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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... still in its beginning . How many self - congratulations naturally rife in the mind , when it reflects on this its entrance into eternity ; when it takes a view of those improveable faculties , which in a few years , and even at its ...
... still in its beginning . How many self - congratulations naturally rife in the mind , when it reflects on this its entrance into eternity ; when it takes a view of those improveable faculties , which in a few years , and even at its ...
Page 95
... still so near us , yet beyond us lies ; O'erlook'd , seen double , by the fool , and wife . Plant of celestial feed ! if dropt below , Say , in what mortal foil thou deign'ft to grow ? Fair op'ning to fome court's propitious fhine , Or ...
... still so near us , yet beyond us lies ; O'erlook'd , seen double , by the fool , and wife . Plant of celestial feed ! if dropt below , Say , in what mortal foil thou deign'ft to grow ? Fair op'ning to fome court's propitious fhine , Or ...
Page 99
... still , and still another spreads ; Friend , parent , neighbour , firft it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race : Wide and more wide , th ' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in of ev'ry kind ; Earth ...
... still , and still another spreads ; Friend , parent , neighbour , firft it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race : Wide and more wide , th ' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in of ev'ry kind ; Earth ...
Page 100
... still expected rhimes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze . " In the next line , it " whifpers thro ' the trees : " If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep , " The reader's threaten'd ( not in vain ) with " fleep ...
... still expected rhimes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze . " In the next line , it " whifpers thro ' the trees : " If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep , " The reader's threaten'd ( not in vain ) with " fleep ...
Page 101
... still retain'd His manly fenfe , and energy of mind . Virtuous and wife he was , but not fevere ; He still remember'd that he once was young ; His eafy prefence check'd no decent joy . G 2 Him Him , even the diffolute admir'd ; for he A ...
... still retain'd His manly fenfe , and energy of mind . Virtuous and wife he was , but not fevere ; He still remember'd that he once was young ; His eafy prefence check'd no decent joy . G 2 Him Him , even the diffolute admir'd ; for he A ...
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