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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... tears ; and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were affembled at their evening sports , fhe would steal in amongst them , and captivate their hearts by her tales full of a charming sadness . She wore on her head a garland compofed ...
... tears ; and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were affembled at their evening sports , fhe would steal in amongst them , and captivate their hearts by her tales full of a charming sadness . She wore on her head a garland compofed ...
Page 36
... tear fall up the place : I could not be deceived by what followed . " I SHALL find , faid he , fome other way to get it off . " WHEN the Marquis had faid this , he returned his fword into ist fcabbard , made a bow to the guardian of it ...
... tear fall up the place : I could not be deceived by what followed . " I SHALL find , faid he , fome other way to get it off . " WHEN the Marquis had faid this , he returned his fword into ist fcabbard , made a bow to the guardian of it ...
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... tears trickled her cheeks . I SAT down close by her ; and Maria let me wipe them away as they fell , with my hankerchief . I then fteeped it in my own - and then in her's - and then in mine - and then I wiped her's again — and as I did ...
... tears trickled her cheeks . I SAT down close by her ; and Maria let me wipe them away as they fell , with my hankerchief . I then fteeped it in my own - and then in her's - and then in mine - and then I wiped her's again — and as I did ...
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... tear ; Firft falling o'er the primrose pale So morning dews appear . But oh ! his fifter's jealous care ( A cruel fifter fhe ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to fay , My EDWIN , live for me . Now Now homeward as the hopeless went , The church ...
... tear ; Firft falling o'er the primrose pale So morning dews appear . But oh ! his fifter's jealous care ( A cruel fifter fhe ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to fay , My EDWIN , live for me . Now Now homeward as the hopeless went , The church ...
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... tear that parting drew ) Embark'd , reluctant , for her native ifle . Tho ' learned , curious , and tho ' nobly bent With each rare talent to adorn his mind , His native land to ferve ; no joys he found . Yet fprightly Gaul ; yet ...
... tear that parting drew ) Embark'd , reluctant , for her native ifle . Tho ' learned , curious , and tho ' nobly bent With each rare talent to adorn his mind , His native land to ferve ; no joys he found . Yet fprightly Gaul ; yet ...
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