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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1 There wluirls me o'er the hills of slain , Where Tumult and Destruction rẽigu ;
Where , mad with pain , the wounded steed Tramples the dying and the dead :
Where giant Terrour stalks around , With suilen joy surveys the ground , And ...
1 There wluirls me o'er the hills of slain , Where Tumult and Destruction rẽigu ;
Where , mad with pain , the wounded steed Tramples the dying and the dead :
Where giant Terrour stalks around , With suilen joy surveys the ground , And ...
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Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck , And then he dreams of cutting
foreign throats , Of breaches , ambuscadoes , Spanish blades , Of healths five
fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ears , at which he starts and wakes ;
And ...
Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck , And then he dreams of cutting
foreign throats , Of breaches , ambuscadoes , Spanish blades , Of healths five
fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ears , at which he starts and wakes ;
And ...
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Such as o'er frigid Tempe wont to wave , Or Hemus cool , reads what the Muse of
these , Perhaps , lias in imunortal vumbers sung ; Or what she dictates writes :
and , oft an eye Shot round , rejoices in the vig'rous year . When Autumn's yellow
...
Such as o'er frigid Tempe wont to wave , Or Hemus cool , reads what the Muse of
these , Perhaps , lias in imunortal vumbers sung ; Or what she dictates writes :
and , oft an eye Shot round , rejoices in the vig'rous year . When Autumn's yellow
...
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And now , Philanthropy ! thy rays divine Dart round the globe from Zembla to the
line ; O'er each dark prison plays the cheering light , Like northern lustres o'er the
vault of night . - From realm to realm , with cross or crescent crown'd , Where'er ...
And now , Philanthropy ! thy rays divine Dart round the globe from Zembla to the
line ; O'er each dark prison plays the cheering light , Like northern lustres o'er the
vault of night . - From realm to realm , with cross or crescent crown'd , Where'er ...
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He sung , and Hell consented To hear the Poet's pray'r : Stern Proserpine
relented , And gave him back the fair : Thus song could prevail O'er Death and o'
er Hell , A conquest how hard , and how glorious ! Though Fate had fast bound
her ...
He sung , and Hell consented To hear the Poet's pray'r : Stern Proserpine
relented , And gave him back the fair : Thus song could prevail O'er Death and o'
er Hell , A conquest how hard , and how glorious ! Though Fate had fast bound
her ...
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