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 are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of Taste |
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... Of demons utter'd , from whatever lungs , “ Sounds are but sounds , and till the
cause appear , “ We have at least commodious standing here ; “ Come fiend ,
come fury , giant , monster , blast “ From earth or hell , we can but plunge at last .
... Of demons utter'd , from whatever lungs , “ Sounds are but sounds , and till the
cause appear , “ We have at least commodious standing here ; “ Come fiend ,
come fury , giant , monster , blast “ From earth or hell , we can but plunge at last .
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That proud exception to all Nature's laws , 13 T invert the world , and counterwork
it's cause ? Force first made conquest , and that conquest , law ; if Till Superstition
taught the tyrant awe , on ? Then shar'd the tyranny , then lent it aid , * , And ...
That proud exception to all Nature's laws , 13 T invert the world , and counterwork
it's cause ? Force first made conquest , and that conquest , law ; if Till Superstition
taught the tyrant awe , on ? Then shar'd the tyranny , then lent it aid , * , And ...
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But if there be a better good , such a good as we are seeking ; like every other
thing it must be derived from some cause , and that cause must be either external
, internal , or mixed , in as much as , except these three , there is no other
possible ...
But if there be a better good , such a good as we are seeking ; like every other
thing it must be derived from some cause , and that cause must be either external
, internal , or mixed , in as much as , except these three , there is no other
possible ...
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Some trace with curious search the hidden cause Of Nature's changes , and her
various laws ; Untwist her beauteous web , disrobe her charms , And hunt her to
her elemental forms ; Or prove what hidden pow'rs in herbs are found , To ...
Some trace with curious search the hidden cause Of Nature's changes , and her
various laws ; Untwist her beauteous web , disrobe her charms , And hunt her to
her elemental forms ; Or prove what hidden pow'rs in herbs are found , To ...
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... did thrice refuse . Was this ambitions Yet Brutus says , he was ambitious ; And
sure he is an honourable man . I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke , But
here I am to speak what I do know . You all did love him once , not without cause .
... did thrice refuse . Was this ambitions Yet Brutus says , he was ambitious ; And
sure he is an honourable man . I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke , But
here I am to speak what I do know . You all did love him once , not without cause .
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