The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very 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 ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 páginas |
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... fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? let none prefume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that estates , degrees , and offices Were not deriv'd corruptly ! -that clear honour Were purchased by the inerit of the wearer ...
... fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? let none prefume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that estates , degrees , and offices Were not deriv'd corruptly ! -that clear honour Were purchased by the inerit of the wearer ...
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... fortune ; Omitted , all the voyage of their life Is bound in fhallows and in miferies . To - morrow , and to - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty pace from day to day , To the last syllable of recorded time ; ` And all our ...
... fortune ; Omitted , all the voyage of their life Is bound in fhallows and in miferies . To - morrow , and to - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty pace from day to day , To the last syllable of recorded time ; ` And all our ...
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... fortune , which will never happen to any traveller but a fentimental one , that I should be at Rennes at the very time of this folemn requifition ; call it folemn - it was fo to me . I The Marquis entered the court with his whole family ...
... fortune , which will never happen to any traveller but a fentimental one , that I should be at Rennes at the very time of this folemn requifition ; call it folemn - it was fo to me . I The Marquis entered the court with his whole family ...
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... Fortune proves a foe . His fifter , who like envy ' form'd , - Like her in mischief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked skill Each darker art employ'd . The father too , a fordid man , Who love nor pity knew , Was all unfeeling as ...
... Fortune proves a foe . His fifter , who like envy ' form'd , - Like her in mischief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked skill Each darker art employ'd . The father too , a fordid man , Who love nor pity knew , Was all unfeeling as ...
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... fortunes That I have past . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To the very moment that he bade me tell it ; Wherein I spoke of most disasterous chances , Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair - breadth ' fcapes in ...
... fortunes That I have past . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To the very moment that he bade me tell it ; Wherein I spoke of most disasterous chances , Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair - breadth ' fcapes in ...
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