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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... light up glory thro ' her wide domain ; Their various tastes in different arts difplay'd , Like temper'd harmony of light and shade , With friendly union in one mafs fhall blend , And this adorn the ftate , and that defend . I am , With ...
... light up glory thro ' her wide domain ; Their various tastes in different arts difplay'd , Like temper'd harmony of light and shade , With friendly union in one mafs fhall blend , And this adorn the ftate , and that defend . I am , With ...
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... light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence it is , that the character of an Orator has of late of- ten been treated with ridicule , fometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and * See Dean Swift's ...
... light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence it is , that the character of an Orator has of late of- ten been treated with ridicule , fometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and * See Dean Swift's ...
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... the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing , A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us , as we with torches do , Not Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 14 Book t SELECT SENTENCES .
... the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing , A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us , as we with torches do , Not Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 14 Book t SELECT SENTENCES .
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... light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine iffues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence , But ...
... light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine iffues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence , But ...
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... light ! The old man , hearing this , fet his boy upon the afs , and went whistling by the fide of him . Why , firrah ! ( cries a fecond man to the boy ) is it fit for you to be riding , while your poor old father is walking on foot ...
... light ! The old man , hearing this , fet his boy upon the afs , and went whistling by the fide of him . Why , firrah ! ( cries a fecond man to the boy ) is it fit for you to be riding , while your poor old father is walking on foot ...
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