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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... whose feeble ́mind produces only half formed embrios of thought , or whofe impetuofity will not permit him to separate his ideas from one ano- ther before he cloaths them in language , must be ob- fcure . The image reflected from the ...
... whose feeble ́mind produces only half formed embrios of thought , or whofe impetuofity will not permit him to separate his ideas from one ano- ther before he cloaths them in language , must be ob- fcure . The image reflected from the ...
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... whose cha- racters have been moft injured by flanderers : as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit , which the birds have been : pecking at . THE eye of the critic is often like a microscope , made fo very fine and nice , that ...
... whose cha- racters have been moft injured by flanderers : as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit , which the birds have been : pecking at . THE eye of the critic is often like a microscope , made fo very fine and nice , that ...
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... whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are ftill together ; who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour , On a diffenfion of a doit , ' break out To bitterest enmity . So felleft foes , Whofe paffions and whofe ...
... whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are ftill together ; who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour , On a diffenfion of a doit , ' break out To bitterest enmity . So felleft foes , Whofe paffions and whofe ...
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... whose visage glowed with paffion made up of fcorn and pity , what are the pleasures you propofe ? To eat be- fore you are hungry , drink before you are athirst , sleep be- fore you are tired ; to gratify appetites before they are raised ...
... whose visage glowed with paffion made up of fcorn and pity , what are the pleasures you propofe ? To eat be- fore you are hungry , drink before you are athirst , sleep be- fore you are tired ; to gratify appetites before they are raised ...
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... Whose only 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 fmiles thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones ...
... Whose only 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 fmiles thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones ...
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