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 are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of Taste |
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... pass'd , And on their way in friendly chat Now talk'd of this , and then of that , Discours'd awhile , ' mongst other matter , Of the chameleon's form and nature . " A stranger animal , ” cries one , " Sure never liv'd beneath the sun ...
... pass'd , And on their way in friendly chat Now talk'd of this , and then of that , Discours'd awhile , ' mongst other matter , Of the chameleon's form and nature . " A stranger animal , ” cries one , " Sure never liv'd beneath the sun ...
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... pass'd the gazing throng , With graceful ease , and smack'd the thong , The idiot wonder they express'd Was praise and transport to his breast . At length quite vain , he needs would shew His master what his art could do ; And bade his ...
... pass'd the gazing throng , With graceful ease , and smack'd the thong , The idiot wonder they express'd Was praise and transport to his breast . At length quite vain , he needs would shew His master what his art could do ; And bade his ...
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... pass'd The visionary vale , When lo ! the deathbell smote her ear , Sad sounding in the gale . Just then she reach'd with trembling steps Her aged mother's door : " He's gone , " she cried , “ and I shall see " That angel face no more ...
... pass'd The visionary vale , When lo ! the deathbell smote her ear , Sad sounding in the gale . Just then she reach'd with trembling steps Her aged mother's door : " He's gone , " she cried , “ and I shall see " That angel face no more ...
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... pass'd their life , a clear united stream , By care unruffled ; till , in evil hour , The tempest caught them on the tender walk , Heedless how far , and where it's mazes stray'd , While , with each other blest , creative love Still ...
... pass'd their life , a clear united stream , By care unruffled ; till , in evil hour , The tempest caught them on the tender walk , Heedless how far , and where it's mazes stray'd , While , with each other blest , creative love Still ...
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... pass'd these towers , And , Heav'n - directed , came this day to do The happy deed , that gilds my hunible name . HOME . CHAP . XIX . OTHELLO'S APOLOGY . MOST potent , 46 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES . DOUGLAS TO L RANDOLPH Home,
... pass'd these towers , And , Heav'n - directed , came this day to do The happy deed , that gilds my hunible name . HOME . CHAP . XIX . OTHELLO'S APOLOGY . MOST potent , 46 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES . DOUGLAS TO L RANDOLPH Home,
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