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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... light up glory thro ' her wide domain ; Their various taftes in different arts display'd , Like temper'd harmony of light and shade , With friendly union in one mafs fhall blend , And this adorn the ftate , and that defend . am , with ...
... light up glory thro ' her wide domain ; Their various taftes in different arts display'd , Like temper'd harmony of light and shade , With friendly union in one mafs fhall blend , And this adorn the ftate , and that defend . am , with ...
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... light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence it is , that the character of an Ora- tor has of late often been treated with ridicule , fometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the eafy and graceful movements ...
... light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence it is , that the character of an Ora- tor has of late often been treated with ridicule , fometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the eafy and graceful movements ...
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... , the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us , as we with torches do , Not Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 14 ( Book 1 . SELECT SENTENCES .
... , the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us , as we with torches do , Not Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 14 ( Book 1 . SELECT SENTENCES .
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... light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd ,, But to fine iffues : nor nature never lends The smallest fcruple of her excellence , But ...
... light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd ,, But to fine iffues : nor nature never lends The smallest fcruple of her excellence , But ...
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... light and dark- nefs . The one of them lived in heaven , and the other in hell . The youngest descendant of the first family was Plea- fure , who was the daughter of happiness , who was the child of Virtue , who was the offspring of the ...
... light and dark- nefs . The one of them lived in heaven , and the other in hell . The youngest descendant of the first family was Plea- fure , who was the daughter of happiness , who was the child of Virtue , who was the offspring of the ...
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