The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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... Heav'n with fruitless pray'rs , And fruitless forrows fhed . ' Tis paft , he cry'd , but if your fouls Sweet mercy yet can move , Let these dim eyes once more behold What they must ever love . She came ; his cold hand foftly touch'd ...
... Heav'n with fruitless pray'rs , And fruitless forrows fhed . ' Tis paft , he cry'd , but if your fouls Sweet mercy yet can move , Let these dim eyes once more behold What they must ever love . She came ; his cold hand foftly touch'd ...
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... long year elaps'd , when letters came , Which briefly told him of his father's death . Afflicted , filial , yet to Heav'n refign'd , E 3 Soon Soon he reach'd Albion , and foon as embark'd , CHAP . XVII . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 56 '
... long year elaps'd , when letters came , Which briefly told him of his father's death . Afflicted , filial , yet to Heav'n refign'd , E 3 Soon Soon he reach'd Albion , and foon as embark'd , CHAP . XVII . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 56 '
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... heav'n , It was my bent to speak.- All these to hear Would Defdemona feriously incline . But ftill the hoúfe - affairs would draw her hence , Which ever as she could with hafte despatch , She'd come again , and with a greedy ear Devour ...
... heav'n , It was my bent to speak.- All these to hear Would Defdemona feriously incline . But ftill the hoúfe - affairs would draw her hence , Which ever as she could with hafte despatch , She'd come again , and with a greedy ear Devour ...
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... Heav'n had made her fuch a man : -she thank'd me , And bade me , if I had a friend that lov'd her , I should but teach him how to tell my story , And that would woo her . On this hint I spake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I had paft ...
... Heav'n had made her fuch a man : -she thank'd me , And bade me , if I had a friend that lov'd her , I should but teach him how to tell my story , And that would woo her . On this hint I spake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I had paft ...
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... Heav'n ; Who fees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or fyftems into ruin hurl'd , And now a bubble burst , and now a world . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions foar ; Wait the great ...
... Heav'n ; Who fees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or fyftems into ruin hurl'd , And now a bubble burst , and now a world . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions foar ; Wait the great ...
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