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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... fair looks , Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . -WHO fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the ftamp of merit ? Let none perfume To wear ...
... fair looks , Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . -WHO fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the ftamp of merit ? Let none perfume To wear ...
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... who is poor Maria ? said I. THE love and pity of all the villages around us ; faid the oftillion- -it is but three years ago , that the fun did not fhine upon fo fair , fo quick - witted , fhine 36 NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II .
... who is poor Maria ? said I. THE love and pity of all the villages around us ; faid the oftillion- -it is but three years ago , that the fun did not fhine upon fo fair , fo quick - witted , fhine 36 NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II .
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... fair , fo quick - witted , and amiable a maid ; and better fate did Maria deferve , than to have her banns forbid , by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short ...
... fair , fo quick - witted , and amiable a maid ; and better fate did Maria deferve , than to have her banns forbid , by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short ...
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... Fair ) ' The well - bred cuckolds in St. James's air : In Britain's Senate he a fent obtains , And one more Penfioner St. Stephen gains . My Lady falls to play ; fo bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from France : The ...
... Fair ) ' The well - bred cuckolds in St. James's air : In Britain's Senate he a fent obtains , And one more Penfioner St. Stephen gains . My Lady falls to play ; fo bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from France : The ...
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... fair Beneath a mother's eye , Whofe only wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blush that nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour smiles thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor ...
... fair Beneath a mother's eye , Whofe only wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blush that nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour smiles thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor ...
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