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 |
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You never heard the most delicious music , which is the praise of one's self ; nor
saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your
votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are
...
You never heard the most delicious music , which is the praise of one's self ; nor
saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your
votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are
...
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And if you pant for glory build your fame On this foundation , which the secret
shock Defies of Envy and all - lapping Time . The gaudy gloss of Fortune only
strikes The vulgar eye : The fuffrage of the wife , The praise that's worth ambition ,
is ...
And if you pant for glory build your fame On this foundation , which the secret
shock Defies of Envy and all - lapping Time . The gaudy gloss of Fortune only
strikes The vulgar eye : The fuffrage of the wife , The praise that's worth ambition ,
is ...
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Yet none can be more lavish than they are , in praise of their ancestors . And they
imagine they honour themselves by celebrating their forefathers . Whereas they
do the very contrary . For , as much as their ancestors were distinguished for ...
Yet none can be more lavish than they are , in praise of their ancestors . And they
imagine they honour themselves by celebrating their forefathers . Whereas they
do the very contrary . For , as much as their ancestors were distinguished for ...
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Fairest of stars , last in the train of night , If better thou belong not to the dawn ,
Sure pledge of day , that crown'd the smiling morn With thy bright circlet , praise
him in thy sphere , While day arises , that sweet hour of prime . Thou fun , of this ...
Fairest of stars , last in the train of night , If better thou belong not to the dawn ,
Sure pledge of day , that crown'd the smiling morn With thy bright circlet , praise
him in thy sphere , While day arises , that sweet hour of prime . Thou fun , of this ...
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That singing up to heaven - gate ascend , Bear on your wings and in your notes
his praise . Ye that in waters glide , and ye that walk The earth , and stately tread ,
or lowly creep ; Witness if I be filent , morn or even To hill or valley , fountain or ...
That singing up to heaven - gate ascend , Bear on your wings and in your notes
his praise . Ye that in waters glide , and ye that walk The earth , and stately tread ,
or lowly creep ; Witness if I be filent , morn or even To hill or valley , fountain or ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
againſt appear arms army bear better BOOK breath Brutus cauſe continued death earth eyes fair fall father fear feel fire firſt fool fortune foul give grace hand happy hath head hear heard heart heav'n himſelf hold honour hope hour houſe human juſt kind king laſt laws leave light live look Lord means mind moſt muſt myſelf nature never night o'er once pain peace perſon pleaſe pleaſure poor praiſe preſent reaſon round ſaid ſame ſay ſee ſeems ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſoul ſpeak ſtate ſtill ſuch tears tell thee theſe thing thoſe thou thought thouſand thro true truth uncle uſe virtue voice whole whoſe winds young youth