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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... rounded with a fleep . OUR indifcretion sometimes serves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's divinity that shapes our ends , Rough - hew them how we will . THE Poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling ...
... rounded with a fleep . OUR indifcretion sometimes serves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's divinity that shapes our ends , Rough - hew them how we will . THE Poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling ...
Page 31
... round , and called her PITY . A red- breaft was observed to build in the cabin where she was born , and while she was yet an infant , a dove pursued by a hawk flew into her bofom . This nymph had a dejected appear- ance , but fo foft ...
... round , and called her PITY . A red- breaft was observed to build in the cabin where she was born , and while she was yet an infant , a dove pursued by a hawk flew into her bofom . This nymph had a dejected appear- ance , but fo foft ...
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... round with a tendril - on opening it , I saw an S marked in one of the corner . SHE had fince that , she told me , ftrayed as far as Rome , and walked round St. Peter's once — and returned back — that the found her way alone across the ...
... round with a tendril - on opening it , I saw an S marked in one of the corner . SHE had fince that , she told me , ftrayed as far as Rome , and walked round St. Peter's once — and returned back — that the found her way alone across the ...
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... ferv'd at most To guard their master'gainst a poft : Yet round the world the blade has been To fee whatever could be feen , Returning Returning from his finished tour , Grown ten times perter CHAP . XII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 41.
... ferv'd at most To guard their master'gainst a poft : Yet round the world the blade has been To fee whatever could be feen , Returning Returning from his finished tour , Grown ten times perter CHAP . XII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 41.
Page 56
... round . The Gauls retreat ; the Britons loud huzza ; And touch'd with fhame , with emulation ftung , So plied their cannon , plied the miffile fires , That foon in air the hapless Thunderer blew . Blow , profperous breezes ; fwiftly ...
... round . The Gauls retreat ; the Britons loud huzza ; And touch'd with fhame , with emulation ftung , So plied their cannon , plied the miffile fires , That foon in air the hapless Thunderer blew . Blow , profperous breezes ; fwiftly ...
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