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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... son of Misery , who was the child of Vice , who was the offspring of the Furies . The habitation of this race of beings was in hell . THE middle ftation of nature between these two oppofite extremes was the earth , which was inhabited ...
... son of Misery , who was the child of Vice , who was the offspring of the Furies . The habitation of this race of beings was in hell . THE middle ftation of nature between these two oppofite extremes was the earth , which was inhabited ...
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... son of Mi- sery , to meet one another upon this part of nature which lay in the half way between them , having promised to settle it upon them both , provided they could agree upon the divi- fion of it , so as to share mankind between ...
... son of Mi- sery , to meet one another upon this part of nature which lay in the half way between them , having promised to settle it upon them both , provided they could agree upon the divi- fion of it , so as to share mankind between ...
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... son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts with love ; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow , Now fighs fteal out , and tears begin to flow : Perfians and Greeks like turns of nature found , And the World's victor ...
... son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts with love ; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow , Now fighs fteal out , and tears begin to flow : Perfians and Greeks like turns of nature found , And the World's victor ...
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... son ; Hear your own dignity fo much profan'd ; See your most dreadful laws fo loosely flighted ; Behold yourself fo by a son disdained : And then imagine me taking your part , And in your pow'r fo filencing your fon . After this cold ...
... son ; Hear your own dignity fo much profan'd ; See your most dreadful laws fo loosely flighted ; Behold yourself fo by a son disdained : And then imagine me taking your part , And in your pow'r fo filencing your fon . After this cold ...
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... Son of Light , Swift darting from his heav'nly height , Here deign to take his hallow'd stand ; Here wave his amber locks ; unfold His pinions cloth'd with downy gold ; Here fmiling ftretch his tutelary wand ? COLLINS . And you , ye ...
... Son of Light , Swift darting from his heav'nly height , Here deign to take his hallow'd stand ; Here wave his amber locks ; unfold His pinions cloth'd with downy gold ; Here fmiling ftretch his tutelary wand ? COLLINS . And you , ye ...
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