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 TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... One eve ( faint calms for many a day had reign'd ) The winged demons of the tempest rose ! Thunder , and rain , and lightnings awful pow'r She fled could innocence , could beauty claim Exemption from 44 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... One eve ( faint calms for many a day had reign'd ) The winged demons of the tempest rose ! Thunder , and rain , and lightnings awful pow'r She fled could innocence , could beauty claim Exemption from 44 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... Pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All Nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; All Chance , Direction which thou canst not see ; All Discord , Harmony not understood ; All partial Evil , universal Good : And , spite of Pride ...
... Pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All Nature is but Art , unknown to thee ; All Chance , Direction which thou canst not see ; All Discord , Harmony not understood ; All partial Evil , universal Good : And , spite of Pride ...
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... pow'r , ambition , lucre , lust : The same Self - love , in all , becomes the cause Of what restrains him , Government and Law's ; For , what one likes , if others like as well , 160 da 197 966 ho What serves one will , when many wills ...
... pow'r , ambition , lucre , lust : The same Self - love , in all , becomes the cause Of what restrains him , Government and Law's ; For , what one likes , if others like as well , 160 da 197 966 ho What serves one will , when many wills ...
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... pow'r's due use to people and to kings , Taught nor to slack , nor strain it's tender strings , The less or greater set so justly true , That touching one must strike the other too ; Till jarring int'rests of themselves create Th ...
... pow'r's due use to people and to kings , Taught nor to slack , nor strain it's tender strings , The less or greater set so justly true , That touching one must strike the other too ; Till jarring int'rests of themselves create Th ...
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... pow'r endow'd And room to stretch , was destin'd to sit still ? Sluggards are Nature's rebels , slight her laws , Nor live up to the terms on which they hold Their vital lease . Laborious terms and hard ; But such the tenure of our ...
... pow'r endow'd And room to stretch , was destin'd to sit still ? Sluggards are Nature's rebels , slight her laws , Nor live up to the terms on which they hold Their vital lease . Laborious terms and hard ; But such the tenure of our ...
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