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 |
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... just ; a description may be beautiful ; a fentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arifing from the subject , it may be nothing better than a cenfurable excrefcence . Sed nunc non erat his locus . Whatever has no tendency to ...
... just ; a description may be beautiful ; a fentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arifing from the subject , it may be nothing better than a cenfurable excrefcence . Sed nunc non erat his locus . Whatever has no tendency to ...
Page 75
... just arriv'd , Receiv'd , matriculated , and refolv'd · " To drown his freshness in a pipe of port . Quick , Mr. Vintner , twenty dozen more ; Some claret too . Here's to our friends at home . There let ' em doze . Be it our nobler aim ...
... just arriv'd , Receiv'd , matriculated , and refolv'd · " To drown his freshness in a pipe of port . Quick , Mr. Vintner , twenty dozen more ; Some claret too . Here's to our friends at home . There let ' em doze . Be it our nobler aim ...
Page 79
... just mean between bafhfulness and impudence . I SHALL conclude with observing , that as the fame man . may be both modest and assured , so it is also poffible for the fame perfon to be both impudent and bafhful . We have frequent ...
... just mean between bafhfulness and impudence . I SHALL conclude with observing , that as the fame man . may be both modest and assured , so it is also poffible for the fame perfon to be both impudent and bafhful . We have frequent ...
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... just rais'd to shed his blood . Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n ; Who fees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or fystems into ruin hurl'd ...
... just rais'd to shed his blood . Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n ; Who fees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or fystems into ruin hurl'd ...
Page 118
... just . Knaves fain would laugh at it ; fome great ones dare ; But at his heart the most undaunted fon Of fortune dreads its name and awful charms . To nobleft ufes this determines wealth : This is the folid pomp of profperous days ; The ...
... just . Knaves fain would laugh at it ; fome great ones dare ; But at his heart the most undaunted fon Of fortune dreads its name and awful charms . To nobleft ufes this determines wealth : This is the folid pomp of profperous days ; The ...
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