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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... Death of Cæfar . Shakspeare . 179 XIV . Glocefter's Speech to the Nobles . ibid . 180 BOOK VI . DIALOGUES . CHAP . I. On Happiness . II . The fame Subject . III . On Criticifm . IV . On Negroes . V. Rivers and Sir Harry . Harris . 182 ...
... Death of Cæfar . Shakspeare . 179 XIV . Glocefter's Speech to the Nobles . ibid . 180 BOOK VI . DIALOGUES . CHAP . I. On Happiness . II . The fame Subject . III . On Criticifm . IV . On Negroes . V. Rivers and Sir Harry . Harris . 182 ...
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... Death . III . The Beggar's Petition . - Sterne . 309 ibid . 320 IV . Elegy on the Death of an unfortunate Lady . V. Morning Hymn . VI . Satan's Soliloquy . 323 Pope . 324 Milton . 327 ibid . 329 XVIII . Henry V. to his Soldiers . XIX ...
... Death . III . The Beggar's Petition . - Sterne . 309 ibid . 320 IV . Elegy on the Death of an unfortunate Lady . V. Morning Hymn . VI . Satan's Soliloquy . 323 Pope . 324 Milton . 327 ibid . 329 XVIII . Henry V. to his Soldiers . XIX ...
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... Death . ibid . 394 XXXI . Soliloquy of the King in Hamlet . XXXII . Ode on St. Cecilia's Day . XXXIII . Alexander's Feast . ibid . 395 Pope . 396 Dryden . 401 AN ESSAY ON E LOCUTION . MUCH declamation has been CONTENTS . xi.
... Death . ibid . 394 XXXI . Soliloquy of the King in Hamlet . XXXII . Ode on St. Cecilia's Day . XXXIII . Alexander's Feast . ibid . 395 Pope . 396 Dryden . 401 AN ESSAY ON E LOCUTION . MUCH declamation has been CONTENTS . xi.
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... death thereof is an evil death . My fon , blemish not thy good deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ? fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , is not a word better ...
... death thereof is an evil death . My fon , blemish not thy good deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ? fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , is not a word better ...
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... were not cherished by our virtues . THE sense of death is most in apprehenfion ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon , In corporeal fufferance , feels a pang as great , C 6 In CHAP . VIII . ) SELECT SENTENCES . 13.
... were not cherished by our virtues . THE sense of death is most in apprehenfion ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon , In corporeal fufferance , feels a pang as great , C 6 In CHAP . VIII . ) SELECT SENTENCES . 13.
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