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 Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... d . What happy hours of heart - felt bliss Did love on both bestow ! But bliss too mighty long to last , Where fortune proves a foe , His sister , who , like envy form'd , Like 38 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES . EDWIN AND EMMA Mallett,
... d . What happy hours of heart - felt bliss Did love on both bestow ! But bliss too mighty long to last , Where fortune proves a foe , His sister , who , like envy form'd , Like 38 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES . EDWIN AND EMMA Mallett,
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... fortunes , That I have pass'd . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To the very moment that he bade me tell it . Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances , Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair - breadth ' scapes ...
... fortunes , That I have pass'd . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To the very moment that he bade me tell it . Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances , Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair - breadth ' scapes ...
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... fortune took a diff'rent course : The flock grew calm again , and I , the road Foll'wing that led me to my own abode , Much wonder'd that the silly sheep had found Such cause of terrour in an empty sound , So sweet to huntsman ...
... fortune took a diff'rent course : The flock grew calm again , and I , the road Foll'wing that led me to my own abode , Much wonder'd that the silly sheep had found Such cause of terrour in an empty sound , So sweet to huntsman ...
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... fortunes of thy house shall totter - thy character , which led the way to them , shall bleed on every side of it - thy faith questioned - thy works belied- thy wit forgotten - thy learning trampled on . To wind up the last scene of thy ...
... fortunes of thy house shall totter - thy character , which led the way to them , shall bleed on every side of it - thy faith questioned - thy works belied- thy wit forgotten - thy learning trampled on . To wind up the last scene of thy ...
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... Fortune's gifts if each alike possess❜d , And all were equal , must not all contest ? If then to all men Happiness was meant , God in Externals could not place Content . Fortune her gifts may variously dispose , And these be happy call ...
... Fortune's gifts if each alike possess❜d , And all were equal , must not all contest ? If then to all men Happiness was meant , God in Externals could not place Content . Fortune her gifts may variously dispose , And these be happy call ...
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