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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... peace , A humble cottage flood . There beauteous EMMA flourish'd fair Beneath a mother's eye , Whose only wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blush that nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient ...
... peace , A humble cottage flood . There beauteous EMMA flourish'd fair Beneath a mother's eye , Whose only wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blush that nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient ...
Page 53
... peace to thine . " ' Tis fafety to be near thee fure , and thus " To clafp perfection ! " From his void embrace , Mysterious Heaven ! ) that moment to the ground , A blacken'd corfe , was ftruck the beauteous maid . But who can paint ...
... peace to thine . " ' Tis fafety to be near thee fure , and thus " To clafp perfection ! " From his void embrace , Mysterious Heaven ! ) that moment to the ground , A blacken'd corfe , was ftruck the beauteous maid . But who can paint ...
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... peace ; For fince thefe arms of mine had feven years pith , Till now fome nine moons wafted , they have us Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak , More than pertains to feats of broils and ...
... peace ; For fince thefe arms of mine had feven years pith , Till now fome nine moons wafted , they have us Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak , More than pertains to feats of broils and ...
Page 65
... peace of mind , And fenfe of having well defign'd ; And if , e'er he attain his end , His fun precipitate descend , A brighter prize than that he meant Shall recompenfe his mere intent . No virtuous wifh can bear a date Either too early ...
... peace of mind , And fenfe of having well defign'd ; And if , e'er he attain his end , His fun precipitate descend , A brighter prize than that he meant Shall recompenfe his mere intent . No virtuous wifh can bear a date Either too early ...
Page 70
... peaceful , that from them convey'd To me , their peace by kind contagion fpread . * Two woods belonging to John Throckmorton , Efq . But But when the huntsman , with diftended cheek , ' 70 NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II .
... peaceful , that from them convey'd To me , their peace by kind contagion fpread . * Two woods belonging to John Throckmorton , Efq . But But when the huntsman , with diftended cheek , ' 70 NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II .
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