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Page 258
... and docile fancy teach ; While soft as breezy breath of wind , Impulses rustle
through the mind : Here Dryads , scorning Phoebus ' ray , While Pan melodious
pipes away , In measur'd motions frisk about , Till old Silenus puts them out .
... and docile fancy teach ; While soft as breezy breath of wind , Impulses rustle
through the mind : Here Dryads , scorning Phoebus ' ray , While Pan melodious
pipes away , In measur'd motions frisk about , Till old Silenus puts them out .
Page 302
R EASON thus with life : If I do lose thee , I do lose a thing That none but fools
would reck ; a breath thou art , Servile to all the skiey influences , That do this
habitation , where thou keep'st , Hourly afflict ; merely thou art death's fool ; For
him ...
R EASON thus with life : If I do lose thee , I do lose a thing That none but fools
would reck ; a breath thou art , Servile to all the skiey influences , That do this
habitation , where thou keep'st , Hourly afflict ; merely thou art death's fool ; For
him ...
Page 324
... round the blazing hearth , Suspends the infant audience with her tales ,
Breathing astonishment ! of witching rhimes ... with mephitic breath And wither'd
famine urg'd the work of death Marseilles ' good bishop , London's generous
mayor ...
... round the blazing hearth , Suspends the infant audience with her tales ,
Breathing astonishment ! of witching rhimes ... with mephitic breath And wither'd
famine urg'd the work of death Marseilles ' good bishop , London's generous
mayor ...
Page 349
... nui one of them would fit ci it . " ' --- Yorick's last breath was hanging upon his
trembliny lips ready to depart as he uitered thus ; -— yet ftillit -his right was and as
was uttered with something of a Cervantic tone CHAP , II . PATHETIC PIECES .
... nui one of them would fit ci it . " ' --- Yorick's last breath was hanging upon his
trembliny lips ready to depart as he uitered thus ; -— yet ftillit -his right was and as
was uttered with something of a Cervantic tone CHAP , II . PATHETIC PIECES .
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His counsels bade me yield to thy directions : Then , Syphax , chide me in
feverest terms , Vent all thy passion , and I'll stand its shock , Calm and unruffled
as a summer sea , When not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface . Syph . Alas ,
my ...
His counsels bade me yield to thy directions : Then , Syphax , chide me in
feverest terms , Vent all thy passion , and I'll stand its shock , Calm and unruffled
as a summer sea , When not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface . Syph . Alas ,
my ...
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| Title | 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 |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Editor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1797 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2012 |
| Length | 436 pages |
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