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. To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionSimms&McIntyre, 1811 - 644 pages |
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... stands alone in indeclinabies ; Conjunction , preposition , adverb , join To stamp new vigour on the nervous line . In monosy liables his thunders rolt , HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the soul . EMPHASIS is often ...
... stands alone in indeclinabies ; Conjunction , preposition , adverb , join To stamp new vigour on the nervous line . In monosy liables his thunders rolt , HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the soul . EMPHASIS is often ...
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... stand- eth in length of time , nor that is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hair unto man , and unspotted life is old age . Wickedness , condemned by our own witness , is ve- ry timorous , and being pressed with ...
... stand- eth in length of time , nor that is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hair unto man , and unspotted life is old age . Wickedness , condemned by our own witness , is ve- ry timorous , and being pressed with ...
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... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! Oh , who can hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ! Or wallow naked in December snow , By ...
... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! Oh , who can hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ! Or wallow naked in December snow , By ...
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... standing they here possessed the species indifferently ; upon the death of every single person , if he was found to have in him a certain proportion of evil , he should be dispatched into the infernal regions by a passport from Pain ...
... standing they here possessed the species indifferently ; upon the death of every single person , if he was found to have in him a certain proportion of evil , he should be dispatched into the infernal regions by a passport from Pain ...
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... the depth of woe ! So , faint resemblance ! on the marble tomb , The well dissembled mourner stooping stands , For ever silent , and for ever sad . THOMSON . 1 " CHAP . XVII . JUNIO AND THEANA . G 2 CHAP . XVI . 47 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... the depth of woe ! So , faint resemblance ! on the marble tomb , The well dissembled mourner stooping stands , For ever silent , and for ever sad . THOMSON . 1 " CHAP . XVII . JUNIO AND THEANA . G 2 CHAP . XVI . 47 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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Acmit army Avarice Balaam behold bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar CELADON CHAP cheerfulness Dæmon danger daugh daughter death divine doth earth endeavour eternal Ev'n ev'ry fate father fear fool fortune FRAM Gauls give Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hast hath head hear heart heav'n honour hope hour humour IAGO king labour learning live look Lord MACD mankind Maria marriage means mind modesty motley fool Muse nature Nature's never noble nymph o'er once pain passion Patricians peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise pride Romans sapadillas Scythians sense shade SHAKSPEARE SIR JOHN smiles SNEYD DAVIES soul speak spirit STERL suavitèr sweet Syphax tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought Tis green truth twas uncle Toby virtue virtuous voice whole wisdom wise words youth