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 páginas |
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... whose characters have been moft injured by flanderers : as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit , which the birds have been picking at . Тне еуе of the critic is often like a microfcope , made fo very fine and nice , that it ...
... whose characters have been moft injured by flanderers : as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit , which the birds have been picking at . Тне еуе of the critic is often like a microfcope , made fo very fine and nice , that it ...
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... Whose double bofoms feem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whofe bed , whofe meal , and exercise Are ftill together ; who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour ,. On a diffention of a doit , break out To ...
... Whose double bofoms feem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whofe bed , whofe meal , and exercise Are ftill together ; who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour ,. On a diffention of a doit , break out To ...
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... Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whofe tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whofe breath Rides on the posting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens , and states , Maids , matrons , nay , the fecrets ...
... Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whofe tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whofe breath Rides on the posting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens , and states , Maids , matrons , nay , the fecrets ...
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... Whose only wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blafh that Nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour fmiles thro ' heaven When May's fweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones ...
... Whose only wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blafh that Nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour fmiles thro ' heaven When May's fweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones ...
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... whose beau- ty first subdued me , and whose wit confirmed her conqueft ; but whofe beauty now ferves no other purpose than to entitle her to tyranny , and whose wit is only used to justify perverseness . SURELY nothing can be more ...
... whose beau- ty first subdued me , and whose wit confirmed her conqueft ; but whofe beauty now ferves no other purpose than to entitle her to tyranny , and whose wit is only used to justify perverseness . SURELY nothing can be more ...
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