Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 363
... train of dependants , nor teafed with the clamours of folicitation . Debarred from the dainties of the rich , he efcapeth alfo their di eafes . The bread that he eateth , is it not sweet to his tafte ? the water he drinketh , is it not ...
... train of dependants , nor teafed with the clamours of folicitation . Debarred from the dainties of the rich , he efcapeth alfo their di eafes . The bread that he eateth , is it not sweet to his tafte ? the water he drinketh , is it not ...
Page 422
... train of magnanimity and high honour : the orator fpeaks with that ftrength and confcious dignity which great actions and public fpirit alone infpire . Both orators ufe great liberties with one another ; and , in general , that ...
... train of magnanimity and high honour : the orator fpeaks with that ftrength and confcious dignity which great actions and public fpirit alone infpire . Both orators ufe great liberties with one another ; and , in general , that ...
Page 494
... train of dialogue and truly polite addrefs , in which , as in a mirror , we behold human life adorned in all its colours of fentiment and manners . And yet , though thefe differ in this manner from the Stagyrite , how differ- ent are ...
... train of dialogue and truly polite addrefs , in which , as in a mirror , we behold human life adorned in all its colours of fentiment and manners . And yet , though thefe differ in this manner from the Stagyrite , how differ- ent are ...
Contents
Tevion of Mr Allegory Spectator | 1 |
The Canal and the Brook | 11 |
On Goodbreeding | 17 |
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