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 68
... seem to have it is loft . There is fomething unnatural in painting , which a skilful eye will eafily difcern from native beauty and complexion . Ir is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom , nature ...
... seem to have it is loft . There is fomething unnatural in painting , which a skilful eye will eafily difcern from native beauty and complexion . Ir is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom , nature ...
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... seems very much to resemble instinct . It would be improper , therefore , to say , that Sir Ifaac Newton fhewed his good fenfe , by thofe amazing discoveries which he made in natural philofophy : the operations of this gift of Heaven ...
... seems very much to resemble instinct . It would be improper , therefore , to say , that Sir Ifaac Newton fhewed his good fenfe , by thofe amazing discoveries which he made in natural philofophy : the operations of this gift of Heaven ...
Page 101
... seem an echo to the ferfe ; Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows , And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding fhore , The hoarfe , rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar : When Ajax ...
... seem an echo to the ferfe ; Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows , And the fmooth ftream in fmoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lafh the founding fhore , The hoarfe , rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar : When Ajax ...
Page 146
... seem difpofed to wage war with woods and fnows , with rivers and wild beafts , and to attempt to fubdue Nature . But have you considered the usual course of things ? Have you reflected , that great trees are many years in growing to ...
... seem difpofed to wage war with woods and fnows , with rivers and wild beafts , and to attempt to fubdue Nature . But have you considered the usual course of things ? Have you reflected , that great trees are many years in growing to ...
Page 163
... seems , their full meaning was not understood by this declaration ; and therefore , as in every new fettlement the intention of all parties fhould be fpecifically manifefted , the Parliament never ceased struggling with the crown , till ...
... seems , their full meaning was not understood by this declaration ; and therefore , as in every new fettlement the intention of all parties fhould be fpecifically manifefted , the Parliament never ceased struggling with the crown , till ...
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