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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... hope in th ' air of men's 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 ...
... hope in th ' air of men's 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 ...
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... hope you will gain , both for yourself and me , an immortal reputation . But , be- fore I invite you into my fociety and friendship , I will be open and fincere with you , and must lay down this as an ef- tablished truth , that there is ...
... hope you will gain , both for yourself and me , an immortal reputation . But , be- fore I invite you into my fociety and friendship , I will be open and fincere with you , and must lay down this as an ef- tablished truth , that there is ...
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... Hope , who was his nurfe , and conveyed by her to the forests of Arcadia , where he was brought up among the fhepherds . But Jupiter affigned him a different partner , and commanded him to espouse SORROW , the daughter of Atè . He com ...
... Hope , who was his nurfe , and conveyed by her to the forests of Arcadia , where he was brought up among the fhepherds . But Jupiter affigned him a different partner , and commanded him to espouse SORROW , the daughter of Atè . He com ...
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... hope , had caught his eye , Alas ! unhappy youth , he cry'd , Expect no praise from me , ( and figh'd ) With indignation I furvey Such skill and judgment thrown a way , The time profufely fquander'd there , On vulgar arts beneath thy ...
... hope , had caught his eye , Alas ! unhappy youth , he cry'd , Expect no praise from me , ( and figh'd ) With indignation I furvey Such skill and judgment thrown a way , The time profufely fquander'd there , On vulgar arts beneath thy ...
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... hope , and fympathetic glow , Beam'd from the mutual eye . Devoting all To love , cach was to each a dearer self ; Supremely happy in th ' awaken'd power Of giving joy . Alone , amid the shades , Still in harmonious intercourse they liv ...
... hope , and fympathetic glow , Beam'd from the mutual eye . Devoting all To love , cach was to each a dearer self ; Supremely happy in th ' awaken'd power Of giving joy . Alone , amid the shades , Still in harmonious intercourse they liv ...
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