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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Page 48
... Peace , A humble cottage stood . 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 blafh that Nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient ...
... Peace , A humble cottage stood . 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 blafh 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 , ( Myfterious 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 , ( Myfterious Heaven ! ) that moment , to the ground , A blacken'd corfe , was ftruck the beauteous maid . But who can paint ...
Page 59
... peace ; For fince thefe arms of mine had seven years pith , Till now fome nine moons wafted , they have us'd Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak , More than pertains to feats of broils ...
... peace ; For fince thefe arms of mine had seven years pith , Till now fome nine moons wafted , they have us'd Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak , More than pertains to feats of broils ...
Page 96
... peace , Condition , circumftance , is not the thing ; Blifs is the fame in fubject or in king ; In who obtain defence , or who defend , In him who is , or him who finds a friend : Heav'n breathes thro ' every member of the whole One ...
... peace , Condition , circumftance , is not the thing ; Blifs is the fame in fubject or in king ; In who obtain defence , or who defend , In him who is , or him who finds a friend : Heav'n breathes thro ' every member of the whole One ...
Page 97
... Peace , and Competence , POPE . CHAP . XVI . ON VIRTUE . KNOW thou this truth ( enough for man to know ) " Virtue alone is Happiness below . " The only point where human bliss stands ftill , And tastes the good without the fall to ill ...
... Peace , and Competence , POPE . CHAP . XVI . ON VIRTUE . KNOW thou this truth ( enough for man to know ) " Virtue alone is Happiness below . " The only point where human bliss stands ftill , And tastes the good without the fall to ill ...
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