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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Page 28
... different manner . HERCULES , fays fhe , I offer myself to you because I know you are defcended from the Gods , and give proofs . of that decent defcent by your love to virtue , and application to 28 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... different manner . HERCULES , fays fhe , I offer myself to you because I know you are defcended from the Gods , and give proofs . of that decent defcent by your love to virtue , and application to 28 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
Page 34
... myself and my afflictions together have been too much for him - they have shortened the poor creature's days , and I fear I have them to answer for . - Shame on the world ? faid I to myself - Did we love each other , as this poor foul ...
... myself and my afflictions together have been too much for him - they have shortened the poor creature's days , and I fear I have them to answer for . - Shame on the world ? faid I to myself - Did we love each other , as this poor foul ...
Page 38
... myself fitting betwixt her and her goat before I relapsed from my enthusiasm . MARIA looked wiftfully for some time at me , and then at her goat - and then at me - and then at her goat again , and fo on alternately ---- -WELL , MARIA ...
... myself fitting betwixt her and her goat before I relapsed from my enthusiasm . MARIA looked wiftfully for some time at me , and then at her goat - and then at me - and then at her goat again , and fo on alternately ---- -WELL , MARIA ...
Page 58
... myself , at home . For I had heard of battles , and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord ; And Heaven foon granted what my fire denied . This moon , which rose last night round as my fhield Had not yet fill'd her horns ...
... myself , at home . For I had heard of battles , and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord ; And Heaven foon granted what my fire denied . This moon , which rose last night round as my fhield Had not yet fill'd her horns ...
Page 59
... pertains to feats of broils and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause , In fpeaking for myself . Yet , by your patience , D 6 HOMES I will I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver , Of my CHAP . XIX NARRATIVE PIECES . 59.
... pertains to feats of broils and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause , In fpeaking for myself . Yet , by your patience , D 6 HOMES I will I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver , Of my CHAP . XIX NARRATIVE PIECES . 59.
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