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 xxviii
... ; as in the following example + : * Philipp . iv . 8. † Book vi . Chap . 8. See a long feries of In- terrogations in Gloucester's Speech to the Nobles , Book v . C. 14 . Hold Hold you the watch to - night ? -We do xxviii ESSAY ON.
... ; as in the following example + : * Philipp . iv . 8. † Book vi . Chap . 8. See a long feries of In- terrogations in Gloucester's Speech to the Nobles , Book v . C. 14 . Hold Hold you the watch to - night ? -We do xxviii ESSAY ON.
Page xxix
... Hold you the watch to - night ? -We do , my lord . - Arm'd , fay you ? —Arm'd , my lord .-- From top to toe ? -My lord , from head to foot . Except that , where an interrogative pronoun or adverb begins a sentence , it is ufually ended ...
... Hold you the watch to - night ? -We do , my lord . - Arm'd , fay you ? —Arm'd , my lord .-- From top to toe ? -My lord , from head to foot . Except that , where an interrogative pronoun or adverb begins a sentence , it is ufually ended ...
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... hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow , By thinking on fantastic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion ...
... hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow , By thinking on fantastic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion ...
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... Hold there , " the other quick replies , ' Tis green - I faw it with thefe eyes , " As late with open mouth it lay , " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Stretch'd at its eafe the beaft I view'd , " And faw it eat the air for food ...
... Hold there , " the other quick replies , ' Tis green - I faw it with thefe eyes , " As late with open mouth it lay , " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Stretch'd at its eafe the beaft I view'd , " And faw it eat the air for food ...
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... hold That title now too trite and old ) A man , once young , who lived retired As Hermit could have well defired , His hours of study closed at laft , And finish'd his concise repast , Stoppled his crufe , replaced his book . Within its ...
... hold That title now too trite and old ) A man , once young , who lived retired As Hermit could have well defired , His hours of study closed at laft , And finish'd his concise repast , Stoppled his crufe , replaced his book . Within its ...
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