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 TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... elegance of love , This fair inspir'd delight : but temper'd pow'rs Refine at length , and ev'ry passion wears A chaster , milder , more attractive mien . AKENSIDE To all this must be added , as a material ON READING WORKS OF TASTE . xxxi.
... elegance of love , This fair inspir'd delight : but temper'd pow'rs Refine at length , and ev'ry passion wears A chaster , milder , more attractive mien . AKENSIDE To all this must be added , as a material ON READING WORKS OF TASTE . xxxi.
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... fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the most lively colouring , are said to excel in the BEAUTIFUL . Moreover , since there is in human nature a principle of curiosity , which leads us to contemplate unusual objects with the ...
... fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the most lively colouring , are said to excel in the BEAUTIFUL . Moreover , since there is in human nature a principle of curiosity , which leads us to contemplate unusual objects with the ...
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... fair looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear ...
... fair looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear ...
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... fair , so quickwitted , and amiable a maid ; and better fate did Maria deserve , than to have her bans forbid by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them- He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short pause ...
... fair , so quickwitted , and amiable a maid ; and better fate did Maria deserve , than to have her bans forbid by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them- He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short pause ...
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... fair ) The wellbred cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's senate he a seat obtains , And one more pensioner St. Stephen gains . My lady falls to play ; so bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from France ; The house ...
... fair ) The wellbred cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's senate he a seat obtains , And one more pensioner St. Stephen gains . My lady falls to play ; so bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from France ; The house ...
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