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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... to bursting ; and the big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent
inofe In piteous chase ; and thus the hairy fool Much marked of the melancholy
Jaques , Stood on th ' extremest verge of the swift brook , Augmenting it with tears
.
... to bursting ; and the big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent
inofe In piteous chase ; and thus the hairy fool Much marked of the melancholy
Jaques , Stood on th ' extremest verge of the swift brook , Augmenting it with tears
.
Page 251
tears ~ I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn .
STERNE . CH A P. III . CORPORAL TRIM's ELOQUENCE . -My young master in
London is dead , faid --Here is fad news , Trim , cried Susannah , wiping her eyes
...
tears ~ I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn .
STERNE . CH A P. III . CORPORAL TRIM's ELOQUENCE . -My young master in
London is dead , faid --Here is fad news , Trim , cried Susannah , wiping her eyes
...
Page 341
The youth took hold of my hand , and instantly burst into tears . -Poor youth ! said
my uncle Toby , -- he has been bred up from an infant in the army , and the name
of a soldier , Trim , founded in his ears like the name of a friend ; I wish I had ...
The youth took hold of my hand , and instantly burst into tears . -Poor youth ! said
my uncle Toby , -- he has been bred up from an infant in the army , and the name
of a soldier , Trim , founded in his ears like the name of a friend ; I wish I had ...
Page 351
These tatter'd cloaths my poverty bespeak , These hoary locks proclaim my
lengthen'd years ; And many a furrow in my grief - worm cheek Has been the
channel to a flood of tears . Yon house , erected on the rising ground , With
tempting ...
These tatter'd cloaths my poverty bespeak , These hoary locks proclaim my
lengthen'd years ; And many a furrow in my grief - worm cheek Has been the
channel to a flood of tears . Yon house , erected on the rising ground , With
tempting ...
Page 363
2 On Afric sands disfigur'd with their wounds , To gorge the wolves and vultures
of Numidia . JUB . Why doft thou call my sorrows up afresh ? My father's name
brings tears into mine eyes . SYPH . Oh , that you'd profit by your father's ills ! JUB
.
2 On Afric sands disfigur'd with their wounds , To gorge the wolves and vultures
of Numidia . JUB . Why doft thou call my sorrows up afresh ? My father's name
brings tears into mine eyes . SYPH . Oh , that you'd profit by your father's ills ! JUB
.
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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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