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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On the contrary , interrogative sentences are terminated by the suspending pause ; as in the following example : Hold you the watch to night ? -- We do , my lord .
On the contrary , interrogative sentences are terminated by the suspending pause ; as in the following example : Hold you the watch to night ? -- We do , my lord .
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Oh who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ?
Oh who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ?
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“ Hold there ! " the other quick replies , " " Tis green - I saw it with these eyes , “ As late with open mouth it lay , “ And warni'd it in the sunny ray ; “ Stretch'd at it's ease the beast I view'd , « And saw it eat the air for food ...
“ Hold there ! " the other quick replies , " " Tis green - I saw it with these eyes , “ As late with open mouth it lay , “ And warni'd it in the sunny ray ; “ Stretch'd at it's ease the beast I view'd , « And saw it eat the air for food ...
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A TALE AHERMIT , or , if ' chance you hold That title now too trite and old , A man once young , who liv'd retir'd As hermit could have well desir'd , His hours of study clos'd at last , And finishid his concise repast , Stoppled his ...
A TALE AHERMIT , or , if ' chance you hold That title now too trite and old , A man once young , who liv'd retir'd As hermit could have well desir'd , His hours of study clos'd at last , And finishid his concise repast , Stoppled his ...
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I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau , If birds confabulate or no ; ' Tis clear that they were always able To hold discourse at least in fable ; And ev'n the child , who knows no better Than to interpret by the letter A story of a cock ...
I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau , If birds confabulate or no ; ' Tis clear that they were always able To hold discourse at least in fable ; And ev'n the child , who knows no better Than to interpret by the letter A story of a cock ...
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appear arms army bear better cause CHAP consider continued death desire earth equal ev'ry eyes fair fall father fear feel fool fortune give Gods grace hand happy hath head hear heard heart Heav'n hold honour hope hour human it's kind king laws leave light live look lord means mind nature never night o'er once pain pass passion peace perfection person pleasure poor pow'r praise present reason rest round sense serve side soon soul sound speak spirit stand sweet taste tears tell thee thing thou thought thousand true truth turn uncle virtue voice whole winds wise wish young youth