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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... give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may excel us in . many . No object is more pleasing to the eye , than the fight of a man whom you have obliged ; nor any mufic so agreeable to the ear , as the ...
... give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may excel us in . many . No object is more pleasing to the eye , than the fight of a man whom you have obliged ; nor any mufic so agreeable to the ear , as the ...
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... gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords eve- ry worthy perfon in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty ...
... gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords eve- ry worthy perfon in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty ...
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... gives up his youth to in- dolence , undergoes a lofs of the fame kind . SHINING characters are not always the most agreeable ones . The mild radiance of an emerald , is by no means lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at ...
... gives up his youth to in- dolence , undergoes a lofs of the fame kind . SHINING characters are not always the most agreeable ones . The mild radiance of an emerald , is by no means lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at ...
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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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... Gives but the greater feeling to the worse ; Fell forrow's tooth doth never rankle more , Than when it bites , but lanceth not the fore . ' Tis flander ; Whofe edge is fharper than the fword ; whofe tongue Outvenoms all the worms of ...
... Gives but the greater feeling to the worse ; Fell forrow's tooth doth never rankle more , Than when it bites , but lanceth not the fore . ' Tis flander ; Whofe edge is fharper than the fword ; whofe tongue Outvenoms all the worms of ...
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