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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... heav'n When May's fweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The charmer of the plains ; That fun which bids their diamond blaze , To deck our lily deigns . Long had the fir'd each youth with love , Each maiden with ...
... heav'n When May's fweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn The charmer of the plains ; That fun which bids their diamond blaze , To deck our lily deigns . Long had the fir'd each youth with love , Each maiden with ...
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... Heav'n with fruitless pray❜rs , And fruitlefs forrows shed . " Tis paft , he cry'd , but if your fouls Sweet mercy yet can move , Let these dim eyes once more behold What they must ever love . She came ; his cold hand foftly touch'd ...
... Heav'n with fruitless pray❜rs , And fruitlefs forrows shed . " Tis paft , he cry'd , but if your fouls Sweet mercy yet can move , Let these dim eyes once more behold What they must ever love . She came ; his cold hand foftly touch'd ...
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... long year elaps'd , when letters came , Which briefly told him of his father's death . Afflicted , filial , yet to Heav'n refign'd , D 4 Soon Soon he reach'd Albion , and as foon embark'd , CHAP . XVII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 55.
... long year elaps'd , when letters came , Which briefly told him of his father's death . Afflicted , filial , yet to Heav'n refign'd , D 4 Soon Soon he reach'd Albion , and as foon embark'd , CHAP . XVII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 55.
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... heav'n , It was my hent to speak . - All these to hear Would Defdemona feriously incline . But ftill the houfe - affairs would draw her hence , Which ever as she could with hafte dispatch , She'd come again , and with a greedy ear ...
... heav'n , It was my hent to speak . - All these to hear Would Defdemona feriously incline . But ftill the houfe - affairs would draw her hence , Which ever as she could with hafte dispatch , She'd come again , and with a greedy ear ...
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... Heav'n had made her fuch a man : -she thank'd me , And bade me , if I had a friend that lov'd her , I fhould but teach him how to tell my story , And that would woo her . On this hint I fpake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I had past ...
... Heav'n had made her fuch a man : -she thank'd me , And bade me , if I had a friend that lov'd her , I fhould but teach him how to tell my story , And that would woo her . On this hint I fpake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I had past ...
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