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 ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1785 - 405 pages |
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... equal agreeable , and an inferior acceptable . EXCESS of ceremony fhews want of breeding . That ci- vility is beft , which excludes all fuperfluous formality . INGRATITUDE is a crime fo fhameful , that the man was never yet found , who ...
... equal agreeable , and an inferior acceptable . EXCESS of ceremony fhews want of breeding . That ci- vility is beft , which excludes all fuperfluous formality . INGRATITUDE is a crime fo fhameful , that the man was never yet found , who ...
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... equal virtue form'd , and equal grace ; The fame , diftinguish'd by the fex alone : Her's the mild luftre of the blooming morn , And his the radiance of the risen day . They lov'd but fuch their guileless paffion was , As in the dawn of ...
... equal virtue form'd , and equal grace ; The fame , diftinguish'd by the fex alone : Her's the mild luftre of the blooming morn , And his the radiance of the risen day . They lov'd but fuch their guileless paffion was , As in the dawn of ...
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... equals , or your inferiors , watch it narrowly , check it carefully , and call the suavitèr in modo to your affiftance : at the first im- H 2 pulfe pulfe of paffion be filent , till you can be CHAP . VII . DIDACTIC PIECES . 81.
... equals , or your inferiors , watch it narrowly , check it carefully , and call the suavitèr in modo to your affiftance : at the first im- H 2 pulfe pulfe of paffion be filent , till you can be CHAP . VII . DIDACTIC PIECES . 81.
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... equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or fyftems into ruin hurl'd , And now a bubble burft , and now a world . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions foar ; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore ...
... equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or fyftems into ruin hurl'd , And now a bubble burft , and now a world . Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions foar ; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore ...
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... equal sky , His faithful dog fhall bear him company . Go , wifer thou ! and in thy fcale of fenfe , Weigh thy Opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such , Say , here he gives too little , there too much ...
... equal sky , His faithful dog fhall bear him company . Go , wifer thou ! and in thy fcale of fenfe , Weigh thy Opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such , Say , here he gives too little , there too much ...
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