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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... hand , who by the sprightliness of her conversation , and fongs of cheerfulness and joy , foftened the toils of the way ; while Contentment went fmiling on the left , fupporting the steps of her mother , and by her perpetual good humour ...
... hand , who by the sprightliness of her conversation , and fongs of cheerfulness and joy , foftened the toils of the way ; while Contentment went fmiling on the left , fupporting the steps of her mother , and by her perpetual good humour ...
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... hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment , and remorse , for old age . As for me , I am the friend of the gods and of good men , an agreeable companion ...
... hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment , and remorse , for old age . As for me , I am the friend of the gods and of good men , an agreeable companion ...
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... of bread out of his wallet again , as if to eat it ; held it fome time in his hand - then laid it upon the bit of his afs's bridle - looked wiftfully at the little arrangement he had bridle 32 ( Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .. The Dead ...
... of bread out of his wallet again , as if to eat it ; held it fome time in his hand - then laid it upon the bit of his afs's bridle - looked wiftfully at the little arrangement he had bridle 32 ( Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .. The Dead ...
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... - His fword was given him , and the moment he got it into his hand he drew it almoft out of the fcabbard - it was the fhining face of a friend : · D 5 friend he had once given up . He looked attentively CHAP . X. ) 35 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... - His fword was given him , and the moment he got it into his hand he drew it almoft out of the fcabbard - it was the fhining face of a friend : · D 5 friend he had once given up . He looked attentively CHAP . X. ) 35 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . - THE poftilion delivered this with fo much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help decyphering fome- thing in his face above his condition , and should have ...
... hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . - THE poftilion delivered this with fo much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help decyphering fome- thing in his face above his condition , and should have ...
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