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 60
... fortunes That I have past . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To th ' very moment that he bade me tell it . Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances , Of moving accidents by flood and field : Of hair - breadth ' scapes in ...
... fortunes That I have past . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To th ' very moment that he bade me tell it . Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances , Of moving accidents by flood and field : Of hair - breadth ' scapes in ...
Page 86
... fortunes of thy house shall totter - thy character , which led the way to them , fhall bleed on every fide of it - thy faith questioned - thy works belied - thy wit forgotten - thy learning trampled on : To wind up the laft fcene of the ...
... fortunes of thy house shall totter - thy character , which led the way to them , fhall bleed on every fide of it - thy faith questioned - thy works belied - thy wit forgotten - thy learning trampled on : To wind up the laft fcene of the ...
Page 97
... Fortune's gifts if each alike poffest , And each were equal , muft not all contest ? If then to all men Happiness was meant , God in externals could not place Content . Fortune her gifts may varioufly difpofe , And these be happy call'd ...
... Fortune's gifts if each alike poffest , And each were equal , muft not all contest ? If then to all men Happiness was meant , God in externals could not place Content . Fortune her gifts may varioufly difpofe , And these be happy call'd ...
Page 98
... fortune , and with learning blind , The bad muft mifs ; the good , untaught , will find ; Slave to no fect , who takes no private road , But looks thro ' Nature , up to Nature's God : Purfues that chain which links the immenfe defign ...
... fortune , and with learning blind , The bad muft mifs ; the good , untaught , will find ; Slave to no fect , who takes no private road , But looks thro ' Nature , up to Nature's God : Purfues that chain which links the immenfe defign ...
Page 103
... Fortune dreads its name and awful charms . To noblest uses this determines wealth : This is the folid pomp of profperous days ; The peace and shelter of adverfity . And if you pant for glory , build your fame On this foundation , which ...
... Fortune dreads its name and awful charms . To noblest uses this determines wealth : This is the folid pomp of profperous days ; The peace and shelter of adverfity . And if you pant for glory , build your fame On this foundation , which ...
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