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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... thro ' her wide domain ; Their various taftes in different arts difplay'd , Like temper'd harmony of light and fhade , With friendly union in one mafs fhall blend , And this adorn the ftate , and that defend . I am , With fincere ...
... thro ' her wide domain ; Their various taftes in different arts difplay'd , Like temper'd harmony of light and fhade , With friendly union in one mafs fhall blend , And this adorn the ftate , and that defend . I am , With fincere ...
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... thro ' 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 ...
... thro ' 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 ...
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... A. ' TIS liftening fear , and dumb amazement all : When to the startled eye the fudden glance Appears far fouth , eruptive thro ' the cloud ; And And following flower , in explofión vaft , The Thunder Chap . XVI . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... A. ' TIS liftening fear , and dumb amazement all : When to the startled eye the fudden glance Appears far fouth , eruptive thro ' the cloud ; And And following flower , in explofión vaft , The Thunder Chap . XVI . NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... thro ' the guilty heart , " With tongues of feraphs whifpers peace to thine . ' Tis fafety to be near thee fure , and thus " To clafp perfection ! " From his void embrace , ( Myfterious Heaven ! ) that moment , to the ground , A blacken ...
... thro ' the guilty heart , " With tongues of feraphs whifpers peace to thine . ' Tis fafety to be near thee fure , and thus " To clafp perfection ! " From his void embrace , ( Myfterious Heaven ! ) that moment , to the ground , A blacken ...
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... thro ' this air , this ocean , and this earth , SEE All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high , progreffive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vaft chain of Being ! which from God began ...
... thro ' this air , this ocean , and this earth , SEE All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high , progreffive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vaft chain of Being ! which from God began ...
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