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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... heard the most delicious mufic , which is the praife of one's self ; nor saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pafs away their youth in a dream of miftaken pleafures , while they are ...
... heard the most delicious mufic , which is the praife of one's self ; nor saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pafs away their youth in a dream of miftaken pleafures , while they are ...
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... heard the poor fellow with concern - La Fleur offered him money - The mourner said he did not want it - it was not the value of the afs - but the lofs of him - The afs , he faid , he was affured , loved him - and upon this told them a ...
... heard the poor fellow with concern - La Fleur offered him money - The mourner said he did not want it - it was not the value of the afs - but the lofs of him - The afs , he faid , he was affured , loved him - and upon this told them a ...
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... heard ; and I inftantly let down the fore glass to hear them more distinctly — ' Tis Maria ; said the postillion , obferving I was liftening - Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his body on one fide to let me fee her , for he was in ...
... heard ; and I inftantly let down the fore glass to hear them more distinctly — ' Tis Maria ; said the postillion , obferving I was liftening - Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his body on one fide to let me fee her , for he was in ...
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... heard folemn o'er the verge of heaven , The tempeft growls ; but as it nearer comes , And rolls its awful burden on the wind , The lightnings flash a larger curve , and more The noife aftounds : till over head a sheet Of livid flame ...
... heard folemn o'er the verge of heaven , The tempeft growls ; but as it nearer comes , And rolls its awful burden on the wind , The lightnings flash a larger curve , and more The noife aftounds : till over head a sheet Of livid flame ...
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... heard of battles , and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord ; And Heaven foon granted what my fire denied . This moon , which rose last night round as my fhield Had not yet fill'd her horns , when , by her light , A band of ...
... heard of battles , and I long'd To follow to the field some warlike lord ; And Heaven foon granted what my fire denied . This moon , which rose last night round as my fhield Had not yet fill'd her horns , when , by her light , A band of ...
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