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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The vagrant , when he begs ; the soldier , when he gives the word of command ; the watchman , when he announces the hour of the night ; the sovereign , when he issues his edict ; the senator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he ...
The vagrant , when he begs ; the soldier , when he gives the word of command ; the watchman , when he announces the hour of the night ; the sovereign , when he issues his edict ; the senator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he ...
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... Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are still together ... in love Inseparable ; shall within this hour , On å dissension of a doit , break out To bitterest enmity .
... Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are still together ... in love Inseparable ; shall within this hour , On å dissension of a doit , break out To bitterest enmity .
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Her voice was low and plaintive , but inexpressibly sweet ; and she loved to lie for hours together on the banks of some wild and melancholy stream , singing to her lute . She taught men to weep , for she took a strange delight in tears ...
Her voice was low and plaintive , but inexpressibly sweet ; and she loved to lie for hours together on the banks of some wild and melancholy stream , singing to her lute . She taught men to weep , for she took a strange delight in tears ...
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What happy hours of heart - felt bliss Did love on both bestow !. But bliss too mighty long to last , Where fortune proves a foe , * His sister , who , like envy form'd , Like 38 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
What happy hours of heart - felt bliss Did love on both bestow !. But bliss too mighty long to last , Where fortune proves a foe , * His sister , who , like envy form'd , Like 38 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
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So pass'd their life , a clear united stream , By care unruffled ; till , in evil hour , The tempest caught them on the tender walk , Heedless how far , and where it's mazes stray'd , While , with each other blest , creative love Still ...
So pass'd their life , a clear united stream , By care unruffled ; till , in evil hour , The tempest caught them on the tender walk , Heedless how far , and where it's mazes stray'd , While , with each other blest , creative love Still ...
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