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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... fortunes , That I have past . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To th ' very moment that he bade me tell it . Wherein I spoke of moft difaftrous chances , Of moving accidents by flood and field : Of hair - breadth ' fcapes ...
... fortunes , That I have past . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To th ' very moment that he bade me tell it . Wherein I spoke of moft difaftrous chances , Of moving accidents by flood and field : Of hair - breadth ' fcapes ...
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... fortunes of thy house shall totterthy character , which led the way to them , shall bleed on every fide of it - thy faith queftioned - thy works belied - thy wit forgotten - thy learning trampled on . To wind up the laft fcene of thy ...
... fortunes of thy house shall totterthy character , which led the way to them , shall bleed on every fide of it - thy faith queftioned - thy works belied - thy wit forgotten - thy learning trampled on . To wind up the laft fcene of thy ...
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... Fortune's gifts if each alike poffeft , And each were equal , must not all conteft ? If then to all men Happiness was meant , God in Externals could not place Content . Fortune her gifts may variously difpofe , And these be happy call'd ...
... Fortune's gifts if each alike poffeft , And each were equal , must not all conteft ? If then to all men Happiness was meant , God in Externals could not place Content . Fortune her gifts may variously difpofe , And these be happy call'd ...
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... fortune , and with learning blind , The bad must mifs ; the good , untaught , will find ; Slave to no fect , who takes no private road , But looks thro ' Nature , up to Nature's God ; Pursues that Chain which links th ' immense design ...
... fortune , and with learning blind , The bad must mifs ; the good , untaught , will find ; Slave to no fect , who takes no private road , But looks thro ' Nature , up to Nature's God ; Pursues that Chain which links th ' immense design ...
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... fortune dreads its name and awful charms . To nobleft ufes this determines wealth : This is the folid pomp of profperous days ; The peace and shelter of adverfity . And if you pant for glory , build your fame On this foundation , which ...
... fortune dreads its name and awful charms . To nobleft ufes this determines wealth : This is the folid pomp of profperous days ; The peace and shelter of adverfity . And if you pant for glory , build your fame On this foundation , which ...
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