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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When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , “ The earth cannot bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . ” Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made ...
When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , “ The earth cannot bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . ” Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made ...
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... Doth glance from Heav'n to earth , from earth to Heav'n ; And as Imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the Poet's pen ! Turns theru to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a pame .
... Doth glance from Heav'n to earth , from earth to Heav'n ; And as Imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the Poet's pen ! Turns theru to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a pame .
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The middle station of nature between these two opposite extremes was the earth , which was inhabited by creatures of a middle kind , neither so virtuous as the one , nor so vicious as the other , but partaking of the good and 18 ...
The middle station of nature between these two opposite extremes was the earth , which was inhabited by creatures of a middle kind , neither so virtuous as the one , nor so vicious as the other , but partaking of the good and 18 ...
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In the happy period of the golden age , when all the celestial inhabitants descended to the earth , and conversed familiarly with mortals , among the most cherished of the heavenly powers were twins , the offspring of Jupiter , Love and ...
In the happy period of the golden age , when all the celestial inhabitants descended to the earth , and conversed familiarly with mortals , among the most cherished of the heavenly powers were twins , the offspring of Jupiter , Love and ...
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The nymph is mortal , for her mother is so ; and when she Las filled her ' destined course upon the earth , they shall both expire together , and Love be again united to Joy , his immortal and long - betrothed bride . MRS . BARBAULD .
The nymph is mortal , for her mother is so ; and when she Las filled her ' destined course upon the earth , they shall both expire together , and Love be again united to Joy , his immortal and long - betrothed bride . MRS . BARBAULD .
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