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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1792 - 436 páginas |
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... hour of the night ; the fovereign , when he iffues his edict ; the fenator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whispers his tender tale , do not differ more in the tones . which they use , than in the key in which they speak ...
... hour of the night ; the fovereign , when he iffues his edict ; the fenator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whispers his tender tale , do not differ more in the tones . which they use , than in the key in which they speak ...
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... hours , whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are ftill together ; who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour , On a diffenfion of a doit , ' break out To bitterest enmity . So felleft foes , Whofe paffions and ...
... hours , whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are ftill together ; who twine ( as ' twere ) in love Infeparable ; fhall within this hour , On a diffenfion of a doit , ' break out To bitterest enmity . So felleft foes , Whofe paffions and ...
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... That ftruts and frets his hour upon the ftage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of found and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES . CHA P. I. THE 18 SELECT SENTENCES . . Book I. to.
... That ftruts and frets his hour upon the ftage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of found and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES . CHA P. I. THE 18 SELECT SENTENCES . . Book I. to.
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... hours to- gether on the banks of fome wild and melancholy stream , finging to her lute . She taught men to weep , for she took a ftrange delight in tears ; and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were affembled at their evening ...
... hours to- gether on the banks of fome wild and melancholy stream , finging to her lute . She taught men to weep , for she took a ftrange delight in tears ; and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were affembled at their evening ...
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... hours of heart - felt blifs Did love on both bestow ! But blifs too mighty long to laft , Where fortune proves a foe . His fifter , who like envy form'd , Like her in mifchief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked skill Each darker ...
... hours of heart - felt blifs Did love on both bestow ! But blifs too mighty long to laft , Where fortune proves a foe . His fifter , who like envy form'd , Like her in mifchief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked skill Each darker ...
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