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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Page 92
... Pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; All Chance , Direction , which thou can't not fee ; All Difcord , Harmony , not underflood ; All partial Evil , univerfal Good : And , fpite of ...
... Pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; All Chance , Direction , which thou can't not fee ; All Difcord , Harmony , not underflood ; All partial Evil , univerfal Good : And , fpite of ...
Page 93
... pow'r , ambition , lucre , luft : The fame Self - love , in all , becomes the caufe Of what restrains him , Government and Laws , For , what one likes , if others like as well , What ferves one will , when many wills rebel ? How fhall ...
... pow'r , ambition , lucre , luft : The fame Self - love , in all , becomes the caufe Of what restrains him , Government and Laws , For , what one likes , if others like as well , What ferves one will , when many wills rebel ? How fhall ...
Page 107
... pow'r endow'd And room to ftretch , was deftin'd to fit fill ? Sluggards are Nature's rebels , flight her laws , Nor live up to the terms on which they hold Their vital leafe . Laborious terms and hard ; But fuch the tenure of our ...
... pow'r endow'd And room to ftretch , was deftin'd to fit fill ? Sluggards are Nature's rebels , flight her laws , Nor live up to the terms on which they hold Their vital leafe . Laborious terms and hard ; But fuch the tenure of our ...
Page 109
... pow'r . So , round thy brow when Age's honours spread , When Death's cold hand unftrings thy MASON's lyre , When the green turf lies lightly on his head , Thy worth fhall fome fuperior bard infpire : He to the ampleft bounds of Time's ...
... pow'r . So , round thy brow when Age's honours spread , When Death's cold hand unftrings thy MASON's lyre , When the green turf lies lightly on his head , Thy worth fhall fome fuperior bard infpire : He to the ampleft bounds of Time's ...
Page 115
... pow'r Of heav'n and earth furveys th ' immortal page , E'en as a father bleffing , while he reads The praises of his fon ; if then thy soul , Spurning the yoke of thefe inglorious days , Mix in their deeds and kindle with their flame ...
... pow'r Of heav'n and earth furveys th ' immortal page , E'en as a father bleffing , while he reads The praises of his fon ; if then thy soul , Spurning the yoke of thefe inglorious days , Mix in their deeds and kindle with their flame ...
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