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 |
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... still together : who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour , On a dissension of a doit , break out To bittereft enmity . So felleft foes , Whose paffions and whose plots have broke their fleep , To take the ...
... still together : who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour , On a dissension of a doit , break out To bittereft enmity . So felleft foes , Whose paffions and whose plots have broke their fleep , To take the ...
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... to each a dearer self ; Supremely happy in th ' awaken'd power Of giving joy . Alone , amid the shades , Still in harmonious intercourse they liv'd The The rural day , and talk'd the flowing hour , 52 NARRATIVE PIECES . BOOK II .
... to each a dearer self ; Supremely happy in th ' awaken'd power Of giving joy . Alone , amid the shades , Still in harmonious intercourse they liv'd The The rural day , and talk'd the flowing hour , 52 NARRATIVE PIECES . BOOK II .
Page 53
... Still bade eternal Eden smile 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 difordered cheek . In vain affuring love ...
... Still bade eternal Eden smile 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 difordered cheek . In vain affuring love ...
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... still engag'd my care ; " And , next to God , you now my thoughts employ : Accept of thisMy little all I give ; Would it were larger ” . Nature could no more ; She look'd , embraced him , with a groan expir'd , But fay , what ftrains ...
... still engag'd my care ; " And , next to God , you now my thoughts employ : Accept of thisMy little all I give ; Would it were larger ” . Nature could no more ; She look'd , embraced him , with a groan expir'd , But fay , what ftrains ...
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... Still queftion'd me the story of my life , From year to year ; the battles , fieges , fortunes , That I have past . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To th ' very moment that he bade me tell it . Wherein I spoke of most ...
... Still queftion'd me the story of my life , From year to year ; the battles , fieges , fortunes , That I have past . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To th ' very moment that he bade me tell it . Wherein I spoke of most ...
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