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 12
... whose cha- racters have been moft injured by flanders : as we usually find that to be the fweeteft fruit , which the birds have been pecking at . THE eye of the critic is often like a microfcope , made fo very fine and nice , that it ...
... whose cha- racters have been moft injured by flanders : as we usually find that to be the fweeteft fruit , which the birds have been pecking at . THE eye of the critic is often like a microfcope , made fo very fine and nice , that it ...
Page 15
... Whose paffions and whose plots have broke their fleep , To take the one the other , by fome chance , Some trick not worth an egg , fhall grow dear friends , And interjoin their iffues . -So it falls out , That what we have we prize not ...
... Whose paffions and whose plots have broke their fleep , To take the one the other , by fome chance , Some trick not worth an egg , fhall grow dear friends , And interjoin their iffues . -So it falls out , That what we have we prize not ...
Page 17
... Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the pofting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens , and states , Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of ...
... Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the pofting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens , and states , Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of ...
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... Whose constant cares were to increase his store , And keep his only fon , 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 ...
... Whose constant cares were to increase his store , And keep his only fon , 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 ...
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... whose sprightly fong Had been their mutual folace long , Liv'd happy there . They fang , as blithe as finches fing That flutter loose on golden wing , And frolic where they lift ; Strangers to liberty , ' tis true , But that delight ...
... whose sprightly fong Had been their mutual folace long , Liv'd happy there . They fang , as blithe as finches fing That flutter loose on golden wing , And frolic where they lift ; Strangers to liberty , ' tis true , But that delight ...
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