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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... fear the weight of my felf - and my afflictions together - have been too much for him - they have fhortened the poor crea- ture's days , and I fear I have them to answer for.- -Shame on the world ! faid I to myself - Did we love each ...
... fear the weight of my felf - and my afflictions together - have been too much for him - they have fhortened the poor crea- ture's days , and I fear I have them to answer for.- -Shame on the world ! faid I to myself - Did we love each ...
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... fear , and dumb amazement all : When to the startled e eye the fudden glance Appears far fouth , eruptive thro ' the cloud ; E. And And following flower , in explofion vast , The thunder CHAP . XVI . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 51 Mallet ...
... fear , and dumb amazement all : When to the startled e eye the fudden glance Appears far fouth , eruptive thro ' the cloud ; E. And And following flower , in explofion vast , The thunder CHAP . XVI . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 51 Mallet ...
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... fear ; it grew and shook Her frame near diffolution . He perceiv'd Th ' unequal conflict , and as angels look On dying faints , his eyes compaffion shed , With love illumin'd high . " Fear not , " he faid , " Sweet innocence ! thou ...
... fear ; it grew and shook Her frame near diffolution . He perceiv'd Th ' unequal conflict , and as angels look On dying faints , his eyes compaffion shed , With love illumin'd high . " Fear not , " he faid , " Sweet innocence ! thou ...
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... fears , the man of honour fcorns to do an ill action . The latter confiders vice as fomething that is beneath him , the other as fomething that is offenfive to the Divine Being . The one is what is unbecoming , the other as what is for ...
... fears , the man of honour fcorns to do an ill action . The latter confiders vice as fomething that is beneath him , the other as fomething that is offenfive to the Divine Being . The one is what is unbecoming , the other as what is for ...
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