The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very 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 |
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... feem almoft to have forgotten the language of nature , and are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art . But nature is always the fame ; and every judi- cious imitation of it will always ...
... feem almoft to have forgotten the language of nature , and are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art . But nature is always the fame ; and every judi- cious imitation of it will always ...
Page 38
... feem to wear one heart , Whofe hours , whose bed , whose meal , and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Infeperable ; fhall within this hour , On a diffention of a doit , break out To bittereft enmity . So ...
... feem to wear one heart , Whofe hours , whose bed , whose meal , and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Infeperable ; fhall within this hour , On a diffention of a doit , break out To bittereft enmity . So ...
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... feem to answer the intention of Jupiter in fending them among mankind . To remedy therefore this inconvenience , it was ftipulated between them by article , and confirmed by the confent of each fa- mily , that notwithstanding they here ...
... feem to answer the intention of Jupiter in fending them among mankind . To remedy therefore this inconvenience , it was ftipulated between them by article , and confirmed by the confent of each fa- mily , that notwithstanding they here ...
Page 74
... feem'd , Nor had long abfence yet effac'd her form ; Her charms fill triumphed o'er Britannia's fair . One morn he met her in Sheen's royal walks ; Nor knew , til then , fweet Sheen contain'd his all . His tafte mature approv'd his ...
... feem'd , Nor had long abfence yet effac'd her form ; Her charms fill triumphed o'er Britannia's fair . One morn he met her in Sheen's royal walks ; Nor knew , til then , fweet Sheen contain'd his all . His tafte mature approv'd his ...
Page 81
... feem the found of trampling feet to hear . Alarm'd my fire look'd forward thro ' the fhade , And , Fly , my fon , they come , they come , he faid ; Lo ! from their fhields I fee their fplendours ftream ; And ken diftinct the helmet's ...
... feem the found of trampling feet to hear . Alarm'd my fire look'd forward thro ' the fhade , And , Fly , my fon , they come , they come , he faid ; Lo ! from their fhields I fee their fplendours ftream ; And ken diftinct the helmet's ...
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