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 are Prefixed Two EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 pages |
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... round the wide horizon , to survey Nilus , or Ganges , rolling his bright wave Through mountains , plains , through empires black with shade , And continents of sand , will turn his gaze , To mark the windings of a scanty rill , That ...
... round the wide horizon , to survey Nilus , or Ganges , rolling his bright wave Through mountains , plains , through empires black with shade , And continents of sand , will turn his gaze , To mark the windings of a scanty rill , That ...
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... rounded with a sleep . Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's a divinity that shapes our ends , Roughhew them how we will . The Poet's eye , in a fine phrenzy rolling ...
... rounded with a sleep . Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's a divinity that shapes our ends , Roughhew them how we will . The Poet's eye , in a fine phrenzy rolling ...
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... round , and called her Pity . A red - breast was observed to build in the cabin where she was born ; and while she was yet an infant , a dove pursued by a hawk flew into her bosom . This nymph had a dejected appearance , but so soft and ...
... round , and called her Pity . A red - breast was observed to build in the cabin where she was born ; and while she was yet an infant , a dove pursued by a hawk flew into her bosom . This nymph had a dejected appearance , but so soft and ...
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... round with a tendril - on open- ing it , I saw an S marked in one of the corners . . She had since that , she told me , strayed as far as Rome , and walked round St. Peter's once- -and returned back- that she found her way alone across ...
... round with a tendril - on open- ing it , I saw an S marked in one of the corners . . She had since that , she told me , strayed as far as Rome , and walked round St. Peter's once- -and returned back- that she found her way alone across ...
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... round the world the blade has been , To see whatever could be seen . Returning from his finish'd tour , Grown ten times perter than before , Whatever word you chance to drop , The travell'd fool your mouth will stop ; " Sir , if my ...
... round the world the blade has been , To see whatever could be seen . Returning from his finish'd tour , Grown ten times perter than before , Whatever word you chance to drop , The travell'd fool your mouth will stop ; " Sir , if my ...
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