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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... thee ? THERE is nothing fo much worth as a mind well in- ftructed . THE lips of talkers will be telling fuch things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of fuch as have understand- ing are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools ...
... thee ? THERE is nothing fo much worth as a mind well in- ftructed . THE lips of talkers will be telling fuch things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of fuch as have understand- ing are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools ...
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... thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldft eat of my own bread , and drink of my own cup - I would be kind to thy Sylvio -in all thy weakneffes and wanderings I would feek after thee , and bring thee back - when the fun went down I ...
... thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldft eat of my own bread , and drink of my own cup - I would be kind to thy Sylvio -in all thy weakneffes and wanderings I would feek after thee , and bring thee back - when the fun went down I ...
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... thee " With kind regard . O'er thee the fecret fhaft " That waftes at midnight , or th ' undreaded hour " Of noon , flies harmless ; and that very voice , " Which thunders terror thro ' the guilty heart , " With tongues of feraphs ...
... thee " With kind regard . O'er thee the fecret fhaft " That waftes at midnight , or th ' undreaded hour " Of noon , flies harmless ; and that very voice , " Which thunders terror thro ' the guilty heart , " With tongues of feraphs ...
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... thee , my dear friend , as to make thee heartily fick of it ,, and of thy life too . REVENGE , from fome baneful corner , fhall level a tale of dishonour at thee , which no innocence of heart or integrity of conduct shall fet right ...
... thee , my dear friend , as to make thee heartily fick of it ,, and of thy life too . REVENGE , from fome baneful corner , fhall level a tale of dishonour at thee , which no innocence of heart or integrity of conduct shall fet right ...
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... thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy bleffing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast ; Man never IS , but always TO be bleft : The foul , uneafy and confin'd from home , Refts and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the ...
... thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy bleffing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast ; Man never IS , but always TO be bleft : The foul , uneafy and confin'd from home , Refts and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the ...
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