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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... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing , A local habitation and a name . Heaven doth with us , as we with torches do , Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had ...
... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing , A local habitation and a name . Heaven doth with us , as we with torches do , Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had ...
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William Enfield. CHAP . IX . OH , world , thy slippery turns ! friends now fast sworn , Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are still together ; who twine ( as ' twere ) in love ...
William Enfield. CHAP . IX . OH , world , thy slippery turns ! friends now fast sworn , Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are still together ; who twine ( as ' twere ) in love ...
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... turns what distress . and poverty is - I stop not to tell the causes which gradually brought the house d'E **** in Bri- tanny into decay . The Marquis d'E **** had fought up against his condition with great firmness , wishing to ...
... turns what distress . and poverty is - I stop not to tell the causes which gradually brought the house d'E **** in Bri- tanny into decay . The Marquis d'E **** had fought up against his condition with great firmness , wishing to ...
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... turn him out : " And when before your eyes I've set him . " If you don't find him black , I'll eat him . " He said ; then full before their sight ' twas white Produc'd the beast , and lo ! Both star'd , the man look'd wond'rous wise ...
... turn him out : " And when before your eyes I've set him . " If you don't find him black , I'll eat him . " He said ; then full before their sight ' twas white Produc'd the beast , and lo ! Both star'd , the man look'd wond'rous wise ...
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... turn : His Compting house emplo , ' d the Sunday morn : Seldom at Church ( ' twas such a busy life ) But duly sent his family and wife . There ( so the Devil ordain'd ) one Christmas tide My good old Lady catch'd a cold and dy'd , A ...
... turn : His Compting house emplo , ' d the Sunday morn : Seldom at Church ( ' twas such a busy life ) But duly sent his family and wife . There ( so the Devil ordain'd ) one Christmas tide My good old Lady catch'd a cold and dy'd , A ...
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