The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 pagina's |
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Pagina 39
... fair looks , Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep./ -Who fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? let none prefume To wear ...
... fair looks , Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep./ -Who fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? let none prefume To wear ...
Pagina 58
... fair , so quick - witted , and amiable a maid ; and better fate did Maria deserve , than to have her banns forbid , by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short ...
... fair , so quick - witted , and amiable a maid ; and better fate did Maria deserve , than to have her banns forbid , by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short ...
Pagina 68
... fair ) The well - bread cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's Senate he a seat obtains , And one more penfioner St. Stephen gains . My lady falls to play ; fo bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from France : The ...
... fair ) The well - bread cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's Senate he a seat obtains , And one more penfioner St. Stephen gains . My lady falls to play ; fo bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from France : The ...
Pagina 69
... fair . Till Edwin came , the pride of Swains , A foul that knew no art , And from whofe eyes , ferenely mild , Shone forth the feeling heart . A mutual flame was quickly caught , Was quickly too reveal'd ; Nor neither bofom lodg'd a ...
... fair . Till Edwin came , the pride of Swains , A foul that knew no art , And from whofe eyes , ferenely mild , Shone forth the feeling heart . A mutual flame was quickly caught , Was quickly too reveal'd ; Nor neither bofom lodg'd a ...
Pagina 74
... fair Theana was his only theme , Acafto's daughter , whom in early youth He oft diftinguifh'd ; and for whom he oft Had climb'd the bending cocoa's airy height To rob it of its nectar ; which the maid , When he prefented , more ...
... fair Theana was his only theme , Acafto's daughter , whom in early youth He oft diftinguifh'd ; and for whom he oft Had climb'd the bending cocoa's airy height To rob it of its nectar ; which the maid , When he prefented , more ...
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