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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... Fear . XIV . Ode to Truth . XV . Ode to Fancy . XVI . L ' Allegro . XVII . Il Penferofo . Collins . 264 Mafon . 266 Warton 268 Milton . 273 ibid . 278 XVIII . The Progrefs of Life . Shakspeare . 284 XIX . The Entry of Bolingbroke and ...
... Fear . XIV . Ode to Truth . XV . Ode to Fancy . XVI . L ' Allegro . XVII . Il Penferofo . Collins . 264 Mafon . 266 Warton 268 Milton . 273 ibid . 278 XVIII . The Progrefs of Life . Shakspeare . 284 XIX . The Entry of Bolingbroke and ...
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... fear , joy , grief , love , or any other active passion arises in our minds , we naturally dif cover it by the particular manner in which we utter our words ; by the features of the countenance , and by other well - known figns . And ...
... fear , joy , grief , love , or any other active passion arises in our minds , we naturally dif cover it by the particular manner in which we utter our words ; by the features of the countenance , and by other well - known figns . And ...
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... fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fe- curing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and ...
... fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fe- curing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and ...
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... fear is nothing else , but a betraying of the fuccours which reason offereth.- A WISE man will fear in every thing . He that contem- neth small things , fhall fall by little and little . - A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his ...
... fear is nothing else , but a betraying of the fuccours which reason offereth.- A WISE man will fear in every thing . He that contem- neth small things , fhall fall by little and little . - A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his ...
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... fear : · Seeing that death , a neceffary end ,. Will come , when it will come . THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men obfervingly distil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us early ftirrers : Which is both ...
... fear : · Seeing that death , a neceffary end ,. Will come , when it will come . THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men obfervingly distil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us early ftirrers : Which is both ...
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