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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... tears ; and often , when the vir- gins of the hamlet were affembled at their evening sports , she would fteal in amongst them , and captivate their hearts by her tales , full of a charming sadness . She wore on her head a garland ...
... tears ; and often , when the vir- gins of the hamlet were affembled at their evening sports , she would fteal in amongst them , and captivate their hearts by her tales , full of a charming sadness . She wore on her head a garland ...
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... tear fall upon the place : I could not be deceived by what followed . " I SHALL find , ( faid he ) fome other way to get it off . " WHEN the Marquis had faid this , he returned his fword into its fcabbard , made a bow to the guardian of ...
... tear fall upon the place : I could not be deceived by what followed . " I SHALL find , ( faid he ) fome other way to get it off . " WHEN the Marquis had faid this , he returned his fword into its fcabbard , made a bow to the guardian of ...
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... tears trickled down her cheeks . I SAT down clofe by her , and Maria let me wipe them away as they fell , with my handkerchief . I then steeped it in my own - and then in hers - and then in mine - and then I wiped hers again — and as I ...
... tears trickled down her cheeks . I SAT down clofe by her , and Maria let me wipe them away as they fell , with my handkerchief . I then steeped it in my own - and then in hers - and then in mine - and then I wiped hers again — and as I ...
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... tear ; Firft falling o'er the primrose pale So morning dews appear . But oh his fifter's jealous care , ( A cruel fifter fhe ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to say , My EDWIN ! live for me . Now homeward as the hopeless went , The churchyard ...
... tear ; Firft falling o'er the primrose pale So morning dews appear . But oh his fifter's jealous care , ( A cruel fifter fhe ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to say , My EDWIN ! live for me . Now homeward as the hopeless went , The churchyard ...
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... tear that parting drew ) Embark'd , reluctant , for her native ifle . Tho ' learn'd , curious , and tho ' nobly bent With each rare talent to adorn his mind , His native land to ferve ; no joys he found . Yet fprightly Gaul ; yet ...
... tear that parting drew ) Embark'd , reluctant , for her native ifle . Tho ' learn'd , curious , and tho ' nobly bent With each rare talent to adorn his mind , His native land to ferve ; no joys he found . Yet fprightly Gaul ; yet ...
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