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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... His fword was given him , and the moment he got it into his hand he drew it almoft out of the fcabbard - it was the fhining face of a friend : · D 5 friend he had once given up . He looked attentively CHAP . X. ) 35 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... His fword was given him , and the moment he got it into his hand he drew it almoft out of the fcabbard - it was the fhining face of a friend : · D 5 friend he had once given up . He looked attentively CHAP . X. ) 35 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... once given up . He looked attentively a long time at it , beginning at the hilt , as if to fee whether it was the fame - when obferving a little ruft which it had con- tracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bending ...
... once given up . He looked attentively a long time at it , beginning at the hilt , as if to fee whether it was the fame - when obferving a little ruft which it had con- tracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bending ...
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... once had the pipe out of her hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . - THE poftilion delivered this with fo much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help decyphering fome- thing in his face above his ...
... once had the pipe out of her hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . - THE poftilion delivered this with fo much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help decyphering fome- thing in his face above his ...
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... once - and returned back : - that fhe found her way alone across the Appenines - had travelled all over Lombardy without money - and through the flinty roads of Savoy without fhoes : how he had borne it , and how she had got fupported ...
... once - and returned back : - that fhe found her way alone across the Appenines - had travelled all over Lombardy without money - and through the flinty roads of Savoy without fhoes : how he had borne it , and how she had got fupported ...
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... once to eafe the doubt , " Replies the man , " I'll turn him out : " And when before your eyes I've fet him , " If you don't find him black , I'll eat him . " He faid ; then full before their fight Produc'd the beaft , and lo ! - ' twas ...
... once to eafe the doubt , " Replies the man , " I'll turn him out : " And when before your eyes I've fet him , " If you don't find him black , I'll eat him . " He faid ; then full before their fight Produc'd the beaft , and lo ! - ' twas ...
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