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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... bear two funs , nor Afia two kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , faid , were I Alexander I would accept them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . NOBILITY is to be ...
... bear two funs , nor Afia two kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , faid , were I Alexander I would accept them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . NOBILITY is to be ...
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... bear , Are ready to burst on thee ? Urge not so Thy flying courfer . Soon Theana's porch Receiv'd him ; at his fight , the ancient slaves Affrighted fhriek , and to the chamber point : - Confounded , yet unknowing what they meant , He ...
... bear , Are ready to burst on thee ? Urge not so Thy flying courfer . Soon Theana's porch Receiv'd him ; at his fight , the ancient slaves Affrighted fhriek , and to the chamber point : - Confounded , yet unknowing what they meant , He ...
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... bear a date Either too early or too late . COWPER . CHA P. XXII . THE FAITHFUL FRIEND . THE green - house is my fummer feat ; My fhrubs difplac'd from that retreat Enjoy'd the open air ; Two goldfinches , whose sprightly fong Had been ...
... bear a date Either too early or too late . COWPER . CHA P. XXII . THE FAITHFUL FRIEND . THE green - house is my fummer feat ; My fhrubs difplac'd from that retreat Enjoy'd the open air ; Two goldfinches , whose sprightly fong Had been ...
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... bears An afpect ftern on man's affairs , Not altogether fmil'd on theirs . The wind , of late breath'd gently forth , Now fhifted east and east by north ; Bare trees and shrubs but ill , you know , Could fhelter them from rain or fnow ...
... bears An afpect ftern on man's affairs , Not altogether fmil'd on theirs . The wind , of late breath'd gently forth , Now fhifted east and east by north ; Bare trees and shrubs but ill , you know , Could fhelter them from rain or fnow ...
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... bear him out to the laft . CHAP . IV . ON HONOUR . TILLOTSON . VERY principle that is a motive to good actions ought to he encouraged , fince men are of fo different a make , that the fame principle does not work equally upon all minds ...
... bear him out to the laft . CHAP . IV . ON HONOUR . TILLOTSON . VERY principle that is a motive to good actions ought to he encouraged , fince men are of fo different a make , that the fame principle does not work equally upon all minds ...
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