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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... first counsellor and minister of state , that concerted all his measures for him , and never departed out of his fight . While thefe two great rivals were thus contending for empire , their conquests were very various . Luxury got ...
... first counsellor and minister of state , that concerted all his measures for him , and never departed out of his fight . While thefe two great rivals were thus contending for empire , their conquests were very various . Luxury got ...
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... first family was Plea- fure , who was the daughter of happiness , who was the child of Virtue , who was the offspring of the Gods . Thefe , as I faid before , had their habitation in heaven . The youngest of the oppofite family was Pain ...
... first family was Plea- fure , who was the daughter of happiness , who was the child of Virtue , who was the offspring of the Gods . Thefe , as I faid before , had their habitation in heaven . The youngest of the oppofite family was Pain ...
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... FIRST PART .. STERNE THEY were the fweetest notes I ever heard ; and I inftantly let down the foreglafs to hear them more diftinctly Tis Maria , faid the poftilion , obferving I was liftening - Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his ...
... FIRST PART .. STERNE THEY were the fweetest notes I ever heard ; and I inftantly let down the foreglafs to hear them more diftinctly Tis Maria , faid the poftilion , obferving I was liftening - Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his ...
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... first order of fine forms - Affliction had touched her looks with fomething that was fcarce earthly - ftill she was feminine : - and so much was there about her of all that the heart wishes , or the eye looks for in woman , that could ...
... first order of fine forms - Affliction had touched her looks with fomething that was fcarce earthly - ftill she was feminine : - and so much was there about her of all that the heart wishes , or the eye looks for in woman , that could ...
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... first , heard folemn o'er the verge of heaven , The tempeft growls ; but as it nearer comes , And rolls its awful burden on the wind , The light'nings flash a larger curve , and more The noise aftounds : till over - head a sheet Of ...
... first , heard folemn o'er the verge of heaven , The tempeft growls ; but as it nearer comes , And rolls its awful burden on the wind , The light'nings flash a larger curve , and more The noise aftounds : till over - head a sheet Of ...
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