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 |
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Page 12
... fhew for a foot - ball : whenever it is contested for , every one is ready to venture their lives and limbs in the difpute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which ...
... fhew for a foot - ball : whenever it is contested for , every one is ready to venture their lives and limbs in the difpute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which ...
Page 28
... fhew her complexion to advantage . She caft her eyes . upon herself , then turned them on those that were present , to fee how they liked her , and often looked on the figure fhe made in her own fhadow . Upon her nearer approach to ...
... fhew her complexion to advantage . She caft her eyes . upon herself , then turned them on those that were present , to fee how they liked her , and often looked on the figure fhe made in her own fhadow . Upon her nearer approach to ...
Page 34
... fhew to the world fome little fragments of what his ancestors had been - their in- difcretion had put it out of his power . There was enough left for the little exigencies of obfcurity - But he had two boys who looked up to him for ...
... fhew to the world fome little fragments of what his ancestors had been - their in- difcretion had put it out of his power . There was enough left for the little exigencies of obfcurity - But he had two boys who looked up to him for ...
Page 44
... fhew His mafter what his art could do ; And bade his flaves the chariot lead To Academus ' facred fhade . The trembling grove confefs'd its fright , The wood - nymphs ftarted at the fight ; The Mufes drop the learned lyre , And to their ...
... fhew His mafter what his art could do ; And bade his flaves the chariot lead To Academus ' facred fhade . The trembling grove confefs'd its fright , The wood - nymphs ftarted at the fight ; The Mufes drop the learned lyre , And to their ...
Page 68
... fhew of any thing be good for any thing , I am fure the reality is , better ; for why does any man diffemble , or feem to be that which he is not , but becaufe he thinks it good to have the qualities he pretends t For to counterfeit and ...
... fhew of any thing be good for any thing , I am fure the reality is , better ; for why does any man diffemble , or feem to be that which he is not , but becaufe he thinks it good to have the qualities he pretends t For to counterfeit and ...
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