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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A rich field of elegant plea- sure is hereby laid open before the reader who is possessed of a true taste for polite literature , which distinguishes him from the vulgar , at least as much as the man who enjoys an affluent fortune is ...
A rich field of elegant plea- sure is hereby laid open before the reader who is possessed of a true taste for polite literature , which distinguishes him from the vulgar , at least as much as the man who enjoys an affluent fortune is ...
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No man was ever cast down with the injuries of fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favours . Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools .
No man was ever cast down with the injuries of fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favours . Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools .
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Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly ; that clear honour Were purchased ...
Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly ; that clear honour Were purchased ...
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There is a tide in the affairs of men , Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune : Omitted , all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows , and in miseries . To morrow , and to morrow , and to morrow , Creeps in this petty ...
There is a tide in the affairs of men , Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune : Omitted , all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows , and in miseries . To morrow , and to morrow , and to morrow , Creeps in this petty ...
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It was an incident of good fortune , which will never hap- pen to any traveller but a sentimental one , that I should be at Rennes at the very time of his solemn requisition ; I call it solemn - it was so to me .
It was an incident of good fortune , which will never hap- pen to any traveller but a sentimental one , that I should be at Rennes at the very time of his solemn requisition ; I call it solemn - it was so to me .
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| Título | 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 |
| Autor | William Enfield |
| Editora | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 |
| Original de | Universidade do Estado de Ohio |
| Digitalizado | 30 Set 2014 |
| Número de páginas | 346 páginas |
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