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 |
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Page 48
... heav'n When May's fweet mornings break .. Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn This charmer of the plains ; That fun which bids their diamond blaze , To deck our lily deigns .. ) Long had the fir'd each youth with love , Each maiden ...
... heav'n When May's fweet mornings break .. Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn This charmer of the plains ; That fun which bids their diamond blaze , To deck our lily deigns .. ) Long had the fir'd each youth with love , Each maiden ...
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... Heav'n with fruitless pray'rs , And fruitlefs forrows fhed . is paft , he cry'd , but if y Sweet mercy yet can move , fouls Let thefe dim eyes once more behold What they must ever love . She came ; his cold hand foftly touch'd , And ...
... Heav'n with fruitless pray'rs , And fruitlefs forrows fhed . is paft , he cry'd , but if y Sweet mercy yet can move , fouls Let thefe dim eyes once more behold What they must ever love . She came ; his cold hand foftly touch'd , And ...
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... heav'n , It was my hent to fpeak . - All these to hear Would Defdemona feriously incline . But ftill the houfe - affairs would draw her hence , Which ever as she could with hafte dispatch , She'd come again , and with a greedy ear ...
... heav'n , It was my hent to fpeak . - All these to hear Would Defdemona feriously incline . But ftill the houfe - affairs would draw her hence , Which ever as she could with hafte dispatch , She'd come again , and with a greedy ear ...
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... Heav'n had made her fuch a man : -fhe thank'd me , And bade me , if I had a friend that lov'd her , I should but teach him how to tell my ftory , And that would woo her . On this hint I fpake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I had paft ...
... Heav'n had made her fuch a man : -fhe thank'd me , And bade me , if I had a friend that lov'd her , I should but teach him how to tell my ftory , And that would woo her . On this hint I fpake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I had paft ...
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... Heav'n ; Who fees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or fyftems into ruin hurl'd , And now a bubble burst , and now a world . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions foar ; Wait the great ...
... Heav'n ; Who fees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or fyftems into ruin hurl'd , And now a bubble burst , and now a world . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions foar ; Wait the great ...
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