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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... Wish . Green . 240 VII . Grongar Hill . Dyer . 243 VIII . Hymn to Adverfity . Gray , 248 IX . Ode on a distant Profpect of Eton College . ibid . 250 X. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard . ib . 254 XI . Warrington Academy . XII . Ode ...
... Wish . Green . 240 VII . Grongar Hill . Dyer . 243 VIII . Hymn to Adverfity . Gray , 248 IX . Ode on a distant Profpect of Eton College . ibid . 250 X. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard . ib . 254 XI . Warrington Academy . XII . Ode ...
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... wishes , or the eye looks for in woman , that could the traces be ever worn out of her brain , and thofe of Eliza's out of mine , she should not only eat of my bread and drink of my own cup , but Maria should lie in my bofom , and be ...
... wishes , or the eye looks for in woman , that could the traces be ever worn out of her brain , and thofe of Eliza's out of mine , she should not only eat of my bread and drink of my own cup , but Maria should lie in my bofom , and be ...
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... wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blafh that Nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour fmiles thro ' heaven When May's fweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The ...
... wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blafh that Nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour fmiles thro ' heaven When May's fweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The ...
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... wish Which Virtue keeps conceal'd . What happy hours of heart - felt bliss Did love on both bestow ! But blifs too mighty long to last , Where Fortune proves a foe . His fifter , who like Envy form'd , Like her in mischief joy'd , To ...
... wish Which Virtue keeps conceal'd . What happy hours of heart - felt bliss Did love on both bestow ! But blifs too mighty long to last , Where Fortune proves a foe . His fifter , who like Envy form'd , Like her in mischief joy'd , To ...
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... wish'd That Heav'n had made her fuch a man : -she thank'd me , And bade me , if I had a friend that lov'd her , I should but teach him how to tell my story , And that would woo her . On this hint I spake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I ...
... wish'd That Heav'n had made her fuch a man : -she thank'd me , And bade me , if I had a friend that lov'd her , I should but teach him how to tell my story , And that would woo her . On this hint I spake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I ...
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