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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Page 37
... fleep . Our indifcretion fometimes ferves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us There's a divinity that fhapes our ends , Rough - hew them how we will . The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance ...
... fleep . Our indifcretion fometimes ferves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us There's a divinity that fhapes our ends , Rough - hew them how we will . The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance ...
Page 38
... fleep , To take the one the other , by fome chance , Some trick not worth an egg , fhall grow dear friends , And interjoin their iffues . So it falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack ...
... fleep , To take the one the other , by fome chance , Some trick not worth an egg , fhall grow dear friends , And interjoin their iffues . So it falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack ...
Page 50
... of fcorn and pity , what are the pleasures you propofe ? To eat before you are hungry , drink before you are athirft , fleep before you are tired ; to gratify appetites before they are raised , and raise 50 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... of fcorn and pity , what are the pleasures you propofe ? To eat before you are hungry , drink before you are athirft , fleep before you are tired ; to gratify appetites before they are raised , and raise 50 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
Page 122
... fleep : ' Then , at the last and only couplet fraught .. With fome unmeaning thing they call a thought , A needlefs Alexandrine ends the fong , That , like a wounded fnake , drags its flow length along , Leave fuch to tune their own ...
... fleep : ' Then , at the last and only couplet fraught .. With fome unmeaning thing they call a thought , A needlefs Alexandrine ends the fong , That , like a wounded fnake , drags its flow length along , Leave fuch to tune their own ...
Page 126
... fleep the track , Her mountain's top would overpay , when climb'd , The scaler's toil ; her temple there was fine , And lovely thence the profpects . She could tell Where laurels grew , whence many a wreath antiqué ; But more advis'd to ...
... fleep the track , Her mountain's top would overpay , when climb'd , The scaler's toil ; her temple there was fine , And lovely thence the profpects . She could tell Where laurels grew , whence many a wreath antiqué ; But more advis'd to ...
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