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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... frequent , would not this be strange ? That ' tis so frequent , this is stranger still . Of man's miraculous mistakes , this bears The palm , " That all men are about to live , " For ever on the brink of being born . All pay themselves ...
... frequent , would not this be strange ? That ' tis so frequent , this is stranger still . Of man's miraculous mistakes , this bears The palm , " That all men are about to live , " For ever on the brink of being born . All pay themselves ...
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... frequent periods of repair . When tir'd with vain rotations of the day , Sleep winds us up for the succeeding dawn ; Fresh we spin on , till sickness clogs our wheels , Or death quite breaks the spring , and motion ends . When will it ...
... frequent periods of repair . When tir'd with vain rotations of the day , Sleep winds us up for the succeeding dawn ; Fresh we spin on , till sickness clogs our wheels , Or death quite breaks the spring , and motion ends . When will it ...
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... frequent hedges intercept the eye , Delight us ; happy to renounce a while , Not senseless of its charms , what still we love , That such short absence may endear it more . * * * * There often wanders one , whom better days Saw better ...
... frequent hedges intercept the eye , Delight us ; happy to renounce a while , Not senseless of its charms , what still we love , That such short absence may endear it more . * * * * There often wanders one , whom better days Saw better ...
Стр. 57
... in dress Extreme , at once rapacious and profuse ; Frequent in park with lady at his side , Ambling and prattling scandal as he goes ; But rare at home , and never at his books , Or with his pen , save when he scrawls a COWPER'S TASK . 57.
... in dress Extreme , at once rapacious and profuse ; Frequent in park with lady at his side , Ambling and prattling scandal as he goes ; But rare at home , and never at his books , Or with his pen , save when he scrawls a COWPER'S TASK . 57.
Стр. 111
... frequent corse ; while on each other fix'd In sad presage , the blank assistant seem'd , Silent to ask , whom fate would next demand . The sullen door , Yet uninfected , on its cautious hinge Fearing to turn , abhors society ...
... frequent corse ; while on each other fix'd In sad presage , the blank assistant seem'd , Silent to ask , whom fate would next demand . The sullen door , Yet uninfected , on its cautious hinge Fearing to turn , abhors society ...
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.