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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... and frets his hour upon the flage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of found and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES . CHAPTER I. THE DERVISE 40 BOOK I SELECT SENTENCES .
... and frets his hour upon the flage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of found and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES . CHAPTER I. THE DERVISE 40 BOOK I SELECT SENTENCES .
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... CHAPTER III . AVARICE AND LUXURY . THERE were two very powerful tyrants engaged in a per- petual war against each other : the name of the first was Luxury , and of the second Avarice . The aim of each of them was no less than universal ...
... CHAPTER III . AVARICE AND LUXURY . THERE were two very powerful tyrants engaged in a per- petual war against each other : the name of the first was Luxury , and of the second Avarice . The aim of each of them was no less than universal ...
Pagina 44
... the counsellors above mentioned , Avarice fupplies Luxury in the room of Plenty , as Luxury prompts Avarice in the place of Poverty . SPECTATOR , CHAPTER IV . PLEASURE AND PAIN . THERE were two 44 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... the counsellors above mentioned , Avarice fupplies Luxury in the room of Plenty , as Luxury prompts Avarice in the place of Poverty . SPECTATOR , CHAPTER IV . PLEASURE AND PAIN . THERE were two 44 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... CHAPTER IV . PLEASURE AND PAIN . THERE were two families , which from the beginning of the world were as oppofite to each other as light and dark- nefs . The one of them lived in heaven and the other in hell . The youngest defcendant of ...
... CHAPTER IV . PLEASURE AND PAIN . THERE were two families , which from the beginning of the world were as oppofite to each other as light and dark- nefs . The one of them lived in heaven and the other in hell . The youngest defcendant of ...
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... CHAPTER V. LABOUR . LABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daughters in a little cottage , by the fide of a hill , at a great diftance from town . They were totally unacquainted ...
... CHAPTER V. LABOUR . LABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daughters in a little cottage , by the fide of a hill , at a great diftance from town . They were totally unacquainted ...
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