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 59
... Hath this extent ; no more . Rude am I in fpeech , And little blefs'd with the fet phrase of peace ; For fince thefe arms of mine had seven years pith , Till now fome nine moons wafted , they have us'd Their dearest action in the tented ...
... Hath this extent ; no more . Rude am I in fpeech , And little blefs'd with the fet phrase of peace ; For fince thefe arms of mine had seven years pith , Till now fome nine moons wafted , they have us'd Their dearest action in the tented ...
Page 69
... hath many advantages over all the artificial modes of diffimulation and deceit . It is much the plainer and easier ; much the fafer and more fecure way of dealing in the world ; it hath less of trouble and difficulty , of entanglement ...
... hath many advantages over all the artificial modes of diffimulation and deceit . It is much the plainer and easier ; much the fafer and more fecure way of dealing in the world ; it hath less of trouble and difficulty , of entanglement ...
Page 70
... hath need of a good memory , left he contradict at one time what he said at another ; but truth is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips ; whereas a lie is ...
... hath need of a good memory , left he contradict at one time what he said at another ; but truth is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips ; whereas a lie is ...
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... hath mine uncle Beaufort and myself , With all the learned counsel of the realm , Studied fo long , fat in the council - house , Early and late , debating to and fro , How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe ; And was his Highness ...
... hath mine uncle Beaufort and myself , With all the learned counsel of the realm , Studied fo long , fat in the council - house , Early and late , debating to and fro , How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe ; And was his Highness ...
Page 210
... Hath not old cuftom made this life more fweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril , than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam , The feafon's difference ; as the icy phang , And ...
... Hath not old cuftom made this life more fweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril , than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam , The feafon's difference ; as the icy phang , And ...
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