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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... Say , when the profpect blackens on thy view , When rooted from the bafe , heroic states Mourn in the dust and tremble at the frown Of curft ambition ; -when the pious band Of youths that fought for freedom and their fires Lie fide by ...
... Say , when the profpect blackens on thy view , When rooted from the bafe , heroic states Mourn in the dust and tremble at the frown Of curft ambition ; -when the pious band Of youths that fought for freedom and their fires Lie fide by ...
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... Say , does thy fecret foul repine to taste The big distress ? Or wouldst thou then exchange Those heart - ennobling forrows , for the lot Of him who fits amid the gaudy herd Of mute barbarians bending to his nod , And bears aloft his ...
... Say , does thy fecret foul repine to taste The big distress ? Or wouldst thou then exchange Those heart - ennobling forrows , for the lot Of him who fits amid the gaudy herd Of mute barbarians bending to his nod , And bears aloft his ...
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... SAY Active , and strong , and feelingly alive To each fine impulse ? a discerning sense Of decent and fublime , with quick disguft From things deform'd , or difarrang'd , or grofs In fpecies ? This nor gems , nor ftores of gold , Nor ...
... SAY Active , and strong , and feelingly alive To each fine impulse ? a discerning sense Of decent and fublime , with quick disguft From things deform'd , or difarrang'd , or grofs In fpecies ? This nor gems , nor ftores of gold , Nor ...
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... say , if he appears to have no refent- ment . You should rather fay , if he appears to have no fedate wisdom and courage ; for these qualities will be fufficient of themselves to fecure him from contempt , and maintain him in the ...
... say , if he appears to have no refent- ment . You should rather fay , if he appears to have no fedate wisdom and courage ; for these qualities will be fufficient of themselves to fecure him from contempt , and maintain him in the ...
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... say that we exhort you to attempt that which is impoffible . Nature has put it in our power to refift the mo- tions of anger . We only plead inability , when we want an excufe for our own negligence . Was a paffionate man to forfeit a ...
... say that we exhort you to attempt that which is impoffible . Nature has put it in our power to refift the mo- tions of anger . We only plead inability , when we want an excufe for our own negligence . Was a paffionate man to forfeit a ...
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