The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray

David Allinson, 1816 - English language - 254 pages

Contents

• Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity: 162
• Virtue not subject to the influence of fortune: 164
• Speech of Frabricius a Roman ambassador to king Pyrrhus who attempted to bribe him to his interests: 165
• Character of James 1 king of England: 166
• Charles V emperor of Germany resigns his domin ions and retires from the world: 167
• The same subject continued: 170
• Short and easy sentences: 173
• Verses in which the lines are of different length: 175
• Exclamations interrogations and parentheses: 177
• Verses in Various forms: 179
• Verses in which sound corresponds to signification: 181
• Paragraphs of greater length: 183
• The bears and the bees: 185
• The trials of virtue: 186
• The youth and the philosopher: 188
• Discourse between Adam and Eve retiring to rest: 190
• Religion and Death: 192
• The vanity of wealth: 194
• Nothing formed in vain: 195
• On pride: 196
• Cruelty to brutes censured ib V Paraphrase on the latter part of the 6th chap of Matt: 198
• The death of a good man a strong incentive to virtue: 199
• Reflections on a future state from a review of winter ib VIII Adams advice to Eve to avoid temptation: 200
• On procrastination: 201
• That philosophy which stops at secondary causes reproved: 203
• Indignant sentiments on national prejudices and ha tred and on slavery: 204
• The morning in summer: 205
• Rural sounds as well as rural sights delightful: 207
• Care of birds for their young ib V Liberty and slavery contrasted: 208
• a paraphrase on the 13th chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians: 209
• Picture of a good man: 211
• directed imagination: 213
• The hermit: 215
• The beggars petition: 217
• Unhappy close of life: 218
• Elegy to Pity ib V Verses supposed to be written by Alex Selkirk during his solitary abode in the island of Juan Fernandez: 219
• Gratitude: 220
• A man perishing in the snow from whence reflections are raised on the miseries of life: 222
• A morning hymn: 224
• Ode to content: 225
• The shepherd and the philosopher: 227
• The road to happiness open to all men: 229
• The goodness of Providence: 230
• The Creators works attest his greatness ib VI Address to the Deity: 231
• The pursuit of happiness often ill directed: 233
• The fireside: 234
• Providence vindicated in the present state of man: 236
• Selfishness reproved: 237
• Human frailty: 238
• Ode to peace: 239
• Ode to adversity: 240
• The creation required to praise its Author: 241
• The universal prayer: 243
• Conscience: 245
• The order of nature ib XVIII On an infant: 247
• Prosperity is redoubled to a good: 252

Popular passages

Page 202 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.

Page 207 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.

Page 6 - A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.

Page 168 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...

Page 207 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.

Page 202 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.

Page 197 - Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own.

Page 192 - With blooming gold and blushes like the morn. Each passing hour sheds tribute from her wings ; And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure unreprov'd. Nor thence partakes Fresh pleasure only : for the attentive mind, By this harmonious action on her powers Becomes herself...

Page 174 - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Page 174 - Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!

Bibliographic information

• Title: The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...
• Author: Lindley Murray
• Edition: 3
• Publisher: David Allinson, 1816
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Mar 22, 2007
• Length: 254 pages