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. To which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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Page 220
... see you well ; Horatio , or I do forget myself . HOR . The fame , my lord , and your poor fervant ever . HAM . Sir , my good friend ; I'll change that name with you . And what makes you from Wittenberg , Horatio ? HOR . A truant ...
... see you well ; Horatio , or I do forget myself . HOR . The fame , my lord , and your poor fervant ever . HAM . Sir , my good friend ; I'll change that name with you . And what makes you from Wittenberg , Horatio ? HOR . A truant ...
Page 225
... see yourself So well as by reflection ; I , your glass , Will modeftly discover to yourself That of yourself which yet you know not of . - And be not jealous of me , gentle Brutus : Were I a common laugher , or did use To ftale with ...
... see yourself So well as by reflection ; I , your glass , Will modeftly discover to yourself That of yourself which yet you know not of . - And be not jealous of me , gentle Brutus : Were I a common laugher , or did use To ftale with ...
Page 229
... see ; And often , to our comfort , fhall we find The fharded beetle in a fafer hold Than is the full - wing'd eagle . Oh ! this life Is nobler than attending for a check ; Richer , than doing nothing for a bauble ; Prouder , than ...
... see ; And often , to our comfort , fhall we find The fharded beetle in a fafer hold Than is the full - wing'd eagle . Oh ! this life Is nobler than attending for a check ; Richer , than doing nothing for a bauble ; Prouder , than ...
Page 242
... See faction , fafe in low degree , As men at land fee ftorms at fea , And laugh at miferable elves , Not kind , fo much as to themselves , 2 Curs'd Curs'd with fuch fouls of bafe alloy , As can 242 ( Book VII . DESCRIPTIVE PIECES .
... See faction , fafe in low degree , As men at land fee ftorms at fea , And laugh at miferable elves , Not kind , fo much as to themselves , 2 Curs'd Curs'd with fuch fouls of bafe alloy , As can 242 ( Book VII . DESCRIPTIVE PIECES .
Page 247
... See on the mountain's southern fide , Where the profpect opens wide- Where the evening gilds the tide ! How clofe and fmall the hedges lie ! What freaks of meadows cross the eye ? A ftep methinks may pafs the ftream ? So little diftant ...
... See on the mountain's southern fide , Where the profpect opens wide- Where the evening gilds the tide ! How clofe and fmall the hedges lie ! What freaks of meadows cross the eye ? A ftep methinks may pafs the ftream ? So little diftant ...
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affurance againſt army Balaam becauſe beſt bofom breaft Brutus Cæfar cauſe CHAP confider dæmons defire eternal fafe faid fame father fecure feems fenfe ferve fervice fhall fhew fide fince firft firſt fmile fome fomething fool foon foul fpeaking ftate ftill fubject fuch fure happineſs happy hath heart Heav'n himſelf honour houſe intereft itſelf juft juſt king laft laſt lefs lord meaſures mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never o'er obferve occafion ourſelves paffion pafs pain perfon pleaſe pleaſure poffible poor pow'r praiſe prefent raiſe reaſon reft rife ſay Scythians ſee ſhall ſhe ſhould SIR JOHN ſmall ſpeak ſpirit ſpreads ſtand ſtate ſtep STERL ſtill ſuch Syphax tears thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro uncle Toby uſe virtue whofe whoſe wife wiſdom yourſelf youth