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. To which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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... breaft - plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel juft : And he but naked ( tho ' lock'd up in steel ) Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted . CHAP . IX . OH , world , thy flippery turns Friends now ...
... breaft - plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel juft : And he but naked ( tho ' lock'd up in steel ) Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted . CHAP . IX . OH , world , thy flippery turns Friends now ...
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... breaft That generous luxury the gods enjoy . Thus , in his graver vein , the friendly Sage Sometimes declaim'd . Of Right and Wrong he taught Truths as refin'd as ever Athen's heard ; And ( ftrange to tell ! ) he practis'd what he ...
... breaft That generous luxury the gods enjoy . Thus , in his graver vein , the friendly Sage Sometimes declaim'd . Of Right and Wrong he taught Truths as refin'd as ever Athen's heard ; And ( ftrange to tell ! ) he practis'd what he ...
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... breaft Condemn me , if I check the plaufive string : Go to the wayward world ; complete the reit : Be , what the pureft Mufe wou'd wish to fing . Be fill thyfelf ; that open path of Truth , Which led thee here , let Manhood firm pursue ...
... breaft Condemn me , if I check the plaufive string : Go to the wayward world ; complete the reit : Be , what the pureft Mufe wou'd wish to fing . Be fill thyfelf ; that open path of Truth , Which led thee here , let Manhood firm pursue ...
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... breaft , And turns his tears to rapture . - Afk the crowd Which flies impatient from the village - walk To climb the neighb'ring cliffs , when far below The cruel winds have hurl'd upon the coaft Some hapless bark ; while facred Pity ...
... breaft , And turns his tears to rapture . - Afk the crowd Which flies impatient from the village - walk To climb the neighb'ring cliffs , when far below The cruel winds have hurl'd upon the coaft Some hapless bark ; while facred Pity ...
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... breaft hath fown thefe early feeds . Of love and admiration , yet in vain , Without fair Culture's kind parental aid , Without enlivening funs , and genial show'rs , And And fhelter from the blaft , in vain we hope CHAP . XXV ...
... breaft hath fown thefe early feeds . Of love and admiration , yet in vain , Without fair Culture's kind parental aid , Without enlivening funs , and genial show'rs , And And fhelter from the blaft , in vain we hope CHAP . XXV ...
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