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Page xvii
... night ; the fovereign , when he iffues his edict ; the fenator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whispers his tender tale , do not differ more in the tones . which they use , than in the key in which they speak . Reading and ...
... night ; the fovereign , when he iffues his edict ; the fenator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whispers his tender tale , do not differ more in the tones . which they use , than in the key in which they speak . Reading and ...
Page xxviii
... the following example + : * Philipp . iv . 8. † Book vi . Chap . 8. See a long feries of In- terrogations in Gloucester's Speech to the Nobles , Book v . C. 14 . Hold Hold you the watch to - night ? -We do xxviii ESSAY ON.
... the following example + : * Philipp . iv . 8. † Book vi . Chap . 8. See a long feries of In- terrogations in Gloucester's Speech to the Nobles , Book v . C. 14 . Hold Hold you the watch to - night ? -We do xxviii ESSAY ON.
Page xxix
... night ? -We do , my lord . - Arm'd , fay you ? —Arm'd , my lord .-- From top to toe ? -My lord , from head to foot . Except that , where an interrogative pronoun or adverb begins a sentence , it is ufually ended with the clofing pause ...
... night ? -We do , my lord . - Arm'd , fay you ? —Arm'd , my lord .-- From top to toe ? -My lord , from head to foot . Except that , where an interrogative pronoun or adverb begins a sentence , it is ufually ended with the clofing pause ...
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... night's lodging in that caravanfary . The guards let him know , in a very angry manner , that the house he was in was not a caravansary , but the king's palace . It happened that the king himself paffed through the gallery during this ...
... night's lodging in that caravanfary . The guards let him know , in a very angry manner , that the house he was in was not a caravansary , but the king's palace . It happened that the king himself paffed through the gallery during this ...
Page 37
... night and day . THE poftillion delivered this with so much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help decyphering fome- thing in his face above his condition , and should have fifted out his history , had not poor Maria ...
... night and day . THE poftillion delivered this with so much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help decyphering fome- thing in his face above his condition , and should have fifted out his history , had not poor Maria ...
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