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 Seiten |
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... earth cannot bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , faid , Were I Alexander I would accept them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . Nobility ...
... earth cannot bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , faid , Were I Alexander I would accept them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . Nobility ...
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... earth , from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Heaven doth with us , as we with torches do , Not ...
... earth , from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Heaven doth with us , as we with torches do , Not ...
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... earth , which was inhabited by creatures of a middle kind , neither fo virtuous as the one , nor fo vicious as the other , but partaking of the good and bad qualities of these two opposite families . Jupiter consider- ing that this ...
... earth , which was inhabited by creatures of a middle kind , neither fo virtuous as the one , nor fo vicious as the other , but partaking of the good and bad qualities of these two opposite families . Jupiter consider- ing that this ...
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... when all the ce- leftial inhabitants defcended to the earth , and converfed familiarly with mortals , amongst the moft cherished of the heavenly powers were twins , the offspring of Jupiter , E 2 CHAP . 8 . 51 NARRATIVE PIECES . Pity.
... when all the ce- leftial inhabitants defcended to the earth , and converfed familiarly with mortals , amongst the moft cherished of the heavenly powers were twins , the offspring of Jupiter , E 2 CHAP . 8 . 51 NARRATIVE PIECES . Pity.
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... earth with giant ftrides and Aftrea , with her train of celeftial vifit- ants forfook their polluted abodes . Love alone remained , baving been stolen away by Hope , who was his nurfe , and conveyed by her to the forests of Arcadia ...
... earth with giant ftrides and Aftrea , with her train of celeftial vifit- ants forfook their polluted abodes . Love alone remained , baving been stolen away by Hope , who was his nurfe , and conveyed by her to the forests of Arcadia ...
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