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 |
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... earth , from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the Poet's pen Turns them to fhape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us as we with torches do , Not ...
... earth , from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the Poet's pen Turns them to fhape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us as we with torches do , Not ...
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... earth which was inhabited by creatures of a middle kind , neither fo virtuous as the one , nor fo vicious as the other , but partaking of the good and bad qualites of these two oppofite familes . Jupiter confidering that this fpecies ...
... earth which was inhabited by creatures of a middle kind , neither fo virtuous as the one , nor fo vicious as the other , but partaking of the good and bad qualites of these two oppofite familes . Jupiter confidering that this fpecies ...
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... earth , and converfed familiarly with mortals , amongft the moft cherished of the heavenly powers were twins , the offspring of Jupiter , LOVE and joy . Wherever they appeared , the flowers fprung up beneath their feet , the fun fhone ...
... earth , and converfed familiarly with mortals , amongft the moft cherished of the heavenly powers were twins , the offspring of Jupiter , LOVE and joy . Wherever they appeared , the flowers fprung up beneath their feet , the fun fhone ...
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... earth , they fhall both expire toge- ther , and LOVE be again united to Joy , his immortal and long betrothed bride . MRS . BARBAULD . A CHA P. IX . THE DEAD AS S. ND this , faid he , putting the remains of a cruft into his wallet - and ...
... earth , they fhall both expire toge- ther , and LOVE be again united to Joy , his immortal and long betrothed bride . MRS . BARBAULD . A CHA P. IX . THE DEAD AS S. ND this , faid he , putting the remains of a cruft into his wallet - and ...
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... earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blush that nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour smiles thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The charmer of ...
... earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blush that nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour smiles thro ' heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The charmer of ...
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