The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for ReadingF. Louis, 1804 - 376 pages |
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... phrenzy rolling Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the poet's pen . Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing 14 Book j . SELECT SENTENCES .
... phrenzy rolling Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the poet's pen . Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing 14 Book j . SELECT SENTENCES .
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... turns ! Friends now fast sworn , Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whose bed , whose meal , and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Inseparable ; shall within this hour , On a ...
... turns ! Friends now fast sworn , Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whose bed , whose meal , and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Inseparable ; shall within this hour , On a ...
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... turns what dis- tress and poverty is -- I stop not to tell the causes which gradually brought the house of d'E **** in Britany into decay . The Marquis d'E **** had fought up against his condition with great firm- ness ; wishing to ...
... turns what dis- tress and poverty is -- I stop not to tell the causes which gradually brought the house of d'E **** in Britany into decay . The Marquis d'E **** had fought up against his condition with great firm- ness ; wishing to ...
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... turn him out : » And when before your eyes I've set him , » If you don't find him black , I'll eat him . » He said ; then full before their sight Produc'd the beast , and lo ! - ' twas white . Both star'd , the man look'd wond'rous wise ...
... turn him out : » And when before your eyes I've set him , » If you don't find him black , I'll eat him . » He said ; then full before their sight Produc'd the beast , and lo ! - ' twas white . Both star'd , the man look'd wond'rous wise ...
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... What late he call'd a Blessing , now was Wit , And God's good Providence , a lucky Hit . Things change their titles , as our manners turn : His Compting - house employ'd the Sunday morn : Seldom Chap . xiv . NARRATIVE PIECES . 45.
... What late he call'd a Blessing , now was Wit , And God's good Providence , a lucky Hit . Things change their titles , as our manners turn : His Compting - house employ'd the Sunday morn : Seldom Chap . xiv . NARRATIVE PIECES . 45.
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