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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Page 43
... night , " And view'd it o'er by candle - light : " I mark'd it well - ' twas black as jet- " You ftare - but , Sirs , I've got it yet , " And can produce it . " - " Pray , Sir , do : " I'll lay my life the thing is blue . " " And I'll ...
... night , " And view'd it o'er by candle - light : " I mark'd it well - ' twas black as jet- " You ftare - but , Sirs , I've got it yet , " And can produce it . " - " Pray , Sir , do : " I'll lay my life the thing is blue . " " And I'll ...
Page 51
... night , Her ftartling fancy found In ev'ry bush his hovering shade , His groan in every found . Alone , appall'd , thus had she pass'd The vifionary vale , When lo ! the death - bell fmote her ear , Sad founding in the gale . Juft then ...
... night , Her ftartling fancy found In ev'ry bush his hovering shade , His groan in every found . Alone , appall'd , thus had she pass'd The vifionary vale , When lo ! the death - bell fmote her ear , Sad founding in the gale . Juft then ...
Page 57
... night , by day , you still engag'd my care ; And , next to God , you now my thoughts employ : " Accept of this - My little all I give ; " Would it were larger " - -Nature could no more ; She look'd , embraced him , with a groan expir'd ...
... night , by day , you still engag'd my care ; And , next to God , you now my thoughts employ : " Accept of this - My little all I give ; " Would it were larger " - -Nature could no more ; She look'd , embraced him , with a groan expir'd ...
Page 58
... night round as my shield ,, ' Had not yet fill'd her horns , when , by her light , A band of fierce barbarians , from the hills , Rush'd like a torrent down upon the vale , Sweeping our flocks and herds . The shepherds fled For fafety ...
... night round as my shield ,, ' Had not yet fill'd her horns , when , by her light , A band of fierce barbarians , from the hills , Rush'd like a torrent down upon the vale , Sweeping our flocks and herds . The shepherds fled For fafety ...
Page 72
... night , me refting quiet in the fold . Or heard we that tremendous bray alone , I could expound the melancholy tone ; Should deem it by our old companion made , The afs ; for he , we know , has lately ftray'd , And being loft , perhaps ...
... night , me refting quiet in the fold . Or heard we that tremendous bray alone , I could expound the melancholy tone ; Should deem it by our old companion made , The afs ; for he , we know , has lately ftray'd , And being loft , perhaps ...
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