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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... wishes , or the eye looks for in woman , that could the traces be ever worn out of her brain , and those of Eliza's out of mine , she fhould not only eat of my bread and drink of my own cup , but Maria should lie in my bofom , and be ...
... wishes , or the eye looks for in woman , that could the traces be ever worn out of her brain , and those of Eliza's out of mine , she fhould not only eat of my bread and drink of my own cup , but Maria should lie in my bofom , and be ...
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... wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blush that nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour smiles thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The ...
... wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blush that nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour smiles thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The ...
Page 49
... wish Which virtue keeps conceal'd . What happy 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 ...
... wish Which virtue keeps conceal'd . What happy 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 ...
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... wish . Th ' enchanting 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 ...
... wish . Th ' enchanting 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 ...
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... wish'd That Heav'n had made her fuch a man : -she thank'd me . And bade me , if I had a friend that lov'd her , I should but teach him how to tell my story , And that would woo her . On this hint I spake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I ...
... wish'd That Heav'n had made her fuch a man : -she thank'd me . And bade me , if I had a friend that lov'd her , I should but teach him how to tell my story , And that would woo her . On this hint I spake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I ...
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