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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... round the wide horizon , to furvey . Nilus , or Ganges , rolling his bright wave Through mountains , plains , through empires black with shade , C 2 And And continents of fand , will turn his gaze , WORKS OF TASTE . K.
... round the wide horizon , to furvey . Nilus , or Ganges , rolling his bright wave Through mountains , plains , through empires black with shade , C 2 And And continents of fand , will turn his gaze , WORKS OF TASTE . K.
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... rounded with a fleep . OUR indifcretion fometimes ferves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's a divinity that shapes our ends , Rough - hew them how we will . THE Poet's eye , in a fine frenzy ...
... rounded with a fleep . OUR indifcretion fometimes ferves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's a divinity that shapes our ends , Rough - hew them how we will . THE Poet's eye , in a fine frenzy ...
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... round , and called her PITY . A red- breaft was observed to build in the cabin where fhe was born ; and while she was yet an infant , a dove pursued by a hawk flew into her bofom . This nymph had a dejected appear- ance , but so soft ...
... round , and called her PITY . A red- breaft was observed to build in the cabin where fhe was born ; and while she was yet an infant , a dove pursued by a hawk flew into her bofom . This nymph had a dejected appear- ance , but so soft ...
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... round with a tendril - on opening it , I faw an S marked in one of the corners . SHE had fince that , fhe told me , ftrayed as far as Rome , and walked round St. Peter's once - and returned back - that fhe found her way alone acrofs the ...
... round with a tendril - on opening it , I faw an S marked in one of the corners . SHE had fince that , fhe told me , ftrayed as far as Rome , and walked round St. Peter's once - and returned back - that fhe found her way alone acrofs the ...
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... round . The Gauls retreat ; the Britons loud huzza ; And touch'd with fhame , with emulation stung , So plied their cannon , plied their miffile fires , That foon in air the hapless Thunderer blew . Blow , profperous breezes ; fwiftly ...
... round . The Gauls retreat ; the Britons loud huzza ; And touch'd with fhame , with emulation stung , So plied their cannon , plied their miffile fires , That foon in air the hapless Thunderer blew . Blow , profperous breezes ; fwiftly ...
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