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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... , when he announces the hour of the night ; the fovereign , when he issues his edict ; the fenator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whif- b 2 pers pers his tender tale ; do not differ more in ELOCUTION . xi Warrington Academy.
... , when he announces the hour of the night ; the fovereign , when he issues his edict ; the fenator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whif- b 2 pers pers his tender tale ; do not differ more in ELOCUTION . xi Warrington Academy.
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... hours , whofe bed , whofe meal and exercise Are still together : who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour , On a dissension of a doit , break out To bittereft enmity . So felleft foes , Whose paffions and ...
... hours , whofe bed , whofe meal and exercise Are still together : who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour , On a dissension of a doit , break out To bittereft enmity . So felleft foes , Whose paffions and ...
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... That ftruts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of found and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES . A CHAP . I. 18 Book . I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... That ftruts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of found and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES . A CHAP . I. 18 Book . I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... hours to- gether on the banks of fome wild and melancholy ftream , finging to her lute . She taught men to weep , for he took a ftrange delight in tears ; and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were affembled at their evening sports ...
... hours to- gether on the banks of fome wild and melancholy ftream , finging to her lute . She taught men to weep , for he took a ftrange delight in tears ; and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were affembled at their evening sports ...
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... hours of heart - felt blifs Did love on both bestow ! But blifs too mighty long to last , Where 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 ...
... hours of heart - felt blifs Did love on both bestow ! But blifs too mighty long to last , Where 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 ...
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