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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... fate did Maria deferve , than to have her banns forbid , by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them―― He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short pause , put the pipe to her mouth and began the air again ...
... fate did Maria deferve , than to have her banns forbid , by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them―― He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short pause , put the pipe to her mouth and began the air again ...
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... ,. Had taught thee honour , virtue , fenfe ,. And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To govern men , and guide the state . " WHITEHEAD . CHAP . CHAP . XIV . SIR BALAAM WHERE London's column pointing CHAP . XIII . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 45.
... ,. Had taught thee honour , virtue , fenfe ,. And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To govern men , and guide the state . " WHITEHEAD . CHAP . CHAP . XIV . SIR BALAAM WHERE London's column pointing CHAP . XIII . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 45.
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... fate her bofom heav'd Unwonted fighs ; and stealing oft a look Of the big gloom , on CELADON her eye Fell tearful , wetting her difordered cheek . In vain affuring love , and confidence In HEAVEN , reprefs'd her fear ; it grew and shook ...
... fate her bofom heav'd Unwonted fighs ; and stealing oft a look Of the big gloom , on CELADON her eye Fell tearful , wetting her difordered cheek . In vain affuring love , and confidence In HEAVEN , reprefs'd her fear ; it grew and shook ...
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... fate : 66 « Live , and live happy ; fometimes think of me : By night , by day , you ftill engag'd my care ; " And next to God , you now my thoughts employ : " Accept of thisMy little all I give ; " Would it were larger " . Nature could ...
... fate : 66 « Live , and live happy ; fometimes think of me : By night , by day , you ftill engag'd my care ; " And next to God , you now my thoughts employ : " Accept of thisMy little all I give ; " Would it were larger " . Nature could ...
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... fate of his country depended upon the discovery of it . Timogenes took away the life of a young fellow in a duel , for having fpoke ill of Belinda , a lady whom he himself had feduced in her youth , and betray- ed into want and ignominy ...
... fate of his country depended upon the discovery of it . Timogenes took away the life of a young fellow in a duel , for having fpoke ill of Belinda , a lady whom he himself had feduced in her youth , and betray- ed into want and ignominy ...
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