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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... King in Hamlet XXXII . Ode on St. Cecilia's Day XXXIII . Alexander's Feaft XXX . Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death Ibid . 418 Ibid . 422 Ibid . 423 . Pope 424 Dryden 429 Ibid . 403 Ibid . 404 Ibid . 407 Ibid . 411 XXXIV . On the Death of Mrs ...
... King in Hamlet XXXII . Ode on St. Cecilia's Day XXXIII . Alexander's Feaft XXX . Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death Ibid . 418 Ibid . 422 Ibid . 423 . Pope 424 Dryden 429 Ibid . 403 Ibid . 404 Ibid . 407 Ibid . 411 XXXIV . On the Death of Mrs ...
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... kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , said , were I Alexander I would accept them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . NOBILITY is to be confidered only as an imaginary ...
... kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , said , were I Alexander I would accept them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . NOBILITY is to be confidered only as an imaginary ...
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... Kings , queens , and ftates ,, Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of the grave , This viperous flander enters . THERE is a tide in the affairs of men , Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune ; Omitted , all the voyage of their life ...
... Kings , queens , and ftates ,, Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of the grave , This viperous flander enters . THERE is a tide in the affairs of men , Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune ; Omitted , all the voyage of their life ...
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... king's palace . It happened that the king himself paffed through the gallery during this debate , and fmiling at the mistake of the Dervise , asked him how he could pof- fibly be fo dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravan ...
... king's palace . It happened that the king himself paffed through the gallery during this debate , and fmiling at the mistake of the Dervise , asked him how he could pof- fibly be fo dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravan ...
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... king replied , His ancestors . And who , fays the Dervife , was the last perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at prefent ? The king told him , That it was he ...
... king replied , His ancestors . And who , fays the Dervife , was the last perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at prefent ? The king told him , That it was he ...
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