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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... ftill together ; who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour ,. On a diffention of a doit , break out To bittereft enmity . So felleft foes , Whose paffions and whose plots have broke their sleep , To take the ...
... ftill together ; who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour ,. On a diffention of a doit , break out To bittereft enmity . So felleft foes , Whose paffions and whose plots have broke their sleep , To take the ...
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... ftill fhew to the world fome little fragments of what his ancestors had been - their in- discretion had put it out of his power . There was enough left for the little exigencies of obscurity - But he had two boys who looked up to him ...
... ftill fhew to the world fome little fragments of what his ancestors had been - their in- discretion had put it out of his power . There was enough left for the little exigencies of obscurity - But he had two boys who looked up to him ...
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... ftill fo warm , Maria ? faid I. I TOUCHED upon the string on which hung all her forrows -fhe looked with wiftful diforder for fome time in my face ; and then , without faying anything , took her pipe , and played her service to the ...
... ftill fo warm , Maria ? faid I. I TOUCHED upon the string on which hung all her forrows -fhe looked with wiftful diforder for fome time in my face ; and then , without faying anything , took her pipe , and played her service to the ...
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... ftill she was feminine : - and so much was there about her of all that the heart wishes , or the eye looks for in woman , that could the traces be ever worn out of her brain , and thofe of Eliza's out of mine , she should not only eat ...
... ftill she was feminine : - and so much was there about her of all that the heart wishes , or the eye looks for in woman , that could the traces be ever worn out of her brain , and thofe of Eliza's out of mine , she should not only eat ...
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... ftill Expanfive , wrapping æther in a blaze- Follows the loofen'd aggravated roar , Enlarging , deep'ning , mingling ; peal on peal Crush'd horrible , convulfing heaven and earth . Guilt hears appall'd , with deeply troubled thought ...
... ftill Expanfive , wrapping æther in a blaze- Follows the loofen'd aggravated roar , Enlarging , deep'ning , mingling ; peal on peal Crush'd horrible , convulfing heaven and earth . Guilt hears appall'd , with deeply troubled thought ...
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