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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... Fear XIV . Ode to Truth XV . Ode to Fancy XVI . L'Allegro XVII . II Penferofo Sterne 248 Ibid . 249 Ibid . 25 Pope 252 Goldsmith 254 Green 256 Dyer 259 Gray 264 Ibid . 266 Ibid . 270 Mrs. Barbauld 275 Ibid . 278 Collins 280 Mafon 282 ...
... Fear XIV . Ode to Truth XV . Ode to Fancy XVI . L'Allegro XVII . II Penferofo Sterne 248 Ibid . 249 Ibid . 25 Pope 252 Goldsmith 254 Green 256 Dyer 259 Gray 264 Ibid . 266 Ibid . 270 Mrs. Barbauld 275 Ibid . 278 Collins 280 Mafon 282 ...
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... fear , joy , grief , love , or any other paffion is raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we utter our words , by the features of the face , and by other well - known figns . The eyes and countenance , as ...
... fear , joy , grief , love , or any other paffion is raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we utter our words , by the features of the face , and by other well - known figns . The eyes and countenance , as ...
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... fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecur- ing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and ...
... fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecur- ing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and ...
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... fear is nothing else , but a betraying of the fuccours which reafon offereth . A WISE man will fear in every thing . He that contemn◅ eth fmall things , fhall fall by little and little . A RICH man beginning to fall is held up of his ...
... fear is nothing else , but a betraying of the fuccours which reafon offereth . A WISE man will fear in every thing . He that contemn◅ eth fmall things , fhall fall by little and little . A RICH man beginning to fall is held up of his ...
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... fear ; . Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come .. THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil ,. Would men obfervingly diftil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers : Which is both ...
... fear ; . Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come .. THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil ,. Would men obfervingly diftil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers : Which is both ...
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