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Oh , who can hold a fire in his hand , By binking on the frosty Caucasus : Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow , By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ?
Oh , who can hold a fire in his hand , By binking on the frosty Caucasus : Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow , By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ?
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Hold there , the other quick replies , » ' Tis green I saw it with these eyes , » As late with open mouth it lay , » And warm'd it in the sunny ray ; » Stretch'd at its ease the beast I view'd , » And saw it eat the air for food .
Hold there , the other quick replies , » ' Tis green I saw it with these eyes , » As late with open mouth it lay , » And warm'd it in the sunny ray ; » Stretch'd at its ease the beast I view'd , » And saw it eat the air for food .
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... carrying us thither in a straight line , and will hold out and last longest . The arts of deceit and eunning continually grow weaker and less effectual and serviceable to those that practise them ; whereas integrity gains strength ...
... carrying us thither in a straight line , and will hold out and last longest . The arts of deceit and eunning continually grow weaker and less effectual and serviceable to those that practise them ; whereas integrity gains strength ...
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But if he be to continue in the world , and would have the advantage of reputation whilst he is in it , let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions , for nothing but this will hold out to the end .
But if he be to continue in the world , and would have the advantage of reputation whilst he is in it , let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions , for nothing but this will hold out to the end .
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We are most inclined to love when we have nothing to fear ; and he that encourages us to please ourselves , will not be long without preference in our affection to those whose learning holds us at the distance of pupils , or whose wit ...
We are most inclined to love when we have nothing to fear ; and he that encourages us to please ourselves , will not be long without preference in our affection to those whose learning holds us at the distance of pupils , or whose wit ...
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| Title | The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for Reading |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Editor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | F. Louis, 1804 |
| Original from | Austrian National Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2018 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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