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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... look fo perfectly in tune to a feeling 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 ...
... look fo perfectly in tune to a feeling 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 ...
Page 41
... look and laft farewel of Maria . MARIA , though not tall , was nevertheless of the first order of fine forms - Affliction had touched her looks with fomething that was fcarce earthly - ftill she was feminine : - and so much was there ...
... look and laft farewel of Maria . MARIA , though not tall , was nevertheless of the first order of fine forms - Affliction had touched her looks with fomething that was fcarce earthly - ftill she was feminine : - and so much was there ...
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... look'd wond'rous wife- My children , " the Camelion cries , 66 ( Then firft the creature found a tongue ) " You all are right , and all are wrong : << When " When next you talk of what you view , CHAP . XII . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 43.
... look'd wond'rous wife- My children , " the Camelion cries , 66 ( Then firft the creature found a tongue ) " You all are right , and all are wrong : << When " When next you talk of what you view , CHAP . XII . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 43.
Page 53
... look'd unutterable things . So pafs'd their life , a clear united stream , By Care unruffled : till , an evil hour , The tempeft caught them on the tender walk , Heedlefs how far , and where its mazes ftray'd , While , with each other ...
... look'd unutterable things . So pafs'd their life , a clear united stream , By Care unruffled : till , an evil hour , The tempeft caught them on the tender walk , Heedlefs how far , and where its mazes ftray'd , While , with each other ...
Page 57
... it were larger " . Nature could no more She look'd , embrac'd him , with a groan expir'd . But fay , what frains , what language can express E 4 The The thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? CHAP . XVII . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 57.
... it were larger " . Nature could no more She look'd , embrac'd him , with a groan expir'd . But fay , what frains , what language can express E 4 The The thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? CHAP . XVII . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 57.
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