introduction on the Arts of Reading and SpeakingR. P. & C. Williams, 1815 - 204 páginas |
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... possessed all the virtues of the greatest and best men , without partaking any of their defects . In him all was light without a shade , and beauty with- out a stain . At the same time , his example is attended with this singular ...
... possessed all the virtues of the greatest and best men , without partaking any of their defects . In him all was light without a shade , and beauty with- out a stain . At the same time , his example is attended with this singular ...
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... possessed the indifference of the needy they would certainly be too happy ; whilst the latter , if they united mental un- easiness with their ill fortune , would , doubtless , be highly deserving of pity . If , then , we weigh the ...
... possessed the indifference of the needy they would certainly be too happy ; whilst the latter , if they united mental un- easiness with their ill fortune , would , doubtless , be highly deserving of pity . If , then , we weigh the ...
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... possessed an exquisite charm , and borne an irresistible dominion . Over the savage and unlettered bands of America , and the barbarous hordes of the north over the enlightened meetings of the Areopagus and the forum , and the polished ...
... possessed an exquisite charm , and borne an irresistible dominion . Over the savage and unlettered bands of America , and the barbarous hordes of the north over the enlightened meetings of the Areopagus and the forum , and the polished ...
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... possessed through the mass of socie- ty , or at least the irremediable inconvenience of com- municating a portion of their numerous acquisitions to their more ignorant fellow - citizens , we find those great talents and the ...
... possessed through the mass of socie- ty , or at least the irremediable inconvenience of com- municating a portion of their numerous acquisitions to their more ignorant fellow - citizens , we find those great talents and the ...
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... possessed , I was grat ified to find in modern Europe the departed splendor of Asia . But soon the charm of my reverie was dis- solved by a last term of comparison : reflecting that such had once been the activity of the places I was ...
... possessed , I was grat ified to find in modern Europe the departed splendor of Asia . But soon the charm of my reverie was dis- solved by a last term of comparison : reflecting that such had once been the activity of the places I was ...
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Aaron Burr accent appear Arcot art of reading beauty behold Blennerhasset body bosom breath character charms Cicero clouds COLUMBIAN READER countenance death delightful dread earth eloquence emphasis emphatical English language expression fancy feel flames friends genius gesture give graceful grave habit Hamet hand happy harmony hast hath hearer heart heaven honor human human voice Hyder Ali imagination language light live look LORD CORNWALLIS mankind manner means ment mind misery moral motion MOUNT ETNA mountains nabob nation nature ness never o'er object occasion OTHELLO passions person PETRARCH phatical plain pleasure pronunciation proper racter reader or speaker reading or recitation religion Robert Boyle scene seems sentiments sion sloth smile sorrow soul speak spirit sublime syllable talents taste tempest thee thing thou thought thro tion tones truth utter virtue voice Warren Hastings whilst whole words
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Página 196 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year; And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks: And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales.
Página 137 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits ; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 198 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy. When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Página 165 - 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 th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 163 - Disaster'd stands; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain: Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray; Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves, and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt.
Página 149 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond...
Página 197 - As home he goes beneath the joyous Moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as Earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, ' Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. , Great source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On nature write with every beam his praise.
Página xvii - Who counsels best? who whispers, "Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place~
Página 137 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 195 - The Soul, of origin divine, GOD'S glorious image, freed from clay, In heaven's eternal sphere shall shine A star of day. " The SUN is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky ; The SOUL, immortal as its Sire, SHALL NEVER DIE.