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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... rife in the mind , when it reflects on this its entrance into eternity ; when it takes a view of those improveable faculties , which in a few years , and even at its firft fetting out , have made fo confi- derable a progress , and which ...
... rife in the mind , when it reflects on this its entrance into eternity ; when it takes a view of those improveable faculties , which in a few years , and even at its firft fetting out , have made fo confi- derable a progress , and which ...
Page 92
... defcend , and fiends infernal rife : Here fix'd the dreadful , there the bleft abodes ; Fear made her Devils , and weak Hope her Gods ; Gods Gods partial , changeful , paffionate , unjust , Whofe 92 Book III . ) DIDACTIC PIECES .
... defcend , and fiends infernal rife : Here fix'd the dreadful , there the bleft abodes ; Fear made her Devils , and weak Hope her Gods ; Gods Gods partial , changeful , paffionate , unjust , Whofe 92 Book III . ) DIDACTIC PIECES .
Page 97
... rife , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heav'n ftill with laughter the vain toil furveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that individuals find , Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind ...
... rife , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heav'n ftill with laughter the vain toil furveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that individuals find , Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind ...
Page 99
... rife from Individual to the Whole . Self - love but ferves the virtuous mind to wake , As the small pebble ftirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd , a circle straight fucceeds , Another still , and still another spreads ; Friend ...
... rife from Individual to the Whole . Self - love but ferves the virtuous mind to wake , As the small pebble ftirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd , a circle straight fucceeds , Another still , and still another spreads ; Friend ...
Page 101
... rife ! While at each change , the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts with love ; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow , Now fighs fteal out , and tears begin to flow : Perfians and Greeks like turns of ...
... rife ! While at each change , the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts with love ; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow , Now fighs fteal out , and tears begin to flow : Perfians and Greeks like turns of ...
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