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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... Syphax . VIII . Cato's Soliloquy . IX . Southampton and Effex . X. Jaffier and Pierre . Cato . 332 ibid . 337 Earl of Effex . 338 Venice Preferv'd . 340 Earl of Warwick . 344 Shakspeare . 349 ibid . 351 XI . Edward and Warwick . XII ...
... Syphax . VIII . Cato's Soliloquy . IX . Southampton and Effex . X. Jaffier and Pierre . Cato . 332 ibid . 337 Earl of Effex . 338 Venice Preferv'd . 340 Earl of Warwick . 344 Shakspeare . 349 ibid . 351 XI . Edward and Warwick . XII ...
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... Syphax , in the play before mentioned , as a fine imaginary notion that leads aftray young unexperienced men , and draws them into real mifchiefs , while they are engaged in in the pursuits of a fhadow . These are generally 2 CHAP . IV ...
... Syphax , in the play before mentioned , as a fine imaginary notion that leads aftray young unexperienced men , and draws them into real mifchiefs , while they are engaged in in the pursuits of a fhadow . These are generally 2 CHAP . IV ...
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... SYPHAX . JUB . SYPHAX , I joy to meet thee thus alone . I have obferv'd of late thy looks are fall'n , O'ercaft with gloomy cares and discontent ; - Then tell me , Syphax , I conjure thee , tell me , What are the thoughts that knit thy ...
... SYPHAX . JUB . SYPHAX , I joy to meet thee thus alone . I have obferv'd of late thy looks are fall'n , O'ercaft with gloomy cares and discontent ; - Then tell me , Syphax , I conjure thee , tell me , What are the thoughts that knit thy ...
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... Syphax , won't difcern What virtues grow from ignorance and choice , Nor how the hero differs from the brute . But grant that others could with equal glory Look down on pleasures , and the baits of sense ; Where fhall we find the man ...
... Syphax , won't difcern What virtues grow from ignorance and choice , Nor how the hero differs from the brute . But grant that others could with equal glory Look down on pleasures , and the baits of sense ; Where fhall we find the man ...
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... Syphax , I fhould be more than twice an orphan By fuch a lofs . SYPH . Ay , there's the tie that binds you ! You long to call him father . Marcia's charms Work in your heart unfeen , and plead for Cato . No wonder you are deaf to all I ...
... Syphax , I fhould be more than twice an orphan By fuch a lofs . SYPH . Ay , there's the tie that binds you ! You long to call him father . Marcia's charms Work in your heart unfeen , and plead for Cato . No wonder you are deaf to all I ...
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affurance againſt army Balaam becauſe beſt bofom breaft Brutus Cæfar cauſe CHAP confider dæmons defire eternal fafe faid fame father fecure feems fenfe ferve fervice fhall fhew fide fince firft firſt fmile fome fomething fool foon foul fpeaking ftate ftill fubject fuch fure happineſs happy hath heart Heav'n himſelf honour houſe intereft itſelf juft juſt king laft laſt lefs lord meaſures mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never o'er obferve occafion ourſelves paffion pafs pain perfon pleaſe pleaſure poffible poor pow'r praiſe prefent raiſe reaſon reft rife ſay Scythians ſee ſhall ſhe ſhould SIR JOHN ſmall ſpeak ſpirit ſpreads ſtand ſtate ſtep STERL ſtill ſuch Syphax tears thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro uncle Toby uſe virtue whofe whoſe wife wiſdom yourſelf youth