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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... never ceases to wear a dignified and interefting afpect . Comedy , in the natural and easy dress , in which , after the best Greek models , fhe is clothed by Terence , can never fail to please . Lyric poetry , whilft it rolls on , like ...
... never ceases to wear a dignified and interefting afpect . Comedy , in the natural and easy dress , in which , after the best Greek models , fhe is clothed by Terence , can never fail to please . Lyric poetry , whilft it rolls on , like ...
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... merit of any literary work as far as thought is concerned , it is neceffary to add to every other excellence that of UTILITY . In writing , as in 2 life , life , this ultimate end fhould never be forgotten . 1 : ON READING.
... merit of any literary work as far as thought is concerned , it is neceffary to add to every other excellence that of UTILITY . In writing , as in 2 life , life , this ultimate end fhould never be forgotten . 1 : ON READING.
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... never be forgotten . What- ever tends to enlighten the understanding , to enlarge the conceptions , to imprefs the heart with the right feelings , or to afford innocent and rational amufement , may be pronounced ufeful . All beyond this ...
... never be forgotten . What- ever tends to enlighten the understanding , to enlarge the conceptions , to imprefs the heart with the right feelings , or to afford innocent and rational amufement , may be pronounced ufeful . All beyond this ...
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... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , than a handsome addrefs , and graceful conversation . COMPLAISANCE ...
... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , than a handsome addrefs , and graceful conversation . COMPLAISANCE ...
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... never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to difcover knowledge . PITCH upon that courfe of life which is the most excel- lent ; and ...
... never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to difcover knowledge . PITCH upon that courfe of life which is the most excel- lent ; and ...
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