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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... fire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a speaker without energy , is a lifeless statue . In order to acquire a forcible manner of pro- nouncing your words , inure yourself , while ...
... fire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a speaker without energy , is a lifeless statue . In order to acquire a forcible manner of pro- nouncing your words , inure yourself , while ...
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... fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feaft ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion of the ...
... fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feaft ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion of the ...
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... fire detefted his Theana's house ! - Thus duty , reverence , gratitude , confpir'd To check their happy union . He refolv'd ( And many a figh that refolution cost ) To pass the time , till death his fire remov❜d , In vifiting old ...
... fire detefted his Theana's house ! - Thus duty , reverence , gratitude , confpir'd To check their happy union . He refolv'd ( And many a figh that refolution cost ) To pass the time , till death his fire remov❜d , In vifiting old ...
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... fires , That foon in air the hapless Thunderer blew . Blow , profperous breezes ; fwiftly fail , thou Po : May no more dangerous fights retard thy way ! . Soon Porto Santo's rocky heights they ' spy , Like clouds dim rifing in the ...
... fires , That foon in air the hapless Thunderer blew . Blow , profperous breezes ; fwiftly fail , thou Po : May no more dangerous fights retard thy way ! . Soon Porto Santo's rocky heights they ' spy , Like clouds dim rifing in the ...
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... fire denied . This moon , which rose last night round as my fhield Had not yet fill'd her horns , when , by her light , A band of fierce barbarians , from the hills , Rufh'd like a torrent down upon the vale , Sweeping our flocks and ...
... fire denied . This moon , which rose last night round as my fhield Had not yet fill'd her horns , when , by her light , A band of fierce barbarians , from the hills , Rufh'd like a torrent down upon the vale , Sweeping our flocks and ...
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