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 |
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... fmile around . Heavy with inftant fate her bofom heav'd Unwonted fighs ; and ftealing oft a look Tow'rds the big gloom , on CELADON her eye Fell tearful , wetting her disordered cheek . In vain affuring love , and confidence In HEAVEN ...
... fmile around . Heavy with inftant fate her bofom heav'd Unwonted fighs ; and ftealing oft a look Tow'rds the big gloom , on CELADON her eye Fell tearful , wetting her disordered cheek . In vain affuring love , and confidence In HEAVEN ...
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... fmile at a man's jeft who ridi- culed his Maker , and at the fame time , run a man through the body that spoke ill of his friend . Timogenes would have fcorned to have betrayed a fecret , that was intrusted with him , though the fate of ...
... fmile at a man's jeft who ridi- culed his Maker , and at the fame time , run a man through the body that spoke ill of his friend . Timogenes would have fcorned to have betrayed a fecret , that was intrusted with him , though the fate of ...
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... fmile ; her palatable cup By ftanding grows infipid ; and beware The bottom , for there's poifon in the lees . What health impair'd , and crowds inactive maim'd ? What daily martyrs to her fluggish caufe ! Lefs ftrict devoir the Rufs ...
... fmile ; her palatable cup By ftanding grows infipid ; and beware The bottom , for there's poifon in the lees . What health impair'd , and crowds inactive maim'd ? What daily martyrs to her fluggish caufe ! Lefs ftrict devoir the Rufs ...
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... fmile , and fay , This is no flattery ; thefe are counsellors , That feelingly perfuade me what I am . Sweet are the uses of adverfity , Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our ...
... fmile , and fay , This is no flattery ; thefe are counsellors , That feelingly perfuade me what I am . Sweet are the uses of adverfity , Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our ...
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... fmile upon him as he eats his cruft , the swain is happier than his monarch , from whofe court thou art exiled . Gracious Heaven ! grant me but health , thou great Bestower of it , and give me but this fair goddess as my companion ; and ...
... fmile upon him as he eats his cruft , the swain is happier than his monarch , from whofe court thou art exiled . Gracious Heaven ! grant me but health , thou great Bestower of it , and give me but this fair goddess as my companion ; and ...
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Page 375 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy...
Page 298 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 213 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 327 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 402 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Page 376 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 274 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 255 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 378 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 395 - tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling; there the action lies In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.