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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... fortune , unless he had before fuffered himself to be deceived by her favours . ANCER may glance into the breast of a wife man , but refts only in the bofom of fools . NONE more impatiently suffer injuries , than those that are moft ...
... fortune , unless he had before fuffered himself to be deceived by her favours . ANCER may glance into the breast of a wife man , but refts only in the bofom of fools . NONE more impatiently suffer injuries , than those that are moft ...
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... fortune , and be honourable Without the ftamp of merit ? Let none perfume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ...
... fortune , and be honourable Without the ftamp of merit ? Let none perfume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ...
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... fortune ; Omitted , all the voyage of their life Is bound in fhallows , and in miferies . TO - MORROW , and to - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last fyllable of recorded time , And all our ...
... fortune ; Omitted , all the voyage of their life Is bound in fhallows , and in miferies . TO - MORROW , and to - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last fyllable of recorded time , And all our ...
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... fortune which will never happen to any traveller , but a fentimental one , that I fhould be at Rennes at the very time of this folemn requifition ; I call it folemn - it was fo to me . THE Marquis entered the court with his whole family ...
... fortune which will never happen to any traveller , but a fentimental one , that I fhould be at Rennes at the very time of this folemn requifition ; I call it folemn - it was fo to me . THE Marquis entered the court with his whole family ...
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... fortune proves a foc . His fifter , who like envy form'd , Like her in mifchief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked fkill Each darker art employ'd . The father too , a fordid man , Who love nor pity knew , Was all unfeeling as the ...
... fortune proves a foc . His fifter , who like envy form'd , Like her in mifchief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked fkill Each darker art employ'd . The father too , a fordid man , Who love nor pity knew , Was all unfeeling as the ...
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