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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... SOULS are ripen'd in our northern sky . Some penfive creep along the fhelly fhore , Unfold the filky texture of a flower ; With fharpen'd eyes inspect a hornet's fting , And all the wonders of an infect's wing . Some trace , with ...
... SOULS are ripen'd in our northern sky . Some penfive creep along the fhelly fhore , Unfold the filky texture of a flower ; With fharpen'd eyes inspect a hornet's fting , And all the wonders of an infect's wing . Some trace , with ...
Page 290
... soul , Was my great father - in - law , renowned Warwick , Who cry'd aloud " What fcourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford falfe Clarence ? ” And so he vanish'd . Then came wand'ring by A fhadow like an angel , with bright hair ...
... soul , Was my great father - in - law , renowned Warwick , Who cry'd aloud " What fcourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford falfe Clarence ? ” And so he vanish'd . Then came wand'ring by A fhadow like an angel , with bright hair ...
Page 339
... soul . The good old king at parting wrung my hand , ( His eyes brimful of tears ) then fighing cry'd , Pry'thee be careful of my fon ! His grief Swell'd up fo high , he could not utter more . JUB . Alas , the ftory melts away my foul ...
... soul . The good old king at parting wrung my hand , ( His eyes brimful of tears ) then fighing cry'd , Pry'thee be careful of my fon ! His grief Swell'd up fo high , he could not utter more . JUB . Alas , the ftory melts away my foul ...
Page 401
... soul to heav'n . 4 CHAP . XXXIII . ALEXANDER's FEAST . " TWAS at the royal feast , for Perfia won , By Philip's warlike fon : Aloft in awful state The god - like hero fate On his imperial throne ; His valiant peers were plac'd around ...
... soul to heav'n . 4 CHAP . XXXIII . ALEXANDER's FEAST . " TWAS at the royal feast , for Perfia won , By Philip's warlike fon : Aloft in awful state The god - like hero fate On his imperial throne ; His valiant peers were plac'd around ...
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