The Illustrated London Reading BookPrinted and published at the office of The Illustrated London News, 1851 - Всего страниц: 264 |
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... never fail to please ; Yet in those arts how very few excel ! Ten thousand men may read — not one read well . Though all mankind are speakers in a sense , How few can soar to heights of eloquence ! The sweet melodious singer trills her ...
... never fail to please ; Yet in those arts how very few excel ! Ten thousand men may read — not one read well . Though all mankind are speakers in a sense , How few can soar to heights of eloquence ! The sweet melodious singer trills her ...
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... never had my affections more tenderly awakened ; nor do I re- member an incident in my life , where the dissipated spirits to which my reason had been a bubble were so suddenly called home . Mechanical as the notes were , yet so true in ...
... never had my affections more tenderly awakened ; nor do I re- member an incident in my life , where the dissipated spirits to which my reason had been a bubble were so suddenly called home . Mechanical as the notes were , yet so true in ...
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... never to be sullied by the tempest . But a storm suddenly comes on ; the roads are rendered impassable by drifts of snow ; the avalanches , which are huge loosened masses of snow or ice , are swept into the valleys , carrying trees and ...
... never to be sullied by the tempest . But a storm suddenly comes on ; the roads are rendered impassable by drifts of snow ; the avalanches , which are huge loosened masses of snow or ice , are swept into the valleys , carrying trees and ...
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... never attempts to attack either man or beast ; when , however , the hunter's dogs surround it , it defends itself very vigorously with its teeth , inflicting terrible wounds , and uttering a cry like a shrill kind of whistle , which is ...
... never attempts to attack either man or beast ; when , however , the hunter's dogs surround it , it defends itself very vigorously with its teeth , inflicting terrible wounds , and uttering a cry like a shrill kind of whistle , which is ...
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... never looks esteem , Since fools as wise as you might seem . Would you contempt and scorn avoid , Let your vain - glory be destroy'd : Humble your arrogance of thought , Pursue the ways by Nature taught : So shall you find delicious ...
... never looks esteem , Since fools as wise as you might seem . Would you contempt and scorn avoid , Let your vain - glory be destroy'd : Humble your arrogance of thought , Pursue the ways by Nature taught : So shall you find delicious ...
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Стр. 145 - Now strike the golden lyre again : A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Стр. 205 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Стр. 186 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Стр. 186 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Стр. 190 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Стр. 172 - By the festal cities' blaze, Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore...
Стр. 109 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Стр. 228 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Стр. 186 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy...
Стр. 203 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...