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 is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ...J. Johnson, 1782 - 405 páginas |
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... hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantastic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion ...
... hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantastic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion ...
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... Hold there , the other quick replies , ' Tis green- I saw it with these eyes , " As late with open mouth it lay , " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Stretch'd at its ease the beast I view'd , " And faw it eat the air for food . " I've ...
... Hold there , the other quick replies , ' Tis green- I saw it with these eyes , " As late with open mouth it lay , " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Stretch'd at its ease the beast I view'd , " And faw it eat the air for food . " I've ...
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... hold out and lait longeit . The arts of deceit and cunning continually grow weaker and lefs effectual and ferviceable to thofe that prac- tife them ; whereas integrity gains ftrength by use , and the more and longer any man practiseth ...
... hold out and lait longeit . The arts of deceit and cunning continually grow weaker and lefs effectual and ferviceable to thofe that prac- tife them ; whereas integrity gains ftrength by use , and the more and longer any man practiseth ...
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... the advantage of reputation whilft he is in it , let him make ufe of truth and fincerity in all his words and actions , for nothing but this will hold out to to the end . All other arts may fail , 70 BOOK III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
... the advantage of reputation whilft he is in it , let him make ufe of truth and fincerity in all his words and actions , for nothing but this will hold out to to the end . All other arts may fail , 70 BOOK III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
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... holds us at the diftance of pupils , or whofe wit calls all attention from us , and leaves us without importance and without regard . It is remarked by prince Henry , when he fees Falstaff ly- ing on the ground , " that he could have ...
... holds us at the diftance of pupils , or whofe wit calls all attention from us , and leaves us without importance and without regard . It is remarked by prince Henry , when he fees Falstaff ly- ing on the ground , " that he could have ...
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