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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... fince the discarding of the counsellors above mentioned , Avarice fupplies Luxury in the room of Plenty , as Luxury prompts Avarice in the place of Poverty . SPECTATOR . CHAP . IV . 1 d e d . h rt A ve 7 . nt , he to at ch PLEASURE AND ...
... fince the discarding of the counsellors above mentioned , Avarice fupplies Luxury in the room of Plenty , as Luxury prompts Avarice in the place of Poverty . SPECTATOR . CHAP . IV . 1 d e d . h rt A ve 7 . nt , he to at ch PLEASURE AND ...
Page 31
... mother's cyprefs . ONE day , as the fat mufing by the waters of Helicon , her tears by chance fell into the fountain , and ever fince D 3 the the Muses ' spring has retained a strong tafte of CHAP . VIII . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 31.
... mother's cyprefs . ONE day , as the fat mufing by the waters of Helicon , her tears by chance fell into the fountain , and ever fince D 3 the the Muses ' spring has retained a strong tafte of CHAP . VIII . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 31.
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... fince fhe has been ufettled in her mind , it seems her only confolation - she has never once had the pipe out of her hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . - THE poftilion delivered this with fo much discretion and ...
... fince fhe has been ufettled in her mind , it seems her only confolation - she has never once had the pipe out of her hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . - THE poftilion delivered this with fo much discretion and ...
Page 39
... fince in her pocket ,. to restore it to him in cafe fhe fhould ever fee him again , which fhe added , he had half promifed her . As he told me me this , fhe took the handkerchief out of her CHAP . XI . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 39.
... fince in her pocket ,. to restore it to him in cafe fhe fhould ever fee him again , which fhe added , he had half promifed her . As he told me me this , fhe took the handkerchief out of her CHAP . XI . ) NARRATIVE PIECES . 39.
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... fince that , she told me , ftrayed as far as Rome , and walked round St. Peter's once - and returned back : - that fhe found her way alone across the Appenines - had travelled all over Lombardy without money - and through the flinty ...
... fince that , she told me , ftrayed as far as Rome , and walked round St. Peter's once - and returned back : - that fhe found her way alone across the Appenines - had travelled all over Lombardy without money - and through the flinty ...
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