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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... such a speaker can so properly be compared to , as an alarum - bell , which , when once fet a going , clatters on till the weight that moves it is run down . Without pauses , the sense must always appear confufed and obfcure , and often ...
... such a speaker can so properly be compared to , as an alarum - bell , which , when once fet a going , clatters on till the weight that moves it is run down . Without pauses , the sense must always appear confufed and obfcure , and often ...
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... such full poffeffion of me . We had got up by this time almoft to the bank where Maria was fitting : she was in a thin white jacket , with her hair , all but two treffes , drawn up in a filk net , with a few olive leaves twisted a ...
... such full poffeffion of me . We had got up by this time almoft to the bank where Maria was fitting : she was in a thin white jacket , with her hair , all but two treffes , drawn up in a filk net , with a few olive leaves twisted a ...
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... such a tale of woe with it , that I rose up , and with broken and irregular fteps walked foftly to my chaife . W SECOND PAR T. HEN we had got within half a league of Moulines , at a little opening in the road leading to a thicket , I ...
... such a tale of woe with it , that I rose up , and with broken and irregular fteps walked foftly to my chaife . W SECOND PAR T. HEN we had got within half a league of Moulines , at a little opening in the road leading to a thicket , I ...
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... Such skill and judgment thrown a way , The time profufely fquander'd there , On vulgar arts beneath thy care , If well employ'd , at less expence , Had taught thee honour , virtue , sense , · And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To ...
... Such skill and judgment thrown a way , The time profufely fquander'd there , On vulgar arts beneath thy care , If well employ'd , at less expence , Had taught thee honour , virtue , sense , · And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To ...
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... Such orient colour smiles thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The charmer of the plains ; That fun which bids their diamond blaze , To deck our lily deigns . Long had fhe fir'd each ...
... Such orient colour smiles thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The charmer of the plains ; That fun which bids their diamond blaze , To deck our lily deigns . Long had fhe fir'd each ...
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