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 are Prefixed Two EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 páginas |
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... hope in th ' air of men's fair looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ...
... hope in th ' air of men's fair looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ...
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... hope you will gain , both for yourself and me , an immortal reputation . But be- fore I invite you into my society and friendship , I will be open and sincere with you , and must lay down this as an estab- lished truth , that there is ...
... hope you will gain , both for yourself and me , an immortal reputation . But be- fore I invite you into my society and friendship , I will be open and sincere with you , and must lay down this as an estab- lished truth , that there is ...
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... Hope , who was his nurse , and conveyed by her to the forests of Arcadia , where he was brought up among the shepherds . But Jupiter assigned him a different partner , and command- ed him to espouse Sorrow , the daughter of Atè . He com ...
... Hope , who was his nurse , and conveyed by her to the forests of Arcadia , where he was brought up among the shepherds . But Jupiter assigned him a different partner , and command- ed him to espouse Sorrow , the daughter of Atè . He com ...
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... hope , had caught his eye , " Alas ! unhappy youth , " he cried , 66 Expect no praise from me , " and sigh'd : " With indignation I survey " Such skill and judgment thrown away ; " The time , profusely squander'd there " On vulgar arts ...
... hope , had caught his eye , " Alas ! unhappy youth , " he cried , 66 Expect no praise from me , " and sigh'd : " With indignation I survey " Such skill and judgment thrown away ; " The time , profusely squander'd there " On vulgar arts ...
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... hope , and sympathetic glow , Beam'd from the mutual eye . Devoting all To love , cach was to each a dearer self ; Supremely happy in th ' awaken'd power Of giving joy . Alone , amid the shades , Still in harmonious intercourse they liv ...
... hope , and sympathetic glow , Beam'd from the mutual eye . Devoting all To love , cach was to each a dearer self ; Supremely happy in th ' awaken'd power Of giving joy . Alone , amid the shades , Still in harmonious intercourse they liv ...
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anger army Balaam beauty bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar cæsura CHAP chill band country gentlemen cried daughter death divine earth elocution endeavour eternal ev'n ev'ry father fear feel fool fortune Fram Gauls genius give glory Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hast hath head hear heart Heav'n honour hope Iago imagination kind king labour live look lord Macd mankind manner Maria means mind motley fool Muse nature never noble o'er pain Parliament passion patricians pause peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise present privy counsellor proper racter replied Roman Scythians sense sentence SHAKSPEARE Sir John smile SNEYD DAVIES soul speak spirit Sterl sweet Syphax taste tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought truth uncle Toby virtue voice whole wisdom wise words writing youth