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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In like manner , because certain objects of sight are distinguished by characters of beauty , and are adapted to excite emotions of complacence , those writers who represent their fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the most ...
In like manner , because certain objects of sight are distinguished by characters of beauty , and are adapted to excite emotions of complacence , those writers who represent their fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the most ...
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Wbo builds his hope in th ' air of men's fair looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tunible down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the ...
Wbo builds his hope in th ' air of men's fair looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tunible down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the ...
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... twenty sous piece when I got to Moulines And who is poor Maria ! said I. The love and pity of all the villages around us , said the postillion : -- it is but three years ago , that the sun did not shine upon so fair , so quickwitted ...
... twenty sous piece when I got to Moulines And who is poor Maria ! said I. The love and pity of all the villages around us , said the postillion : -- it is but three years ago , that the sun did not shine upon so fair , so quickwitted ...
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A nymph of quality admires our knight , He marries , bows at court , and grows polite : Leaves the dull cits , and joins ( to please the fair ) The wellbred cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's senate le a seat obtains , And one ...
A nymph of quality admires our knight , He marries , bows at court , and grows polite : Leaves the dull cits , and joins ( to please the fair ) The wellbred cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's senate le a seat obtains , And one ...
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There beauteous Emma flourish'd fair Beneath her mother's eye , Whose only wish on earth was now To see her blest , and die . The softest blush that nature spreads Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour smiles through Heav'n : ...
There beauteous Emma flourish'd fair Beneath her mother's eye , Whose only wish on earth was now To see her blest , and die . The softest blush that nature spreads Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour smiles through Heav'n : ...
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