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 97
... earth ! attempt ye ftill to rife , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heav'n ftill with laughter the vain toil furveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that individuals find , Or God and ...
... earth ! attempt ye ftill to rife , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heav'n ftill with laughter the vain toil furveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that individuals find , Or God and ...
Page 98
... earth , and mortal and divinè ; Sees , that no being any bliss can know , But touches fome above , and some below ; Learns , from this union of the rifing Whole , The firft , laft purpofe of the human foul ; And knows where Faith , Law ...
... earth , and mortal and divinè ; Sees , that no being any bliss can know , But touches fome above , and some below ; Learns , from this union of the rifing Whole , The firft , laft purpofe of the human foul ; And knows where Faith , Law ...
Page 129
... earth ; if this be beyond , me it is not poffible - What con- fequence then follows - Or can there be any other than this - If I feek an intereft of my own , detached from that of others ; I feek an interest which is chimerical , and ...
... earth ; if this be beyond , me it is not poffible - What con- fequence then follows - Or can there be any other than this - If I feek an intereft of my own , detached from that of others ; I feek an interest which is chimerical , and ...
Page 135
... earth , and thefe bright orbs ? -Eternal too ! Grant matter was eternal ; still these orbs Would want fome other father - Much defign Is feen in all their motions , all their makes : Defign implies intelligence and art ; That can't be ...
... earth , and thefe bright orbs ? -Eternal too ! Grant matter was eternal ; still these orbs Would want fome other father - Much defign Is feen in all their motions , all their makes : Defign implies intelligence and art ; That can't be ...
Page 249
... earth Virtue , his darling child , defign'd , To thee he gave the heav'nly birth , And bade thee form her infant mind . Stern , rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year the bore : What forrow was , thou bad'ft her know ...
... earth Virtue , his darling child , defign'd , To thee he gave the heav'nly birth , And bade thee form her infant mind . Stern , rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year the bore : What forrow was , thou bad'ft her know ...
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