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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Page xlv
... feeling the effect , and judging of the propriety , of the application . Many poems of the firft merit appear obfcure , only because the reader is not sufficiently acquainted with the ancient fables , historical facts , or natural ...
... feeling the effect , and judging of the propriety , of the application . Many poems of the firft merit appear obfcure , only because the reader is not sufficiently acquainted with the ancient fables , historical facts , or natural ...
Page xlvi
... feel . The general picture , pre- fented before his fancy by the artift , will ftrike him with its full force ; nor will any fingle touch , however minute , efcape his obfervation . The confequence must be , a perfect experience of the ...
... feel . The general picture , pre- fented before his fancy by the artift , will ftrike him with its full force ; nor will any fingle touch , however minute , efcape his obfervation . The confequence must be , a perfect experience of the ...
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... feeling , the general result of public opinion is feldom wrong . THE fecond object of attention in reading works of taste , that of forming a judgment concerning their merit , requires , befides the general preparation already suggested ...
... feeling , the general result of public opinion is feldom wrong . THE fecond object of attention in reading works of taste , that of forming a judgment concerning their merit , requires , befides the general preparation already suggested ...
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... despair , if they were not cherished by our virtues .. THE fenfe of death is moft in apprehenfion ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon , In In corporal fufferance feels a pang as great , As CHAP . VIII . 113 SELECT SENTENCES .
... despair , if they were not cherished by our virtues .. THE fenfe of death is moft in apprehenfion ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon , In In corporal fufferance feels a pang as great , As CHAP . VIII . 113 SELECT SENTENCES .
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... feels a pang as great , As when a giant dies . How far the little candle throws his beams ! So fhines a good deed in a naughty world . -Love all , truft a few , Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy Rather in power than in ufe ...
... feels a pang as great , As when a giant dies . How far the little candle throws his beams ! So fhines a good deed in a naughty world . -Love all , truft a few , Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy Rather in power than in ufe ...
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