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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... heart , he is quickly followed by Pleasure ; and if Pleasure enters , you may be fure Pain is not far off . BUT notwithstanding this marriage was very convenient for the two parties , it did not feem to anfwer the intention of Jupiter ...
... heart , he is quickly followed by Pleasure ; and if Pleasure enters , you may be fure Pain is not far off . BUT notwithstanding this marriage was very convenient for the two parties , it did not feem to anfwer the intention of Jupiter ...
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... heart ; and I believe , every one who reads this , will do him the justice to approve his choice . TATLER . CHAP . VIII . PITY . IN the happy period of the Golden Age , when all the ce- leftial inhabitants defcended to the earth , and ...
... heart ; and I believe , every one who reads this , will do him the justice to approve his choice . TATLER . CHAP . VIII . PITY . IN the happy period of the Golden Age , when all the ce- leftial inhabitants defcended to the earth , and ...
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... hearts the had broken . She follows with her hair loose , her bofom bare , and throbbing , her garments torn by the briers , and her feet bleeding with the roughness of the path . The nymph is mortal , for her mother is fo ; and when he ...
... hearts the had broken . She follows with her hair loose , her bofom bare , and throbbing , her garments torn by the briers , and her feet bleeding with the roughness of the path . The nymph is mortal , for her mother is fo ; and when he ...
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... heart , that I instantly made a vow , I would give him a four and twenty fous piece , when I got to Moulines- AND who is poor Maria ? faid I. THE love and pity of all the villages around us , faid the poftilion - It is but three years ...
... heart , that I instantly made a vow , I would give him a four and twenty fous piece , when I got to Moulines- AND who is poor Maria ? faid I. THE love and pity of all the villages around us , faid the poftilion - It is but three years ...
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... heart - ach , it was the moment I saw her- GOD help her ! poor damfel ! above a hundred maffes , faid the poftilion , have been said in the feveral parish- churches and convents around for her - but without effect ; we have still hopes ...
... heart - ach , it was the moment I saw her- GOD help her ! poor damfel ! above a hundred maffes , faid the poftilion , have been said in the feveral parish- churches and convents around for her - but without effect ; we have still hopes ...
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