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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Page 36
... look fo perfectly in tune to a feeling heart , that I instantly made a vow , I would give him a four and twenty fous piece , when I got to Moulines AND who is poor Maria ? said I. THE love and pity of all the villages around us ; faid ...
... look fo perfectly in tune to a feeling heart , that I instantly made a vow , I would give him a four and twenty fous piece , when I got to Moulines AND who is poor Maria ? said I. THE love and pity of all the villages around us ; faid ...
Page 41
... look and laft farewel of Maria . MARIA , though not tall , was neverthelefs of the firft order of fine forms - affliction had touched her looks with fomething that was fcarce earthly - ftill fhe was feminine : - and fo much was there ...
... look and laft farewel of Maria . MARIA , though not tall , was neverthelefs of the firft order of fine forms - affliction had touched her looks with fomething that was fcarce earthly - ftill fhe was feminine : - and fo much was there ...
Page 43
... look'd wond'rous wife- " My children , " the Camelion cries , ( Then firft the creature found a tongue ) " You all are right , and all are wrong : " When " When next you talk of what you view , CHAP . XII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 43.
... look'd wond'rous wife- " My children , " the Camelion cries , ( Then firft the creature found a tongue ) " You all are right , and all are wrong : " When " When next you talk of what you view , CHAP . XII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 43.
Page 53
... look'd unutterable things . So pafs'd , their life , a clear united stream , By care unruffled : till , in evil hour , The tempeft caught them on the tender walk , Heedlefs how far , and where its mazes ftray , While , with each other ...
... look'd unutterable things . So pafs'd , their life , a clear united stream , By care unruffled : till , in evil hour , The tempeft caught them on the tender walk , Heedlefs how far , and where its mazes ftray , While , with each other ...
Page 57
... were larger ” . Nature could no more ; She look'd , embraced him , with a groan expir'd , But fay , what ftrains , what language can express- D 5 The The thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? CHAP . XVII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 57.
... were larger ” . Nature could no more ; She look'd , embraced him , with a groan expir'd , But fay , what ftrains , what language can express- D 5 The The thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? CHAP . XVII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 57.
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